I’ve spent all week working on a CVS to SVN migration and thankfully it’s going really well. I needed to replicate our SVN environment so I installed Linux on a VMWare install on my Windows XP machine. I’m always amazed at how well this works!
Today I was digging around VMWare’s appliance ‘marketplace‘ and was surprised there were no ColdFusion images?
Is this something anyone would be interested in? It seems like it would be fairly straightforward to setup a CF version using the developer edition and maybe a Blue Dragon one. (Though I’m not sure of the legalities of doing this – anyone know??)
If you wanted to run a desktop you could even install some of the more popular CF apps – things like BlogCFC, etc.
I’ve never created a VMWare ‘appliance’ before but I can’t imagine it’s that difficult? Please leave a comment if you would be interested in something like this – and if you are from Adobe or New Atlanta I’d be curious about the legalities of using ColdFusion/BlueDragon in a setting like this? I don’t want to get in trouble :)
I suggested this to some Adobe staff in the past. They said they would pass it on, but weren’t as charged up about it as I was.
It would be great if they put together a developer image, for existing developers and for developers who want to try CF out.
I have a VMWare setup I use for testing that has CentOS/Apache/CFMX 7 DEV installed and working on a virtual machine. Contact me if this is what you are looking for.
Philip – just curious how big is the image? What is CentOS based off? RHEL? I’ve actually just been lazy lately and was going to play with this more after I upgraded to Ubunut 7.04 (which I can hopefully do when I get home)
I was going to dig around and find a stripped down distribution and see if I couldn’t come up with something.
We talked with Gert from Railo about the notion of creating a CF deployment JumpBox based on their CF engine. I know the guys from NA and haven’t spoken with them about it yet- it would require a special licensing deal as I believe it’s against their TOS to redistribute BD without permission. Either way, there are alternatives to Adobe for making this happen.
You’ll find that there’s a difference between making a true virtual appliance vs. cloning a VM image of a setup instance. We have a year of dev with 5 guys making the JumpBox platform and just released our 1.0 line of appliances this week after an extensive beta prog. Our platform handles network and app config on first usage as well as things like automatically dumping the state of the appliance periodically to a network share and support for VMware, Xen and Parallels.
Pending the amount of interest from the community, we’ll look at doing a CF appliance.
sean
Yes – Railo would be ideal. I haven’t checked out JumpBox yet – do you have a URL?
I spoke with Adam Lehman when he and Tim stopped by our CF user group and mentioned to him the idea of using the Developer Edition of CF in a VM and he thought it would be OK since you would still be restricted in it’s usage… I just haven’t had time to play with it yet…
Jim- http://www.JumpBox.com
Matt Woodward mentioned us in a podcast recently and wrote up his experience with the Trac JumpBox here-> http://www.mattwoodward.com/blog/index.cfm?event=showEntry&entryId=4C51DE7A-A91E-0FAA-9F3CD665856262F0
Certainly the developer edition is a possibility if it’s purely for development. We’re actually looking at doing a CF deployment JumpBox though. What’s neat is these things are production ready. So for instance our public website itself is running on a Drupal JumpBox, we use a vTiger CRM JumpBox internally to track contacts with vendors/partners/customers/etc. And the code for the platform is developed on a Trac/SVN JumpBox. They’re good as throwaway testing tools but are pefectly acceptable in a production enviornment as well.
Sean
We are working on this and have been in discussion with Adobe about the licensing requirements.
Cheers,
Robin
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