What’s Missing from GitLab?
The other day I was asked what GitLab was missing and I realized that, really, it’s not much. The single biggest thing to me is the inability to create new p... » Read more
Configuration Management Part 3: Vagrant & Packer
To facilitate developing my Puppet code, the Pro Puppet book suggests using Vagrant. Seeing as I’ve been meaning to get around to learning it for a while I d... » Read more
Configuration Management Part 2: puppetlabs-apache & puppet-lint
Today was a good day. I installed puppet-lint and ran it against a custom module I’m writing for my first node and found lots of issues that it was kind enou... » Read more
Configuration Management Part 1: The Restart
As mentioned in my last post, I’ve decided to start over on my journey to doing configuration management in an environment where we treat our infrastructure ... » Read more
Foreman: Too Much Voodoo
I finally got around to setting up Foreman at work and managing my first node with it. After digging around I found that I felt really boxed in using this s... » Read more