Game Day Every Day: How AWS Prepares for the Unexpected

2 months ago | Source: Laurent Domb Blog

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Lab Infra Rebuild Part 6

3 months ago | Source: R.I.Pienaar - www.devco.net

This is the final in a series of posts about rebuilding my lab infrastructure, see the initial post here.

Today we’ll wrap things up with a look at some SaaS tools I use and a general look through some small utilities and things I use to bring it all together.

I’ve been enjoying my summer for the last 3 months hence the hiatus of posts.

Long ago I used to r

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Puppet best practice

6 months ago | Source: betadots

At betadots, during our Puppet code reviews, we often receive requests for a comprehensive summary of best practices and guidelines.
In response, we've compiled this article to delve deep into Puppet's best practices and implementations.

Table of content

• Control Repo
  • Test your control-repo!
• Hiera
• Node Classification
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Lab Infra Rebuild Part 5

7 months ago | Source: R.I.Pienaar - www.devco.net

This is an ongoing post about rebuilding my lab infrastructure, see the initial post here.

Today let’s look at VMs and Baremetals and Operating Systems.

As I mentioned I’ve been a Linode customer since essentially their day one and have had many 100s of machines there for personal and client needs.

I soured off them quite significantly after they

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Unveiling the Simplicity of Cluster Mesh for Kubernetes Deployments

7 months ago | Source: Camptocamp Blog

During Kubecon EU 2024, among a crowd of tech enthusiasts and Kubernetes aficionados, Liz Rice the Queen bee, demo’ed multi-cluster networking. This is Cluster Mesh 101 with Cilium.

Here are a few paragraphs summarizing the experience.

Cluster Mesh extends the networking plane acro

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Lab Infra Rebuild Part 4

7 months ago | Source: R.I.Pienaar - www.devco.net

This is an ongoing post about rebuilding my lab infrastructure, see the initial post here.

Today I’ll talk about my physical office and office hardware.

When my son started going to school I did not look forward to all the driving so figured a office near his school would be good, I’d spend the days there and come home after pick up. I rented a nice place i

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Beyond the Buzz: Embracing the Magic of eBPF in Kubernetes

7 months ago | Source: Camptocamp Blog

In a time where the buzz around Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to overshadow everything else, this year's KubeCon Europe offered a refreshing perspective. While AI continues to be a hot topic, some in the Kubernetes community are starting to feel a bit tired of it. With all the hype and uncertainty surrounding AI, another

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Lab Infra Rebuild Part 3

7 months ago | Source: R.I.Pienaar - www.devco.net

This is an ongoing post about rebuilding my lab infrastructure, see the initial post here.

Today I’ll talk a bit about Configuration Management having previously mentioned I am ditching Kubernetes.

The general state of server management is pretty sad, you have Ansible or Puppet and a long tail of things that just can’t work or are under terrible corpor

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Lab Infra Rebuild Part 2

8 months ago | Source: R.I.Pienaar - www.devco.net

Previously I blogged about rebuilding my personal infra, focussing on what I had before.

Today we’ll start into what I used to replace the old stuff. It’s difficult to know where to start but I think a bit about VM and Container management is as good as any.

My previous build used a 3 node Kubernetes Cluster hosted at Digital Ocean. It hosted:

• Pu

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Cranky community members

8 months ago | Source: binford2k.com

You know the kind. There’s that one person who always has all the opinions. Sometimes there are many of them. But they’re critical about that thing you built, or the workflow you designed, or that issue that you haven’t responded to since they filed it last year. Especially if you hear it long enough, this criticism can cut deeply.

Technical Open Source community members always have some

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Lab Infra Rebuild Part 1

8 months ago | Source: R.I.Pienaar - www.devco.net

I’ve been posting on socials a bit about rebuilding my lab and some opinions I had on tools, approaches and more. Some people have asked for a way to keep up with my efforts, so I figured it might be time to post here for the first time since 2018!

