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Introducing Puppet Exec['again']
Puppet is missing a number of much-needed features. That’s the bad news. The good news is that I’ve been able to write some of these as modules that don’t need to change the Puppet core! This is an...
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Puppet-Gluster now available as RPM
I’ve been afraid of RPM and package maintaining [1] for years, but thanks to Kaleb Keithley, I have finally made some RPM’s that weren’t generated from a high level tool. Now that I have the...
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Keeping git submodules in sync with your branches
This is a quick trick for making working with git submodules more magic. One day you might find that using git submodules is needed for your project. It’s probably not necessary for everyday hacking,...
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Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt (reprise)
Vagrant has become the de facto tool for devops. Faster iterations, clean environments, and less overhead. This isn’t an article about why you should use Vagrant. This is an article about how to get up...
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Hiera data in modules and OS independent puppet
Earlier this year, R.I.Pienaar released his brilliant data in modules hack, a few months ago, I got the chance to start implementing it in Puppet-Gluster, and today I have found the time to blog about...
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Rough data density calculations
Seagate has just publicly announced 8TB HDD’s in a 3.5″ form factor. I decided to do some rough calculations to understand the density a bit better… Note: I have decided to ignore the distinction...
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Introducing: Oh My Vagrant!
If you’re a reader of my code or of this blog, it’s no secret that I hack on a lot of puppet and vagrant. Recently I’ve fooled around with a bit of docker, too. I realized that the vagrant,...
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Continuous integration for Puppet modules
I just patched puppet-gluster and puppet-ipa to bring their infrastructure up to date with the current state of affairs… What’s new? Better README’s Rake syntax checking (fewer oopsies) CI (testing)...
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Git archive with submodules and tar magic
Git submodules are actually a very beautiful thing. You might prefer the word powerful or elegant, but that’s not the point. The downside is that they are sometimes misused, so as always, use with...
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Thanking Oh-My-Vagrant contributors for version 1.0.0
The Oh-My-Vagrant project became public about one year ago and at the time it was more of a fancy template than a robust project, but 188 commits (and counting) later, it has gotten surprisingly useful...
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