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Recap: April Puppet NYC Meetup

Posted on April 21, 2011 by joecrow

Last week, I attended my first Puppet NYC meetup, which was hosted at Gilt Groupe. As a fairly recent user of puppet, it was great to meet some folks from the community in NYC that are using it on a … Continue reading →

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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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Moving wordpress blog to lighttpd

Posted on January 15, 2011 by joecrow

I’ve moved my wordpress blog from a hosted account on godaddy.com to a server that’s running lighttpd on ubuntu. The move was more complex than I expected, so I thought I’d share some details for others… I already had lighttpd … Continue reading →

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