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The GlusterFS community is having a “test day”.

Puppet-Gluster was always about automating the deployment of GlusterFS.

Some fun updates for vagrant hackers… I wanted to use the venerable clustered SSH (cssh) and screen with vagrant.

As I previously wrote, I’ve been busy with Vagrant on Fedora with libvirt, and have even been submitting, patches and issues!

Apparently lots of people are using Vagrant these days, so I figured I’d try it out.

I’m now syndicated on the Fedora Project planet.

As a follow-up to my original article on recursion in Puppet, and in my attempt to Push Puppet (to its limit), I’ll now attempt some more advanced recursion techniques in Puppet.

Ironically, one of the reasons that I started writing Puppet code, was so that I could spend more time designing and building, and less time writing documentation.

People often ask how to do iteration in Puppet.

Hi there, I hope you enjoyed my “Pushing Puppet (to its limit)” talk and demos from Puppet Camp D.C., LISA 2013.

I’m here at LISA 2013 at the Gluster Community Day.

I’m speaking at LISA 2013, the “Large Installation System Administration” conference.

Here’s a one minute read, about a trick which I discovered today: When running an strace, it’s common to do something like: strace -p<pid> Smarter hackers know that they can use some bash magic and do: strace -p`pidof <process name>` However, if you’re…

Oh, hi there.

I’m usually on IRC, but I don’t often notice incoming pings until after the fact.

This October 12th to 14th Montreal hosted the GNOME boston summit.

Short post, long command… I’ve decided to start showing the current git branch in my PS1.

In my attempt to push puppet to its limits, (for no particular reason), to develop more powerful puppet modules, to build in a distributed lock manager, and to be more dynamic, I’m now attempting to build a Finite State Machine (FSM) in puppet.

I just shelled out to wordpress.com to buy the No Ads upgrade.

I just realized that my Fedora 19 installation didn’t have any of the GNOME games installed by default any more.

Theron Conrey writes about using: BitTorrent Sync as Geo-Replication for Storage We got a chance to talk about this idea at Linuxcon.

I’m here in New Orleans hacking up a storm and getting to meet fellow gluster users IRL.

After hacking away on Monday and Tuesday and meeting fellow nerds IRL, I’ve landed even more changes to puppet-gluster.

Continuing on from yesterday, I’ve met even more interesting people.

I’m here in New Orleans at Linux Con, hacking on puppet-gluster and talking to lots of interesting folks.

Hey there, I’ve done a bit of puppet-gluster hacking lately to try to squeeze some extra features and testing in before Linuxcon.

John Mark Walker, (from Redhat) has been kind enough to invite me to speak at the Linuxcon Gluster Workshop in New Orleans.

I love tabs, they’re so much easier to work with, but YAML doesn’t like them.

It was time to take the plunge and upgrade from Fedora 18 to Fedora 19.

A simple hack to add a user type to my puppet-ipa module turned out to cause quite a stir.

I’ve been a little slow in making release announcements, so here’s some news: I’ve just released the third stage of my puppet-ipa module.

So I just rolled a new vm to hack around with FreeIPA.

In response to some discussion in the gluster community, I am releasing my puppet-lsi module.

I could probably write a long design article explaining why identical duplicate resources should be allowed [1] in puppet.

I don’t like repetitive work, and installing matlab counts doubly as so.

Today I am releasing a puppet module for rsnapshot.

There are a handful of websites out there that decide that they know better than your browser and tell it to not offer to save passwords.

This post is about a particularly elegant (and crucial) feature in puppet exported resources: attribute overriding.

Firstly Happy Mother’s day to my mother.

In case you upgrade your CentOS 6.x box to version 6.4, the shorewall service might complain.

Fedora did a lovely job of updating me to the latest version (v. 20) of Firefox.

Knowing when to release and deploy your code can turn into a complicated discussion.

I do a lot of my work in a terminal.

I’ve been working on automatic installs using kickstart and puppet.

I write this technical blog for you to enjoy, and to help me remember.

Here’s a quick anaconda solution that I am now using in some of my kickstart files… I wanted to bootstrap a machine and do all the partitioning and logical volume creation, but not format or mount one of the logical volumes.

Dear readers, I’ve started the slow migration of code from puppet 2.6 all the way to 3.x+.

I love GNOME and Fedora, but “upgrading” from Fedora 17 to 18 did not go well for me.

Everyone needs to send and receive files sometimes.

The GNOME Keyring is a great tool to unify password management across the desktop.