Renaming a Bitbucket Repository

Bitbucket is a paid-for version of Github*. Along with Jira and Confluence, it forms the Atlassian framework, a suite of devops tools in widespread use.

Using the Bitbucket web interface, a repository can easily be renamed. However, this causes a change in the URL, which breaks the link from existing clones of the repo. They can be deleted and re-cloned, or renamed. This post explains how to do the rename. Continue reading

HPVM Mass Production with hpvmclone

This post is about cloning HP-UX virtual machines, or HPVMs.

Once you have built an HPVM, the hpvmclone command can be used to produce many more.  hpvmclone does not create a copy of the HPVM, it just creates a copy of the configuration.  The data copy is done manually, for example with the dd command.

Basic HPVM Cloning

The following procedure is a simplified version of that found on Juanma’s Blog, in the section “Method 1”. Continue reading