Using Vagrant to build a LEMP stack
I may have just fallen in love with the tool Vagrant. Vagrant makes it possible to quickly create a virtual environment for development. It is different than cloning or snapshots in that it uses...
View ArticleExplore CloudFoundry using Stackato and VirtualBox
Stackato, which is released by ActiveState, extends out of the box CloudFoundry. It adds a web interface and a command line client (‘stackato’), although the existing ‘cf’ command line client still...
View ArticleExplore CloudFoundry using bosh-lite on Windows
It seems like most of the development around CloudFoundry and bosh happen on Linux or Mac. Getting things up and running in Windows was a real challenge. Below is how I worked things out. **Make sure...
View ArticleInstall and configure a Multi-node Hadoop cluster using Ansible
I’ve recently been involved with several groups interested in using Hadoop to process large sets of data, including use of higher level abstractions on top of Hadoop like Pig and Hive. What has...
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