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The Debian project is one of the largest Linux distributions and one of the oldest. Debian is also perhaps the most democratic, with the distribution’s Project Leader voted in through elections participated in by Debian Developers.

Un framework de configuration et de déploiement de projets logiciels basé sur PHProcessor en ant.

A couple months after migrating to subversion, we took another significant step to improve our build process by setting up a continuous integration server using CruiseControl.net and NANT. As explained in the previous post in this blog series, our new SVN repository structure supported a clear separation of development, staging and production environments. Now we needed something to assist in making sure that commits and changes to the repository resulted in actual builds being generated on the appropriate server.

The idea of using virtual machines to build high available clusters is not new. Some software companies claim that virtualization is the answer to your HA problems, off course that's not true. Yes, you can reduce downtime by migrating virtual machines to another physical machine for maintenance purposes or when you think hardware is about to fail, but if an application crashes you still need to make sure another application instance takes over the service. And by the time your hardware fails, it's usually already too late to initiate the migration.