Aikataulu – Palvelinten hallinta ict4tn022 3003-ti ja 3001-to – loppukevät 2019

Just write what you want (idempotency). Control almost everything with one system (single source of truth). In plain text (infrastructure as code, versionable). Control 10 computers. Or 100. Or 1000. Or control 2071 computers, like Jussi did on a previous … Continue reading

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Aikataulu – Palvelinten hallinta ict4tn022 3004-ti ja 3002-to – loppukevät 2018 5p

Just write what you want (idempotency). Control almost everything with one system (single source of truth). In plain text (infrastructure as code, versionable). Control 10 computers. Or 100. Or 1000. Or control 2071 computers, like Jussi did on a previous … Continue reading

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Aikataulu – Palvelinten hallinta ict4tn022 4-ti 5-ke 5 – loppukevät 2018 5p

Control 10 computers. Or 100. Or 1000. Just write what you want (idempotency). Control almost everything with one system (single source of truth). In plain text (infrastructure as code, versionable). My current research area is configuration management systems: I gave … Continue reading

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Configuration Management Course Awards 2017: Most slaves: Tommi, most OSes: Matias

Tommi Timonen had the most slaves, a total of 1478 computers. He had 20 physical computers running many virtual computers each. Congratulations Tommi! Tommi also took second place with his previous setup of 639 computers. Third place was Tatu Erkinjuntti … Continue reading

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Tommi's 639 Puppet Slaves

My student Tommi tested Puppet with 639 slaves. Tommi is running some 20 physical computers with about 30 virtual computers each. Tatu has 263 slaves – on a single physical machine with a huge swap file. Who will get 640 … Continue reading

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Top Configuration Management Systems – Puppet vs Salt vs Ansible vs Chef

The leading configuration management systems compared: Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Salt. My students Joona, Jori, Eero and Jarkko gave a presentation and demonstrated each system. ArcticCM provisioned and configured a couple of Linux desktops and servers, and also configured some Windows … Continue reading

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Provision Multiple Virtual Puppet Slaves with Vagrant

For testing, it’s convenient to provision many virtual slave computers to your master. This Vagrant file installs two virtual computers and automatically configures them as slaves to a puppetmaster in a predefined IP address. Advanced stuff warning: Using this sample … Continue reading

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Multiple Virtual Computers in Minutes – Vagrant Multimachine

You can install multiple virtual computers in minutes. This example shows how to install two Ubuntu 16.04 virtual machines and configure SSH – in a couple minutes.

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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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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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