When Octopus deploys packages, it runs a series of actions implementing the conventions or features enabled for that step. The order of evaluation once the package is extracted is: BeforePreDeploy.* Feature Scripts – runs matching scripts associated with any enabled features. These bootstrap scripts are created by Octopus and cannot be customized by the user….
Both of them have some commonalities but they solve different purposes. vars_files are read when the play starts. include_vars are read when the play reaches the task. Format vars_files: directive and include_vars module vars_files: vars_file directive can only be used when defining a play to specify variable files. The variables from those files are included…
applicationPackaging created the topic: WiX 3 Tutorial: Solution/Project structure and Dev resources This is the first post about building a WiX 3 installer from zero. The reason I’ve decided to write this WiX series is that the good sources are quite hard to find and examples even harder. The finished installer (at the end of…
Walkthrough: Creating an MSBuild Project File from Scratch How to: Write a Simple MSBuild Project MSBuild Basics Build Your Project File from Scratch using MSBuild Rajesh KumarI’m a DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps/Cloud Expert passionate about sharing knowledge and experiences. I have worked at Cotocus. I share tech blog at DevOps School, travel stories at Holiday Landmark, stock market…
Step 1: Installing Docker [code] $ apt-get install docker (Ubuntu) $ yum install docker (RHEL/CENTOS) [/code] For more info, please following this http://www.scmgalaxy.com/scm/software-containers/how-to-install-docker-in-linux.html Step 2: First, pull the official jenkins image from Docker repository. [code]$ docker pull jenkins [/code] Step 3: Next, run a container using this image and map data directory from the container to…
Linux User Commands Linux Commands for User Linux Commands reference in scmGalaxy forum Linux Admin Commands Linux Commands for Administrator Main Responsibilities of the Linux System Administrator 20 pmap Commands Examples in Linux / UNIX 20 mpstat Commands Examples in Linux / UNIX 20 iostat Commands Examples in Linux / UNIX 20 vmstat Commands Examples…
Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager 2 Install a Docker Engine Installation Instructions can be found here – http://www.devopsschool.com/tutorial/docker/docker-install-and-configuration.html Download a Sonatype Nexus Image > docker pull sonatype/nexus For Sonatype Nexus Repository Manager 2 OSS, To run (if port 8081 is open on your host): > docker run -d -p 8081:8081 –name nexus sonatype/nexus:oss For Sonatype Nexus…
Hosting your own Nuget Feed? 1. Local File Based Package Source Limitation with fles based source – It does not have nuget capable feed. Can not push the package. We will have to copy into local directly Can not use Nuget Gallery 2. Setup Nuget.Server Step 1 – In Visual Studip, New Project and Select…
Step 1: Update System > yum update > apt-get update Step 2: Install git Step 3: Install screen Step 4: Install screen Step 5: Install Java Step 6: MySQL Step 7: Install Gerrit 1. Create a Database 2. Initialize the site 3. Download Gerrit wget https://gerrit-releases.storage.googleapis.com/gerrit-2.9.1.war 4. Start Gerrit Setup 5. Restart / Stop /…
How to Publish a Nuget package in NuGet Gallery? Step 1 – Create an account at NuGet.org Head over to http://nuget.org/ and register for an account. Once you do that, click on “My Account” to see an API Key that was generated for you. Step 2 – In a command console, run the command: $…
Hosting your own Repository in Nuget How to create a package in Nuget? Mehtod 1 – From An Assembly If you have an assembly, you can easily generate a nuspec file from metadata within the assembly and create a package. $ nuget spec MyAssembly.dll This creates a Nuspec file. Edit the NuSpec file as needed…
Provision a AWS ec2 vm using chef Step 1: Install chefdk Step 2: Setup AWS Credentails Step X: Setup your knife config Step X: Make sure following is set and exported in env. AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=secrets AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=secrets AWS_DEFAULT_REGION=us-east-1 AWS_SSH_KEY=your_ssh_key_name AWS_ACCESS_KEY=secrets AWS_SECRET_KEY=secrets Step 3: Genrate a new repository using the chef generate command > chef generate repo chefdk-provision-demo…
How to install chefDK in RHEL, Ubantu, Mac and Windows? How to install chefDK in RHEL Step 1: Download checfdk from https://downloads.chef.io/chef-dk/ > wget https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/el/6/x86_64/chefdk-0.9.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm or > curl -o chefdk-0.9.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm https://opscode-omnibus-packages.s3.amazonaws.com/el/6/x86_64/chefdk-0.9.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm > chmod 755 chefdk-0.9.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm Step 2: Install chef dk > rpm -ivh chefdk-0.9.0-1.el6.x86_64.rpm Step 3: Confirm your installation. > which chef > chef -v…
The following outlines the basic steps to adopt the continuous inspection pattern: 1. Tool selection. Evaluate and select one or more tools that can perform static analysis on your code base. Evaluation criteria include: a. the programming and scripting language(s) used in your software projects versus the ones supported by the tool; b. whether the…
