I found Rackspace Cloud (that’s a referral link, feel free to go direct) while looking for affordable VPSes (not for this blog, obviously – 2 posts a year is a reasonably small load). There are dozens of good, cheap VPS services, but Rackspace ‘Cloudservers’ are also ideal for things I’d have used several Virtualboxes for [...]
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just call me Gepetto
Well, sorry I haven’t posted in ages, but I’ve been busy getting my head around Puppet. The executive summary is : TDD for sysadmins OMGWTFBBQ When I’ve got a clearer feel for how it all fits together, I’ll pontificate here. In the meantime feel free to point and laugh at my efforts to write a [...]
bootstrapping Puppet from Cobbler
Cobbler handles kickstarts on my VirtualBox network , but I need it to take care of Puppet too. setup puppetmasterd I’ll run puppetmasterd on my Kickstart server (‘shoemaker’, also my Cobbler server). By default, puppetd expects puppetmasterd to be on a host called ‘puppet’. That’s easy to arrange. # setup a CNAME of ‘puppet’ that points [...]
