I’ve just released a Puppet report processor for sending metrics to Riemann. The report sends the status of the current run: unchanged, failed, etc and then each of the metrics generated during the run. You can find the code on GitHub and a module on the Forge. There are some simple installation instructions: Install the riemann-client gem on your Puppet master $ sudo gem install riemann-client Install puppet-riemann as a module in your Puppet master’s module path.

Excited to announce that our Puppet module to install, manage and report to Boundary has reached v1.0.0 and is released onto the Forge. You can find the source code on GitHub. Thanks to Joe Williams, Jeff Hulten, W. Andrew Loe III, Alessandro Franceschi and Scott Smith for their contributions!

The team at DTO Solutions have released a simple node authority called Yana or Yet Another Node Authority. I’ve written a simple external node classifier to retrieve nodes definitions from it and return them to Puppet. You can find the classifier here. It is very basic and matches a node name from Puppet with a node name in Yana. It then converts any Yana tags into classes to be applied to that node in Puppet and any attributes into parameters.

I’ve been talking to a lot of people this week about “imposter syndrome”. The term1 refers to the feeling that, despite all evidence to the contrary, that your success at doing something isn’t actually merited and that you are somehow a “fraud”. Successful outcomes are put down to luck, timing, collaboration with the right people or worse with the belief that people have been fooled into believing you have the skills or intellect to have achieved the outcome.

So last Monday Ruth and I trooped off to the USCIS office for our final immigration status change meeting. We weren’t sure what to expect. We had an unusual path to a Green Card as Ruth won the Diversity Lottery (AKA the Green Card Lottery) and not many of these applications get processed a year. The USCIS office in Portland doesn’t process many at all and so it was a learning process for both us and them.