{"id":1895,"date":"2011-01-06T01:01:31","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T00:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devco.net\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2011-01-06T01:01:31","modified_gmt":"2011-01-06T00:01:31","slug":"testing_mcollective_agents_in_development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/archives\/2011\/01\/06\/testing_mcollective_agents_in_development.php","title":{"rendered":"Testing MCollective Agents In Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When developing plugins for MCollective testing can be a pain since true testing would mean you need a lot of virtual machines and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>I wrote something called the <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/ripienaar\/mcollective-collective-builder\">MCollective Collective Builder<\/a> that assist in starting up a Stomp server and any number of mcollectived processes on one machine which would let you develop and test the parallel model without needing many machines.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve found it to be very useful in developing plugins, I recently wrote a new encrypting security plugin and the entire development was done over 10 nodes all on a single 512MB RAM single CPU virtual machine with no complex plugin synchronization issues etc.<\/p>\n<p>You can see how to use it below, as usual it&#8217;s best to view the video full screen.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/hfMOgpnWaQA\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"324\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When developing plugins for MCollective testing can be a pain since true testing would mean you need a lot of virtual machines and so forth. I wrote something called the MCollective Collective Builder that assist in starting up a Stomp server and any number of mcollectived processes on one machine which would let you develop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[121,78,95,13],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1898,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/1898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.devco.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}