virtual machines have great promise as a way to distribute hard-set application settings. I use jeos vmbuilder (and some bash scripts) to create my devices, but I'm looking for something more elegant.
in my case, I am looking for a solution that will build vm based on linux with customized versions of tomcat and mysql as the base. each future release will be a new war file and sql script update. it would be very nice if already deployed vms could be self-updating, and test assemblies could be ported to ec2.
in my brief search, I found rpath rbuilder , turnkey Linux , vagrant up , suse studio , jeos vmbuilder , and vmware studio . instead of trying all this, I think I would ask what this community uses to build and distribute devices ...
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