In our infrastructure we manage mainly Linux hosts, but there are also a few Windows servers that meet clients’ requirements. The best way to manage cloud infrastructure is by automation, using Puppet or Ansible for example. Unfortunately, it is only effective with a vast amount of hosts with similar features.
Continue reading “Windows Monitoring”The Joys of LDAP
We are currently managing over 2000 virtual machines, hundreds of bare metals, tens of services, and tens of user accounts. You can imagine how difficult it was to add or change existing users (change permission, access, ssh keys, and so on).
Continue reading “The Joys of LDAP”Switch from Puppet 3 to Puppet 5
Our transition from lower Puppet version to Puppet 5 was (and still is) somewhat tricky. For us – managing more than 2000 hosts with puppet – this task is really time consuming. Every host must be switched manually to make sure no critical changes will apply.
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