This October 12th to 14th Montreal hosted the GNOME boston summit. Many thanks to Canonical for sponsoring breakfast, Savoir Faire Linux for hosting a great 6 à 10 with fancy snacks, and RedHat for sponsoring a pool night. What follows is … Continue reading
Short post, long command… I’ve decided to start showing the current git branch in my PS1. However, since I don’t want to know when I’m on master, I had to write a new PS1 that I haven’t yet seen anywhere. … 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
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 with this solution, but I think it will … Continue reading
I’m here in New Orleans hacking up a storm and getting to meet fellow gluster users IRL. John Mark Walker started off with a great “State of the GlusterFS union” style talk. Today Louis (semiosis) gave a great talk about … Continue reading
After hacking away on Monday and Tuesday and meeting fellow nerds IRL, I’ve landed even more changes to puppet-gluster. My git master branch now sits at 47 commits. $ git clone https://github.com/purpleidea/puppet-gluster.git Cloning into ‘puppet-gluster’… remote: Counting objects: 317, done. … Continue reading
Continuing on from yesterday, I’ve met even more interesting people. I chatted with Dianne Mueller about some interesting ideas for gluster+openshift. More to come on that front soon. Hung out with Jono Bacon and talked a bit about puppet-gluster on … Continue reading
I’m here in New Orleans at Linux Con, hacking on puppet-gluster and talking to lots of interesting folks. I’ve met gluster hacker Theron Conrey, and my host John Mark Walker, Fedora and Raspberry Pi experts Spot and Ruth Suehle, and many … Continue reading
Most of my published code is on github, but if people prefer gitorious, let me know, and I’ll be happy to oblige. https://github.com/purpleidea/ Some notable projects include: puppet-gluster, the puppet module for managing GlusterFS. puppet-ipa, a puppet module for managing … Continue reading
This post is about a particularly elegant (and crucial) feature in puppet exported resources: attribute overriding. If you’re not already familiar with exported resources, you should start there, as they are the killer feature that makes configuration management with puppet … Continue reading
