This week has been very productive in terms of authoring and publishing cookbooks; there’s been three so far (my fork of application_nodejs, mod_evasive and nginx_auth_ldap), now this one and potentially another, completely unrelated one tomorrow! Now, I hadn’t heard of TiddlyWiki until fairly recently, when the original author, Jeremy Ruston, came in to visit us […]
Category: sysadmin
Chef Cookbook: nginx_auth_ldap
I’ve created another cookbook, also a small component of a much larger picture; installs nginx, while compiling in a 3rd party module for handling LDAP-based authentication: https://github.com/azteknative/chef-nginx_auth_ldap0 forks.0 open issues.Recent commits: Merge pull request #1 from azteknative/ldap_server_configConfiguring LDAP servers for use in Vhosts, Peter Green Incremented version number., Peter Green Corrected ldap_server directive name., Peter […]
Chef Cookbook: mod_evasive
I’ve written a small cookbook to handle the installation and configuration of mod_evasive for Apache: Chef cookbook to install and configure the Apache module mod_evasive.https://github.com/azteknative/chef-mod_evasive0 forks.0 open issues.Recent commits: Remove symlinks created by apt-get, Peter Green Removed config files dropped off by apt-get., Peter Green Added license to README., Peter Green Fixed syntax error in […]
Chef Cookbook: application_nodejs
I’ve been working on some interesting stuff at Postshift recently, some of which has required me to put my Chef hat on again and start pulling together resources we’ll need as part of an ongoing project. One of the components of this project has a dependency on the application_nodejs cookbook, which along with the application […]
OpenNMS vs. Nagios
I have just finished setting up some network management/monitoring systems for the Postshift office and thought I’d share some thoughts I had. Previously, I’ve used OpenNMS to monitor both network and server infrastructure, but it’s hard to ignore the fact that Nagios has become the de facto standard when looking at Open Source monitoring solutions. […]
Cooking With Steam
This is exciting: my first post that straddles my day-to-day work and my love of computer games! I recently started work on a Chef cookbook that installs the SteamCMD tool created by Valve, as well as providing a method through which to install arbitrary titles from the Steam platform. I’ve noticed there’s quite a few […]
Introducing: AzTek Native Ltd.
This post has been in the works for a while, but I just haven’t had a suitable platform to share it on! Now I have this lovely new WordPress site up and running so I’m formally announcing my entrance to the world of freelancing. Since I began my career in IT (back in 2005), I […]
New Cookbook: Watcher
I have finally managed to publish my first open source contribution: a Chef cookbook that installs and configures the Python Watcher daemon, written by Greggory Hernandez. The tool itself uses the Linux kernel inotify subsystem to catch file system events such file creation, deletion, etc. and perform an arbitrary action. The cookbook can be found […]
Security Conscious: Google Two Factor Authentication with 3rd Party Sites
I’m sure many of you are aware that Google offer an option to enable two-factor authentication in order to access their services. If aren’t familiar with the system, or simply haven’t enabled it on your account(s) already, then I strongly recommend that you read Google’s guide on the subject and enable it for any accounts […]
Knife Bootstrap Failure – no such file to load — rubygems/format (LoadError)
I just experienced an issue when trying to bootstrap a new Chef node in EC2 using the “knife ec2 server create” command. Everything seemed to be proceeding normally, until the actual node attempted to run Chef to register with the server; instead I was greeted with the following error: /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/core_ext/kernel_require.rb:45:in `gem_original_require’: no such file to […]