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The First InterOp

August 7, 2011 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

I wasn’t aware of this and thought it was cool. From The Robustness Principle Reconsidered: The original InterOp conference was…

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The Big 3 OSS Configuration Management Tool Dependencies

February 15, 2011 Jeff Blaine 4 Comments

A table of the minimum build and runtime dependencies for Cfengine 3, Puppet 2.4.x, and Chef 0.9.12 (without the use…

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Posted in: Sysadmin Filed under: cfengine, chef, configuration management, opscode, puppet, puppetlabs

On Configuration Management

January 27, 2011 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

This started out as a thought to me late last night while reading the comments to the quite poorly developed…

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Posted in: Sysadmin Filed under: chef, configuration management, opscode, puppet

RHELv5.5 Does Not a Development Machine Make

January 12, 2011 Jeff Blaine Leave a comment

I’ve about had it with Red Hat 5.5. [jblaine@new-host coreutils]$ ./bootstrap Error: ‘autoconf’ version == 2.59 is too old ‘autoconf’…

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Posted in: Linux, Sysadmin

Tracing Linux Hostname Resolution

January 2, 2011 Jeff Blaine 3 Comments

This post is a living document. Updates since the original publish dates are noted inline as such. Update 1/11/2011: Nearly…

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Posted in: Musings, Sysadmin

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