A simple hack to add a user type to my puppet-ipa module turned out to cause quite a stir. I’ve just pushed these changes out for your testing: 3 files changed, 1401 insertions(+), 215 deletions(-) You should now have a … Continue reading
I’ve been a little slow in making release announcements, so here’s some news: I’ve just released the third stage of my puppet-ipa module. At the moment it now supports installation, managing of hosts, and managing of services. It integrates with … Continue reading
So I just rolled a new vm to hack around with FreeIPA. Here are some things that I’ve come across so far. I was planning on configuring LDAP, and Kerberos manually, but the included webui looks like a lovely tool … Continue reading
In response to some discussion in the gluster community, I am releasing my puppet-lsi module. It’s quite simple, but it is very useful for rebuilding machines. It could do a lot more, but I wanted to depend on the proprietary … Continue reading
I could probably write a long design article explaining why identical duplicate resources should be allowed [1] in puppet. If puppet is going to survive in the long-term, they will have to build in this feature. In the short-term, I will … Continue reading
I don’t like repetitive work, and installing matlab counts doubly as so. Once I figured out the correct steps, I automated it with a puppet module. The downside is that the install takes a while because puppet needs to copy … Continue reading
Today I am releasing a puppet module for rsnapshot. The nice feature of this module, is that it lets you configure multiple different instances of rsnapshot, so that they could all run in parallel. Rsnapshot doesn’t support this directly, so … Continue reading
Dear readers, I’ve started the slow migration of code from puppet 2.6 all the way to 3.x+. There were a few things I wasn’t clear on, so hopefully this will help to discuss these and make your migration easier! I … Continue reading
So hiera wasn’t working when used through my puppetmaster. It worked perfectly when I was running my scripts manually with: puppet apply site.pp but the moment I switched over to regular puppetmasterd usage, everything went dead. I realized a while … Continue reading
As you might already know, I like pushing the boundaries of what puppet is able to do. Today, I realized that I needed to include a class by variable name. A simple way to do this is possible with: $foo = … Continue reading
