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Stripe released their capture the flag game recently https://stripe.com/blog/capture-the-flag and I thought it’d be a fun exercise to document my entire procedure.

So… before you enter, I warn you… there are spoilers in here…

Erlang strings are painful

Oh it’s so true. The pain is super apparent, especially when trying to parse configuration files. The traditional way to parse a configuration file that is not in the erlang format can be pretty hard to do. For instance, for beehive, the application configuration template looks like:

In this new series on my blog, we’ll look at a few different deployment frameworks (as alternatives to Beehive).

VMWare just released their new CloudFoundry framework to the Open-Source world. Obviously, I’m pretty interested in application deployment, so this clearly piqued my interest.

After upgrading to Snow Leopard, I found my os_mon erlang application exploded in a very ugly error message.

Introduction

Beehive is an open-source application deployment implementation that uses technologies like squashfs, erlang and ruby. It aims to provide a simple, easy application deployment platform. This post will go over the router portion of Beehive.

Architecture