James Turnbull's blog about technology, monitoring, and morehttps://kartar.net/https://kartar.net/2026/5/decruft/https://kartar.net/2026/5/decruft/A utility for extracting readable content from web pages.Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2025/9/how-will-engineers-learn/https://kartar.net/2025/9/how-will-engineers-learn/In an AI world, how will engineers learn to code?Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2025/5/functions-i-have-known/https://kartar.net/2025/5/functions-i-have-known/Why shell functions beat aliases for anything beyond simple substitution, with examples I use for git, docker, kubernetes, and JSONSat, 10 May 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2023/5/oss_docs/https://kartar.net/2023/5/oss_docs/A practical guide to bootstrapping open source documentation through a solid README, issue-driven structure, and a static site generatorWed, 31 May 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2022/5/merit/https://kartar.net/2022/5/merit/Offering chats and mentoring on Merit for engineers early in their careers or moving into senior and leadership rolesSun, 29 May 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2022/4/hiring-for-eng-managers/https://kartar.net/2022/4/hiring-for-eng-managers/Multi-part series on hiring for eng managersMon, 04 Apr 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2021/5/aliases-i-have-known/https://kartar.net/2021/5/aliases-i-have-known/Sharing some of the shell aliases I've collected over the years for directories, disks, networking, Git, Kubernetes, and moreMon, 17 May 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2021/3/developer-communities/https://kartar.net/2021/3/developer-communities/Splitting developer relations investment between passive members, who need content and docs, and active members, who need higher-bandwidth engagementFri, 12 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2021/1/sonic-the-search-engine/https://kartar.net/2021/1/sonic-the-search-engine/Trying out Sonic, a lightweight Rust search backend, by running it in Docker and ingesting fake name data with a Ruby clientSun, 24 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2020/7/first-90-days-cto-vpe/https://kartar.net/2020/7/first-90-days-cto-vpe/A mind map covering four domains a new technical leader should explore in their first ninety days at a new organizationSun, 19 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2020/6/typicode-json-server/https://kartar.net/2020/6/typicode-json-server/Setting up JSON Server to spin up a working REST API from a single JSON file for demos and prototypes without writing any codeSun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2020/5/a-bit-of-vector/https://kartar.net/2020/5/a-bit-of-vector/Trying out Vector, a Rust-based observability data router from Timber.io that aims to replace Logstash, Telegraf, and FluentSun, 24 May 2020 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2019/8/tilt/https://kartar.net/2019/8/tilt/Walking through Tilt setup, a Tiltfile in Skylark, and running a Sinatra app against local Kubernetes with auto rebuild on changesThu, 22 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2019/8/draft/https://kartar.net/2019/8/draft/Installing and using Microsoft's Draft to scaffold Dockerfiles and Helm charts for local Kubernetes development of a Ruby Sinatra serviceFri, 16 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2019/8/skaffold/https://kartar.net/2019/8/skaffold/Installing Google's Skaffold and using its dev mode to iteratively build, deploy, and port forward a Ruby app on local KubernetesFri, 16 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2019/8/garden/https://kartar.net/2019/8/garden/A walkthrough of installing Garden, defining a graph-based project with modules and services, and deploying it to a local Kubernetes clusterSun, 04 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2019/7/dist_tracing/https://kartar.net/2019/7/dist_tracing/What distributed tracing is, why microservices need it, and a walk through traces, spans, OpenCensus, OpenTracing, Zipkin, and JaegerSun, 14 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2019/3/first-product-roadmap/https://kartar.net/2019/3/first-product-roadmap/A structure for product road maps covering mission, themes, milestones, epics, and stories, plus a process for building them in a startupTue, 19 Mar 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2018/10/that-tattoo/https://kartar.net/2018/10/that-tattoo/Launching That Tattoo, a site that interviews people about their tattoos, the backstory, and the tattoo artists behind themTue, 02 Oct 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2018/9/microsoft/https://kartar.net/2018/9/microsoft/Leaving Empatico to lead a team of CTOs in residence at Microsoft, helping startups build product and shape Azure for their needsSun, 23 Sep 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2018/8/autojump/https://kartar.net/2018/8/autojump/Using autojump to skip retyping long directory paths by maintaining a weighted database of the directories you cd into mostFri, 17 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2018/8/thefuck/https://kartar.net/2018/8/thefuck/Installing and configuring The Fuck to auto-correct mistyped shell commands, plus writing a custom rule for the Azure az binaryTue, 14 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2018/8/bash/https://kartar.net/2018/8/bash/Multi-part series on bashMon, 06 Aug 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2018/7/ballerina/https://kartar.net/2018/7/ballerina/A walkthrough of Ballerina, a cloud-native programming language for building microservices and APIs, with a Docker deployment exampleSun, 22 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2018/7/yakuake/https://kartar.net/2018/7/yakuake/Installing the Yakuake drop-down terminal on KDE and scripting tabs, splits, titles, and commands