KB #1109: A Comparison: Puppet vs Otter
Last Updated: February 28, 2023Puppet and Otter are both infrastructure automation products, and if you only read the marketing bullets, they’d probably sound identical. But they’re quite different products, and this article compares and contrasts the products and the philosophies behind them. Moreover, there’s nothing wrong with having and using both – in fact, many organizations have Puppet, Chef, […]
KB #1113: Anti-malware False Positives, Code Signing, and Safety of Inedo Products
Last Updated: February 21, 2022Malware protection is meant to ensure that our systems and sensitive information aren’t compromised. Occasionally, this protection doesn’t quite work as intended and flags a secure download; this is known as a false positive. If it’s Signed by Inedo, It’s Guaranteed Safe Rest assured that if the package is signed by Inedo, you can be […]
KB #1015: Running an Inedo Product’s Services Interactively
Last Updated: November 14, 2019The example screenshots are from BuildMaster, but the process will be exactly the same no matter which one of our products you’re using. Refer to this table – depending on which product you are using, enter the coinciding name, or abbreviation, into each space that has a red [product’s name], [service], or [XX]. The Inedo […]
KB #1053: Troubleshooting Installations
Last Updated: February 12, 2019We try to make installation as simple as possible, and while it usually installs with no issues, once in a while something goes wrong (which is probably why you are here reading this). SQL Server Problems Since all but one of the installer error reports we have received are due to some issue with SQL […]
KB #1072: ProGet vs. NuGet.Server
Last Updated: July 29, 2020NuGet.Server is a free and open-source package that’s designed to be incorporated into a .NET web application and host a single, NuGet feed. With a bit of set-up and some customization, you can use NuGet.Server to build a lightweight, standalone NuGet Server that hosts a single feed. It’s like a network share drive for your […]
KB #1077: Configuring Your Inedo Product to Run As a Windows Domain Account
Last Updated: November 18, 2019The example screenshots are from BuildMaster, but the process will be exactly the same no matter which one of our products you’re using. Refer to this table – depending on which product you are using, enter the coinciding name, or abbreviation, into each space that has a red [product’s name] or [XX]. The Inedo Product […]
KB #1090: Granting Service Control Privileges for Inedo Product’s Web Applications
Last Updated: November 14, 2019IMPORTANT: using the built-in service command (i.e. ProGet.Service.exe AllowServiceControl) to allow service control has been deprecated because it does not work reliably on all versions of Windows, and may cause undesired affects (see troubleshooting). Granting Service Control via subinacl.exe Download and install subinacl.msi from: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=23510 Once installed, invoke the tool specifying the {service-name} and {user-account} […]
KB #1110: A Comparison: Chef vs Otter
Last Updated: February 28, 2023Chef and Otter are both infrastructure automation products, and if you only read the marketing bullets, they’d probably sound identical. But they’re quite different products, and this article compares and contrasts the products and the philosophies behind them. Moreover, there’s nothing wrong with having and using both – in fact, many organizations have Puppet, Chef, […]
KB #1115: A Comparison: Artifactory vs ProGet
Last Updated: February 12, 2019Artifactory and ProGet are both enterprise level Universal Package (artifact) Repositories and are quite similar in function; in fact, if you read the marketing bullets they’d probably sound identical. Before we developed ProGet we were Artifactory users, which gave us the unique ability to learn from JFrog’s tool and take into consideration some of the […]
KB #1119: Wildcard Masking in Inedo prouducts
Last Updated: November 14, 2019Wildcard masks in BuildMaster and Otter are used to include and/or exclude file/directory paths in the context of an operation. Typically, masks are used for file-based operations. The values for the masks are similar to ant-style masks. Rules A single asterisk (*) represents a matching file name within a specific directory A double asterisk (**) […]
