As mentioned in my first post in this series I will be covering new MCollective features that were introduced with version 2.0.0 or later. Today I’ll talk about the biggest new feature called Direct Addressing. The Past – Broadcast Only Mode In the past MCollective only had one mode of communication. It would send a Read More
It’s been a long time since I wrote any blog posts about MCollective, I’ll be rectifying that by writing a big series of blog posts over the next weeks or months. MCollective 2.0 was recently released and it represents a massive internal restructure and improvement cycle. In 2.0 not a lof of the new functionality Read More
A few weeks ago I blogged about my TODO / Reminder project called gwtf, I’ve done a lot since then and thought I’ll give a quick progress update. Generally I am very glad I started this process, I am actually continuing to use it today which is probably the longest I’ve ever used any TODO Read More
I’ve wanted to play with the GLI gem from Dave Copeland for a while after seeing his presentation on writing CLI tools in Ruby – he also has a book due on the subject that I’m quite keen to get. I hate all task trackers, todo lists and everything like it, I’ve spent lots of Read More
Earlier this week I wrote about Oldskool which is a Gem extendable search tool. Today I want to show how to create a plugin for it to query some custom source. We’ll build a plugin that shows Puppet Type references, you can see how it will look in the image, click for a larger version. Read More
