With the release of mcollective recently I’ve been able to work a bit on a deploy problem I’ve had at a client, I was able to build up the following by combining mcollective, cucumber and the open source mcollective plugins. The cucumber exploring is of course a result of @auxesis‘s brilliant cucumber talk at Devops Read More
Last night I was thinking about writing scripts to manage services, packages etc in a heterogeneous environment. This is hard because the operating systems all behave differently. This is of course a problem that Puppet solves with it’s providers system, after some chatting with Luke on IRC I now have a pretty nice solution. Assuming Read More
I spoke a bit on the puppet IRC channel about my middleware based systems administration tool, I made a video to demo it below. The concept is that I use publish / subscribe middleware – ActiveMQ with Stomp in my case – to do one-off administration. Unlike using Capistrano or some of those tools I Read More
Continuing to move a few bits of unimportant code into the public I’ve released a ruby library called passmakr that assists in creating passwords in various useful formats. Mostly it takes some key bits of code from another password library and re-uses it in a new way that has fewer dependencies etc. It supports creating Read More
Puppet supports putting nodes in environments, this maps cleanly to your development, qa and production life cycles and it’s a way to hand out different code to different nodes. Before reading this post you should probably read the Puppet Wiki page first for background. I’ll present here a simple layout that is both a powerful Read More
