Django Developer Kit on Og Maciel's Journal

Announcing: Foresight based Django Developer Kit Appliance RC1

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

If you remember one of my last posts, I wanted to eventually migrate my Django Developer Kit Appliance to use Foresight Linux as the underlying operating system… and I am proud to announce that I have made huge strides toward this goal!

Thanks to the guidance of some fellow rPathians, I managed to get an almost ready for production Django 1.2.3 + PostgreSQL 8.4 + Python 2.6.2 and lots of Django modules and latest versions for Git, Mercurial, Bzr, and Subversion ready to be used!

Django Devel Kit Appliance 1.2.3

Sat, 11 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

No, this is not a repeat from yesterday’s post. Turns out there was another security release for Django yesterday (thanks Zygmunt for the heads up), so here’s the release of Django Developer Kit Appliance 1.2.3.

As always, choose from the following image types:

Amazon EC2 AMI Large (ami-ba996cd3)
Amazon EC2 AMI Small (ami-a0996cc9)
ISO x86 (SHA1 11811571ee8f8f2a0d7778c9e4275060de73f271)
ISO x86_64 (SHA1 065b1c5dfa410cffeec9950d577cddd15f369bad)
Raw Filesystem x86 (SHA1 141427d7c84449ccc7eacbee7d527b8ba6f7ca48)
Raw Filesystem x86_64 (SHA1 482ecbbd2c177e3fdc33b18dc0ee65c83d681956)
VMware ESX x86 (SHA1 10757fd1f0ec119fe236f3402bf38dfde25cb40a)
VMware ESX x86 OVF 1.0 (SHA1 7c535f1514a969118f08f4bdf9c9559b492c72d6)
VMware ESX x86_64 (SHA1 a710d469e74124f2988591362b6943cee9589e46)
VMware ESX x86_64 OVF 1.0 (SHA1 c7a11c380f2d5e0cfc96220cbfe81a88876eb201)
VMware Desktop x86 (SHA1 29eb739b88d90a172815c2274aafb0b1ffe4228a)
VMware Desktop x86_64 (SHA1 f3ba1c95fc04260bf60ad3fef8552eda6be5f12d)

Remember that the appliance comes with its own management system that can be accessed by pointing your browser to https://YOUR-APPLIANCE-IP:8003 and logging in as the admin user (the default password the first time you boot your appliance is password, but you will immediately be asked to change it during the 1-step setup wizard). From there you can also configure backups, updates, and manage system services.

Django Developer Kit Appliance 1.2.2

Fri, 10 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

Today I’m releasing my Django Developer Kit Appliance 1.2.2 due to the recent security release of Django 1.2.2. Other than a newer version of Django, you’ll also get newer versions of several packages already included by default in the appliance.

I have been working hard (time permitting, off course) on migrating the appliance to a slim Foresight Linux base in order to upgrade the underlying python from 2.4 to latest 2.6.x, plus other goodies such as a newer kernel and the very latest versions of your favorite versioning control systems! This will also mean that I won’t have to maintain several packages on different places and will be able to leverage of the work being done on Foresight!