In this post I’ll focus on what came before, a bit of a recap of my previous setup. Additionally, to a general software refresh I

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Recovering archived Puppet blog posts

8 months ago | Source: binford2k.com

The Puppet blog has long been a treasure trove of content. You never knew what you might find; a product announcement, an industry analysis, a user interview, a technical post. And it never deleted content, so people got into the habit of linking to blog posts to use as reference or documentation.

This was really great in a lot of ways, but it came with its downsides. Outdated content d

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Meine erste Woche bei Betadots

9 months ago | Source: betadots

2024-02-13

Die erste Woche fing fulminant an mit einem Besuch beim Configuration Management Camp in Belgien in Gent. Ich bin in CCC-Kreisen unterwegs und das CfgMgmtCamp ist den CCC-Veranstaltungen ziemlich ähnlich - haufenweise Leute in ungezwungener Kleidung, an jeder Ecke ein Gesprächspartner, der mehr zu deinem Thema weiß als du selbst. Die Vortragsauswahl war deutlich schwankender,

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Scaling Puppet Infrastructure

9 months ago | Source: betadots

In large environments with many nodes one must take care of Puppet server scaling.
When and if scaling is needed, depends on the number of nodes and on code complexity and size.
This article describes the different ways of tuning Puppet server infrastructure.

Table of content:

1. Puppet Server tuning
   1. Performance tuning a single node
   2. Scaling horizont

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HDM Foreman integration

10 months ago | Source: betadots

Analyzing Hiera Data can be very difficult.
HDM - Hiera Data manager is a web UI, which let's you analyze Hiera Data in a user-friendly way.

We now have built and released the HDM Foreman integration, which consists of two packages:

• Foreman HDM Smart Proxy plugin: smart_proxy_hdm
• Foreman HDM plugin: foreman_hdm

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Emerging from a year long apnoea

10 months ago | Source: Example 42

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Puppet container version schema update

10 months ago | Source: betadots

Community: we hear you!

Several people have asked to please change the version schema on puppetserver-container and puppetdb-container.

Prior the repositories have been handed over from Puppet Inc to Puppet Community, the container images were using the Puppet server and PuppetDB versions, which were used inside the container.

              

              
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Practice like you play: How Amazon scales resilience to new heights (ARC316)

11 months ago | Source: Laurent Domb Blog

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Reboot MSK Broker with AWS Fault Injection Service

12 months ago | Source: Laurent Domb Blog

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Ethical Considerations and AI Governance

12 months ago | Source: Laurent Domb Blog

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Toronto SIBOS 2023: Increasing resilience and financial innovation with cloud services by AWS

12 months ago | Source: Laurent Domb Blog

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Puppet Containers are back alive

over a year ago | Source: betadots

In early 2023 Puppet Inc. decided to stop working on their containers for Puppetserver and PuppetDB and offered the repositories for adoption.

At betadots GmbH we believe that there is an usecase for Puppet servers based on containers.
We also have several customers who already use Puppet in containers or are planning to migrate to a container based technology.

Therefor we de

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Die Puppet Container sind wieder unter aktiver maintenance

over a year ago | Source: betadots

Anfang 2023 hat Puppet Inc. entschieden, die Arbeit an den Puppetserver und PuppetDB Containern einzustellen und haben die GIT Repositories zur Adoption freigegeben.

Bei der betadots GmbH sehen wir einen wichtigen Use-Case im Einsatz von Puppet Server innerhalb eines Containers.
Außerdem haben wir mehrere Kunden, welche Puppet Server bereits innerhalb eines Containers laufen lassen,

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Puppet und Kubernetes

over a year ago | Source: betadots

Heute zeigen wir, wie man einen Kubernetes Cluster mit Puppet aufsetzen und verwalten kann.

Es gibt einige Puppet Module auf der Puppet Forge, mit denen man Kubernetes verwalten kann.
So findet man unter anderem die Module Puppetlabs Kubernetes und Voxpupuli k8s.
Alle weiteren Module haben seit geraumer Zeit keine Aktualisierungen mehr erhalten. Da

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