Bootstrapping Windows servers with Puppet
All started a handful of months ago, when it appeared that we’d need to build some of our native software on Windows. Before that time, all our desktop softw...
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Puppet Internals: the compiler
And I’m now proud to present the second installation of my series of post about Puppet Internals:
Benchmarking Puppet Stacks
I decided this week-end to try the more popular puppet master stacks and benchmark them with puppet-load (which is a tool I wrote to simulate concurrent clie...
Puppet Internals: the parser
As more or less promised in my series of post about Puppet Extension Points, here is the first post about Puppet Internals.
The Indirector - Puppet Extension Points 3
This article is a follow-up of those previous two articles of this series on Puppet Internals:
Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
Puppet Extension Points - part 1
It’s been a long time since my last blog post, almost a year. Not that I stopped hacking on Puppet or other things (even though I’m not as productive as I ha...
Puppet SSL explained
The puppet-users or #puppet freenode irc channel is full of questions or people struggling about the puppet SSL PKI. To my despair, there are also people wan...
Benchmarking puppetmaster stacks
It’s been a long time since my last puppet blog post about file content offloading. Two puppetcamps even passed (more on the last one in a next blog article)...
More Puppet Offloading
Puppet really shines at configuration management, but there are some things it is not good at, for instance file sourcing of large files, or managing deep hi...
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
My Puppet Camp slides appearing on the slideshare homepage!
This morning I got the joy to see that my Puppet Camp 2009 slides had been selected by Slideshare to appear on their home page:
Puppet Camp 2009 debriefing time!
I attended Puppet Camp 2009 in San Francisco last week. It was a wonderful event and I could meet a lot of really smart developers and sysadmins from a lot o...
Storeconfigs (advanced) use cases
This week on #puppet, Nico asked for a storeconfigs live example. So I thought, a blog post would be perfect to post an example of a storeconfigs use case an...
Planet Puppet is born!
As usual, I’m faster to create things than to talk about them.
Puppet and JRuby a love story!
As announced in my last edit of my yesterday post Puppet and JRuby a love and hate story, I finally managed to run a webrick puppetmaster under JRuby with a ...
Puppet and JRuby, a love and hate story
Since I heard about JRuby about a year ago, I wanted to try to run my favorite ruby program on it. I’m working with Java almost all day long, so I know for s...
OMG!! storeconfigs killed my database!
When I wrote my previous post titled all about storedconfigs, I was pretty confident I explained everything I could about storedconfigs… I was wrong of cours...
All about Puppet storeconfigs
Since a long time people (including me) complained that storeconfigs was a real resource hog. Unfortunately for us, this option is so cool and useful.
Help! Puppetd is eating my server!
This seems to be recurrent this last 3 or 4 days with a few #puppet, redmine or puppet-user requests, asking about why puppetd is consuming so much CPU an...
February Puppet Dev Call
Yesterday we had the February Puppet Dev Call with unfortunately poor audio, lots of Skype disconnections which for a non native English speaker like me re...
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.