Monthly Archives: July 2017

Why do people use VMWare ?. It is a pain.

I actually purchased a license for VMWare Workstation when I was on Fedora21 as I needed it for a training course. Worked fine. Looks like the next time I tried to use I was on Fedora23 as I managed to … Continue reading

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Puppetserver – my new interest

Why is the title puppetserver instead of puppet you ask, simply because as I am starting with puppet from scratch I have no interest in learning how to use the old “puppet-master” setup but will concentrate on the new puppetserver … Continue reading

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Now whats up with Nagios these days ?

This post was going to be simply about how the only issue I had from upgrading all my core servers to F26 had no issues other than nagios. The title has been updated and the topic slightly changed due to … Continue reading

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Decided to finally have a look at “puppet”.

When I initially had issues with Puppet I also looked at “Chef” but my issues with Chef were that it needs a damn site more resources to run plus to download the main chef server component you have to go … Continue reading

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OpenStack Ocata install from the RDO repositories

Why a fresh install instead of an upgrade ? I gave up on trying to upgrade from Newton to Ocata using the RDO repositories. The upgrade instructions have now been updated for the Ocata release in the RDO documentation web … Continue reading

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