Configuration Management Part 3: Vagrant & Packer
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 d... » Read more
Configuration Management Part 2: puppetlabs-apache & puppet-lint
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 enou... » Read more
Configuration Management Part 1: The Restart
As mentioned in my last post, I’ve decided to start over on my journey to doing configuration management in an environment where we treat our infrastructure ... » Read more
Foreman: Too Much Voodoo
I finally got around to setting up Foreman at work and managing my first node with it. After digging around I found that I felt really boxed in using this s... » Read more
Puppet, Factor, Dashboard, MCollective, Hiera, Foreman… Where does it end?
I want to setup a system based around the open source Puppet software stack… I am just not sure what the stack contains. My goal is a system that is holistic... » Read more