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.

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

Puppet Tips&Tricks: How to test the regex you built for your regsubst invocation. In IRB.

Puppet Tips&Tricks: A ruby function to be used with puppet for converting boolean values to numerical values. Useful for nagios, for example.

Another blog post in our Puppet Tips&Tricks series: Creating a fact which contains the installed version of a package.

This is the second post in a our Puppet Tips & Tricks series. This week some tips on simple debugging puppet manifests or modules.

This is the first post in our Puppet Tips & Tricks series. Sarting with how to access a variable with a variable in its name from puppet.