Super Quick Tomcat App Deployment Using a PULL Script

If you managed to read my last blog you'll remember that I demonstrated a simple script for creating a new tomcat installation on a server by splitting the tomcat binaries from the conf files, storing the binaries on a FTP server and the conf files in version control, with a script recombining the two parts.

The next and most obvious improvement to this idea is to create a system for automatically deploying an application once it has compiled and passed its unit tests. There are many ways of doing this,

Super Fast Tomcat Installation using FTP and Version Control

When talking about Continuous Delivery one of the tests that both Martin Fowler and Jez Humble often mention is their "flame thrower" test. It goes something like this: Jez will say "How long would it take you to get up and running if Martin and I went into your machine rooms armed with flame throwers and axes and started attacking your servers"?

Installing the EGit component in Eclipse

The ever increasing popularity of Git seems to know no bounds, which is not bad for something that’s named after a British English insult that’s only slightly more venomous than “idiot”¹. Being popular, there is an eclipse plug in available and this short blog covers how to install it.

Installing MySQL on Solaris (Part 4 - Initializing the Database)

Once you've installed MySQL, the next step is to create your database and get the whole thing running. To do this:

1. Change the operating user from root to mysql by typing:

Installing MySQL on Solaris (Part 3 - Running the mysql Demon)

Running MySQL as a Demon
This small blog demonstrates the steps required to start-up MySQL as a demon at boot time. The first step is to copy the mysql file from the installation directory (/opt/mysql/mysql/bin)
to the /etc/init.d directory and ensure that it’s executable (chmod 755 mysql).

Installing MySQL on Solaris (Part 2 - Changing Passwords)

Change the Passwords

Don’t forget to change the passwords for the root and unknown users:

Installing MySQL on Solaris (Part 1 - Installing the files)

To install MySQL on Solaris, you first need to download it from the MySQL Community Server website.

Before installing MySql, the first job is to create the mysql group by typing: 

groupadd mysql

Next, create the mysql user by typing: 

useradd -g mysql mysql