Monthly Archives: November 2015

Optimized git workflow for rapid deployment

Posted on 15. November 2015 by bastelfreak

legacy git workflows There are many common ways of using git, for example the YOLO method where everybody directly pushes into his master branch. This is a common workflow but well… There is another approach, for example used by the … Continue reading →

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Writing 30 posts in 30 days review

Posted on 13. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Rob encouraged me to participate in the ’30 posts in 30 days’ challenge this November. I got mixed feedback on the previous posts in the past days, the feedback on twitter was really good, but I also got a bit … Continue reading →

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What is Puppet-Community?

Posted on 11. November 2015 by bastelfreak

I’m a Puppet-Community member since the 31. of August 2015. Since than, a few colleagues asked me what we do: In my opinion, our work is split up into three parts: Maintain so many different tools and plugins for the … Continue reading →

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Why the internet sucks

Posted on 10. November 2015 by bastelfreak

So, this is the internet, welcome to it. You can view this post because my webserver has an IP-Address. Also you have one, congratz! Sadly, the internet has a problem, we all are running out of these strange old IPv4 … Continue reading →

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Preparing Puppet Workshops

Posted on 10. November 2015 by bastelfreak

I’m currently planning a puppet workshop for my colleagues to introduce them into the world of puppet and code driven infrastructure. Here is my current agenda: Why do I want configuration mangement, why do I want puppet? puppet (Configuration Management) … Continue reading →

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Making surfing a bit more secure

Posted on 9. November 2015 by bastelfreak

The internet is a dangerous place, people are trying to get your private data to sell it, track you across many sites, provide insecure connections so also third parties can get your data our they embed strange ads that try … Continue reading →

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PuppetConf 2015 recordings now available!

Posted on 8. November 2015 by bastelfreak

During the first week of october 2015 the last PuppetConf happened, Puppet Labs now released the recordings, here are a few that I can recommend: Chocolatey and Puppet: Managing Your Windows Software Since 2011 Many people are still scared about … Continue reading →

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(not really) weekly link collection

Posted on 6. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Not Even Close: The State of Computer Security (with slides) – James Mickens from NDC Conferences on Vimeo. Create Puppet modules with solid foundations How to Use Puppet right The CAP Theorem (only Wikipedia) Serving Dovecot mailbox quota status to … Continue reading →

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LARS – Live Arch Rescue System

Posted on 5. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Yesterday I wrote about solutions for deploying and installing machines with installimage. As mentioned, these scripts need to be executed via a live linux system. Today I’m presenting you LARS, a Live Linux perfectly suited for this purpose. LARS is … Continue reading →

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Deploying compute nodes/instances the awesome way!

Posted on 4. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Everybody is talking about cloud computing and how to use them. As a system engineer I’m more thinking about “how the hell do we build this magic black box”. One important aspect for delivering compute instances (like AWS EC2) is: … Continue reading →

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