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Trigger your chef runs with mcollective

Mcollective has been able to fire up puppetd runs for a while now, via a standalone RPC call or through the puppet commander binary (check it out, spread your load).

Jul 26, 2011 - 1 min read

Mcollective agent, to manage agents

It started like a toy, to learn a little more about mcollective agents but I finally turned into something useful (at least for me).

Mar 15, 2011 - 1 min read

Generic use of chef providers in mcollective

This post follows my previous one, dealing with the reuse of chef providers of chef in mcollective.

Mar 11, 2011 - 1 min read

Reusing chef providers in mcollective

It has been quite calm for a couple of months here. I have switched job, it explains why I had less time to post some things.

Mar 8, 2011 - 1 min read

STOMP-ed nagios

Basing more and more stuff on mcollective means relying more and more on one of its underlying components : the activeMQ middleware, and more precisely the stomp connector.

Sep 27, 2010 - 1 min read

Monitoring puppet trough mcollective

I recently switched from puppet daemon to mcollective commander : it kicks the “stuck in outer space puppet daemon” feature out of the way and brings me nice features (as load control).

Sep 14, 2010 - 1 min read