Drumhead Trap » Infrastructures http://www.adriansilva.org Skins and patches Wed, 21 Apr 2010 07:16:05 +0000 en hourly 1 SysPlumber Day http://www.adriansilva.org/2009/09/22/sysplumber-day/ http://www.adriansilva.org/2009/09/22/sysplumber-day/#comments Tue, 22 Sep 2009 09:22:36 +0000 skiold http://www.adriansilva.org/?p=461 Sometimes Systems work is a lot like plumbing. You have that task that must get done no matter what, and you know you’ll be getting grimy in the proccess. Unpleasant as they are, this kind of jobs give quite a sense of accomplishment once done; people without dirty hands are wrong, aren’t they?

Ldap authentication and apache as ssl proxy and client verifier, stuff for another campfire tale …

apacheProxySslI’m glad not everything in Systems and Operations feels like plumbing; puppet smells good.

]]> http://www.adriansilva.org/2009/09/22/sysplumber-day/feed/ 0 Late to dinner (my excuses to the Chef) http://www.adriansilva.org/2009/03/06/late-to-dinner-my-excuses-to-the-chef/ http://www.adriansilva.org/2009/03/06/late-to-dinner-my-excuses-to-the-chef/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:53:29 +0000 skiold http://www.adriansilva.org/?p=230 Last January a new company was born promising new tools for us working at IT infraestructure automation. The name of the tool is Chef; good luck looking for it on google, chef is a keyword as common as puppet.

When i firs heard of chef i got a litle worried about the possible damages to puppet as a community and as a project. It seemed weird to me to hear from chef on the #puppet irc channel and also weird were some of the opinions on the blogs of Chef’s evangelist (in particular one impliying bad behavior from Lak when he asked for money/contract to fix a particular issue).

In my opinion puppet is a well-behaved FLOSS project that is fostering community, writing code, and earning money. I’m glad to see those same worries of community hijacking being discussed in puppet-users. And even happier seeing the changes in licensing and focus that are underway at reductivelabs.

So, cheers for reductivelabs for keeping the good work and trying new roads to grow and prosperity. Let’s not repeat the Tla Tale.

You can read the (now old) news about Chef at The Madstop.

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