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HowTo upgrade Chef from 0.10 to 0.10.2 – rubygems install
A few days ago Opscode released a security fix for chef server 0.10.0 and 0.9.16 and this post will show how upgrade to chef-server 0.10.2. First start by backing up your data. Seriously. In the past...
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HowTo Improve IO Performance for KVM Guests
Recently I’ve worked on a project where we deployed a bunch KVM instances. Immediately we noticed horrible IO performance on all the guests instances. In this particular case the hosts and the guests...
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Monitoring with Icinga @ SF Bay Area LSPE meetup
Yesterday evening I presented at the SF Bay Area Large-Scale Production Engineering meetup group at Yahoo HQ a talk about “Monitoring with Icinga”. This was an introductory talk intended to bring...
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Building Vagrant boxes with veewee
If you used vagrant (great tool, right?) you have probably downloaded a basebox from some remote location to get you started. This is a great quick start, and there are many good boxes out there that...
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First Chef Cookbook Contest Announced!
Yesterday Opscode, the company behind Chef, announced the first ever chef cookbook contest. In order to participate in the contest you will need to write a new cookbook and submit it by the end of...
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Build your own packages easily with FPM
Building packages is a task that every system administrator will end up doing. Most of the time this is not a very interesting task but someone has to do it, right? Normally you will end up modifying...
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Interview with LISA11 Program Co-Chairs: Tom Limoncelli and Doug Hughes
One of the advantages of being a member of the LISA11 Blog Team is that I was able to talk and interview this year program co-chairs: Tom Limoncelli and Doug Hughes. This was a great honor for me...
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Getting ready for LISA11 – Boston
I’m packing for Boston and will be there next week for LISA11. This will be my second year as part of the LISA blogging team, and after how much I enjoyed LISA last year in San Jose I wouldn’t miss...
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HowTo completely remove a file from Git history
I just started working on a new project and as you would expect one of the first things I did was to download its git repository from github. These were just some scripts and should have been very...
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ChefConf 2012 – San Francisco
This week Opscode hosted its inaugural user conference here in San Francisco, and it was an awesome event enjoyed by all chef fans. Even if this was the first one (they are already planing for the...
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I'll be at LISA10 this week
This week I’ll be attending LISA10 in San Jose. I’ve always wanted to go to LISA, and the fact that it was so close to our location here in San Jose made it much easier. This is going to be a full...
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HowTo upgrade from Debian Lenny to Squeeze
This post will show how to upgrade from Debian 5.0.x “Lenny” to the latest stable Debian release 6.0 “Squeeze”. One of the reasons I’ve liked Debian in the first place was the advantage of being able...
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Xen error: stdin: is not a tty
After installing a clean Debian Lenny Xen system using xen-tools, I received this strange error when trying to connect using ssh to the machine:12PTY allocation request failed on channel 0stdin: is not...
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DrupalCon Chicago 2011
This week is a special week for the Drupal community and I’m very excited to be able to attend DrupalCon 2011 in Chicago. My employer, Promet Solutions, is one of the gold sponsors for DrupalCon and we...
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MySQLConf 2011 Best of Ignite
As my friends know I’m a big fan of Ingite) presentations, and the ones from MySQLConf 2011 last week were just outstanding. If you didn’t had the chance to see them live, here are the links to the...
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RailsConf 2011 - Best of Ignite
This was by far the best Ignite event I’ve ever attended. This was huge… packed, with more than 400 people in the room, and even if the room was huge it felt like there was no empty seat. Second, the...
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Velocity 2011 impressions
Last week I attended Velocity 2011 in Santa Clara, CA; this was the 4th edition of Velocity and my 2nd one. This means that even if I was still very much impressed with everything what happened during...
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Devopsdays 2011 - Mountain View
Just like last year, after Velocity, I attended DevOpsDays in Mountain View, now at its second edition. Many people that were in town for Velocity spent at least one extra day for DevOpsDays, but also...
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HowTo upgrade Chef from 0.10 to 0.10.2 - rubygems install
A few days ago Opscode released a security fix for chef server 0.10.0 and 0.9.16 and this post will show how upgrade to chef-server 0.10.2. First start by backing up your data. Seriously. In the past...
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HowTo Improve IO Performance for KVM Guests
Recently I’ve worked on a project where we deployed a bunch KVM instances. Immediately we noticed horrible IO performance on all the guests instances. In this particular case the hosts and the guests...
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