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.

Playing with puppet vol II - module

In the previous post I have installed puppet using master/agent architecture. Today I'm not expecting puppet to do more work. I want it to do the same job but witch much better way. And that's what modules are for.

Playing with puppet

In last couple of days I've been playing with puppet a lot. In today's post I'll describe howto install and configure puppet using agent/master architecture. Used OS is Centos 7.

Udev as alternative for ASMlib in virtual Centos 6

I was trying to setup RAC in virtual environment. My virtual machines are Centos 6.5. Unfortunatelly there is no kmod-oracleasm for default kernel 2.6.32-431. To be completelly true, there is required kernel module, but it is only available for redhat subscribers. There I will describe how to use udev instead of asmlib.