An old UNIX mantra is if you don’t need it, don’t run it. I discovered today that avahi-daemon was running on some of my boxes due to a kickstart misconfiguration. I just added the code to puppet node configuration, and… More →

Users running a puppet server can quickly find that module management is a significant issue.  Modules can come from a variety of sources, including puppet forge, local git repos and if someone gets it working Boxen. The answer to this… More →

I dealt with a client recently that had a software issue that was rather unexpected.   The owner of the application had died.    The application is not open source, and we are not aware of who has the code, or if… More →