Baptiste Daroussin did an incredible job on FreeBSD with the new packages system, named PkgNG. It brings modern workflow, options and shiny features that were needed for a long time. Say goodbye to painfully long upgrades.
However, Chef is not yet able to use this packaging system as it does not have a PkgNG provider, or [...]
Someone just `rm -rf *`-ed from `/` on a production server.
Fortunately, you have backups. Unfortunately, the server included a database with important business data that was written just before the disaster. That most recent data is not included in the last database backup.
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The same way I created mysql-snmp a small Net-SNMP subagent that allows exporting performance data from MySQL through SNMP, I’m proud to announce the first release of redis-snmp to monitor Redis servers. It is also inspired by the Cacti MySQL Tem…
This article is a follow-up of those previous two articles of this series on Puppet Internals:
Puppet parser functions and custom facts
Puppet types and providers
Today we’ll cover the The Indirector. I believe that at the end of this post, …
When the merge of Oracle and SUN became reality, we lost one of the greatest documentation portal for Solaris: Sun Solve.
While I’m a Solaris sysadmin myself, I needed a tool to manage my daily patching, to ease search with bugs, patches and depe…
This post follows my previous one, dealing with the reuse of chef providers of chef in mcollective. In the comments Adam Jacob had an interesting word and when I wrote my second agent, to manage package I saw it would be a piece of cake to write a really generic agent, due to the nature [...]
It has been quite calm for a couple of months here. I have switched job, it explains why I had less time to post some things.I now work at fotolia, and I switched from puppet to chef (no troll intended, I still think puppet is a great tool, please read this).
However, a tool I still [...]
I’ve previously blogged about IPSec on RedHat and mentioned how great the ifcfg scripts are to get IPSec VPNs going. In that post I used a pre-shared key to start the VPNs, that was fine then but now I need something a bit better. IPSec supports the standard PKI infrastructure and the RedHat scripts support [...]
In the T-DOSE
Zabbix talk, which I’m happy to say was both well presented and showed some
interesting features, I got called out for a quote I made on Twitter (which
just goes to show – you never know where what you said is going to show up
and haunt …
