By Robert J Berger, on March 4th, 2010
Introduction
Well there is already an update to Chef’s Ohai library. At first I thought, “Oh no, I have to generate another EC2 image”. But then I remember reading that you can update and clone a running EBS boot image.
One of the cool features of using an Amazon EC2 instance that boots from an EBS Snapshot [...]
By Robert J Berger, on January 12th, 2010
Changes Since Original
1/13/10: Fix various minor inaccuracies and improved description on how to set up the chef-server. Also removed nanite as a requirement (its no longer used)
1/17/10: Add the requirement to build and install mixlib-authentication for the chef-client
1/21/10: Added a mkdir for /var/log/chef
1/22/10: Added step to insure that /tmp permissions are set
Introduction
Here’s my experience setting [...]
By Robert J Berger, on September 4th, 2009
NOTE (Sep 7 2009): Updated info on need to use Amazon Private DNS Names and clarified the need for the masters, slaves and regionservers files. Also updated to use HBase 0.20.0 Release Candidate 3
Introduction
As someone who has “skipped” Java and wants to learn as little as possible about it, and as one who has not [...]
By Robert J Berger, on January 2nd, 2009
Install rabbitmq via synaptic
Make sure that the erlang package is installed
Add a repository from the rabbitmq site
Set up Repository via the Synaptic GUI tool
(http://www.rabbitmq.com/debian/)
Synaptic repository addition
Set up Repository via command line
Ubuntu Documentation for Managing Repositories via the Command Line
How to use the RabbitMQ Debian repository and available RabbitMQ Debian packages
The repositories are described in [...]