9. The Dangers of Skipping

   Long time, no write. This will change immediately.

   Recently, I have getting myself familiar with OpenStack by way of the book OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook. For the most part, it was an easy read and I got my home OpenStack environment and running, albeit with some issues.

   The book starts …

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10. Automatically set the hostname during Kickstart Installation

    I hate having to manually set the hostname in kickstart file, so when I found a fix, I was very happy. I wish I can take credit, but it was originally made by somebody who was trying to figure out a way to automatically set the hostname for VMWare ESX …

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11. Updated to chef-client on FreeBSD (aka part III)

    Found the solution.

    Essentially, I just need to add this:

    supports :status => true, :restart => true, :reload => true
    

    This means that it will start up the service if isn’t running. Now it works as expected when I add chef-client to the run list.

    Here is the updated code:

    when "bsd …

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12. FreeBSD and chef-client - a part II (of sorts)

    Finally changed chef-client with an updated recipe to support FreeBSD.

    Under the chef-repo/chef-client directory, I added the following files:

    ./templates/freebsd/rc.d/chef-client.erb
    ./templates/freebsd/rc.conf.d/chef.erb
    

    And updated:

    ./recipes/service.rb
    

    The locations corresponds to the directory location under the default #{conf} directory …

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13. FreeBSD and chef-client - a part I?

    As I mentioned before, Chef appears to work well on mostly Debian and Ubuntu. You will have to do a bit more work on the other OSes: In the case of FreeBSD, a lot more.

    Here is one example: The recipe chef-clientis used to install startup scripts on the …

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14. Always Crispy: SSH Tunnels - 2 ways

    verycrispy:

    Recently, I have been googling how to make tunnels so I thought I would post what I do. A SSH tunnel allows you to connect to server, A, through server B, from client C.
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    You generally only want to setup a tunnel when you need …

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15. Installing Chef on CentOS

    I have been playing around with Chef for the past week and while I liked it, it was a pain it setup. It seems to be work well if you run Debian and Ubuntu. Everything else … not so much.

    First sign of trouble is when I attempt to bootstrap the …

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16. FreeBSD and OpenLDAP Grief

    Finally got my FreeBSD client to authenticate against my OpenLDAP server.

    The configuration is fairlystraightforward. What took the time wascompilation the dependencies (running it in a VM can do that to it). That and the following issues.

    • It seems that Perl is not a requirement for a FreeBSD install …

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17. TLS problems with OpenLDAP Client

    I ran into an interesting problem sometime back that I only now resolved.

    Originally, I was running Scientific Linux on most of my VM. I have since upgraded most of them to Centos 6.0 - and converted on in particular to Centos CR.

    That “broke” my ldapauthentication- when connecting to …

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18. Linux: ### openSUSE 12.1 released ###Version 12.1 of the popular openSUSE...

    reallinux:

    ### openSUSE 12.1 released ###
    Version 12.1 of the popular openSUSE distribution got released. Its the first version numbered after the new numbering scheme and it brings some major changes.
    In version 12.1 of the distribution, Gnome now comes in version 3.2 (in openSUSE 11.4, Gnome …

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