Strategies for managing configuration across many servers covering lifecycle mapping, context, green-field projects, buy-in, and tool selection
9 min read#configuration management
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What are common strategies and tools used by tech companies to manage configuration of hundreds of servers?
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Puppet and RunDeck Hacking up puppet-rundeck as a Resource Model Provider that feeds RunDeck a list of nodes from Puppet's stored configuration in XML
Pro Puppet Announcing work on a follow-up to Pulling Strings with Puppet, with updated content covering 2.6.0 features, scaling, environments, and extension writing
1 min read#puppetVagrant and Puppet My stand-alone Puppet provisioner has shipped in Vagrant 0.6.9, letting boxes be provisioned with Puppet manifests instead of Chef
The State of DevOps A pointer to my guest post on the Agile Web Operations blog covering DevOps, smoking, operations, and occasional swearing
Paul Kelly: How To Make Gravy Reading Paul Kelly's mongrel autobiography in one long chain smoking gulp and finding the song behind the title
Old posts... Marking around a thousand old blog posts private because they record parts of other people's lives that aren't mine to share