Monthly Archives: February 2011

two puppet tricks: combining arrays and local tests

Posted on February 1, 2011 by joecrow

Joining Arrays I found myself wanting to join a bunch of arrays in my puppet manifests. I had 3 lists of ip addresses, but wanted to join all 3 lists together into a single list to provide all ips to … Continue reading →

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Python setup.py bdist_rpm on CentOS 5.5

Posted on February 1, 2011 by joecrow

I recently learned that python setup.py can be used to build a rpm using the bdist command.  Since we’re using puppet to manage installed software, this makes it really easy to add python modules to a bunch of servers. During the … Continue reading →

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