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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The missing link to having EC2 instances on different internal subnets talk to each other » Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
How we’re going to make sure our plants stay properly watered all season long » Read more
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
When lightning strikes and a PoE device doesn’t initially come back. » Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The missing link to having EC2 instances on different internal subnets talk to each other » Read more
When lightning strikes and a PoE device doesn’t initially come back. » Read more
How we’re going to make sure our plants stay properly watered all season long » Read more
When lightning strikes and a PoE device doesn’t initially come back. » Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
My proposal for how PowerPress could implement the tag's authorization flow » Read more
My proposal for how PowerPress could implement the tag's authorization flow » Read more
My proposal for how PowerPress could implement the tag's authorization flow » Read more
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
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
How we’re going to make sure our plants stay properly watered all season long » Read more
How we’re going to make sure our plants stay properly watered all season long » Read more
How we’re going to make sure our plants stay properly watered all season long » Read more
The missing link to having EC2 instances on different internal subnets talk to each other » Read more
The missing link to having EC2 instances on different internal subnets talk to each other » Read more