Thanks for the tip on Vagrant, Mark! It looks really promising indeed. I have managed to create and start a simple VM but not managed to get much more out of it so far. And Chef also sounds really good (never heard of it before either though).
Although I'm not sure I could manage to write such a plugin for maven, given my practically non-existant knowledge of Ruby and my very limited knowledge of hard core virtual machine stuff. /Jimi ________________________________________ Från: Mark Derricutt [[email protected]] Skickat: den 15 april 2010 15:00 Till: Maven Users List Ämne: Re: Build a virtual machine using maven? A realistic idea? What you could do is wrap vagrantup as a maven plugin: http://vagrantup.com/ Or implement a native java version, basically vagrant is a tool for creating virtual machine images from a base image, and can then provision artifacts inside the image using opscode chef. I've only been looking at the tool for a week or so but I'm already head over heals in love with it - now I just need to work out how to best utilize it :) Mark -- Pull me down under... 2010/4/15 Jimi Hullegård <[email protected]>: > In the best of worlds I would be able to build a VM (in standard OVF format) > just as easily as I now build a war- or ear-file. All our specific files and > configuration would be under version control in SVN, and I would just add a > dependency to a "vanilla" virtual machine (like "Ubunto-64" version "9.10") > and it would insert our file structure into the VM, almost like war-overlay > works for web applications. And maybe some specific programs could be > "installed" by the means of defining other dependencies. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
