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August 7, 2019 D0nBale

Useful Puppet Commands

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Useful Puppet Commands

Show what puppet would have done without changing anything: sudo puppet apply –noop /examples/file_hello.pp See what change puppet would actually make to a file: sudo

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June 13, 2019June 13, 2019 D0nBale

Converting and Importing a Virtual Box VM into a AWS EC2 AMI

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Converting and Importing a Virtual Box VM into a AWS EC2 AMI

Sometimes we need to release our local Virtual Machines (VMs) into the cloud here’s how: First we need to add some confirguration to the local

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January 22, 2019 D0nBale

Windows 10 Update Breaks My Fonts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

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Windows 10 Update Breaks My Fonts in Adobe Photoshop CS6

Ok this has annoyed me for a few weeks and finally today I found a fix so I thought I would share it: The Problem:

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November 9, 2018 D0nBale

Creating your first Dockerfile

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Creating your first Dockerfile

1. Create the Dockerfile Create an empty directory for this task and within this create an empty file with the name Dockerfile. You can do

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October 16, 2018October 16, 2018 D0nBale

Masterless Puppet: Connecting a Puppet agent to a central git repo

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Masterless Puppet: Connecting a Puppet agent to a central git repo

Step-by-step guide wget https://apt.puppetlabs.com/puppet5-release-xenial.deb sudo dpkg -i puppet5-release-xenial.deb sudo apt update sudo apt install puppet-agent sudo vim /etc/environment add /opt/puppetlabs/bin to PATH source environment sudo

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October 11, 2018 D0nBale

How do I add swap space to a Linux system

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To add 1GB of swap to your server, for example, follow these steps: Create the file to be used for swap. sudo fallocate -l 1G

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September 28, 2018September 28, 2018 D0nBale

Backing up of KVMs with BorgBackup and BlockFuse Pt. 2

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Backing up of KVMs with BorgBackup and BlockFuse Pt. 2

This is part 2 of a 2 part series, if you have not read part one yet you can do so here: Backing up of

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September 6, 2018September 28, 2018 D0nBale

Backing up of KVMs with BorgBackup and BlockFuse Pt. 1

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Backing up of KVMs with BorgBackup and BlockFuse Pt. 1

We use a lot of Virtual Machines (VM) to run ours infrastructure, these are on multiple host machines running Logical Volume Management (LVM) with each

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August 21, 2018 D0nBale

Read Only IAM policy for AWS S3

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Read Only IAM policy for AWS S3

Had a little difficulty getting the right setting to restrict access to read only on several folders in an AWS S3 bucket. Here is the

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July 31, 2018 D0nBale

Installing Duplicati

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Installing Duplicati

Here are the steps I followed to install Duplicati on a Ubuntu 16.04 system: sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install mono-devel wget https://updates.duplicati.com/beta/duplicati_2.0.3.3-1_all.deb sudo dpkg

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