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19 March 2013 ~ Comments Off

Initial loadays speakers announced

Loadays is coming up soon .. 6 and 7 april ..
Loadays is the Linux and Open Administration conference of the low lands , held in Antwerp, Belgium
We’ve just published the initial batch of speakers

Being a Sysadmin at a company full of Sysadmins (Cod…

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13 February 2013 ~ Comments Off

Love, MonitoringLove

Last year we were pretty negative about Monitoring, We shouted out that MonitoringSucked … A year has passed and a lot has changed … most importantly our new found love for monitoring, thanks to an inspirational Ignite talk by Ulf Mansson at devop…

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05 February 2013 ~ Comments Off

check_graphite

During my Puppetcamp Gent talk last week, I explained how to get alerts based on trends from graphite. A number of people asked ,e how to do that.
First lets quickly explain why you might want to do that .
Sometimes you don’t care about the current val…

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03 February 2013 ~ Comments Off

Managing Puppet Using MCollective

I recently gave a talk titled “Managing Puppet Using MCollective” at the Puppet Camp in Ghent. The talk introduces a complete rewrite of the MCollective plugin used to manage Puppet. The plugin can be found on our Github repo as usual. Significantly this is one of a new breed of plugin that we ship as Read More

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13 January 2013 ~ Comments Off

#devops Conference Season heating up…

My last post has been a while … in that I announced that there would be another event right before FOSDEM … I totally forgot to announce it here but I`m sure that most of you already know. Yes. PuppetCamp Europe is coming back to it’s roots… it…

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13 December 2012 ~ Comments Off

Simple Puppet Module Structure Redux

Back in September 2009 I wrote a blog post titled “Simple Puppet Module Structure” which introduced a simple approach to writing Puppet Modules. This post has been hugely popular in the community – but much has changed in Puppet since then so it is time for an updated version of that post. As before I Read More

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06 November 2012 ~ Comments Off

Linuxcon Europe, Barcelona

I`m in Barcelona this week for LinuxCon Europe ..
I`ll be hosting 3 sessions this week.
Today I`ll be helping Sebastien Goasguen with his session Building Foss Clouds, I`ll be talking about how to use tools such as Puppet, Graphite and Icinga to monit…

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13 September 2012 ~ Comments Off

Gentwerpen Devops Meetup & Conference Season Update

A couple of us have been taking about it a lot already .. we wanted to host a one day #devops event in .be already last year.. then talks about starting a meetup group started again with @wonko_be but it was @fs111 pushing the final button and calling…

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13 September 2012 ~ Comments Off

From Imperative to Declarative System Configuration with Puppet

Peanut Butter & Jam Sandwich

After my impromptu presentation about configuration management with Puppet at BarCampGR a few weeks ago, several people mentioned that they had tried to use Puppet before, but couldn’t figure out how to make it do anything in the first place.

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25 August 2012 ~ Comments Off

Vagrant and Drupal, a winning team

While heading back home from DrupalCon Munich after 4 days of good interaction with lots of Drupal folks.
I realized to my big suprise that there are a lot of people using Vagrant to make sure that developers are not working on platforms they invented …

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