Over the past month I’ve been toying with the idea of getting Opscode’s Chef to automate the installation of applications on my server stack on AWS, but it wasn’t until last weekend that I actually bit the bullet and decided to make it work. For those of you don’t know what Chef is, it’s a …
Tag Archive: AWS
Dec
18
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Dec
07
Fighting the Phantom Restart
I was playing around with CloudFormation from Amazon Web Services (AWS) tonight (blog posts coming soon™) and remembered an issue we regularly have at work with our Windows Servers; whenever we create a new image from an AMI the machine restarts after it’s created. Now ordinarily this wouldn’t be a problem, but our application deployment …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.jamestoyer.me.uk/2011/12/07/fighting-the-phantom-restart/
Nov
29
What a difference a year makes
It was back in August 2010 that I joined Adfero, fresh out of University, and since I started work I’ve hardly blogged, if at all, on any of the amazing things I’ve worked on or done. So I thought it was about time I brought people up to speed, and hopefully, with future planned projects …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.jamestoyer.me.uk/2011/11/29/what-a-difference-a-year-makes/
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