Smooth Sailing: A Hands-On Guide to Set-Up Concourse CI on Rocky Linux
As you know my everyday driver is a Windows 10 PC and I usually can't go for another system which is as smooth and user-friendly as it gets. But I have few unpleasant quirks with my daily driver which does not allow me to experiment with opensource software packages and builds, which usually oriented towards Linux gear. Previously my dependency was with Vagrant, cause its easily available boxes, configuration management abilities and cli mode approach. But from recent days, I started to feel a bit distanced with the Vagrant tool, that became a bit sloth on its own. So, we got an alternate tool to handle my VM jobs. Introducing VMWare Workstation 16 Player (works well with Windows Hyper-V platform) which comes with GUI features. Compared to Vagrant, VMWare Workstation is not a CLI only tool and has more towards UI approach. So, in this blogs lets dive into the steps, I took to setup Concourse CI on top of Rocky Linux for my Devops CI/CD lab experiments. Prerequisite: Get the VMWare