Asking readers to fill in a short anonymous survey on IT monitoring to gather data for a conference talk
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Monitoring Survey Using Puppet Blacksmith Installing and configuring Puppet Blacksmith Rake tasks to automate version bumps, tagging, building, and pushing modules to the Forge
Getting Started with Puppet Strings Installing the Puppet Strings face, running it against the Sensu module, and publishing the generated HTML documentation to GitHub Pages
When Logstash and Syslog go wrong Replacing Logstash's syslog input with tcp, udp, and grok plugins so you can catch non-RFC syslog variants and route failed parses to a file
A Whole Lot of Heka Installing and configuring Mozilla's Go-based logging tool Heka, comparing it to Logstash for tailing files and routing events
The Docker Book - Consul Version 1.2.0 of The Docker Book is out, adding a section in chapter 7 on using Consul for service discovery with Docker
The Docker Book - a new chapter Version 1.1.0 of The Docker Book is out, with a new chapter on orchestration focused on Fig and the usual update instructions