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- Puppet 7
- Configuration-Management 5
- Homeassistant 3
- Linux 3
- Opensource 3
- Vagrant 3
- Apache 2
- Centos 2
- Devops 2
- Elasticsearch 2
- Gentoo 2
- Git 2
- Logging 2
- Logstash 2
- Networking 2
- Oracle 2
- Puppet-Me 2
- Zigbee 2
- Automation 1
- Aws 1
- Bitcoin 1
- Bitcoind 1
- Chocolatey 1
- Clearos 1
- Flakes 1
- Forecasts 1
- Gardening 1
- Gitlab 1
- Gitlab-2 1
- Hyper-V 1
- Monitoring 1
- Mysql 1
- Nixos 1
- Node-Js 1
- Openvox 1
- Orchestration 1
- Perforce 1
- Podcasting 1
- Powerpress 1
- Proxy 1
- Red-Hat 1
- Routing 1
- Sprinklers 1
- Ssl 1
- Tailscale 1
- Voxpupuli 1
- Vpn 1
- Weather 1
- Windows-7 1
- Wordpress 1
- Zabbix 1
Puppet
Upgrade to Puppet 5
Today I successfully upgraded our Puppet Master from Puppet 4.x (puppetserver 2.7.2) to Puppet 5 (puppetserver 5.0.0). It was wildly helpful to go through the …
» Read moreConfiguration 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 enough …
» Read moreConfiguration 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 as …
» Read moreForeman: 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 …
» Read morePuppet, Factor, Dashboard, MCollective, Hiera, Foreman... Where does it end?
I want to setup a system based around the open source Puppet software stack… I am just not sure what the stack contains. My goal is a system that is holistic …
» Read moreVagrant, Veewee, & Me (part 1)
I have toyed with the idea of diving into Vagrant for a while now and, tonight, decided it was time. I decided to be different and RTFM… this left me with two …
» Read moreConfiguration-Management
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 …
» Read moreConfiguration 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 enough …
» Read moreConfiguration 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 as …
» Read moreForeman: 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 …
» Read morePuppet, Factor, Dashboard, MCollective, Hiera, Foreman... Where does it end?
I want to setup a system based around the open source Puppet software stack… I am just not sure what the stack contains. My goal is a system that is holistic …
» Read moreHomeassistant
Automated Plant Watering
How we're going to make sure our plants stay properly watered all season long » Read more
Custom Weather Entity
How I created a custom weather entity that pulls current conditions from the weather station in my back yard and forecast data from the Tomorrow.io integration. » Read more
Crash Boom Bang: PoE & Lightning Strikes
When lightning strikes and a PoE device doesn't initially come back. » Read more
Linux
Routing Across AWS Subnets
The missing link to having EC2 instances on different internal subnets talk to each other » Read more
Hyper-V, CentOS 6.5 kernel panic, and 7 long hours
In hopes of it helping someone else not spend hours of work like I just did here is my lesson-learned from my first day of using Windows Server 2012 r2 Hyper-V.
» Read moreVagrant, Veewee, & Me (part 1)
I have toyed with the idea of diving into Vagrant for a while now and, tonight, decided it was time. I decided to be different and RTFM… this left me with two …
» Read moreOpensource
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 …
» Read moreAutomatically Starting and Stopping Oracle Fusion Middleware on Red Hat 5
At work we utilize Oracle Fusion Middleware on Red Hat 5.8. As the primary systems administrator for the servers running FMW, I always found it to be a real …
» Read moreVagrant, Veewee, & Me (part 1)
I have toyed with the idea of diving into Vagrant for a while now and, tonight, decided it was time. I decided to be different and RTFM… this left me with two …
» Read moreVagrant
Vagrant, Fusion, & DHCP Oddities
I’ve had some random weirdness that I thought was related to Vagrant’s VMware Fusion provider until I turned on debugging tonight. As it turns out, Fusion had …
» Read moreConfiguration 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 …
» Read moreVagrant, Veewee, & Me (part 1)
I have toyed with the idea of diving into Vagrant for a while now and, tonight, decided it was time. I decided to be different and RTFM… this left me with two …
» Read moreApache
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 …
» Read moreConfiguration 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 enough …
» Read moreCentos
Hyper-V, CentOS 6.5 kernel panic, and 7 long hours
In hopes of it helping someone else not spend hours of work like I just did here is my lesson-learned from my first day of using Windows Server 2012 r2 Hyper-V.
