Brandorr

Cloud Automation

Brandorr Group offers system development, remote administration, automation, deployment and scalability of web-applications on Amazon Web Services infrastructure.

  • Automated management of infrastructure, using open source tools such as Puppet, Foreman, Capistrano and a great number of custom tools.
  • Ensuring applications have the resources to scale and handle unexpected growth.
  • Custom software developed to your exact needs with a variety of languages and technologies.
  • Setup and management of business tools such as ticket management systems, issue trackers, source code management and wikis.
  • Personalized 24/7 monitoring of your applications and systems, alerting you to problems, and enabling our experienced professionals to quickly respond to emergencies.
  • Database administration, ensuring availability and performance, even under an increasing load.

As a result, our customers are able to quickly and cost-effectively scale their IT infrastructure!

Wherever sensible, Brandorr Group is committed to using and improving open-source tools. This lowers software licensing costs and gives back to the greater computing community.

Some .deb tips

Submitted by Brian on Sat, 02/14/2009 - 00:00

For one of our clients, we use Ubuntu for most of the infrastructure and customer application environments. While the quality of most packages in Debian and Ubuntu is very, very high, we do occasionally come across a package that has minor issues. In this post, I’m going to try to document some of the more common workarounds – these are fixes for corner-cases where the packaging system is doing “almost the right thing”, but where we need to coerce it into doing something a little bit different.

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