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As most are aware, I created the widely used Hiera system in Puppet. I introduced it in 2011 , and it has since become essentially the only way to use Puppet in any meaningful fashion. Given its widespread adoption, I donated the code to Puppet, and it became integrated with Puppet core. Unfortunately, during this integration we lost some key values—the command line and the ability to use it in…
This is the final in a series of posts about rebuilding my lab infrastructure, see the initial post here . Today we’ll wrap things up with a look at some SaaS tools I use and a general look through some small utilities and things I use to bring it all together. I’ve been enjoying my summer for the last 3 months hence the hiatus of posts. Email Long ago I used to run my own Zimbra but I…
This is an ongoing post about rebuilding my lab infrastructure, see the initial post here . Today let’s look at VMs and Baremetals and Operating Systems. Virtual Machines As I mentioned I’ve been a Linode customer since essentially their day one and have had many 100s of machines there for personal and client needs. I soured off them quite significantly after they botched their…
This is an ongoing post about rebuilding my lab infrastructure, see the initial post here . Today I’ll talk about my physical office and office hardware. Office Space When my son started going to school I did not look forward to all the driving so figured a office near his school would be good, I’d spend the days there and come home after pick up. I rented a nice place in a town called…
This is an ongoing post about rebuilding my lab infrastructure, see the initial post here . Today I’ll talk a bit about Configuration Management having previously mentioned I am ditching Kubernetes . Server Management The general state of server management is pretty sad, you have Ansible or Puppet and a long tail of things that just can’t work or are under terrible corporate control…
Previously I blogged about rebuilding my personal infra, focussing on what I had before. Today we’ll start into what I used to replace the old stuff. It’s difficult to know where to start but I think a bit about VM and Container management is as good as any. Kubernetes My previous build used a 3 node Kubernetes Cluster hosted at Digital Ocean. It hosted: Public facing websites like…
I’ve been posting on socials a bit about rebuilding my lab and some opinions I had on tools, approaches and more. Some people have asked for a way to keep up with my efforts, so I figured it might be time to post here for the first time since 2018! In this post I’ll focus on what came before, a bit of a recap of my previous setup. Additionally, to a general software refresh I have also…