todgru

Overview

This document describes how to modify the Puppet Master (Enterprise v3.7) server configuration so that it can use environments for the manifests. Using those environment files allows the puppet agents to configure themselves in a variety of environments. It allows you to create a separate set of manifests and modules for specific environments, thereby safeguarding that untested modifications to no promote to the production nodes.

Setup environment directories

$ cd /etc/puppetlabs
$ sudo mkdir environments
$ sudo clown -r puppet:root environments

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

I was at Amazon for about six and a half years, and now I've been at Google for that long. One thing that struck me immediately about the two companies -- an impression that has been reinforced almost daily -- is that Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everything right. Sure, it's a sweeping generalization, but a surprisingly accurate one. It's pretty crazy. There are probably a hundred or even two hundred different ways you can compare the two companies, and Google is superior in all but three of them, if I recall correctly. I actually did a spreadsheet at one point but Legal wouldn't let me show it to anyone, even though recruiting loved it.

I mean, just to give you a very brief taste: Amazon's recruiting process is fundamentally flawed by having teams hire for themselves, so their hiring bar is incredibly inconsistent across teams, despite various efforts they've made to level it out. And their operations are a mess; they don't real

Based on this: http://blennd.com/post/the-pains-of-installing-tmux-on-a-shared-server/ Script forked from https://gist.github.com/shime/5706655/

Prerequisities

gcc
wget

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# Audits your reserved instances vs your running instances, and reports back.
	# If you want to run this from an AWS instance, its IAM Role must be granted at least the following:
	#
	#{
	# "Statement": [
	# {
	# "Action": [
	# "ec2:DescribeInstances",

	#user nobody;
	worker_processes 1;

	error_log logs/error.log;
	#error_log logs/error.log notice;
	#error_log logs/error.log info;

	#pid logs/nginx.pid;

	# bash completion for rake
	#
	# some code from on Jonathan Palardy's http://technotales.wordpress.com/2009/09/18/rake-completion-cache/
	# and http://pastie.org/217324 found http://ragonrails.com/post/38905212/rake-bash-completion-ftw
	#
	# For details and discussion
	# http://turadg.aleahmad.net/2011/02/bash-completion-for-rake-tasks/
	#
	# INSTALL
	#

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# Complete rake tasks script for bash
	# Save it somewhere and then add
	# complete -C path/to/script -o default rake
	# to your ~/.bashrc
	# Xavier Shay (http://rhnh.net), combining work from
	# Francis Hwang ( http://fhwang.net/ ) - http://fhwang.net/rb/rake-complete.rb
	# Nicholas Seckar <[email protected]> - http://www.webtypes.com/2006/03/31/rake-completion-script-that-handles-namespaces
	# Saimon Moore <[email protected]>

	#301 Redirects for .htaccess

	#Redirect a single page:
	Redirect 301 /pagename.php http://www.domain.com/pagename.html

	#Redirect an entire site:
	Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/

	#Redirect an entire site to a sub folder
	Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/subfolder/

	wget https://github.com/downloads/libevent/libevent/libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz
	tar zxf libevent-2.0.18-stable.tar.gz
	cd libevent-2.0.18-stable
	sudo ./configure
	sudo ./make
	DIR="/home/ec2-user/downloads/libevent-2.0.18-stable"

	wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/tmux/tmux-1.9.tar.gz
	tar zxf tmux-1.9.tar.gz
	cd tmux-1.9

	#!/usr/bin/env ruby

	# Aside from removing Ruby on Rails specific code this is taken verbatim from
	# mislav's git-deploy (http://github.com/mislav/git-deploy) and it's awesome
	# - Ryan Florence (http://ryanflorence.com)
	#
	# Install this hook to a remote repository with a working tree, when you push
	# to it, this hook will reset the head so the files are updated

	if ENV['GIT_DIR'] == '.'

todgru

Overview

Setup environment directories

Stevey's Google Platforms Rant

Prerequisities

Installs