Augeas made my grub.conf too quiet!

A reader contacted me after working through the examples in my last previous post on Augeas. He was having a difficult time figuring out how to add a valueless key back into the kernel command line. This was the opposite of what I was doing with quiet and rhgb Many thanks. I have been pounding […]

Using augeas and puppet to modify grub.conf

In my environment, we rely heavily upon Puppet to do large-scale automation and updating of our various systems. One of the tasks that we do on an infrequent basis is to modify grub.conf across many (or even all) systems to apply the same types of changes. In Puppet, there are several ways you can do […]

Hadoop, facter, and the puppet marionette

I’ve been working with puppet a lot lately.  A lot.  It’s part of my job.  We’ve been setting up a new hadoop cluster in our Xen environment.  Nothing big.  It started out with 4 nodes, all configured the same way (3 drives each).  We added an additional 2 nodes with 2 drives each.  This, of […]