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Monitoring, another way

Some friends told me for a while about collectd, why I should look at it, why munin is so painful and so on.

May 18, 2010 - 2 min read

Mcollective & Xen : naughty things

I already blogged about my experiments with mcollective & xen but I had something a little bigger in my mind.

Apr 14, 2010 - 3 min read

Meet the marionette

Another cool project I keep an eye on for some weeks is “the marionette collective“, aka mcollective.

Apr 6, 2010 - 1 min read

In the network space no one can hear your puppet scream

I’ve been lazy at maintaining my servers recently and decided to start playing with puppet reports.

Mar 2, 2010 - 1 min read

A pkgin provider for puppet

On my Solaris machines at $WORK I use iMil‘s pkgin to install additional software. But until today, I add to do it by hand, on every machine… Not really what I like to do after a little more than a year using puppet.

Feb 26, 2010 - 1 min read

When puppet meets nginx

At $WORK I started using Nginx a while ago, first as a front end to my mongrel instances for puppet.

Feb 22, 2010 - 1 min read