Charles "Chuck" Butler lazypower

A Brief Introduction to Fabric

Fabric is a deployment management framework written in Python which makes remotely managing multiple servers incredibly easy. If you've ever had to issue a change to a group servers, this should look pretty familiar:

for s in $(cat servers.txt); do ssh $s service httpd graceful; done

Fabric improves on this process by providing a suite of functions to run commands on the servers, as well as a number of other features which just aren't possible in a simple for loop. While a working knowledge of Python is helpful when using Fabric, it certainly isn't necessary. This tutorial will cover the steps necessary to get started with the framework and introduce how it can be used to improve on administering groups of servers.

Busybox "Embedded Linux from Scratch" Distribution for the Beaglebone

Prepare your Build Sandbox

$ mkdir -p beaglelfs/{sources,rootfs_install,boot_mnt,rootfs_mnt}

Acquire an ARM Toolchain

Download the latest i686 Binary TAR of the ARM GNU/Linux (glibc-based) Lite Toolchain:

	#!/usr/bin/env bash

	# login as root and run this script via bash & curl:

	apt-get update
	apt-get install -y build-essential bison openssl libreadline5 libreadline5-dev curl \
	git-core zlib1g zlib1g-dev libopenssl-ruby libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev \
	libsqlite3-0 libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 libxml2-dev libmysqlclient-dev \
	mysql-client mysql-server

	#!/usr/bin/env sh

	##
	# This is script with usefull tips taken from:
	# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx
	#
	# install it:
	# curl -sL https://raw.github.com/gist/2108403/hack.sh \| sh
	#

	#!/usr/bin/env bash
	apt-get -y update
	apt-get -y upgrade
	apt-get -y install build-essential zlib1g-dev libssl-dev libreadline-gplv2-dev libyaml-dev libffi-dev libjemalloc-dev
	apt-get -y install autoconf curl bzip2
	apt-get -y autoremove
	apt-get -y clean

	cd /usr/local/src
	curl http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/2.2/ruby-2.2.2.tar.gz

	#!/bin/zsh

	# export BLOG="/path/to/your/octopress/install"

	# handles globbing weirdness with zsh + use it from anywhere
	# use: new-post "This is my exciting new post!!!"
	# set the blog variable to your octopress directory
	# TODO: fix this so it handles double-titling

	function new-post () {

	<div id="ncuPixelSpace">
	<!--NCU pixel goes here-->
	</div>

	<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
	var s_code=sc.t();
	if(s_code)document.write(s_code);
	</script>
	</body>

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	#
	# simle'n'stupid vhost "parser"
	#
	# Usage: ./vhosts-reader.py FILE
	# FILE is a apache config file
	import re
	import sys
	import os.path

	// Copyright (c) 2012, Dusty Burwell
	//
	// ==UserScript==
	// @name Emoticons for YouTrack
	// @namespace http://dustyburwell.github.com
	// @description Converts text to emoticons in YouTrack.
	// @include http://youtrack/*
	// @include https://youtrack/*
	// ==/UserScript==