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Habitat, Rails, and Postgres in 3 Different Ways
One of the best parts of managing software with Habitat is its flexibility. We can use it to run a rails application in a container, virtual machine, or on bare metal. We can also run that application’s database on a container, virtual machine, bare metal, or even a cloud database service like Amazon RDS.
Read morePackaging a Website with Nginx and Habitat
I build a lot of websites, and until somewhat recently, my workflow would usually go something like this: Have an idea. Build a website. Fumble through getting version 1 of the website out into the world.
Read moreRunning a Full Framework ASP.NET IIS application in Habitat
By Matt Wrock
For the past several months we have been working hard to provide full feature parity accross all Habitat components on Windows. We often use an ASP.NET Core plan to test Windows functionality because building and running a .
Read moreBuilding Developer Services with Habitat
By Michael Ducy
Something we often talk about in the arena of DevOps is the need for cultural or organizational change. One thing that’s often missing from the conversation is the virtuous cycle that tends to occur between People, Process, and Technology.
Read moreHabitat Studio Artifact Caching
Habitat’s Studio now supports artifact caching across Studios! This change adds a new capability to the Studio software which allows the downloaded Habitat artifacts (i.e. *.hart files) to be shared between different Studio instances or the between setup and tear downs of the same Studio instance.
Read moreMaking a Leader/Follower MySql Cluster with Habitat!
One of the most compelling pieces of Habitat is using the Supervisor to create self-organizing and self-healing topologies. Today we will, step by step, create a MySQL Leader/Follower cluster using Habitat. Setting up your infrastructure Create three virtual machines on the cloud provider of your choice (when creating this post, I used AWS EC2).
Read moreHabitat and Twelve-Factor Applications
By Michael Ducy
Twelve-Factor Applications are not something revolutionary or new. The concepts were originally published over 5 years ago, however they are are still relevant today as they were then.
Read moreHabitat on Windows!
By Matt Wrock
We are pleased to announce that the latest release of Habitat – v0.25.0 – brings Habitat to Windows! This functionality has been evolving steadily for the last several months and has been available in various pieces along the way. Perhaps you have seen my demo showing where we were back in March. Well with v0.25.
Read moreHappy Birthday, Habitat!
By Tasha Drew
Happy Birthday, Habitat! Last night marked Habitat’s first birthday party, celebrated with the project’s core team, which flew from their various distributed locations, local community members, and friends of the project.
Read moreLet’s Start Preparing for Whatever Comes After Containers
Delivering more things, more quickly, is the challenge that companies are tackling through digital transformation. This transformation involves adopting new technologies, processes, organizational structures, and, in most cases, dramatic cultural changes. It is made more difficult because many of the processes and structures being replaced were created to support specific technology choices.
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