» Read moreVagrant, Veewee, & Me (part 1)
I have toyed with the idea of diving into Vagrant for a while now and, tonight, decided it was time. I decided to be different and RTFM… this left me with two …
» Read moreDevops
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 …
» Read morePuppet, Factor, Dashboard, MCollective, Hiera, Foreman... Where does it end?
I want to setup a system based around the open source Puppet software stack… I am just not sure what the stack contains. My goal is a system that is holistic …
» Read moreElasticsearch
ELK Stack v2 (and a correction)
I’ve learned a lot since my last post. One of those things is that I was wrong… setting up Logstash on your Redis nodes isn’t such a bad idea. …
» Read moreELK Stack Design
I’ve been working on a new logging system based around Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. One of my biggest challenges was that all the recommended …
» Read moreGentoo
Gentoo & MySQL Binary Logging
So, I learned today that the root cause of my site issues was that Gentoo apparently decided to enable binary logging by default yet did not have a max size or …
» Read moreMore Monitoring... NOW!
As some may have noticed, I have had a few site issues lately. Those should be in the past now. As a result of these issues, I am now actively monitoring this …
» Read moreGit
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 as …
» Read moreForeman: 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 …
» Read moreLogging
ELK Stack v2 (and a correction)
I’ve learned a lot since my last post. One of those things is that I was wrong… setting up Logstash on your Redis nodes isn’t such a bad idea. …
» Read moreELK Stack Design
I’ve been working on a new logging system based around Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. One of my biggest challenges was that all the recommended …
» Read moreLogstash
ELK Stack v2 (and a correction)
I’ve learned a lot since my last post. One of those things is that I was wrong… setting up Logstash on your Redis nodes isn’t such a bad idea. …
» Read moreELK Stack Design
I’ve been working on a new logging system based around Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. One of my biggest challenges was that all the recommended …
» Read moreNetworking
Routing Across AWS Subnets
The missing link to having EC2 instances on different internal subnets talk to each other » Read more
Crash Boom Bang: PoE & Lightning Strikes
When lightning strikes and a PoE device doesn't initially come back. » Read more
Oracle
Automatically Starting and Stopping Oracle Fusion Middleware on Red Hat 5
At work we utilize Oracle Fusion Middleware on Red Hat 5.8. As the primary systems administrator for the servers running FMW, I always found it to be a real …
» Read moreUsing Oracle Wallet with Wildcard Certificates
Do you have to use Oracle Wallet as part of Fusion Middleware? Do you also have a wildcard SSL certificate? If so, then this tutorial is for you. This …
» Read morePuppet-Me
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 …
» Read moreConfiguration 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 enough …
» Read moreZigbee
Automated Plant Watering
How we're going to make sure our plants stay properly watered all season long » Read more
Crash Boom Bang: PoE & Lightning Strikes
When lightning strikes and a PoE device doesn't initially come back. » Read more
Automation
Automated Plant Watering
How we're going to make sure our plants stay properly watered all season long » Read more
Aws
Routing Across AWS Subnets
The missing link to having EC2 instances on different internal subnets talk to each other » Read more
Bitcoin
Proxying Bitcoin Core and LND with Tailscale and Nginx
How I use Nginx as a TCP proxy for bitcoind and lnd on another host via Tailscale » Read more
Bitcoind
Proxying Bitcoin Core and LND with Tailscale and Nginx
How I use Nginx as a TCP proxy for bitcoind and lnd on another host via Tailscale » Read more
Chocolatey
GitLab CI and Chocolatey Server
If you are not familiar with chocolatey, its an awesome package manager, like apt or yum, for Windows. You can also host your own internal chocolatey feed and …
Clearos
More Monitoring... NOW!
