Logstash is a really nifty log shipping, indexing, and searching suite. The
typical centralized setup involves running a shipper agent on all your nodes,
which are configured to ship certain log messages to a message broker. An
indexing agent consumes …
For a while I have been observing a tendency of technologists/engineers to describe technology in either black or white terms ie. X technology sucks, use Y technology. Most recent example is an article by someone going by the name of Eevee in his PHP a fractal of bad design. It is a damning expose of [...]
This is a quick way to extract a 15 minute average of a metric in Ganglia. It utilizes Ganglia’s CSV export function to get the values then uses awk to actually compute the average. First of all find a metric graph you want to calculate average from. Right click over the image and copy the [...]
I created a plugin for knife that will display a specified option from
Chef’s configuration object, Chef::Config. It operates with the
scope of the automatically detected
knife configuration file,
or by passing the -c option with a configuration …
The slides for my Puppetcamp talk are available at here.
Most commonly, Vagrant’s
Vagrantfile describes only a single VM. That’s fine, but most
environments separate functionality to different servers (e.g.,
database and web app). For this reason, Vagrantfiles can be set up for
multi-VM arrangeme…
Me, representing Puppet, versus Reza, good friend and lowly Chef user, at the
moment of Puppet’s glorious victory:
Fact: GitHub is classy. This isn’t just because
Scott Chacon works there, either. Their
handling of a security issue today was very professional. That said, I
have some words to say about the issue itself and the aftermath, and
things you as an a…
Some time ago I worked with Reyk Floeter on the ininitial implementation of a
new datacenter network during my time at one of the more well-known Information
Security vendors. Reyk had this phenomenal idea for the network structure that
seemed to simpl…
A couple gigs ago we were an Atlassian shop and I am actually a big fan of
Atlassian software, though it takes a lot of work up front to get it deployed
in the way you like, but I’m not going to cover all that here. What I did
though was I enable…
