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Puppet Autosigning & Cloud Recommendations

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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No linux.conf.au this year

So 2016 marks 10 years since my first very linux.conf.au in 2006. That’s so long ago it even predates the start of this blog! Sadly I’m not heading to LCA 2016 in Geelong this year. A number of reasons for this, but … Continue reading

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linux.conf.au 2014

I’ve just returned from my annual pilgrimage to linux.conf.au, which was held in Perth this year. It’s the first time I’ve been over to West Australia, it’s a whole 5 hour flight from Sydney –  longer than it takes to … Continue reading

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linux.conf.au: day 5

Final day of linux.conf.au – I’m about a week behind schedule in posting, but that’s about how long it takes to catch up on life following a week at LCA. ;-) Friday’s conference keynote was delivered by Tim Berners-Lee, who … Continue reading

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linux.conf.au: day 4

Another successful day of Linux geeking has passed, this week is going surprisingly quickly… Some of the days highlights: James Bottomley spoke on the current state of Linux UEFI support and demonstrated the tools and processes to install and manage … Continue reading

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linux.conf.au: day 3

Having reached mid-week, my morning wakeup is getting increasingly difficult from late nights, thankfully there were large amounts of deep fried potato and coffee readily available. The day had some interesting talks, most of the value I got was out … Continue reading

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linux.conf.au: day 2

The second day of linux.conf.au has been and gone, was another day of interesting miniconf talks and many geeky discussions with old and new friends. The keynote was a really good talk by Radia Perlman about how engineers approach developing … Continue reading

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linux.conf.au: day 1

First proper day of linux.conf.au today, starting with breakfast and the quest of several hundred geeks to find and consume coffee. After acquiring coffee, we started the day with a keynote by the well known Bdale Garbee, talking about a … Continue reading

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linux.conf.au: day 0

It’s time for the most important week of the year – linux.conf.au – which is being held in Canberra this year. I’m actually going to try and blog each day this year, unlike last year which still has all my … Continue reading

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linux.conf.au 2013 plans

It’s nearing that important time of year that the NZ-AU open source flock congregate that important and time honoured tradition of linux.conf.au. I’ve said plenty about this conference in the past, going to make an effort to write a lot … Continue reading

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