Updating to Puppet 4 Part 2

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Four repos become one…

When I last created a full Puppet environment “Roles & Profiles” were the new way to do things. Gary Larizza was …

Updating to Puppet 4 Part 1

2 minute read

Better than two years ago I created a multi-node Vagrant setup based around a three node Puppet environment with boxes for:

1. Foreman acting as a CA, report …

The Ghost Lives

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I decided it was time to stop procrastinating and actually update the live version of my blog to the one I have been working on for a while. So, here it is: The …

ELK Stack v2 (and a correction)

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I’ve learned a lot since my last post. One of those things is that I was wrong… setting up Logstash on your Redis nodes isn’t such a bad idea. …

ELK Stack Design

6 minute read

I’ve been working on a new logging system based around Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana. One of my biggest challenges was that all the recommended …