Red Hat Summit 2017 S102320: Button Push Deployments With Integrated Red Hat Open Management

My 2017 redhat summit talk Button Push Deployments With Integrated Red Hat Open Management got accepted. I have the big honor of sharing the talk not just with my last years co presenter Michael Dahlgren but also with Red Hat EMEA’S configuration management extraordinaire Maxim Burgerhout. As we combine our talks you can expect an…

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SS45267 – Automation and configuration management across hybrid clouds with Red Hat CloudForms, Red Hat Satellite 6, and Ansible Tower by Red Hat

Today a dream came true for me by getting the honor to present at Red Hat Summit in SF 2016 “Automation and configuration management across hybrid clouds with CloudForms, Satellite6 and Ansible Tower“. When I joined Trivadis in 2006 Daniel Steiner who was a Senior Linux Engineer took me under his wings (He had earned…

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Cleaning a host entry from MySQL DB with puppet 2.7.11-2

Yesterday I’ve had to clean up a host from the storeconfig mysql database. I ran the puppetstoredconfigclean.rb script and bumped into the following documented Bug http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/12405 which will be fixed in version 2.7.12: # ./puppetstoredconfigclean.rb  kvm0.domb.net ################################################################### /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to load — sqlite3 (MissingSourceFile) from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:510:in `require’ from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:355:in…

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EL 6.2 RHEL6.2 Puppet 2.7.9 The Foreman Mcollective RabbitMQ

This How to will walk you thru the steps of installing Pupppet, The Foreman, RabbitMQ, and MCollective: 1. Add your hostname to /etc/hosts.conf and /etc/sysconfig/network [root@puppet ~]# echo -e “127.0.0.1 puppet.${DOMAIN} puppet foreman.yourdomain.com foreman localhost” > /etc/hosts [root@puppet ~]# echo -e “NETWORKING=yes\nHOSTNAME=puppet.yourdomain.com” > /etc/sysconfig/network [root@puppet ~]# hostname foreman.yourdomain.com 2. First we need to add the…

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