From Code To Online Services: My experiments of DevOps - Environment

For Development

Well, I have a laptop on hand with Windows 7 64bit which is my development machine.
On top of it, we need to setup some basic development related tools of choice.

Below are mine:

• Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers: Mars.2 Release (4.5.2) with necessary plugins like m2e for Maven, Egit for Git
• Java 8 latest
• Apache Maven: 3.3.x, no private repository yet at this moment
• Git: 1.9.5

For Continuous Integration (CI) & Continuous Deployment (CD)

OS: Ubuntu

As I’m going to play around with Linux, I setup VirtualBox on my laptop and span up one Ubuntu 14.04 as the logical host for everything as I’m going to run them on top of Docker.

Here is the detailed Ubuntu version:

$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release:        14.04
Codename:       trusty

For convenient purpose, I used host-only option and had one static IP for the Ubuntu:

$ ifconfig eth1 | grep 'inet addr:' | cut -d: -f2 | awk '{ print $1}'
192.168.56.118

Note: Please refer to VirtualBox for details on how to set up virtual boxes, or let me know if you need any assistance or sharing on this. 

Docker & Docker Compose

Please refer to https://docs.docker.com/engine/installation/linux/ubuntulinux/ for how to install Docker as I won’t mention it here.

Here is the Docker latest version as of writing:

$ docker --version
Docker version 1.11.0, build 4dc5990
$ docker-compose --version
docker-compose version 1.6.2, build 4d72027