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April 16, 2018 Uncategorized

Using Puppet’s “tidy” resource to clean up old files

By mdwheele This will be a short one, I promise! Let’s say you’re managing backups on a host and only want to keep the last couple of...

April 2, 2018 Uncategorized

Using group membership in Active Directory to determine Hiera used for lookups

By mdwheele Before you join your Linux machine to Active Directory, you usually create (or “pre-stage”) a Computer Object. A Computer Object is really pretty much the...

March 30, 2018 Tips and Tricks

Potential conflict between Samba and realmd-based setup, and resolution

By daniel Update 2018-04-05: I highly suggest you do not do this yet. We discovered that, for some currently unexplained reason, that after the machine trust password...

March 1, 2018 Tools

Fun with Puppet Development Kit (pdk)

By daniel When the Puppet Development Kit was released, I was fairly skeptical. It seemed like one of those.. “lets put out a new tool that does...

March 1, 2018 Tips and Tricks

Grouping configurations in hiera based off a type of host

By daniel Before I begin, let me preface this by saying I am running under Puppet 5 these days, which means this may or may not work...

February 11, 2015 RLSC

RLSC Updates: 2/13/2015

By rahairye Quick update items for the upcoming RLSC meeting (2/13/15 @ 1:30pm MRC 246) Updates from OIT Central Systems Integration team Completion of the new RedHat...