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 part of this process was producing the … Continue reading
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 to satisfy … Continue reading
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 is big news!) I’ve used Vagrant to automatically build these … Continue reading
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 Vagrant vsftp and other tricks … Continue reading
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 used while hacking away. Default provider: … Continue reading
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 done. I did … Continue reading
What follows is a reverse chronological list of presentations which I’ve given. I’ve tried to make the list as exhaustive as possible. If I forgot something, please contact me! Please note that while some of the presentations might have similar … 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
I’ve got a few upcoming speaking engagements. If you’ll be attending one of these events, come see me or any of the other excellent speakers! Please remember to check the official schedules in case there are any changes! I’ll be … Continue reading
I am definitely not an RPM expert, in fact, I’m afraid of it, but with recent tools such as COPR, and my glorious Makefile, some aspects of it have become palatable. This post will be about a recent journey I … Continue reading
