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December 2010 - Posts

• Configuration Management and the Cloud part III–Cooking with Chef

  Before I go on I apologise up front but I just can’t resist the cooking theme The purpose of this series of blog posts is to explore using Chef to configure instances in the cloud. My particular cloud for this just happens to be AWS. In this post I’ll Read More... Posted 29 December 2010 20:51 by Grace.Mollison | 0 Comments Filed under: "Configuration Management" Chef

• Configuration Management and the Cloud part II – Collecting the ingredients

  Before I could enter the world of Chef I needed to at least get a handle on Ruby which is the language used to write the recipes needed (I’ll explain a little about how Chef hangs together later in this post). If you’re used to C# or Java then Ruby shouldn’t Read More... Posted 21 December 2010 15:37 by Grace.Mollison | 3 Comments Filed under: "Configuration Management" Chef

• Configuration Management and the Cloud - Part 1 getting my feet wet

  Most of my projects I’ve worked on since joining EMC Consulting have involved ALM of some flavour but having worked on a couple of projects which utilised public cloud services I have found that I need to start considering configuration management as Read More... Posted 10 December 2010 15:30 by Grace.Mollison | 0 Comments

• Get on my Cloud

  With the release of the November Windows Azure 2010 release the decision about which Public cloud provider to use to host your .NET applications has again been muddied ( I’m not going to discuss IaaS versus PaaS ). There used to be a number of clear cut Read More... Posted 03 December 2010 14:19 by Grace.Mollison | 0 Comments Filed under: "Windows Azure" "Cloud Computing"