The vcloud-tools suite, developed by GDS and available on github is excellent.
GDS builds UNICORN HERDER, plays with Puppets
The United Kingdom's Government Digital Service (GDS) has built a Unicorn Herder, plays with puppets and is messing about with pretend (virtual) computers. The herder popped up on GitHub last week: it's a tool to manage daemonized unicorns. That's unicorns as in the HTTP server. GDS likes Unicorn and its related Gunicorn, but …
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Wednesday 21st January 2015 10:38 GMT batfastad
rvm use build gem bundle install... ARRRGH!!!
There is some good stuff in there, just a shame so much of it is wow, so hip, much Ruby, amaze! Nothing against the language. But from an operations point of view all my experiences of Ruby have been a complete pain in the backend. Probably different if you run Ubuntu Server Tepid Teabag etc in your enterprise though.
Some more stuff here too https://github.com/alphagov but don't expect it to actually, well, work at all ever.
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Wednesday 28th January 2015 15:49 GMT Steven Raith
Re: rvm use build gem bundle install... ARRRGH!!!
Yeah, but you know what it's like - if they used something normal, they'd be ripped for not using something new and shiny....
I used to work in DirectGov back when it was something new and shiny, and GDS is sort of doing similar work in terms of taking that general "stop fucking around and just make stuff that works" part of their ethos which seems so rare in government IT work, and it does pain me somewhat to see some pretty good people I have a lot of respect for get a kicking just because it makes a fun headline.
Gov IT is an easy target, but in a lot of respects I don't think GDS really deserve much of the ire it gets given they're working within a government that has proven itself to be flat out incompetent when it come to tech - they seem to be one of the rare exceptions.
Steven R
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