Category Archives: 30in30

Augeas Bug while playing with ” in /etc/default/grub

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Today seems to be the day of buggy software. I am using the Puppet module herculesteam/augeasproviders_grub to manage entries in /etc/default/grub on Debian and CentOS systems, here is an example: This should result in the following line in /etc/default/grub: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=”nomodeset … Continue reading →

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Cooking Chili con carne

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

I blogged a few recipes in the past, it is time to continue this series. I blogged this recipe a while back in german, this is an improved version, translated into English: We need for 3 dinners: Ingredients: 3 garlic … Continue reading →

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MTR and the IPv6 fuckup

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

I wrote about the internet and administrators unable to deal with IPv6, here is another sad story: I use MTR to detect network issues: $ mtr 8.8.8.8 –report –report-cycles=10 -n Start: Sat Nov 21 14:31:47 2015 HOST: basteles-bastelknecht.baste Loss% Snt … Continue reading →

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Why Archlinux is awesome!

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Arch, Arch Linux, Archlinux, all is possible to refer to this project (Arch Linux is correct). This is a rolling release distribution, which means that there aren’t any Major releases. A Software maintainer creates a new release, for example Nmap … Continue reading →

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Link collection of the (last) week(s)

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Some interesting and important happenings and things I found in the past week (and prior): Differences between shell types + their workflow Puppet 4.3 got released! 2.2.5 New Nmap! after 3.5 years of development Commitmas is comming! (still thinking about … Continue reading →

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Building APIs with swagger

Posted on 21. November 2015 by bastelfreak

I’m currently designing a new API endpoint for marmoset. In general, there are two ways to build this: Just start with coding or start with planning. As we are smart people, of course we start with planning! There are several … Continue reading →

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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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