I’m old school and still rocking an old X220 laptop because I didn’t like the new ones. My battery life isn’t as great as I’d like it to be, but it gets worse when some “webapp” (which I’d much rather … Continue reading
I’ve got a brand new core feature in mgmt called send/recv which I plan to show you shortly, but first I’d like to start with some background. History This is my historical perspective and interpretation about the last twenty years … Continue reading
Bootstrapping a cluster from your laptop, or managing machines without needing to first setup a separate config management infrastructure are both very reasonable and fundamental asks. I was particularly inspired by Ansible‘s agent-less remote execution model, but never wanted to … Continue reading
All good sysadmins eventually learn about using tail -F to tail files. Yes upper-case F is superior. Around the time I wrote that article, I remember wanting to stream dmesg output too! The functionality wasn’t available without some sort of … Continue reading
In mgmt, deploying and managing your clustered config management infrastructure needs to be as automatic as the infrastructure you’re using mgmt to manage. With mgmt, instead of a centralized data store, we function as a distributed system, built on top … Continue reading
I’m thrilled to tell you that I’ll be speaking about mgmt in Hong Kong and South Africa. It will be my first time to both countries and my first time to Asia and Africa! In Hong Kong I’ll be speaking … Continue reading
In this post, I’ll tell you about the recently released “automatic grouping” or “AutoGroup” feature in mgmt, a next generation configuration management prototype. If you aren’t already familiar with mgmt, I’d recommend you start by reading the introductory post, and … Continue reading
It’s been two months since I announced mgmt, and now it’s time to continue the story by telling you more about the design of what’s now in git master. Before I get into those details, let me quickly recap what’s … Continue reading
It’s no secret to the readers of this blog that I’ve been active in the configuration management space for some time. I owe most of my knowledge to what I’ve learned while working with Puppet and from other hackers working … Continue reading
I give live demos, individual or group tutorials, speak at conferences, and do consulting work too. Contact me if you’re interested in any of the above. A list of sessions that I’ve given is available here. Some of the topics … Continue reading
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