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Preparing Machines for Workshops with Vagrant, VirtualBox, & Puppet

If you're giving a workshop, I recommend checking out Vagrant, VirtualBox, and puppet or chef for creating the workshop development environment.

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BERKS! – Simplifying Chef Solo Cookbook Management with Berkshelf

Berks is a new tool we've started using to keep repositories simple, even as the requirements grow.

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Chef Solo with Capistrano

Capistrano can facilitate the use of Chef Solo for configuring and managing servers. This allows us to provision and manage servers in different environments.

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Useful iptables Port Forwarding Patterns

iptables is a packet filtering tool for configuring nat and port forwarding. Here are some patterns to help setup port and ip address redirection.

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From Imperative to Declarative System Configuration with Puppet

Start transitioning from imperative to declarative thinking through the use of Puppet's Exec resource type.

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Deploying from Git with Capistrano

With a few changes to our Capistrano configuration, we are able to deploy directly from the source code repository.

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Standalone Puppet with Capistrano

Puppet is a great way to manage server configuration, but the client/server model can be too complex. The standalone Puppet agent can be run with Capistrano.

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Restoring Deleted Files in Linux from the ext3 Journal

With ext3, you can reconstruct (many) deleted files based on entries from the filesystem journal.

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Creating Encrypted, Offsite Backups with Duplicity

We found a way to create secure, space-efficient remote backups with Duplicity. It supports AWS S3 and other kinds of remote storage with compression and encryption.

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Setting up BIND9 and DHCP3 on Ubuntu with Dynamic DNS

Learn how to set up a DNS/DHCP server on Ubuntu with BIND9 and DHCP3-server to perform Dynamic DNS updates, also troubleshoot common problems and errors.

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Load Balancing and Reverse Proxying with Nginx

Using Nginx is a convenient method to set up a load balancer and remote proxy for websites and web apps. Example configurations demonstrate use cases.

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Setting Up a Network Share – Part I: NFS

Setting up NFS on a Linux server to provide client access to Mac OS X boxes can be a challenge. Proper setup and configuration are necessary.

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