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Reboot and reconnect between Ansible tasks

Tags: configuration management ansible orchestration scripting

Posted on 2016-10-27

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You can reboot and reconnect to your hosts between Ansible tasks.

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Vote for your favourite CFEngine bugs

Tags: cfengine configuration management

Posted on 2016-03-27

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CFEngine has switched to a JIRA bug system and this system allows us to vote for bugs. I encourage you to vote for your favourite bugs; here are mine:

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Introduction to Terraform

Tags: terraform cloud configuration management

Posted on 2016-01-08

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Terraform allows you to manage your AWS, and other cloud infrastructure, the same way you would manage servers using configuration management products like CFEngine or Puppet. Terraform is idempotent and convergent so only required changes are applied.

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Terraform: config management for the cloud

Tags: configuration management cloud terraform

Posted on 2015-11-25

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I saw a great Terraform presentation last week at a Devops meetup. Terraform is a configuration management tool for virtual infrastructure. You can define your AWS or similar environment using a descriptive language.

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CFEngine as a crond alternative

Tags: cfengine configuration management cron

Posted on 2011-09-27

CFEngine’s time based classes and promise theory make it an attractive alternative to venerable crond.

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