BitNami Subversion for VMware

The BitNami Application Library for VMware is a collection of popular open source applications that are prepackaged as application blueprints and ready to use with VMware vFabric™ Application Director. The library includes wikis, content and document management systems, portals, development tools, customer relationship management (CRM) systems and many other types of applications. You can learn more about them at http://bitnami.com/vmware

BitNami’s library for VMware consists of BitNami’s application components within reusable blueprints using industry’s leading Cloud-enabled application provisioning solution, VMware vFabric™ Application Director. The product takes a model-driven open approach to drastically simplify and automate application deployment topologies of portable multi-tier applications in private, public and hybrid clouds. These application topologies are called application blueprints. With the joint integration of BitNami application packages with VMware vFabric™ Application Director, users can rapidly deploy and customize applications across clouds per their enterprise IT policies.

The BitNami Application Library hooks up to existing services like Apache and MySQL, making it easy to deploy and manage your favorite applications.

The BitNami Application Library currently supports the following OS platforms:

Support for RHEL and Ubuntu is planned.

Subversion has rapidly become the version control standard and it is rapidly replacing open source and commercial solutions around the world. Subversion enables globally distributed software development teams to efficiently version and share source code. The open source Subversion project was started in early 2000 by CollabNet, the primary corporate sponsor of Subversion.

Key Capabilities: * Versioned directories * Atomic commits * Efficient handling of binary files * Quick branching and tagging * Directory and file meta data * Natively client-server * Minimal server and network requirements * Low admin overhead * Good security

You can learn more about Subversion at (http://subversion.tigris.org)

The following sections will explain how to launch and manage Subversion with VMware vFabric™ Application Director.

Go to "Administration" in the Catalog section. Then in "Tags" create a new tag for BitNami. This will make easier to identify the BitNami services later when creating new Blueprints.

Use an Application Director wizard to create a new service.

Once you have created the BitNami Subversion service in your catalog, you can use it as a building block when you create your own Blueprints. To use BitNami Subversion in your own BluePrints, complete the following steps:

The BitNami Subversion Blueprint provides a server specification that includes:

Blueprints make it easy to launch servers that share a well-defined, repeatable configuration. To launch a server based on a Blueprint, go to the Applications section in the vFabric UI and select one of the BitNami Subversion Blueprints available in the system.

Once you have launched BitNami Subversion, you can view the details for the running machines in your deployment, including the IP of the server where Subversion is running. Pointing your browser to http://<ip>/subversion will take you to the main screen of your application. You will be presented with a login screen:

The installation of all BitNami applications is standardized. This section provides an overview of where each component is located in the event that you need to log in to your server, which you can do using the VMware console.

The standard location for the BitNami Library Application files is under /opt/bitnami. The following top-level folders are available:

At the top level of the installation you will find the following additional files:

The reason that all configuration and application files are located inside /opt/bitnami is to remain consistent with other BitNami application packages such as native installers and VMs that can be downloaded from (http://bitnami.com). Maintaining a common filesystem layout across operating systems and delivery mechanisms helps in many scenarios, such as moving from local laptop development environment to a vCloud production environment.

You can find additional information about BitNami Applications for VMware at http://bitnami.com/vmware

The BitNami VMware library is part of the BitNami platform. If you are an enterprise customer or service provider and are interested in running BitNami applications on your infrastructure, please contact us.