Category Archives: Puppet

Alles rund um Automatisierung und Puppet

Fixing and improving rspec tests

Posted on 9. May 2016 by bastelfreak

Today I stumbled across our puppet module for gluster. My goal for the next days: modulesync with voxpupuli default settings Fix rspec tests to work with our new test matrix (newer puppet versions and STRICT_VARIABLES=yes) Make a new release for … Continue reading →

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Getting started with Hiera

Posted on 27. November 2015 by bastelfreak

I am using puppet since the end of 2012 and I finally found a use case for Hiera. This is my way of implementing it: What is Hiera Hiera is split into two parts: The backend is a key/value store … Continue reading →

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DRY – Don’t Repeat Yourself

Posted on 25. November 2015 by bastelfreak

Don’t Repeat Yourself – This is an important mantra, I’m trying to work like this for the past years, but the fancy abbreviation never came up my mind, I just found it online. What does it mean? We system administrators … Continue reading →

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#puppethack is coming again!

Posted on 22. November 2015 by bastelfreak

The event description: ########### Join us for #puppethack, our online puppet community hack day, on December 15th! #puppethack is a collaborative, relaxed online puppet community hack day. It will be an opportunity for Puppet community members and Puppet Labs employees … Continue reading →

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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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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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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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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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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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