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 [...]
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adding virtual disks with VirtualBox VboxManage
My (tiny) Cobbler VM is almost full but I need to try out deployment of SLES/OpenSUSE. I’m going to attach a few extra chunks of storage to make room for ‘cobbler distro add’. You can do this with the GUI, but unless you’re allergic to CLIs I highly recommend the ‘VBoxManage’ section of the VirtualBox manual [...]
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 [...]
