Originally authored by Brandon Marc AureleWe recently acquired some new (and old) hardware for a few of
our internal big data projects. This...
0 replies - 2833 views - 10/27/12 by Scott Leberknight in Articles
This is a guest post I wrote in the Puppetlabs blog for their Module of the Week program about the MaestroDev/maven module we...
0 replies - 4058 views - 09/28/12 by Carlos Sanchez in Articles
Usually for testing and using virtual machines, I go online, download the iso image of the machine I want to install, start Virtual Box, tell it to init...
0 replies - 7781 views - 09/09/12 by Carlo Scarioni in Articles
I’ve previously made presentations and blog posts about Puppet and
module testing – my position is that you should treat Puppet code as
just that:...
0 replies - 3755 views - 08/31/12 by Oliver Hookins in Articles
Thanks to an errant tweet I started playing with Riemann
again. It ticks lots of boxes for me, from the clojure to configuration
as code and...
0 replies - 4511 views - 08/16/12 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles
It can be finicky business to keep a production server running.
You have to ensure the operating system and any other dependent
software is properly...
0 replies - 15586 views - 07/25/12 by Martin Fowler in Articles
A recent question on Twitter prompted me to write a quick
blog post about managing cron jobs. As more and more people want to
automate...
0 replies - 4092 views - 07/23/12 by Gareth Rushgrove in Articles
It has been quite a while since I’ve had anything sufficiently
detailed or interesting to post on a technical theme so it was quite a
welcome divergence...
0 replies - 3910 views - 06/19/12 by Oliver Hookins in Articles
Someone asked me where to start with Puppet learning. I pointed them at PuppetLabs online docs for Puppet, which are actually nice for a proper understanding....
2 replies - 6420 views - 05/31/12 by Abhishek Kumar in Articles
OK, so I’m not the first to blog about this, however I’m using Cobbler and Puppet to automate the creation of VMs on my laptop for testing/staging purposes...
0 replies - 7969 views - 05/02/12 by Matthew Macdona... in Articles
If you are starting to use Puppet or Chef, you must have Vagrant.
Learning Puppet can be a tedious task, getting up the master, agents,
writing your first...
0 replies - 6978 views - 04/20/12 by Carlos Sanchez in Articles
It’s been a couple heated weeks on the devops front. In part due, again, to the NoOps debacle (see Cockcroft’s post and Allspaw’s reply) and for the...
0 replies - 6097 views - 04/08/12 by Spike Morelli in Articles
Having started out on a Joyent appliance, migrating to Linode, and finally, to Amazon with a Bitnami stack,
we noticed the common pain of manually...
0 replies - 5745 views - 03/29/12 by Daniel Ackerson in Articles
Enough about philosophical posts, let’s get started with some practical Puppet.
Manifests
Puppet configuration files are called manifests,...
0 replies - 9085 views - 03/23/12 by Carlos Sanchez in Articles
Sometimes it is pretty obvious when Puppet changes something in your
infrastructure and bad things happen in a big dramatic way. Other times
it’s not so...
0 replies - 3352 views - 03/14/12 by Joe Miller in Articles
