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Initial publishing of Puppet scripts

Posted by  on 24 April 2012, 1:00 pm

Once you get to a certain number of servers (virtual, physical, or cloud), you need some manner of centrally managing the machines. Something that will let you install packages and configure them all in some standard way, so you don’t have repeat these steps a hundred times yourself. In my experience, the pay off was [...]

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Puppet Quick Tip: Enabling an Apache module

Posted by  on 5 April 2012, 1:00 pm

Recently, I was asked to enable mod_rewrite for Apache on our webservers, which are controlled by the sexy puppet master server. I did a quick google to see if anyone had any recipes published. On the puppet wiki there is a recipe for Apache on Etch, but their module portion installs Apache modules. In the [...]

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Error 400 on SERVER: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Invalid resource type

Posted by  on 1 December 2011, 1:00 pm

At the office I’ve been working to move our operations infrastructure into Puppet. Since I’m fairly new to puppetizing, I’ve been spending a lot of time with puppet. During one of my recent trial runs, I got the following (cryptic) error message: Error 400 on SERVER: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error ArgumentError: Invalid resource type What. [...]

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