Category Archives: Puppet

Cloud Management Layers, or Don’t Use Templates!

By Rob Terhaar | Published: April 7, 2011
I was recently talking to a client (let’s call him Carl…) who had just begun the initial research phase into how he was going to redesign his server management infrastructure. Carl, like many people, had been using a template-based workflow, but was tired of the inherit difficulties and problems in managing non-congruent systems created from [...]
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Using Puppet instead of Bash

By Rob Terhaar | Published: January 29, 2011
If you’ve done any amount of heavy UNIX systems administration work, you’ve undoubtedly written several big ugly Bash scripts. #!/bin/bash for i in `more standard_package_list.txt ` do apt-get install $i done This simple code example will read a txt file with a list of required packages, and then install all packages. So how can Puppet [...]
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