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Puppet control repo layout for puppet apply and agent/server Setup

The control repository in a Puppet context is usually a git repository that contains your Puppetfile. The Puppetfile has links to all modules in your environment and their version that shall be deployed. Besides the Puppetfile, Hiera data is often … Continue reading

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Setup a Raid 10 with mdadm

In the past I already blogged a few times about mdadm. Today we’ve a short article about creating a Raid 10 with mdadm on new disks. First we need to identify the two disks. lsblk is always a good indicator … Continue reading

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Arch Linux installation guide

A long time ago I wrote a blog post about installing Arch Linux: I’m aware of the fact that there isn’t one definitive guide for installing it. This highly depends on your hardware, your use case for the system and … Continue reading

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Thunderbird: Hide local hostname in mailheaders

By default, thunderbird uses the local hostname within the SMTP-Submission dialog with the mailserver. There might be situations where you have a hostname that exposes private data, like a company name. Sometimes this is very helpful for debugging, but sometimes … Continue reading

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