Door een collega op mijn nieuwe klus ben ik begonnen om Intellij te gebruiken. Het heeft een paar maanden geduurd om alle hoeken en gaten te vinden en er overduidelijk sneller mee te gaan, maar dat punt is bereikt.

Op de klus gebruik ik de community edition voor puppet werk …

For a recent client I was asked to provide a puppet development setup on the windows platform. The toolchain included Git for windows / Git bash / Turtoise GIT / Atom and some others. It also includes the windows adaption of my git pre-commit hook.

To use this hook, you need to install …

This week I wrapped up version 0.3.0 of the ispprotect puppet module I created for the Erasmus University Rotterdam. The module manages the installation and scheduling of ISPProtect, a php malware scanner that also scans for outdated versions of popular PHP applications. The module can be found at …

Today I found my homelab puppet setup failing. I mostly run the latest released puppet code on my setup and this time it bit me in the ass :

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 500 on SERVER: Server Error: hiera configuration version 3 cannot be used in …

During Puppetconf 2016 Github announces it was releasing one of its internal test tools called octocatalog-diff as open source. What the tools basicly does is compile the catalog for a certain machine using your old and new puppetcode to show you the diff output. This allows you to see the …