So you created a raw format and now you realise that you want a change. Your wishing you just used a more flexible format.

Lucky is super easy to change from raw to almost anything with qcow-img

Setting up a LAG between Extreme and Juniper switches isn’t hard

This example is between a Extreme Alpine x350 and a Juniper ex4200.

Dragging up a half finished post from the past AFAIK its still relevant and no less awesome

Building nagios config with puppet!!1

After recently upgrading our puppetmaster to 3.2.2 to mitigate a remote exploit. I ran into this error on all nodes

Script for purging sites or pages from multiple varnish caches

Nagios plugin for monitoring openvpn client connections

Creating local nix accounts in puppet. An easy alternative to a small ldap setup.

Simple but useful script for setting up puppet on client machines

Playing around with puppet today (as always) and stumbled across a sweet pattern in a couple of modules for creating config files from hashes. Particularly good for building overriding config.