This blog focusses on setting up Mcollective and puppet push-pull environment in open source puppet, configuration management tool. Puppet has a default behavior that agents pull their respective configurations (catalogs) at regular interval of time. The blog refers to certain use case where you don’t want an agent to make changes at their respective time […]
Apache Solr is an open source search platform built upon a Java library called Lucene. Solr is a popular search platform for Web sites because it can index and search multiple sites and return recommendations for related content based on the search query’s taxonomy. Solr is also a popular search platform for enterprise search because […]
Let us consider a scenario when all the service and custom logs of your ubuntu server gets backed up on S3 on a daily basis after compressing them and the allocated space is freed without using any third party software. We can achieve this task by the use of logrotate utility provided by the ubuntu […]
Most of us would be using some tools for centralizing logs, their analysis and storage. Logentries is also the one falling into this category. Logentries provides a straightforward way for analysis of logs containing KVPs i.e. Key-Value pairs. But for the cases where KVPs are not present it becomes quite hectic to analyse the logs. […]
In one of my recent projects, while working on Jenkins, I was required to create and implement a Project-based Matrix Authorization Strategy. Installation of Jenkins is a simple task, but it took me a while to implement this strategy and later I found it quite easy enough and thought of writing a blog. Project-based Matrix […]
This blog deeply discusses the autosigning feature of Puppet. During my journey to implement auto sign in our production environment, I came across various challenges related to security and making it as tight as possible and I was finally reached the last resort to achieve autosigning as per my requirement. Autosign is a feature of […]
Ever wondered what to do if you have to make a very quick deployment of an application on the AWS Cloud ? You would launch servers, make an infrastructure and then Install applications which is somewhat a tedious process. How would it sound if the deployments are made in seconds ? Here is an AWS […]
This blog is in continuation to our previous blog. The focus of this blog is to enable AWS professionals to change pem of running servers or to add a new user with sudo privileges to an EC2 server farm using Puppet. Similar use case of performing the same task using CHEF has been discussed here. […]
Pingdom is a tool which is used for monitoring websites’ availability in real time. Now we can interact with pingdom using its REST API with the help of python scripts. Every time, a deployment is made on production servers, the pingdom tool throws a downalert because several services like tomcat, apache etc need to be […]