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Speeding up puppet runs by using checksums when running execs

Posted on vr 20 maart 2015 in software • Tagged with debian, red_hat, puppet

During my integration work for a client, I was running third party puppet code to integrate automatically deployed application containers with the third party deployment tool (the deployit / XL Deploy module for puppet)

This module was written to run an exec for three different actions per container, all resulting in …


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Season greetings on the console

Posted on wo 19 december 2012 in desktop • Tagged with debian, red_hat

Doing your configuration management using puppet is so awesome. Today I was able to greet all shell users on over sixty systems with a very special x-mas greeting from their favorite BOFH

Ho ho ho MOTD


Fan van Puppet geworden

Posted on vr 30 november 2012 in puppet • Tagged with debian, red_hat

Tot nu toe gebruikte ik relatief simpele shell scripts met hier en daar wat Python om systeembeheer te doen over een groter aantal systemen. Het aantal systemen onder mijn hoede groeide boven de vijftig en na een ziekteverlof van enkele maanden moest ik tijd zien te winnen.

Puppet logo

Puppet bleek het …


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Redhat certified engineer again

Posted on zo 01 juli 2012 in development • Tagged with red_hat

The first time I passed the RedHat Certified Engineer (RHCE) certification exam was in august 2005. Ever since the release of RedHat Enterprise Linux 6 my certification expired. This year I finally took the time to book the new exams and get them paid by my current employer (EUR 900 …


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