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 th... » Read more
- puppet 6
- configuration-management 5
- opensource 3
- vagrant 3
- oracle 2
- gentoo 2
- centos 2
- linux 2
- devops 2
- git 2
- apache 2
- puppet-me 2
- elasticsearch 2
- logging 2
- logstash 2
- ssl 1
- clearos 1
- monitoring 1
- zabbix 1
- mysql 1
- red-hat 1
- orchestration 1
- gitlab 1
- hyper-v 1
- node-js 1
- windows-7 1
- chocolatey 1
- gitlab-2 1
- homeassistant 1
- networking 1
- zigbee 1
- wordpress 1
- powerpress 1
- podcasting 1
puppet
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
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 more
Vagrant, 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 t... » Read more
configuration-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 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
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 more
opensource
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
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 more
Vagrant, 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 t... » Read more
vagrant
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 ha... » 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
Vagrant, 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 t... » 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 more
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 tuto... » Read more
gentoo
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 ... » Read more
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 thi... » Read more
centos
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... » Read more
Vagrant, 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 t... » Read more
linux
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... » Read more
Vagrant, 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 t... » Read more
devops
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
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 more
git
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
apache
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
puppet-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 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
elasticsearch
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. Another thing ... » Read more
ELK 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 designs... » Read more
logging
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. Another thing ... » Read more
ELK 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 designs... » Read more
logstash
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. Another thing ... » Read more
ELK 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 designs... » 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 tuto... » Read more
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 thi... » Read more
monitoring
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 thi... » 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 thi... » Read more
mysql
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 ... » 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 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 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 new p... » Read more
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... » 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: » 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: » 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 an... » Read more
gitlab-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 an... » Read more
homeassistant
Crash Boom Bang: PoE & Lightning Strikes
When lightning strikes and a PoE device doesn’t initially come back. » Read more
networking
Crash Boom Bang: PoE & Lightning Strikes
When lightning strikes and a PoE device doesn’t initially come back. » Read more
zigbee
Crash Boom Bang: PoE & Lightning Strikes
When lightning strikes and a PoE device doesn’t initially come back. » Read more
wordpress
PowerPress Authorization Flow
My proposal for how PowerPress could implement the tag's authorization flow » Read more
powerpress
PowerPress Authorization Flow
My proposal for how PowerPress could implement the tag's authorization flow » Read more
podcasting
PowerPress Authorization Flow
My proposal for how PowerPress could implement the tag's authorization flow » Read more