De-forking a Puppet Module
A couple of years ago, the team I’m on forked a Puppet module called “mrepo” that is used for creating and managing RPM-based repository mirrors. We recently... » Read more
Fixing Vagrant’s box index
I use Vagrant a lot and sometimes things on my laptop get moved around or deleted by means other than vagrant destroy. The problem with this is that when I l... » Read more
Reclaiming Your Accounts
This post is a quick reference guide for what I recommend people do when someone has gotten into their accounts on various platforms. » Read more
Using The Multi Resource Declaration And Defined Types To Simplify Manifests
Sometimes it seems you just keep repeating the same block of code with only one or two lines changed. Sometimes a single thing you need to do more than once ... » Read more
Breaking Up A Large Pull Request
Ever finished up all the changes for a pull request on GitHub and realized it was just too big to review easily or to reason about what’s going on? I had jus... » Read more