Free SSL Certs, 50 Salt Slaves, 5 USD Raspberry Pi, Free Home Automation

Get free SSL cert for your business. Deploy and configure 50 servers to DigitalOcean. Buy RaspBerry Pi Zero for 5 USD (*actual price may vary). Automate your home. Read Ashkan’s thesis while he writes it.

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Install Ubuntu Virtual Machine in Minutes with Vagrant

In two minutes, you could have an SSH connection to your new virtual Ubuntu server. Vagrant allows you to define your virtual host in a simple text file. It can then automatically install your new virtual machine and setup automatic … Continue reading

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Salt Master-Minion with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS – Control Your Slaves over the Internet

Would you like to control many computers (slaves, minions) from one master computer? Salt-minions connect to master to retrieve instructions. Slaves then configure themselves to the target state: they install software, make settings and start daemons.

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Implementing Package-File-Service Pattern as a Salt Stack PyObjects Function

PyObjects renderer allows you to use normal Python functions to repeat actions. In this article, we’ll implement a Package-File-Service pattern as a reusable Python function.

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Salt Package-File-Service with Pyobjects

When you install Apache, the most popular web server in the world, you want to show web pages. In practice, you install the package, keep the service running and modify a configuration file. In configuration management, this is called package-file-service … Continue reading

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