As some may have noticed, I have had a few site issues lately. Those should be in the past now. As a result of these issues, I am now actively monitoring this …
» Read moreFlakes
Proxying Bitcoin Core and LND with Tailscale and Nginx
How I use Nginx as a TCP proxy for bitcoind and lnd on another host via Tailscale » Read more
Forecasts
Custom Weather Entity
How I created a custom weather entity that pulls current conditions from the weather station in my back yard and forecast data from the Tomorrow.io integration. » Read more
Gardening
Automated Plant Watering
How we're going to make sure our plants stay properly watered all season long » Read more
Gitlab
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 …
» Read moreGitlab-2
GitLab CI and Chocolatey Server
If you are not familiar with chocolatey, its an awesome package manager, like apt or yum, for Windows. You can also host your own internal chocolatey feed and …
Hyper-V
Hyper-V, CentOS 6.5 kernel panic, and 7 long hours
In hopes of it helping someone else not spend hours of work like I just did here is my lesson-learned from my first day of using Windows Server 2012 r2 Hyper-V.
» Read moreMonitoring
More Monitoring... NOW!
As some may have noticed, I have had a few site issues lately. Those should be in the past now. As a result of these issues, I am now actively monitoring this …
» Read moreMysql
Gentoo & MySQL Binary Logging
So, I learned today that the root cause of my site issues was that Gentoo apparently decided to enable binary logging by default yet did not have a max size or …
» Read moreNixos
Proxying Bitcoin Core and LND with Tailscale and Nginx
How I use Nginx as a TCP proxy for bitcoind and lnd on another host via Tailscale » Read more
Node-Js
Windows 7 x64 and Underscore-CLI
Underscore-CLI is a great utility for working with JSON data. Below are the steps it took to get it running on my Windows 7 laptop:
- Install node.js1. Node adds …
Openvox
An Unsupportable Path
The community response to Perforce's continued refusal to actually work with us » Read more
Orchestration
Puppet, Factor, Dashboard, MCollective, Hiera, Foreman... Where does it end?
I want to setup a system based around the open source Puppet software stack… I am just not sure what the stack contains. My goal is a system that is holistic …
» Read morePerforce
An Unsupportable Path
The community response to Perforce's continued refusal to actually work with us » Read more
Podcasting
PowerPress Authorization Flow
My proposal for how PowerPress could implement the <podcast:authorization> tag's authorization flow » Read more
Powerpress
PowerPress Authorization Flow
My proposal for how PowerPress could implement the <podcast:authorization> tag's authorization flow » Read more
Proxy
Proxying Bitcoin Core and LND with Tailscale and Nginx
How I use Nginx as a TCP proxy for bitcoind and lnd on another host via Tailscale » Read more
Red-Hat
Automatically Starting and Stopping Oracle Fusion Middleware on Red Hat 5
At work we utilize Oracle Fusion Middleware on Red Hat 5.8. As the primary systems administrator for the servers running FMW, I always found it to be a real …
» Read moreRouting
Routing Across AWS Subnets
The missing link to having EC2 instances on different internal subnets talk to each other » Read more
Sprinklers
Automated Plant Watering
How we're going to make sure our plants stay properly watered all season long » Read more
Ssl
Using Oracle Wallet with Wildcard Certificates
Do you have to use Oracle Wallet as part of Fusion Middleware? Do you also have a wildcard SSL certificate? If so, then this tutorial is for you. This …
» Read moreTailscale
Proxying Bitcoin Core and LND with Tailscale and Nginx
How I use Nginx as a TCP proxy for bitcoind and lnd on another host via Tailscale » Read more
Voxpupuli
An Unsupportable Path
The community response to Perforce's continued refusal to actually work with us » Read more
Vpn
Proxying Bitcoin Core and LND with Tailscale and Nginx
How I use Nginx as a TCP proxy for bitcoind and lnd on another host via Tailscale » Read more
Weather
Custom Weather Entity
How I created a custom weather entity that pulls current conditions from the weather station in my back yard and forecast data from the Tomorrow.io integration. » Read more
Windows-7
Windows 7 x64 and Underscore-CLI
Underscore-CLI is a great utility for working with JSON data. Below are the steps it took to get it running on my Windows 7 laptop:
- Install node.js1. Node adds …
Wordpress
PowerPress Authorization Flow
My proposal for how PowerPress could implement the <podcast:authorization> tag's authorization flow » Read more
Zabbix
More Monitoring... NOW!
As some may have noticed, I have had a few site issues lately. Those should be in the past now. As a result of these issues, I am now actively monitoring this …
» Read more
Nostr