There were many reasons people came to use CentOS as an alternative Linux platform to RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). CentOS was originally built as a downstream release of RHEL, which was free to use without support. CentOS became the de facto standard for many organizations that did not want to use RHEL for production workload, […]
I’ve had a lot of recent requests from my customers for some better examples of Puppet API calls with AST and PQL queries. To that end, I’ve created a quick github repository with some better example scripts for Powershell and Curl. You can find the git repo here: https://github.com/psreed/puppet_enterprise_api_playground In addition, since most of the […]
Today I came across a very simple issue that didn’t come up with a fix in my usual quick google search. I updated my ‘puppetlabs-powershell’ module and all of the sudden, my Windows catalogs stopped being able to compile. The error (below) didn’t come up with any quick fix in google, so I was scratching […]
So bought myself a nice new set of hardware and had some issues trying to get a RAID-0 booting into windows 10 with 2x Samsung 960 PRO NVMe M.2 drives. Lots of searching the webs, people saying it can’t be done … well, it can – and it works. Here’s what worked for […]
Hi All, It’s been a long while since I posted last (as usual). It’s also been a long while since I started working for Puppet. Until now, I haven’t really found much puppet things to blog about, but that’s about to change. Lets start with something I ran into today. Custom Facts on Windows with […]
As I’m sure many of you know, when provisioning your storage in a VMware environment using “Thin” disks, they tend to grow over time. When you delete files inside your VMs, the space isn’t returned to the underlying storage for reuse since the blocks are technically not empty. Here are a few techniques you can […]
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