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IBM is collaborating along with clients in this community to provide useful resources for using
Chef with AIX systems. Chef-client for AIX is now enhanced with new recipes. The AIX
cookbook can be reached at this URL:
https://supermarket.chef.io/cookbooks/aix/
Yum
Yum stands for "Yellowdog Updater, Modified" and allows for automatic updates, package,
and dependency management on RPM-based distributions.
It is now available with repository access from both FTP and https protocols for AIX, and is
also updated to enable automatic dependency discovery. For more information, see the AIX
Toolbox for Linux Applications website at:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html
Cloud-init
Cloud-init is a tool created to help with the early initialization of a virtual machine being
deployed. It uses OpenStack metadata information to, among other tasks, set a root
password, grow file systems, set a default locale, set host names, generate SSH private keys,
and handle temporary mount points. After it is script based, it can be easily extended to do
other tasks specific to a customer environment.
Cloud-init and all its dependencies are now available, and includes support for licensed AIX
users. For more information, see the AIX Toolbox for Linux Applications website at:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/linux/toolbox/alpha.html
GitHub
GitHub is a version control system that manages and stores revisions of projects. GitHub
provides a web-based interface, access control, and several collaboration features such as
task management and wikis.
In the past, if you wanted to contribute to an open source project, you would need to
download the source code, make the changes, take note of the changes, talk to the owner of
the code to explain the changes, and get the owner's approval to apply your changes to the
official code. With GitHub, a user can fork an existing project, download and change only the
needed files, pull the new code to the platform, and notify the owner who can then publish the
changes automatically with version control.
Open source projects for AIX can be found at the following repository:
http://github.org/aixoss
Node.js
Node.js is a platform that is built on JavaScript for building fast and scalable applications.
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient. It
is perfect for data-intensive and real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Node.js is available for both Linux and AIX platforms and can be downloaded from:
https://nodejs.org/en/download/
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