Bootstrapping your box!
It's easy for us to manage your server. Your image is already bundled with our chef-client and we simply bootstrap against our Chef server
Duplicating your box...
If you run dev/test/production/dr silo operations, it's never been easier to assure your environments. It's also easy for us to manage any new release of software across your environments. If you need to spin up a duplicate of production on an ad-hoc basis, this too is trvial. Talk to us about your requirements. We are able to offer discounts on multiple systems.
Configuring
Managed Configuration
We sell and support Opscode/Chef and have an extensive range of recipes that deploy and configure our best-practice Enterprise Plone. Our recipes evolve over time as the platform changes and technologies change, but that is the point. Our considerable expertise is commoditised and made available to you at an amazing price point.
Our suite of recipes to deploy Plone include the following:
| Chef role | description |
|---|---|
| Apache | We configure an optiimised Apache to handle SSL and redirection to other web services |
| Squid | We utlise the latest Squid 3.x with Edge Side Includes (ESI) and optimised URL redirector to your Zope/Plone |
| Zope Application Server | Our standard Zope server configuration with the backend of your choice |
| Zope Backend |
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| Monitoring |
We set up a combination of SNMP and other client-side services for our Zenoss to monitor your Plone assets and provide capacity management information over time. |
Our Chef isn't a one-size fits all. Once you've registered your server (or Node in Chef-parlance), we have fantastic granularity to override and customise configuration specifically for you. We already incorporate a wide range of roles and features to deploy clustered solutions, or all-in-one, and quite a bit in between. If you have governance or risk requirements that preclude you from our Cloud-service, we can sell you our Chef and our Zope and Plone recipes for internal use and management. We even have systems in place to ship you updates to our recipes as we extend and enhance them over time.
