One of the ways in which you can have multi-master replication with high-availability in MySQL is to set up a Galera cluster. As an interesting project in order to learn more about Galera, I decided to see if it would be possible to build out a cluster using automation with Puppet and the MySQL Forge… Read More

Suppose you would like to monitor your Windows systems alongside your Linux systems in Nagios, but want to avoid configuring every single one manually. Also, you want these systems to be removed from Nagios automatically when you decommission them. Puppet, NSClient++, and Chocolatey provide an excellent means for accomplishing this. In this post I will… Read More

Chocolatey is an apt-like package manager for Windows (https://chocolatey.org) that greatly simplifies the installation of software, especially with Puppet (versus having to call MSI packages with obscure switches that may or may not work). Many of my future tutorials that involve managing Windows with Puppet will require that Chocolatey be configured. Here I will explain… Read More