HOW TO : Use templates in puppet to pass hostnames
puppet, is a configuration management framework that can be used to perform several different things to validate/configure your infrastructure. We have been using puppet for sometime...
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HOW TO : Configure Jboss to append log files instead of overwriting them
If you use the default logging options for Jboss, it has a nasty habit of overwriting log files on a restart. So, if you were in...
Project Uptime : Progress Report 7 : Putting the finishing touches
We finally come to one of the last posts of Project Uptime. Now that all the components have been setup, I finally copied the wordpress directory...
HOW TO : Configure Jboss to use hugepages in RHEL/CentOS
Most of us worry about paging to disk (swap), but if you are running a transaction intensive application the paging that happens in RAM also starts...
HOW TO : Sync git clients across workstations using dropbox
I have recently started using git as a source control for the various scrips that I write. As I also mentioned in this post, I use...
Project Uptime : Progress Report 6 : Tweaking Varnish
The server has held up pretty well, since the installation of varnish. Based on this wiki post, I added the following to /etc/varnish/default.vcl [code] <pre> #...