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Sys Admin, DevOps etc in San Francisco Bay Area
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Nov 14 |
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Patching with Puppet IMO, it is easier to use pca, instead of writing your own code for patches. |
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Oct 31 |
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Unix shell: easy way to get IP from hostname Came here to give this answer, up-voted you instead. |
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Oct 28 |
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Linux Colorize Find? Nice. But why not use grep --color? :) It's available on gnu grep on all platforms for many years. |
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Oct 12 |
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How to find out if a Solaris machine is virtualized or not? On my KVM Solaris 10 VM, facter gets the "virtual" fact totally wrong. It does report manufacturer and productname as "Bochs", not sure how reliable that is. |
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Oct 3 |
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Which Linux-Virtualization to choose for Server? ProxMox looks interesting. Aeolus: aeolusproject.org and The Foreman theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/… Are also interesting projects for managing VMs. theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/Screencasts . As is OpenStack/Dell Crowbar robhirschfeld.com/2011/08/15/video-of-crowbar-install |
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Sep 15 |
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Tips for optimizing RHEL/CentOS kickstart workflow Yes, I read that msg before. The last line says "CloudForms System Engine is a subcomponent of CloudForms which provides System Management aspects, similar to today's Satellite product." ... Since then I've heard about Aeolus: aeolusproject.org , which provides similar functionality to Foreman, for private clouds! Looks like Redhat is trying a bunch of projects to see what sticks. |
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Aug 5 |
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yum equivalent to apt-get upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade? You can also add excludes to the yum.conf file. |
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May 22 |
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Automating and deploying new linux servers @luckytaxi You don't need to use the GUI at all, except perhaps to view the dashboard and let junior staff follow procedure. 90% of the important stuff can be automated from the JSON Api: theforeman.org/projects/foreman/wiki/API . ie, You can completely script Foreman. |
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May 19 |
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Tips for optimizing RHEL/CentOS kickstart workflow @embobo Check the pdf presentation, page 23 and 37 in particular. I don't think cobbler development will stop. @ewwhite : The setup is somewhat involved, especially for Kickstart. You should follow the tutorials on the web site and try the mailing lists and IRC for help, |
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May 19 |
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Tips for optimizing RHEL/CentOS kickstart workflow redhat.com/summit/2011/presentations/summit/whats_next/thursday/… |
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Dec 27 |
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Puppet vs Chef, pro and contra from users and use cases @AlberT: The provisioning part in Foreman is optional. We use Cobbler and Foreman independently. We want to move to Foremans provisioning, because IMO, it is much superior to Cobblers. And much, much faster when you have 100s of servers. |
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Oct 29 |
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Collecting and centralizing information from many servers, sort of like Puppet's facter abigant.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/… |
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Oct 29 |
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Collecting and centralizing information from many servers, sort of like Puppet's facter Heres a post about using the query interface for Foreman. |
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Aug 10 |
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Managing zone files It doesn't, I didn't read the first sentence of the question. :-| |
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Mar 17 |
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Puppet vs Chef, pro and contra from users and use cases theforeman.org/wiki/foreman/Screenshots |
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Mar 12 |
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Open source alternative to Autosys? Thats the only OSS one that was evaluated. They ended up choosing Cybermation Espresso (now from CA). There seem to be many alternatives these days: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Job_scheduler . You should let us know when you decide. |
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Dec 5 |
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There is a commercial tool like Xen + Remus? All HA tools have to create a backup first. Remus does the same. blog.xen.org/index.php/2009/04/02/project-remus-released |
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Aug 16 |
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Best virtualization server core Up-voted for kvm. kvm+libvirt is ridiculously easy to setup and use. There is a lack of "toys" that are abundant with VMware, so you will need heavy customizing if you want to manage hundreds of guests. (virt-manager is kind of of plain-jane) That should change when oVirt matures. ovirt.org The price/performance/ease combo for kvm cannot be beat. Bonus: FreeBSD 7x support without jumping through hoops. |
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Aug 3 |
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How to allow SSH host keys on Linux (Fedora 10 & CentOS 5.2) Instead of directly editing ~/ssh/authorized_keys on the remote host, one can use the the ssh-copy-id script that comes with most Linux distros. I haven't used the script from OSX, but it is pretty simple and should work. It doesn't check for duplicate entries. |
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Jul 1 |
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Looping a command over a list of arguments in Linux Put double quotes around $i to take care of spaces. |
