News

RPM/Chef 0.10.10 Released

Alan Milligan — 2012-05-14T05:50:00Z

We're announcing the release of Chef 0.10.10 on BastionLinux. Our Chef/cloud channel is also fully compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Simply use your RPM/yum tools to upgrade your Chef configuration management.

We have also made available a public AMI of Chef for you to test and/or use independently on AWS/EC2 for your own instances. Other BastionLinux AMI's have the chef client installed by default. Full operating details of this are available at http://linux.last-bastion.net/ami/chef.

BastionLinux/Plone on RHEL!

Alan Milligan — 2012-03-20T21:55:00Z

We've been busy tweaking our Plope channel and can confirm that we've got Zope and Plone running with native RHEL6.1 core packages and our RPMs.

If you've invested in RHEL to enjoy enterprise support and wish to run RPM/Plone packaged under similar levels of assurance, you should get in touch with us.

We run the latest non-bleeding-edge KGS of Plone, and have packaged (and patched) a wide range of popular and legacy add-on products and modules.

Check out the stack on our Plope Channel.

BastionLinux/Zenoss on RHEL!

Alan Milligan — 2012-03-08T06:40:14Z

We've been busy tweaking our Zenoss/monitor channel and can confirm that we've got Zenoss running up with native RHEL6.1 core packages and our RPMs.

If you've invested in RHEL to enjoy enterprise support and wish to run RPM/Zenoss packaged with our hardened Zope and Zenoss distribution, you should get in touch with us.

If you're wondering or are worried about how you're going to upgrade to Zenoss 4.x, then you should definitely talk to us!

BastionLinux/Chef on RHEL!!

Alan Milligan — 2012-03-06T06:52:48Z

We've done a bit of RPM package reorganisation and are very happy to announce that our Cloud/Chef channel works on RHEL6.1.

This means that our latest chef-client and ohau RPM's can be downloaded onto RHEL nodes. You can use our RPM's to manage all of your Chef server infrastructure. You get enterprise release management of your Chef and you also enjoy whatever support level(s) you've procured from Red Hat.

If you're an enterprise, please do talk to us about our enterprise Chef RPM's.

Ninefold Affiliate

Alan Milligan — 2012-03-05T08:02:02Z

Ninefold, Australia's most innovative cloud provider, has just released it's affiliate programme and we're one of the first affiliates to be accepted!

We're very excited about progressing our relationship with Ninefold because their platform gives Australian clients and customers with data sovereignty concerns all of the jurisdictional protection they require.

We're still trying to get BastionLinux™ internal to their systems, but for now, follow the instructions here.

Chef - Cloud Configuration Management at ACS

Alan Milligan — 2012-02-22T08:33:56Z

We're presenting Chef, the Cloud configuration management suite by Opscode at the Australian Computer Society on April 11th. It is free for non-ACS members. Do visit here for full details!

Plone 4.1.4 Released

Alan Milligan — 2012-02-22T04:43:12Z

Plone 4.1.4 is a maintenance release. The full release notes are at http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/4.1.4 We really appreciate the efforts of Eric Steele and the Plone 4 release team for their work in maintaining the KGS and corralling the community.

Our Zope and Plone RPM channel is at http://linux.last-bastion.net/LBN/up2date/plope/13 - which contains not only this release, but hundreds of other popular community Zope and Plone extensions.

Please do talk to us if you're using our BastionLinux/Plone images on AWS/EC2.

Access and Identity Management Channel!

Alan Milligan — 2012-02-02T07:02:16Z

Being long-term consumers of access and directory products, we're finally releasing all of the best open source applications in one place.

Core to our offering is 389 Directory Server (formerly Fedora Directory Server, and prior to that, Netscape Directory Server). This offers considerable advantages over OpenLDAP to the enterprise - not the least being much better statistics and usage reporting. We have created a Zenoss ZenPack, ZenPacks.lbn.LDAPMonitor which brings this oversight into your Zenoss operations centre.

Also included in this channel is the latest Kerberos, and FreeIPA which allows you to easily deploy and manage your public/private cloud administrator access with Kerberos.

We have a wide range of Plone/LDAP plugins and features which provide integration with LDAP and Active Directory for Zope, Plone, and Zenoss installations.

We've also created tools to migrate from OpenLDAP to 389 Directory Server and have a lot of expertise in (and definitely recommend) such efforts.

