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In mgmt, deploying and managing your clustered config management infrastructure needs to be as automatic as the infrastructure you’re using mgmt to manage.

I’m thrilled to tell you that I’ll be speaking about mgmt in Hong Kong and South Africa.

I have a GNU/Linux server which I mount a few LUKS encrypted drives on.

In this post, I’ll tell you about the recently released “automatic grouping” or “AutoGroup” feature in mgmt, a next generation configuration management prototype.

It’s been two months since I announced mgmt, and now it’s time to continue the story by telling you more about the design of what’s now in git master.

On today’s issue of “one hour hacks”, I’ll show you how you can stop your git drive-by’s to git master from breaking your CI tests… Let’s continue!

I’ve been writing a lot of golang lately.

It’s no secret to the readers of this blog that I’ve been active in the configuration management space for some time.

I’ve got a few upcoming speaking engagements.

Daniel P.

We’re constantly clicking on all sorts of different URL’s throughout the day.

The Oh-My-Vagrant project became public about one year ago and at the time it was more of a fancy template than a robust project, but 188 commits (and counting) later, it has gotten surprisingly useful and mature. james@computer:~/code/oh-my-vagrant$ git…

My employer keeps paying me, which I appreciate, so it’s good to spend some time to make sure RHEL7 customers get a great developer experience!

I am definitely not an RPM expert, in fact, I’m afraid of it, but with recent tools such as COPR, and my glorious Makefile, some aspects of it have become palatable.

I’ve been hacking in golang for a while, but I’ll admit that I didn’t get too deep into some of the language nuances until more recently.

Git submodules are actually a very beautiful thing.

Making Oh-My-Vagrant (OMV) more developer accessible and easy to install (from a distribution package like RPM) has always been a goal, but was previously never a priority.

In this new crazy world of containers and immutable hosts, one might still want to run previous generation software such as Puppet on a current generation Atomic host.

I’ve added the ability to deploy a Kubernetes cluster with Oh-My-Vagrant (omv).

The Oh-My-Vagrant (omv) project is an easy way to bootstrap a development environment.

With Oh-My-Vagrant (omv) you can set up a dev environment in seconds.

Here are two quick git tricks that I’ve added to my toolbox lately… I wanted to create a git alias that takes in argv from the command, but in the middle of the command.

Vagrant is a great tool for development, but Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) customers have typically been left out, because it has been impossible to get RHEL boxes!

You might want to write code that can tell how many iterations have passed since some action occurred.

I use the Evolution mail client.

Recently, when I tried to access http://slashdot.org/ in Firefox, I would see my browser title bar flash briefly to “AT&T GUI”, and then I would get redirected to: http://slashdot.org/cgi-bin/redirect.ha which returns slashdot’s custom error 404 page!

The fact that we manage the switches in our data centres differently than any other server is patently absurd, but we do so because we want to harness the power of a tiny bit of silicon which happens to be able to dramatically speed up the switching bandw…

I’ve wanted a feature in Evolution for a while.

I had an itch to scratch, and I wanted to get a bit more familiar with Openshift.

I just patched puppet-gluster and puppet-ipa to bring their infrastructure up to date with the current state of affairs… What’s new?

I usually avoid proprietary cloud services because of freedom, privacy and vendor lock-in concerns.

If you’re a reader of my code or of this blog, it’s no secret that I hack on a lot of puppet and vagrant.

Seagate has just publicly announced 8TB HDD’s in a 3.5" form factor.

(Note: this hybrid management technique is being demonstrated in the puppet-ipa module for FreeIPA, but the idea could be used for other modules and scenarios too.

Master SDN hacker Flavio sent me some tunes.

Configuration management is an essential part of securing your infrastructure because it can make sure that it is set up correctly.

Earlier this year, R.I.Pienaar released his brilliant data in modules hack, a few months ago, I got the chance to start implementing it in Puppet-Gluster, and today I have found the time to blog about it.

When GNOME shell breaks, you get to keep both pieces.

Vagrant has become the de facto tool for devops.

This is a quick trick for making working with git submodules more magic.

So this happened: James just James at RedHat headquarters in North Carolina wearing his new red hat.

I’ve been afraid of RPM and package maintaining [1] for years, but thanks to Kaleb Keithley, I have finally made some RPM’s that weren’t generated from a high level tool.

Puppet is missing a number of much-needed features.

I use gnome-terminal for most of my hacking.

I’ll be giving a talk at SCALE today about automatically deploying GlusterFS with Puppet-Gluster and Vagrant.

To give you a break from the usual GNU/Linux/DevOps/Puppet/GlusterFS drab, I’ve decided to have a go at writing a different kind of technical article.

I’m using a Lenovo X201 with 8GiB of RAM.

As an update to my earlier article, a friend gave me an idea of how to make my $PS1 even better… First, the relevant part of my ~/.bashrc: ps1_prompt() { local ps1_exit=$?

I decided to record some screencasts to show how easy it is to deploy GlusterFS using Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant.

I needed a base image “box” for my Puppet-Gluster+Vagrant work.