Monthly Archives: September 2010

Mount Laurel, NJ, 22 September 2010 – LOPSA, the League of Professional System Administrators, a professional sys admin organization, unveils a mentorship program. In fulfillment of LOPSA’s mission to support the practice of system administration, LOPSA’s sys admin members volunteer … Continue reading →

The Practice of System and Network Administration

Nutshell Comparison of PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express Unix Flight Recorder

In Cfengine, creator Mark Burgess pioneered the idea of using a configuration description language to describe desired state on heterogeneous Unix and Unix-like systems. This language included “classes” or built-in if/then tests to control when and where the configuration should … Continue reading →

After talking with John Willis of Chef/OpsCode at Ohio Linux Fest (I taught an intro class on Cfengine 3), I finally started to get Infrastructure As code. Am immensely excited to try it out. My first project is to ephemerize … Continue reading →

A Report from Configuration Management Summit 2010 “Introduction to Automating System Administration with Cfengine 3” (Brief version) (Longer version) (Full version) UUASC-LA panel on Cfengine, Chef and Puppet on 1 Oct 2009 CFengine 2 presentation book. Video: part 1 part … Continue reading →

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