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.

We found the Linux support engineer we were looking for. We welcome Rutger to our team!

We’re looking for a Linux support engineer.

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

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

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…

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.

Kees talks about Puppet at the NLUUG spring conference.