Playing with puppet vol VII - Oracle module

I've found a puppet module used for installation of Oracle database. It can install database software (Single DB, RAC, Grid, ASM), apply patches and create/start DB instances (see link above for complete list of features). I'll use it to install 11.2.0.3 oracle home, upgrade opatch to 11.2.0.3.6 and to apply PSU11 and timezone patch.

Virtual cdrom eject using libvirt

Today's post will be about ejecting virtual cdrom using libvirt.

Playing with puppet vol VI - provisioning centos machines vol II

Last time I've been trying to provision centos machines with kickstart and puppet. But It was not perfect because I had to manually append kickstart file to kernel. Today I'll remove this manual step.

Playing with puppet vol V - provisioning centos machines

Today I'll try to setup provisioning of centos machines. I'll boot netinstall iso, install system via kickstart and setup system with puppet.

Playing with puppet vol IV - Centos 6

Previously I've been playing with resources on Centos 7. Now I'll try to apply these resources on Centos 6.

Playing with puppet vol III - resources

Today's puppet blog will be about resources. What kind of resources are out there, how to define them and how to set relationship between them. I'll use same setup as in the previous post.

Using fallocate instead of dd for creating empty files

I've been always using dd for empty disk image creation (for new virtual machine for example). But I've found out a better tool. It called fallocate.