Adam Jacob adamhjk

Openstack

Okay, so here is the thing. Yeah, some of the folks who have started companies around Openstack have tried to put on the mantle of being the open-est of open clouds. It's a silly argument (reference the Eucalyptus guys open sourcing the whole thing from the beginning, or any number of smaller projects that have existed for a long time.) Other folks have done the same (We're more open because we're part of the apache foundation. We're more open because we're AGPL. The list goes on.)

It's marketing rhetoric, it's tiresome, and it's actively subversive to what should be a delightful community of cheerfully competitive peers. But hey, it is what it is.

License Choice

Businesses that create open source software get to choose the terms under which their software, and as a side effect, their communities, evolve. The first thing that impacts this is the choice of license for the software itself. I've been pretty vocal about my personal beliefs here, and advocated for them at Opscode. In general ter

	#!/bin/bash -e
	#
	# Build Nginx from source, and wrap it up with fpm
	#

	NGINX_VERSION="1.2.6"
	NGINX_FILENAME="nginx-${NGINX_VERSION}.tar.gz"
	NGINX_MD5SUM="1350d26eb9b66364d9143fb3c4366ab6"
	NGINX_URL="http://nginx.org/download/${NGINX_FILENAME}"
	NGINX_PREFIX="/opt/nginx"

	#!/bin/bash

	# This is the current stable release to default to, with Omnibus patch level (e.g. 10.12.0-1)
	# Note that the chef template downloads 'x.y.z' not 'x.y.z-r' which should be a duplicate of the latest -r
	use_shell=0

	# Check whether a command exists - returns 0 if it does, 1 if it does not
	exists() {
	if command -v $1 &>/dev/null
	then

	# sysctl/attributes/default.rb

	# Calcualte sysxtl foo setting
	if node.memory < 528
	default['sysctl']['foo'] = 'bang'
	elsif node.run_list.include?("role[x]")
	default['sysctl']['foo'] = 'bar'
	else
	default['sysctl']['foo'] = 'bazinga'
	end

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby
	# ^ I added the shebang line, so you can run it like a program

	require 'fileutils'

	# I made check take two arguments, the src and the destination, so we can run it on
	# any old directory we want.
	def check(src, dest)
	srcfiles = []
	destfiles = []

	db_connect 'postgres://localhost/metarepo'
	pool_path '/var/opt/metarepo/pool'
	repo_path '/var/opt/metarepo/repo'
	upstream_path '/var/opt/metarepo/upstream'
	uri "http://localhost:6667"
	gpg_key "[email protected]"

	<% if @port != 80 -%>
	Listen <%= @port %>
	<% end -%>

	<VirtualHost *:<%= @port %>>
	ServerAdmin webmaster@localhost

	DocumentRoot <%= @document_root %>
	<Directory />
	Options FollowSymLinks

	<html>
	<body>
	<h1>Welcome to <%= node['company'] %></h1>
	<h2>We love <%= @site_name %></h2>
	<%= node['ipaddress'] %>:<%= @port %>
	</body>
	</html>

	#
	# Cookbook Name:: apache
	# Recipe:: default
	#
	# Copyright 2012, YOUR_COMPANY_NAME
	#
	# All rights reserved - Do Not Redistribute
	#

	package "apache2" do