Nerdier

Adjective: Comparative form of nerdy: more nerdy.

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.

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>’

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