Two-factor LUKS using Ubuntu
July 29th, 2010
How to secure your data with LUKS and OpenPGP smartcards using Ubuntu.
More...Best Practices / Tech Tips &Tricks’ Blogs
July 29th, 2010
GlassFish 3.0.1’s pkg tool using Debian’s Python packages
July 23rd, 2010
Short howto on how to use Debian’s Python interpreter with GlassFish’s supplied pkg tool on a 64 bit system.
More...Puppet Tips&Tricks: checking if a value is present in an array
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.
More...Tips&Tricks: Get long running queries from PostgreSQL
June 7th, 2010
A relatively simple one-liner for getting long running queries out of PostgreSQL.
More...Puppet Tips&Tricks: testing your regsubst replacings
March 15th, 2010
Puppet Tips&Tricks: How to test the regex you built for your regsubst invocation. In IRB.
More...Puppet Tips&Tricks: Converting booleans to numbers
March 8th, 2010
Puppet Tips&Tricks: A ruby function to be used with puppet for converting boolean values to numerical values. Useful for nagios, for example.
More...Puppet Tips&Tricks: Getting the version from a package
March 1st, 2010
Another blog post in our Puppet Tips&Tricks series: Creating a fact which contains the installed version of a package.
More...Puppet Tips&Tricks: debugging includes and inheritance
February 22nd, 2010
This is the second post in a our Puppet Tips & Tricks series. This week some tips on simple debugging puppet manifests or modules.
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