Monthly Archives: July 2012

Continuous integration with GitHub, Bamboo and Nexus

This is the first in what will be a series of posts on how to establish a continuous delivery pipeline. The eventual goal is to have an app that we can push out into production anytime we like, safely and … Continue reading

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When building a CMDB, separate the UI from the API

One lesson I’ve learned in building CMDBs is to cleanly separate the UI from the web service API. In the Java world, for example, this means that the API should be its own package (e.g., WAR file). The UI should … Continue reading

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Tried everything and SSH with PKA still not working?

I recently ran into the situation in which I couldn’t get PKA to work when SSHing into my Ubuntu server. I checked the key pair (works fine SSHing into other servers), directory permissions, /etc/ssh/sshd_config, /var/log/auth.log, all that. Ran ssh -vvv … Continue reading

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