Aikataulu – Linuxin keskitetty hallinta – 3 op, vanha OPS – loppusyksy 2017 p5 – Puppet

Control 10 computers. Or 100. Or 1000. Use Puppet, the tool used by US Gov (security baseline), Mozilla, Google (laptops and desktops) and Wikipedia. Just write what you want (idempotency). Control almost everything with one system (single source of truth). … Continue reading

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Starting with JavaScript – Arrays, for..of, F12 console

JavaScript gets you to results easily. It’s the native language of web pages. You can create and sell Android Apps easily by packaging your HTML and JavaScript with PhoneGap/Cordova. All popular (1000+ installs) cell phone apps in my courses have … Continue reading

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Initial Testing and Tries on MySQL Socket Authentication

MySQL has some initial support for passwordless socket authentication, but based on by very brief and initial testing, it does not seem to be ready for prime time yet. If you want socket authentication, PostgreSQL does socket authentication out of … Continue reading

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Simpler Puppet Manifests – Resource Defaults and Manifest Ordering

Tips to make your Puppet manifests shorter and easier to read. Resource defaults: If I say ‘package’, of course I want it installed. Services are usually running and enabled at boot. Manifest ordering: Top-down, so I don’t have to ‘require’ … Continue reading

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Apply Puppet Resources Top Down – ordering=manifest – Order without Require

By default Puppet manifest ordering is arbitrary. You either have to use require a lot or apply your modules twice. But there is an easy fix: $ sudoedit /etc/puppet.conf [main] ordering = manifest # …

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Aikataulu – Palvelinten hallinta ict4tn022-3 – 5 op, uusi OPS – loppusyksy 2017 p5

Control 10 computers. Or 100. Or 1000. Use Puppet, the tool used by US Gov (security baseline), Mozilla, Google (laptops and desktops) and Wikipedia. Just write what you want (idempotency). Control almost everything with one system (single source of truth). … Continue reading

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Arvioitava laboratorioharjoitus – Linux palvelimet ict4tn021-5 torstai – alkusyksy 2017 – 5 op

This is the evaluated lab exercise for Linux Server Administration course, 50% of grade. Student had a Live USB stick and an empty computer, and he could use the public Internet. No other tools were allowed. Course feedback was excellent … Continue reading

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Arvioitava laboratorioharjoitus – Linux palvelimet ict4tn021-4 tiistai – alkusyksy 2017 – 5 op

This is the evaluated lab exercise for Linux Server Administration course, 50% of grade. Student had a Live USB stick and an empty computer, and he could use the public Internet. No other tools were allowed. Course feedback was excellent … Continue reading

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Acute 0.2.2 – Integrate Help Commands to Single Interface – pydoc3, puppet describe and man in GoldenDict

Access all documentation commands and dictionaries trough a single interface. Acute(1) suppresses output if it’s just “documentation not found”, so your interface stays clean. With GoldenDict and acute, you can see real time queries to help commands along offline programmer’s … Continue reading

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Print Special Characters as Backslash Escapes – Python3 One-liner with Unicode Support

Let’s find that weird or invisible character that breaks your code $ echo “Hello in Finnish: Päivää”|python3 -c ‘import sys; s=sys.stdin.read(); print(s.encode(“unicode_escape”));’ b’Hello in Finnish: P\\xe4iv\\xe4\\xe4\\n’

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