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Bittorent sync for repository mirroring
Theron Conrey writes about using: BitTorrent Sync as Geo-Replication for Storage We got a chance to talk about this idea at Linuxcon. I’m not entirely convinced there aren’t some problem edge cases...
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Finite state machines in puppet
In my attempt to push puppet to its limits, (for no particular reason), to develop more powerful puppet modules, to build in a distributed lock manager, and to be more dynamic, I’m now attempting to...
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first release of puppet-shorewall
Oh, hi there. In case you’re interested, I’ve just made a first release of my puppet-shorewall module. This isn’t meant as an exhaustive shorewall module, but it does provide most of the usual...
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Speaking at LISA 2013 about Puppet and GlusterFS
I’m speaking at LISA 2013, the “Large Installation System Administration” conference. This conference runs all week in Washington. I’ll be giving two talks during the week, and attending at least one...
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Gluster Community Day, LISA 2013, Monday
I’m here at LISA 2013 at the Gluster Community Day. I’ve been asked by Joe Brockmeier to give a little recap about what’s been going on. So here it is! Wesley Duffee-Braun started off with a nice...
View ArticleRecap of Gluster Community Day at USENIX LISA
Yesterday we had the opportunity to run a Gluster Community Day at USENIX LISA in Washington D.C. Turns out it was well worth the time, as we had a fantastic group turn up for some really excellent...
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Pushing Puppet at Puppet Camp DC, LISA 2013
Hi there, I hope you enjoyed my “Pushing Puppet (to its limit)” talk and demos from Puppet Camp D.C., LISA 2013. As requested, I’ve posted the code and slides. Here is the code:...
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Iteration in Puppet
People often ask how to do iteration in Puppet. Most Puppet users have a background in imperative programming, and are already very familiar with for loops. Puppet is sometimes confusing at first,...
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Documentation for Puppet-Gluster
Ironically, one of the reasons that I started writing Puppet code, was so that I could spend more time designing and building, and less time writing documentation. I suppose I’m a victim of my success,...
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Advanced recursion and memoization in Puppet
As a follow-up to my original article on recursion in Puppet, and in my attempt to Push Puppet (to its limit), I’ll now attempt some more advanced recursion techniques in Puppet. In my original...
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Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt
Apparently lots of people are using Vagrant these days, so I figured I’d try it out. I wanted to get it working on Fedora, and without Virtualbox. This is an intro article on Vagrant, and what I’ve...
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Vagrant vsftp and other tricks
As I previously wrote, I’ve been busy with Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt, and have even been submitting, patches and issues! (This “closed” issue needs solving!) Here are some of the tricks that I’ve...
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Vagrant clustered SSH and ‘screen’
Some fun updates for vagrant hackers… I wanted to use the venerable clustered SSH (cssh) and screen with vagrant. I decided to expand on my vsftp script. First read: Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt and...
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Automatically deploying GlusterFS with Puppet-Gluster + Vagrant!
Puppet-Gluster was always about automating the deployment of GlusterFS. Getting your own Puppet server and the associated infrastructure running was never included “out of the box“. Today, it is! (This...
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Testing GlusterFS during “Glusterfest”
The GlusterFS community is having a “test day”. Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant is a great tool to help with this, and it has now been patched to support alpha, beta, qa, and rc releases! Because it was built...
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Building base images for Vagrant with a Makefile
I needed a base image “box” for my Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant work. It would have been great if good boxes already existed, and even better if it were easy to build my own. As it turns out, I wasn’t able...
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Screencasts of Puppet-Gluster + Vagrant
I decided to record some screencasts to show how easy it is to deploy GlusterFS using Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant. You can follow along even if you don’t know anything about Puppet or Vagrant. The hardest...
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Speaking at SCALE today!
I’ll be giving a talk at SCALE today about automatically deploying GlusterFS with Puppet-Gluster and Vagrant. I’ll be giving some live demos, and this will cover some of the material from:...
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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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