Fedora 21 weekend upgrading
With the release of a new Fedora getting close (Fedora 21 is currently scheduled for release December 9th), I figured this last weekend was a great time to upgrade the ‘production’ side of my home...
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Device (sorta) review: Cocoon Grid-It Organizer
I happened to see somewhere (I cannot actually recall now) someone mention the ‘grid-it’ line of organizers and picked up one for my laptop bag. It’s basically a hard board with lots and lots and lots...
View ArticleHow packages are added to EPEL-7
I’ve seen a number of people ask things like: “Foo is in EPEL-6, why isn’t it in EPEL-7?” so I thought I would share a detailed answer: In Fedora, all new releases are branched off rawhide, the ever...
View ArticleThanks
I’ll take today’s blog post as a chance to co-opt a silly holiday and turn it into a chance to be thankful to some folks: A big thanks to my co-workers: It’s awesome working with all of you to make...
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Fedora 21 RC1
For once we managed to make an RC before the last minute for a release. So, please if you have a few minutes this weekend and want to help us out, go and test the Fedora 21 Release Candidate 1. See the...
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Some handy systemd/journal tips
I thought I would share some nifty little systemd/journal commands I have run into in the past year that are handy. easy way to make sure something restarts on fail: mkdir...
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30 days! whew!
Well, looks like I managed to do it: a blog post every day for 30days (all of november). I did have a few times, especially toward the end where I was at a loss for topics. I didn’t want to repeat...
View ArticleMirrormanager and ansible FAD (days 0 and 1)
On Wed afternoon I flew out to Raleigh for our Mirrormanager2 and Ansible FAD. Luckily this time I got a direct flight (from denver) so no connections to miss. My flight ended up being about 40min late...
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Mirrormanager and ansible FAD (day 2)
The second day of the FAD was also devoted to Mirrormanager work (as we only have Matt Domsch around today). I created 4 new staging instances for us: a mirrorlist server, a frontend (to run the web...
View ArticleMirrormanager and ansible FAD (day 3)
Today we started in looking at the big picture where we are in our migration of ansible and what things we need to do to complete it. There’s 67 hosts still in puppet right now. 27 are all ready to...
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