Category Archives: Sysadmin

Golden Image or Foil Ball?

The essential basis of running services in “the cloud” is that they run in virtual machines, which come with their own idioms and practices for managing them.  One of the mainstays of managing virtual machines (‘VMs’) uses what’s called ‘golden … Continue reading

Posted in Puppet, Sysadmin | Tagged , , , , | 313 Comments

Puppet on the IT Management Podcast

I was a guest on last week’s IT Management Podcast again last week, and we ended up talking a lot about Puppet and the difficulties in running an open source software company.  As always, John Willis and Coté are informed … Continue reading

Posted in Geek, OpenSource, Puppet, Sysadmin, luke | Tagged , , | 5 Comments

Puppet and OpenQRM

Matt Rechenburg is the author of OpenQRM, a multi-platform provisioning tool (competing with tools like Kickstart and FAI).  He has recently announced integration between it and Puppet: …this step is another milestone for the openQRM project which now includes the … Continue reading

Posted in Puppet, Sysadmin | Tagged , , | 92 Comments

LISA ’08

I just got back from LISA, and as has happened for the last few years, I was pretty disappointed. I think the thing that sticks out the most is how isolated the community is.  Maybe it’s because I’m used to … Continue reading

Posted in Sysadmin | Tagged , , , , , | 8 Comments