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Configuration management with tools like Puppet can make your life a lot easier. It can make configuring newly provisioned servers more repeatable and reliable and it can make disaster recovery nearly trivial. Learning to use the tool isn’t trivial by any means, though. There are 200 configurable options, give or... Read more…

So you keep hearing about this Puppet thing and how it’s going to solve all of your DevOpsy configuration management problems. But what is it? How do you write a Puppet script? Well, as it turns out, the key concept is unlearning the habit of thinking about scripts. But all... Read more…

I love watching my students fuck up. No, really. Now you’re probably thinking that I’m some sort of giant asshole, but that’s far from the truth. See, I love fucking up too. Want to know why? Gather ‘round and let me tell you a story. Earlier this year, my partner... Read more…