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
Since shutting down my business I now run a small 25 node network with no Puppet Masters and I do not schedule regular Puppet runs – I run them just when needed. Till now I’ve just done puppet runs via MCollective, basically I’d edit some puppet files and after comitting them just send off a Read More
While developing agents for The Marionette Collective it’s often quite difficult to debug weird behavior in agents, I wrote a debugger that makes development easier. Agents tend to run in a thread inside a daemon connected through middleware, this all makes it really hard. The debugger is a harness that runs an agent standalone allowing Read More
We’ll be releasing The Marionette Collective version 1.1.3 on Monday which will bring with it a major new feature called Subcollectives. This feature lets you partition your collective into multiple isolated broadcast zones much like a VLAN does to a traditional network. Each node can belong to one or many collectives at the same time. Read More
Amazon is keeping things ticking along nicely by constantly adding features to their offerings. I’m almost more impressed at the pace and diversity of innovation than the final solution. During the week they announced AWS CloudFormation. Rather than add to the already unbearable tedium of “it’s not a Chef or Puppet killer” blog posts I Read More