Don't hesitate to get in touch with us for more information around this suite.

We're on HP Cloud Services!

Alan Milligan — 2012-01-26T02:07:34Z

It certainly proved an easy task to spin up a server on HP Cloud. HP Cloud is also API-compliant with Eucalyptus, so all of the tools we use to manage our AWS/EC2 systems can transparently interact with systems in HP datacentres.

But for the moment, we still must wait for the ability to install BastionLinux™ machine images - but we'll be sure to make some noise when this happens!

Chef 0.10.8 Released

Alan Milligan — 2012-01-11T06:50:00Z

We've been experimenting with chef for quite some time internally, and are now making the suite publicly available on BastionLinux, our RPM-based Linux. This is the latest 0.10.8 release and includes chef-server, chef-server-webui, chef-solr, and chef-expander. Chef will be fully supported on BastionLinux going forward.

Chef is the final component of our large-scale server deployment and management suite:

BastionLinux provides SOE, release and patch management
Zenoss provides system monitoring and capacity management
Chef provides configuration management

BastionLinux on VMWare

Alan Milligan — 2012-01-07T02:31:02Z

We've been running virtualised BastionLinux on a wide range of platforms for quite some time and have finally made our latest BastionLinux/Plone image publicly available.

Quite a number of organisations are experimenting with public/private cloud combinations - or are intending to. Along with our EC2/AMI offerings, these organisations can utilise their existing VMWare infrastructure across our SOE.

Similarly, a number of telco/cloud hosting operations are using the VMWare product range for their cloud offerings. We're making it easy to run BastionLinux in these situations too.

The links are at:

http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bastionlinux-us-west-1/images/bastionlinux13.vmx

http://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/bastionlinux-us-west-1/images/bastionlinux13.vmdk

If anyone would prefer .ovf formatted images, please do let us know.

Plone 4.1.3 Released

Alan Milligan — 2011-12-06T05:17:58Z

Plone 4.1.3 is a maintenance release. The full release notes are at http://plone.org/products/plone/releases/4.1.3

Our Plone RPM channel is at http://linux.last-bastion.net/LBN/up2date/plope/13 - which contains not only this release, but hundreds of other popular community Zope and Plone extensions.

Upgrade your existing systems is just one command:

$ yum update

We're now an AWS Solutions Provider

Alan Milligan — 2011-10-05T04:15:59Z

We are really excited to be part of the AWS Independent Solutions Provider programme. Amazon is a wonderful platform for our BastionLinux™ product range and our public machine images give us the ability to reach a large market of potential customers at minimal cost.

Our landing page in the AWS directory is:

http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/solution-providers/last-bastion

So for all you Enterprise Plone people - get into our offerings in an Amazon datacentre near you!

Plone 4.1 AMI for Amazon EC2 available now!

Alan Milligan — 2011-09-21T04:34:12Z

We are pleased to announce our first publicly available Amazon Machine Image for you to instantly be running the latest Plone (4.1) on BastionLinux on Amazon EC2.

This image contains enterprise features such as watch-dog monitoring with monit, and a pre-configured SSL behind Apache HTTP to allow you to securely manage your Plone site.

Users may elect to upgrade to a paid BastionLinux subscription and then access all future Plone core software upgrades and our large catalogue of extension modules and products available on our Plone channel at http://linux.last-bastion.net/LBN/up2date/plope/13. We have a channel sales programme around BastionLinux, so please do talk to us if you're in practice and have a number of customers who would benefit from this platform.

This release also contains features to allow us to offer remote systems management in the near future. We will shortly be making announcements regarding our Zenoss monitoring service and our Chef configuration management service.

For full operating instructions, availability zope details etc, please visit our instruction page here.

Zenoss 3.2.0 Released

Alan Milligan — 2011-09-06T22:58:05Z

We've just released Zenoss 3.2.0 on BastionLinux 13. This is a bugfix release of the 3.1.x series which we made available in March.

This release is hot off the press from Zenoss Corporation itself and there does seem to be one or two migration problems migrating from earlier release(s). We're probably not going to retrofit any of these patches, but will provide you full migration support to the 3.2.0.

We'll also be making an AMI image available on Amazon Web Services very soon if you'd prefer to discover and/or test features there instead of your own test/production environments.