Puppet Extension Points - part 2
After the first part in this series of article on Puppet extensions points, I’m proud to deliver a new episode focusing on Types and Providers. Note that th...
System Administration
Puppet Extension Points - part 1
It’s been a long time since my last blog post, almost a year. Not that I stopped hacking on Puppet or other things (even though I’m not as productive as I ha...
Benchmarking puppetmaster stacks
It’s been a long time since my last puppet blog post about file content offloading. Two puppetcamps even passed (more on the last one in a next blog article)...
The definitive recipe for Wordpress Gengo to WPML conversion
The Days of Wonder News Center is running Wordpress which until a couple of days used Gengo for multilingual stuff. Back when we started using Wordpress for ...
More Puppet Offloading
Puppet really shines at configuration management, but there are some things it is not good at, for instance file sourcing of large files, or managing deep hi...
Puppet Memory Usage - not a fatality
As every reader of this blog certainly know, I’m a big fan of Puppet, using it in production on Days of Wonder servers, up to the point I used to contribute ...
mysql-snmp 1.0 - SNMP monitoring for MySQL
I’m really proud to announce the release of the version 1.0 of mysql-snmp. What is mysql-snmp? mysql-snmp is a mix between the excellent MySQL Cacti Templa...
Nginx upload progress module v0.8!
Yes, I know… I released v0.7 less than a month ago. But this release was crippled by a crash that could happen at start or reload. Changes Bonus in this ne...
Nginx upload progress module v0.7!
I’m proud to announce the release of Nginx Upload Progress module v0.7 This version sees a crash fix and various new features implemented by Valery Kholodko...
MySQL InnoDB and table renaming don’t play well…
At Days of Wonder we are huge fans of MySQL (and since about a year of the various Open Query, Percona, Google or other community patches), up to the point w...
My Puppet Camp slides appearing on the slideshare homepage!
This morning I got the joy to see that my Puppet Camp 2009 slides had been selected by Slideshare to appear on their home page:
Puppet Camp 2009 debriefing time!
I attended Puppet Camp 2009 in San Francisco last week. It was a wonderful event and I could meet a lot of really smart developers and sysadmins from a lot o...
Storeconfigs (advanced) use cases
This week on #puppet, Nico asked for a storeconfigs live example. So I thought, a blog post would be perfect to post an example of a storeconfigs use case an...
New SSL features for Nginx
As a Puppet Mongrel Nginx user, I’m really ashamed about the convoluted nginx configuration needed (two server blocks listening on different ports, you need ...
Nginx secure link module with TTL
It’s been a long time since my last post… which just means I was really busy both privately, on the Puppet side and at work (I’ll talk about the Puppet side ...
Puppet and JRuby a love story!
As announced in my last edit of my yesterday post Puppet and JRuby a love and hate story, I finally managed to run a webrick puppetmaster under JRuby with a ...
Puppet and JRuby, a love and hate story
Since I heard about JRuby about a year ago, I wanted to try to run my favorite ruby program on it. I’m working with Java almost all day long, so I know for s...
In love with zsh, part 1
Note: when I started writing this post, I didn’t know it would be this long. I decided then to split it in several posts, each one covering one or more inter...
Introducing mysql-snmp!
Thanks to Days of Wonder the company I work for, I’m proud to release in Free Software (GPL):
PLD to the rescue!
There is something I used to hate to do. And I think all admins also hate to do that.
OMG!! storeconfigs killed my database!
When I wrote my previous post titled all about storedconfigs, I was pretty confident I explained everything I could about storedconfigs… I was wrong of cours...
All about Puppet storeconfigs
Since a long time people (including me) complained that storeconfigs was a real resource hog. Unfortunately for us, this option is so cool and useful.
Help! Puppetd is eating my server!
This seems to be recurrent this last 3 or 4 days with a few #puppet, redmine or puppet-user requests, asking about why puppetd is consuming so much CPU an...
Failed upgrade, impossible to downgrade… Oh my…
In the Days of Wonder Paris Office (where is located our graphic studio, and incidentally where I work), we are using Bacula to perform the multi-terabyte ...
February Puppet Dev Call
Yesterday we had the February Puppet Dev Call with unfortunately poor audio, lots of Skype disconnections which for a non native English speaker like me re...
The curse of bad blocks (is no more)
If you like me are struggling with old disks (in my case SCSI 10k RPM Ultra Wide 2 HP disks) that exhibits bad blocks, here is a short survival howto.
Puppet Memory Leaks… Or not…
From time to time we get some complaints about so-called Puppet memory leaks either on #puppet, on the puppet-user list or in the Puppet redmine.
Net-Snmp doesn’t detect interface speed on Linux
Have you ever wondered why net-snmp doesn’t report a ccomments: true orrect interface speed on Linux?
OpenNMS JDBC Stored Procedure Poller with MySQL
Since a few months we are monitoring our infrastructure at Days of Wonder with OpenNMS. Until this afternoon we were running the beta/final candidate versio...