Salt has the option to manage servers agentlessly. Agentless means that the targets don't need a agent process. The master orchestrates the target system over SSH. Therefor it exists an own command called _salt-shh. _ The following sections explain how to install Salt SSH on a CentOs 5.5 and how to configure minimally …

When you follow the instruction step in the installation guide for Centos 5.5, the package manager automatically installs ZeroMQ in version 2.2. This ZeroMQ version makes some troubles. Therefore, Salt recommends using ZeroMQ in version >= 3.2. There is no ZeroMQ package for this version available in the official …

From a certain point on, an application has to be configurable. Spring Framework has a nice auxiliary tool for this issue since the first version 0.9 , the class PropertyPlaceholderConfigurer and since Spring Framework 3.1 the class PropertySourcesPlaceholderConfigurer. When you start a Google search for …

Guest Contribution by Markus Jenderek "Quality exists when the price is long forgotten", said Mr Royce to Mr Rolls with his petrol smeared face or Mr Rolls to Mr Royce - but anyway. The question is about which price is he talking about? Money, yes of course! But what about Pain, Features, Competition, Time, …

Introduction Jenkins Subversion Plugin changes its credential management. Before version 2.2 you had to set your Subversion credential globally depend on domain name. In version 2.2 it's changed. The credential management is still central but now you have to configure in every job which credential the job has to use …

When your Jenkins server runs on for a while, your hard disk usage grows up because the default setting of each job is that every job build and build artifact obtained from this are stored in a build history. Limiting this build history can save hard disk usage. Each job has a setting option called Discard Old Builds. …

In my last post I showed how to rename the host name for Subversion in all jobs with one script. In this post I will show you how to set the repository browser in all jobs with one script. This script is based on the script from my last post. 1def newRepositoryBrowserRootUrl = new …

The host name of a Subversion instance is renamed and now many Jenkins jobs have to be adjusted. One possibility is to change every job by hand. But this approach is very time-consuming and error-prone. A better possibility is to have a script based approach, that rename the Subversion host name of all jobs in one go. …

A new version of this blog post is published under the title "Generate P2 Repository From Maven Artifacts in 2017" Motivation If you use Maven Tycho to build your Eclipse RCP application, you can use Maven dependencies as you know it from Maven (for more information see [1]). I notice that Tycho takes many …

This post describes how to set up a Maven project for a Spring web application with Hessian Service. It also shows how to set up the deployment for exposing the Hessian service and how to set up a client to consume the Hessian service. The Spring Framework version is 3.1.1.RELEASE and the Hessian version is 4.0.7. …