Nov 21
Some of the technologies Bright Process are working on right now… Trialling Redmine and Open Conference NetDecrypt: A network disk decryption module Puppet dashboard, mcollective and heira Database migration: MySQL and PostgreSQL Fileserver and router migration Quagga, djbdns/tinydns, DHCP, iptables refactoring
Oct 15
Puppet and Spacewalk are two technologies that do very different tasks but work well together in some specific areas; I always enjoy putting these two together. Spacewalk (the upstream version of Red Hat Satelite) excels at patch management, updates, provisioning and organizing of servers. Puppet is much better at configuration management and complex modifications …
Apr 04
The OS build for these blades was very specific and was tuned to the target application (two-stage bulk processing that was both memory and CPU intensive at different points). The blades were installed using kickstart onto IBM blade enclosures. SAN NFS mounts were implemented for common data transfer, and company HPC farm processing software layered …
Apr 03
This project involved converting ~300 servers from unpatched RHEL4 installations to RHEL6. RedHat satellite for mass-installation. meta-rpm solution updating old and incompatible packages and scripting to new versions Resolving various issues with running a new OS with old methods of usage A final installation phase involving boot-from-san technology eg
Apr 03
An existing solution for transferring logs from webclusters to a logging host was updated for stability and flexability. The original solution used syslog-ng to transfer weblogs to a central syslog-ng host. The solution was updated to: Cater for rsyslog aswell as syslog-ng Transfer ALL system logs to the central host Use a 2-node heartbeat/drbd cluster …
Apr 02
Over a period of 4 months, I deployed a solution called FreeIPA developed by RedHat and Fedora. This solution is based around Kerberos for authentication, and an LDAP backend for user, group and host management. (Imagine an Active Directory for Linux and you are most of the way there, AD being based also on Kerberos …
