As I was planning a new item in my schedule last week, my OS X calendar was trying to be helpful by suggesting entries based on previous events in my schedule. This is great on many occasions, but this time it suggested an entry from long ago. Think ten years ago. In itself this is […]

A pre-commit hook is a great way to run custom actions before handing over your work to GIT (and thus your CI tool chain). For puppet related GIT repositories I’ve assembled a pre-commit hook that checks the puppet code, changed ERB templates and any changed YAML files  for formatting errors. All not rocket science when […]

During my integration work for a client, I was running third party puppet code to  integrate automatically deployed application containers with the third party deployment tool (the deployit / XL Deploy module for puppet) This module was written to run an exec for three different actions per container, all resulting in running Jython code in […]

The old trusty MacBook white was getting slower and slower. I upgraded it to new OS X releases when they came available over the years. As my kids became the primary user, the complaints started to pile up. I tried moving to Windows 7 and to Ubuntu. But the machine just stayed slow and sluggish. […]

Tot nu toe gebruikte ik relatief simpele shell scripts met hier en daar wat Python om systeembeheer te doen over een groter aantal systemen. Het aantal systemen onder mijn hoede groeide boven de vijftig en na een ziekteverlof van enkele maanden moest ik tijd zien te winnen. Puppet bleek het antwoord. Ik begon met een […]