Nerdier

Adjective: Comparative form of nerdy: more nerdy.

July, 2013

Creating users with Puppet.

It’s fairly simple to add system users with puppet to servers, however I had to do a little bit of googling to find some working examples so I will put it here for future reference.

Puppet: Error 400 on SERVER.

I encountered this interesting (at least to me) puppet error when creating server manifests to go with a module; Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Could not find default node or by name with ‘<hostname>’