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Puppet on puppetmaster, some tips

puppet January 26th, 2011

A couple of tips to keep in mind when running a puppetd on the puppetmaster.

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Puppet Tips&Tricks: Running apt-get update only when needed

puppet November 9th, 2010

How to only run apt-get update from puppet if it’s necessary. A small example on how you can make apt-get update only run if a) the machine rebooted and b) something changed in /etc/apt.

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Puppet Tips&Tricks: Variable variables

puppet September 1st, 2010

More Puppet Tips&Tricks in our new blog post: This time on Variable variables.

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GlassFish 3.0.1 on Debian Lenny, Puppet style

glassfish_logo August 5th, 2010

We’ve created a puppet package that completely installs and patches GlassFish 3.0.1 on Debian Lenny. Check it out!

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GlassFish 3.0.1’s pkg tool using Debian’s Python packages

glassfish_logo July 23rd, 2010

Short howto on how to use Debian’s Python interpreter with GlassFish’s supplied pkg tool on a 64 bit system.

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WordPress MU and /etc/hosts file

code July 12th, 2010

Sometimes you need to hack up some code to work around some network problems. Sometimes you’re not very proud of it, but you want to share your solution nonetheless. This is one of those ugly solutions…

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Puppet Tips&Tricks: checking if a value is present in an array

puppet June 17th, 2010

Although it’s going to be easier in puppet 2.6, this helps you if you want to check if a certain value is present in a puppet array and perform actions based on that.

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Tips&Tricks: Get long running queries from PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL June 7th, 2010

A relatively simple one-liner for getting long running queries out of PostgreSQL.

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