Nerdier

Adjective: Comparative form of nerdy: more nerdy.

RHEL

Installing the puppet agent from rubygems.

The method I used to install the puppet agent on a server via ruby gems, as the client server requires a newer version of ruby than what puppet uses with packages. Your mileage might vary if followed as puppetlabs documentation says “not recommended”!

Setting up a VDS using a stacklet image.

Stacklet is a super awesome site that provides OS images for several virtualization platforms. Since we mostly use Xen at work, this guide will be for Xen (funnily enough). Stacklet does require a subscription, but it’s pretty cheap.

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