I was fortunate enough recently to get a fancy pants amazon gift card for some hard work put in the off hours at work. Mainly, 5 tests earning myself 2 certifications and several “specialist” designations over the past 6 months. What did I do with this new gift card, of coarse spend it as soon as I could on something totally geeky.
And here it is, a new OCZ 120GB Solid State drive for the mac mini which is my home dev machine.
I’ve been helping a buddy get his puppet master server setup and he recently ran into a rather interesting error. He had his master server setup and had added a few recent server builds to the mix all from the EPEL repository which installed the 2.6.x version of the client.
When adding an older server, he got the following error message showing up in his logs:
Doing a little googling, it turns out, this is not all that uncommon.
Being a programmer by trade, I get thrown into many projects that aren’t always my forte, but I can figure them out and get them working the way that I want.
I’ve been messing with powershell for a while now with VMware, but never really getting into big time scripting with it. Its mainly be something to use to accomplish some various tasks on mutliple hosts. Very little error checking in the scripts since I’m watching them was they run. If I want to put them into a scheduled task or automate them from a web page, more error checking is needed.
For those looking for the slides from the puppet presentation that I gave last week, here they are.
I’ll be working on getting a screen cast of the demo up in the next week or so. Too many other things distracting me at this moment.
For those that haven’t seen my twitter feed…
I’m going to be doing a presentation in the coming days for the local linux user group (CIALUG) on Puppet from Puppet Labs.
Free pizza and some swag will be thrown around.
The event is 100% free and should hopefully get you acquainted with all the cool stuff you can automate. Signup for your free ticket!