Tag Archives: devops

Puppet Autosigning & Cloud Recommendations

Posted on 2018-01-28 by Jethro Carr

I was over in Sydney this week attending linux.conf.au 2018 and made a short presentation at the Sysadmin miniconf regarding deploying Puppet in cloud environments. The majority of this talk covers the Puppet autosigning process which is a big potential … Continue reading →

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DevOpsDays NZ 2016

Posted on 2016-10-23 by Jethro Carr

I recently spoke at the inaugural DevOpsDays NZ in Wellington. The team whom put together the conference did an amazing job and it’s one of the few conferences that I’ve really enjoyed recently. If they put together a subsequent conference … Continue reading →

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Fairfax’s Cloud Journey at Auckland AWS Summit 2016

Posted on 2016-07-13 by Jethro Carr

I recently presented at the 2016 AWS Summit Auckland about Fairfax’s cloud journey as part of the business stream “Key Steps for Setting up your AWS Journey for Success” alongside two excellent Amazon engineers. It’s a bit different from my usual … Continue reading →

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Puppet modules

Posted on 2015-07-18 by Jethro Carr

I’m in the middle of doing a migration of my personal server infrastructure from a 2006-era colocation server onto modern cloud hosting providers. As part of this migration, I’m rebuilding everything properly using Puppet (use it heavily at work so it’s … Continue reading →

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Russian roulette with ELBs and CDNs

Posted on 2013-08-20 by Jethro Carr

In my day job, I look after a number of websites, all of which generally make heavy use of CDNs (Content Distribution Networks) to offload traffic to edge nodes near to an end user’s device. In our case we use … Continue reading →

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