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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 […]
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 […]
It’s been a busy year for security issues, first with HeartBleed, then with ShellShock and now… POODLE. If you frequently use Wi-Fi at Starbucks or somewhere other than a trusted home network, watch out, there’s a new vulnerability that targets the client side devices! This article from wired.com explains the vulnerability in more details: http://www.wired.com/2014/10/poodle-explained/ […]
Ok, I’ve installed the Windows 10 technical preview as an upgrade to my previous Windows 8 Laptop. Here are my first impressions: – Setup went went smoothly. — Setup sets up the OS — Setup sets up Apps — Setup sets up a “few other things” (literally, this is the message on screen while it […]
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