I know not many shops use OS X servers any more, but we do – so here’s a how to on getting Observium to draw pretty, pretty graphs of your Apple boxes. This guide applies…
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As I find my need for virtual machines increasing and my satisfaction with Parallels new licensing options decreasing, I am working on converting much of my testing to use VirtualBox. Provided by Oracle and free, it…
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I’ve long been fascinated by the power of automation, but even more fascinated with being lazy AND utilizing heavy automation. A few years ago, I watched a presentation from Jesse Newland at Github about their…
I got pretty sick of having to constantly remember to put “:9000” to reach my Graylog web interface, and didn’t really want to mess around with adding SSL support into graylog itself. The solution? Run…
Assuming Ubuntu 14.04 “Trusty” as the OS here… this should probably work on Debian 8 with just a change on the Mongo repo. First, install puppet if you haven’t already. sudo apt-get update && sudo…