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by lnguyen 14y ago
I'm inclined to believe that they agree to disagree. Linus' use case for a pull request would probably be to much for a popularized and casual use case that is likely typical for GitHub. And anyway it's Linus' prerogative to dictate his req
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by lnguyen 14y ago
When a diff tool is included with the scm, it's hard for the average user to separate the functionality even if it's possible. And odds are you'll probably to be able to use different diff/merge tools to handle various file formats (plain t
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by lnguyen 14y ago
The issue is that unless you have standards such as directory locations and structure, users and permissions, there isn't a way to automate the process of code deployment even with chef/puppet. PaaS works because the provider has a standard
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by lnguyen 14y ago
It's because I didn't want to mix in the Chef gems and dependencies with the system Ruby. I ran into some conflicts when I was initially building and testing so decided to eliminate the issue entirely.
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by lnguyen 14y ago
With apt-get and yum you're installing pre-built binaries. This works well if that's all you need to do and are okay with the versions that are installed (typically not the latest unless it's a new distribution). Once you start having to do
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by lnguyen 14y ago
It is a bit similar in concept to Gentoo but adds in a configuration management (CM) part. The current iteration doesn't take full advantage of the CM capabilities but we're working on it. As far as building packages as compared to installe
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by lnguyen 14y ago
You can just run the wget command by itself and save the script to a file wget -q -O rb.sh 'https://rayburst.com/i/[server id]' Then take a look directly at the rb.sh At that point you can do either chmod +x rb.sh ./rb.sh or
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by lnguyen 14y ago
I've checked the site on my MBP which is still running Snow Leopard and couldn't replicated what you were describing. (Although Safari does seem a bit slower than Chrome...) Could you try it again?
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by lnguyen 14y ago
The centmin.sh script is designed specifically for that install: CentOS + Nginx, MySQL, PHP. If it works well for you and that's what you need, then definitely keep using it. rayburst sets up a framework to allow for more customized install
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by lnguyen 14y ago
I use chef as my behind-the-scenes mechanism for managing the installs. The client is a Ruby application so I build it as a runtime dependency. I don't use rely on the distribution Ruby because of possible conflicts with gems that would hav
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by lnguyen 14y ago
The main issue is whether or not ubuntu is offered. It looks like Linode does offer ubuntu 10.04 and 12.04 so you should be able to use rayburst for your installs. I'll add them to the list on the next site update.
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by lnguyen 14y ago
So far 12.04 LTS tests out without any need for updates (no build issues or service startup errors reported)
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by lnguyen 14y ago
I'm not inclined to exposing them directly as the recipes rayburst uses are custom and not open source or redistributable.
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by lnguyen 14y ago
"Dev Ops" isn't really something you choose to call yourself. You end up with that kind of title because it's what you end up doing.
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by lnguyen 14y ago
"sudo" is unavoidable since the installs are designed to go into /usr/local. The other option would be to require you to run as root/privileged which leads to the same issue of running an unseen script and just adds an extra step to the pro
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by lnguyen 14y ago
There's a fair amount of risk in everything : Do you trust the admins of you hosting provider? Are you sure about the source code or binaries for all the pieces of your runtime stack? Did you audit every piece of your own source code for s
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by lnguyen 14y ago
I'm a fan of whatever gets the job done. In the end it's still scripting just with fancier mechanisms to get the process started and report back.
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by lnguyen 14y ago
I spent a bit of time at the beginning of the project evaluating the two and ended up choosing chef because it was going to be easier to use this way (aka build something on top of). I will say that it was easier and far less confusing to g
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by lnguyen 14y ago
I definitely understand that there's a level of trust needed before you allow anyone get access to your system (or be it's provider). And it should be that way. While I could describe what's going (and will right below), there's also the ri
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by lnguyen 14y ago
Part of the issue with Windows is that the out-of-the-box scripting capability just wasn't there. Compare writing a batch script with a shell or perl script. Add to that inconsistencies in how commands handled spaces in names and issues wit
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by lnguyen 14y ago
We're definitely looking into the right way to turn this into a commercial product...
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by lnguyen 14y ago
Those people aren't after an answer. They want the captive audience.
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by lnguyen 14y ago
None taken... I've added some info about me on https://rayburst.com/company Here's what it says: "Long Nguyen has nearly 10 years experience as an enterprise build and software configuration management consultant and remembers having to i
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by lnguyen 14y ago
FYI the recipes are all custom written. The community ones are aren't very standardized and usually are only good for installing from distribution packages. (And if you look through the install output, you'll also see where they get stored
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by lnguyen 14y ago
It's true. And I'm not running a stealth botnet or anything. I'm just better at building things than trying to write marketing collateral. Feel free to email me directly at long at rayburst.com
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by lnguyen 14y ago
As soon as I can get a VM loaded and run through the install catalog. I should be able to get that taken care of by the beginning of next week. It's mostly to fix any build dependencies that have to be installed as distribution packages hav
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by lnguyen 14y ago
Thanks. I'm more backend and ops than design and UI. So things like figuring out obscure compile flags comes easier than CSS.
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by lnguyen 14y ago
The client gets installed in /usr/local/rayburst and data for your install goes under /var/lib/rayburst. It's done so that it doesn't get in the way of any of your actual installs (had enough conflicts with system ruby when testing). And y
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by lnguyen 15y ago
If you haven't seriously used branches before, git can be a bit hard to wrap your head around. And trying to map it back to what you're familiar with in svn adds to the frustration. The best thing to do is create some "play" git repositorie

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