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Setting up puppet provisioned nagios monitoring

Posted on vr 12 februari 2016 in software • Tagged with debian, red_hat, puppet

Puppet has had native nagios resource types for quite some time. As both a nagios and a puppet fan, I really liked the idea of not setting up any monitoring but have some base level of monitoring on every managed system automatically. Deploying new systems involves a lot of steps …


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git pre-commit hook for puppet, erb and yaml files

Posted on za 07 november 2015 in software • Tagged with debian, red_hat, puppet

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 …


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Speeding up puppet runs by using checksums when running execs

Posted on vr 20 maart 2015 in software • Tagged with debian, red_hat, puppet

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 …


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