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Got Interviewed
by @botchagalupe on Virtualization, Open Source tools and DNS Problems Technorati Tags: dnsproblem drupal ha heartbeat linux-ha mysql pacemaker puppet virtualization xen Share with Shareomatic! Trackback URL for this post: http://www.krisb...
A long overdue report of DevopsDays
Here's how it started : So I used to be a software developer, writing perl for the web, then C, then Java, then PHP, till I realized nobody ever configured my servers correctly and I changed trades becoming a system engineer, while teaching new devel...
Puppet Meetup Leuven
As Teyo will be in Leuven (Belgium) next week for the training , some folks had the idea to meetup after the training for a Puppet Users Meetup. So the plan is to meet for Drinks and Puppettalk, next week wednesday as of 20u00 in the Domus in Leuve...
Upcoming Training opportunities
Next month I`ll be teaching a course on Virtualization at the KULAK. Apart from my training there is also a Puppet training planned in Belgium. As I assisted Luke in finding a location for the training I tought it might be a good idea to have a Puppe...
Image Sprawl , and the new cure ..
When I tell people that the concept of copying VM's around as frequently done in the VMWare world is one of the most stupid ideas on this planet, I get the weirdest looks. In my world it is, I want my infrastructure to be reproducible , I want to ...
Is anybody else confused about Chef ?
Chef absolutely confuses me.. Luke is confused too .. I’m clearly disappointed that someone who has been a high-profile user of Puppet but has never contributed much in the way of code (Ohloh claims 2 commits) would decide to start a whole new pr...
New interesting open Source releases
In case you haven't noticed them yet .. MySQL Proxy has a new release and moved it's public repo to Launchpad. (Still Launchpad isn't open source yet .. a matter of time .. but in the meanwhile Jira and Confluence are sadly gaining adoption in the...
This was not a Cloudcamp ! :)
This was not a CloudCamp ! Don't get me wrong, it was a great event and I met lots of interesting people , but it was not a *camp. The idea was there to have an unconference after the formal sessions, but the formal sessions ran out and there was ...
DevMinistration
In his CloudCafe 18 Podcast John talks about Puppet to Luke and they coin the idea of Devministration I really like the terminology, so I`m a devministrator, and probably the bigger part of Inuits are Devministrators. The first stage in becomin...
Poor man's unix management
Bart, this is not a poor man's ntp. This is a stupid man's Unix management :) Do you plan on running that script from cron each day ? Or do you plan on eventually configuring ntp for the boxen ? Your poor man's configuration management solution wo...
