Better Puppet Module Development through Testing - CasitConf 2013

Sat 06 April 2013 by tvd

I spoke about testing puppet modules at this year's Cascadia IT Conference in Seattle. The conference was great; I met a lot of great people and received a lot of feedback on my presentation.

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Quickly validate puppet manifests in a git repo.

Mon 17 September 2012 by tvd

I have been bitten on more than one occasion with a forgotten curly brace or missing comma in a puppet manifest. So, I wrote a little git post-commit script that will validate all manifests in a repo. I have tested it on a repo with ~60 modules and ~400 manifests …

Monitoring RabbitMQ Queues with Zabbix

Sun 09 October 2011 by tvd

Recently I setup some monitoring on a RabbitMQ server using Zabbix. This process is by no means difficult, but I thought it was worth sharing.

I was looking for a solution that did not require additional plugins or packages, but would perform well. Some useful tools for monitoring include: the …