Step by Step Instruction to Upgrade Perforce to 2014 The step are as follows: a) Check if the license is current. p4 license -o The expiry date must be later than the binary release date you are installing b) Verify server archives using the command ‘p4 verify -q //… > verify.txt’ * Note – If…
DRAFT VERSION Cleaning up Old Checkpoints Playing with Symlink(Softlink) and Redirecting the ROOT folder to drive where we have enough place. Deleting db.have and recreate it manually Display disk space information on the server using “p4 diskspace” Display size information for files in the depot using “p4 sizes” Rajesh KumarI’m a DevOps/SRE/DevSecOps/Cloud Expert passionate about…
Ways to Login Jenkins using Command line & Way to trigger Jenkins job using Command line or script Wget Note: If you are using wget 1.11, you might need to use the following options: wget –auth-no-challenge –http-user=user –http-password=apiToken http://jenkins.yourcompany.com/job/your_job/build?token=TOKEN With wget 1.10.x the following is enough (but will not work with 1.11.x) : wget http://user:apiToken@jenkins.yourcompany.com/job/your_job/build?token=TOKEN…
1. Open the Group Policy snap-in. 2. In the console tree, click Scripts (Startup/Shutdown). – Where? policy name Policy > Computer Configuration > Windows Settings > Scripts (Startup/Shutdown)or Start the policy editor of the local group: Start Menu > Run > Type gpedit.msc 3. In the details pane, double-click Startup. 4. In the Startup Properties…
Performance Optimization Checklist of Build Servers Build Infrastructure Level 1. Do you really need to build all source code or only the part of code which has changes? 2. Project should be divided into multiple modules/component which can be build independently and should be integrated when it needed. 3. Understand technology and make use of…
Versioning in Software Configuration Management? Reference: This article has been take out from Book Called “The Build Master: Microsoft’s Software Configuration Management Best Practices” Why Worry About Versioning? Having a good version scheme for your software is important for several reasons. The following are the top five things a version scheme allows you to do…
Use of p4 duplicate command Problem Area is – Is there any possibility to rename branch name? as directory rename is possible? Solution is – p4 duplicate command What the command ‘p4 duplicate’ was implement to do was create a duplicated revision of a folder as if it always existed. This is explained in the…
There are many ways to execute external commands from Perl. The most commons are: system function exec function backticks (“) operator open function All of these methods have different behaviour, so you should choose which one to use depending of your particular need. In brief, these are the recommendations: method use if … system() you…
I was reading article and thought to repost here. It focuses around Git as the tool for the versioning of all of our source code. Why git? For a thorough discussion on the pros and cons of Git compared to centralized source code control systems, see the web. There are plenty of flame wars going on there….
Checking File Attributes in Perl I have been using perl for quite some time now. I have also been using the file handling logic in my scripts. However, what I did not know till now is that you can quickly check for certain file properties in perl. Here is an example: #!/usr/bin/perl my (@description,$size); if (-e…
Examining History in Subversion Your Subversion repository is like a time machine. It keeps a record of every change ever committed and allows you to explore this history by examining previous versions of files and directories as well as the metadata that accompanies them. Several commands can provide you with historical data from the repository:…
The tasks can be scheduled to run on the same machine (Master), or on a different machine (Slave). A master is a installation of Hudson, that can manage one or more slaves. The role of master remains same in Master slave setup. It serves HTTP requests, and it can still build projects on it’s own….
IntelliJ/Ant integrationBy Alvin J. Alexander, devdaily.comThe fact that IntelliJ is off-the-shelf ready to work with Ant is a great, great feature. It’s also simple to configure and use.Assuming that you already know how to use Ant, and you have a build.xml file ready to go, just follow these steps to (a) configure your build script…
A sample Ant build script that builds a WAR file <project name=”MyWebApplication” basedir=”..” default=”install”> <!– project-specific variables –> <property name=”jsp.dir.name” value=”myapp” /> <property name=”package.name” value=”${jsp.dir.name}.war” /> <property name=”webapp.dir” value=”/Users/al/tomcat-6.0.16/webapps” /> <property environment=”env” /> <property name=”build.dir” value=”build” /> <property file=”${build.dir}/build.${env.HOSTNAME}” /> <property name=”lib.dir” value=”lib” /> <property name=”pages.dir” value=”pages” /> <property name=”src.dir” value=”src” /> <property name=”src.tests.dir” value=”src-tests”…
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Introduction The Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) is a set of concepts and practices for managing Information Technology (IT) services (ITSM), IT development and IT operations. Purpose ITIL stresses service quality and focuses on how IT services can be efficiently and cost-effectively provided and supported. In the ITIL framework, the business units within an organization…