October Monthly && Creating agile infrastructures w/ AutomateIt

Organized by Igal Koshevoy

Time: Tuesday, October 2, 2007 from 7–9pm

Location: FreeGeek, 1731 SE 10th Ave. Portland, OR 97214

Agenda

Want to speed up your software development process? Improve the
quality of your services? Eliminate many of the risks that threaten
your efforts?

AutomateIt is an open-source tool for automating the setup and
maintenance of servers, applications and their dependencies. It
provides a surprisingly simple, yet powerful, way to manage files,
packages, services, networks, accounts, roles, templates and more.
It’s easy to learn and use, yet provides the power tackle the toughest
tasks. It plays well with a variety of different tools, frameworks and
OSes.

For example, you can use AutomateIt to write recipes for simple tasks,
like setting up a PHP-based blog at a shared hosting provider so you
can easily rebuild or migrate it elsewhere. Or use it for more
ambitious tasks, like deploying and maintaining clusters of Ruby on
Rails applications servers running on different OSes with numerous
system-level packages that require unique configurations. Or use it to
refactor the system architecture of your Java EE app and switch to
different components in a safe, previewable manner by effortlessly
applying the same set of changes you validated in development VMs to
staging and eventually production servers. The possibilities are
endless because in addition to AutomateIt’s many built-in features,
its extensible architecture makes it easy to adapt to your unique
needs.

For details and downloads, visit http://AutomateIt.org/

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