The objective is to, as far as possible, fully automate a stage3 Gentoo build. While we're at it, we'd like to add some flexibility in building different kernel configurations or passing in different parameters like the initial username, passwords, etc.
Ansible fits the bill for this task ...
Seems my blog needs a few updates in the buzz department. I like taking the shotgun approach, so we're going to deploy a 5 node bare metal docker cluster using ansible for host configuration and kubernetes for container management.
I wish I could have squeezed mesos into this ...
The intent of this article is to walk through the installation, configuration, and general debugging of OpenSwan based IPSec tunnels. Though primarily focused on Ubuntu & Debian systems, non-package management portions should apply generally.
We install using apt-get or aptitude.
% apt-get install openswan
For a basic PSK ...
Here we cover the steps for deploying a package to a puppet agent/node. Like with chef, we assume a working installation.
Though I must take the opportunity to comment that the installation process for puppet was ridiculously easy.
Package installation can be performed completely ...
We've been using Chef to deploy our infrastructure for a while now. One of the main sticking points we've run into is the barrier to entry for develoepers as a result of the boiler plate required to perform a simple deployment task. Our ideal framework would be ...
An update-alternatives script for chef. Currently only sets up a version installed in the 1.9.1 gems directory, but extendable to any version easily enough.
#!/bin/bash
RUBY_VERSION=1.9.1
CHEF_VERSION=0.10.8
GEM_ROOT=/var/lib/gems/${RUBY_VERSION}/gems/chef-${CHEF_VERSION}
update-alternatives \
--install /usr/bin/chef-client chef ...A quick update-alternatives script for ruby versions on debian based systems. It only includes the ruby binaries, man pages, etc. included in the ruby1.8 and ruby1.9.1 debs. It's defaults to '1.9' when in auto mode.
After running the script, you can switch between ruby version ...
Sometimes the OS X software firewall gets stuck in a loop and will continuously prompt to allow network access for an application.
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I've seen this happen a couple of times with iTunes. Though it can happen with any application. A common cause is changing icons of system ...
Disable Guest Accounts for Shares on OSX Tiger
sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.AppleFileServer guestAccess -bool false
Disable Dashboard
defaults write com.apple.dashboard mcx-disabled -boolean YES
Reduce Safari Rendering delay
defaults write com.apple.Safari WebKitInitialTimedLayoutDelay 0.25
Increase animation speed of sheets
defaults write NSGlobalDomain NSWindowResizeTime ...