Configuration Management Part 3: Vagrant & Packer

Sun, 27 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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 decided now was the time to finally do so. The only problem is that, being a responsibly paranoid SysAdmin, I was never a fan of using a base for my work that I didn’t know the contents of. I also never liked the idea of basing my work off of something I didn’t understand (a Vagrant box) or that could go away at anytime.

Configuration Management Part 2: puppetlabs-apache & puppet-lint

Wed, 23 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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 to tell me exactly how to resolve. I then got down to using my first module from Puppet Forge: puppetlabs-apache Installing it was a piece of cake but understanding how to use it took a bit of trial and error.

Puppet-Me on The Comfy Seat

Configuration Management Part 3: Vagrant & Packer

Configuration Management Part 2: puppetlabs-apache & puppet-lint