Automating Debian installs with preseeding in a KVM environment.
I'm really eager to use Vagrant to easily set up virtual machines for testing purposes. However I'm using KVM with libvirt and virt-manager. Although I think VirtualBox is nice software, I'm not...
View ArticlePuppet mysql and pwgen module
I finally took the plunge. I published two puppet modules on forge.puppetlabs.com. The first module is pwgen. This is a very simple module, it makes sure the pwgen package is installed. However what...
View ArticleMonitoring Dell Powervaults on Debian
At work we purchased two Dell Powervaults MD3200. To configure them you need to install the management software. Like always the software is only supported on Windows, Redhat Enterprise Linux or Suse...
View ArticleBlog engine changed to Drupal
I took the time to change my blog to use Drupal7, instead of some ancient version of Wordpress.
View ArticleSetting up a Debian mirror with Puppet.
I've pushed a puppet module to Github that you can use to set up your own private Debian mirror. Go check it out on https://github.com/rgevaert/puppet-debianmirror. To use it you should include the...
View ArticleCyrus 2.4.13 some gotchas
Recently I needed to upgrade the Cyrus installation at Ghent university because of a security exploit. However after doing the upgrade to 2.4.13 we hit a bug that affacted users who were using a...
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A Sustainable Model for ICT Capacity Building in Developing Countries
System administrators are often asked to apply their professional expertise in unusual situations, or under tight resource constraints. What happens, though, when the “situation” is a foreign country...
View ArticleHowTo create a Debian package for Elasticsearch
ElasticSearch is a distributed RESTful search engine built for the cloud. It's easy to create a Debian package for it. One way to do it is like this (tested on Debian Wheezy): git clone...
View ArticleWhat's needed for a practical Puppet class?
I'm a happy user of Puppet and love sharing my knowledge with other people. Although I'm not that active online, I've done quiet some work in getting Puppet known and used in environments that aren't...
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