through its D-Bus API at autostartFri, 06 Jul 2018 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2017/10/sending-logs-from-aws-ecs-using-logspout/https://kartar.net/2017/10/sending-logs-from-aws-ecs-using-logspout/Moving away from per-task awslogs configuration to a Logspout agent on each ECS instance, shipping Gelf events into Logstash and ElasticsearchMon, 30 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2017/10/prometheus/https://kartar.net/2017/10/prometheus/Walking through installing and configuring Prometheus to scrape time series data, query metrics, and trigger alerts on a local Docker daemonMon, 09 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2017/7/the-packer-book/https://kartar.net/2017/7/the-packer-book/Announcing a hands-on book covering Packer installation, provisioning, Docker integration, infrastructure tests, pipelines, and plug-in developmentSun, 30 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2017/1/empatico/https://kartar.net/2017/1/empatico/Joining a new not-for-profit edtech startup as CTO to build a platform that connects classrooms of 8 to 10 year-olds for collaborative learningTue, 03 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2016/11/the-terraform-book-preorder/https://kartar.net/2016/11/the-terraform-book-preorder/Opening pre-orders for a hands-on Terraform book covering installation, provisioning, collaboration, multi-environment architecture, and infrastructure testingThu, 17 Nov 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2016/10/the-terraform-book/https://kartar.net/2016/10/the-terraform-book/Announcing a hands-on introduction to Terraform covering providers, provisioning, data sources, remote state, and integration with other toolsWed, 12 Oct 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2016/9/the-docker-book-1122/https://kartar.net/2016/9/the-docker-book-1122/Version 1.12.2 of The Docker Book is out, a near total rewrite for the Docker 1.12.1 release with refreshed examples and best practicesThu, 15 Sep 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2016/6/art-of-monitoring-released/https://kartar.net/2016/6/art-of-monitoring-released/Announcing the release of my book on building modern monitoring with Riemann, Graphite, collectd, Logstash, and friendsThu, 09 Jun 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2016/4/managing-maintenance-with-riemann/https://kartar.net/2016/4/managing-maintenance-with-riemann/Suppressing Riemann alerts during planned work by injecting maintenance events into the index and wrapping notifications with a check functionSat, 02 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/12/structured-logging/https://kartar.net/2015/12/structured-logging/Why string based logs hurt machine consumption, and how to emit typed structured events from a Rails app with Lograge and Logstash-loggerSun, 13 Dec 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/9/junior-engineers/https://kartar.net/2015/9/junior-engineers/A look at sixty junior engineer job ads showing how degree requirements, years of experience, and overspecified skills shut out actual junior candidatesWed, 23 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/9/travel-tips/https://kartar.net/2015/9/travel-tips/Twenty plus practical tips from years of flying covering manners, packing, charging, club memberships, seat choice, and treating crews wellSat, 19 Sep 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-data/https://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-data/Publishing the anonymised CSV source data from the 2015 monitoring survey for anyone who wants to do their own analysisTue, 11 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-effectiveness/https://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-effectiveness/When checks get added, how many alerts go unanswered, and how widely configuration management is used in 2015 monitoring environmentsMon, 10 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-metrics/https://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-metrics/Which tools respondents use to collect, store, and visualise metrics, and what they do with the data in the 2015 surveySun, 09 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-environments/https://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-environments/Server, cloud, network, application, and business logic coverage across respondents in the 2015 monitoring survey resultsThu, 06 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-tools/https://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-tools/Nagios still leads in 2015 with AWS CloudWatch, New Relic, and a surge of home grown tooling close behindWed, 05 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-demographics/https://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-demographics/Comparing 2015 job roles, organisation sizes, and monitoring ownership against last year's results across 884 complete responsesTue, 04 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-background/https://kartar.net/2015/8/monitoring-survey-2015-background/Introducing the 15 questions and methodology behind the 2015 edition of the monitoring survey with 1,116 responsesMon, 03 Aug 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/6/aom-sample-chapter/https://kartar.net/2015/6/aom-sample-chapter/Announcing a free sample chapter from my new monitoring book, covering the installation and use of RiemannMon, 22 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/6/monitoring-survey-2015/https://kartar.net/2015/6/monitoring-survey-2015/Launching the second annual monitoring survey at Monitorama to track how the monitoring landscape has shifted over the past yearMon, 15 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/6/looking-up-events-in-the-riemann-index/https://kartar.net/2015/6/looking-up-events-in-the-riemann-index/Using riemann.index/search inside a custom mailer body to pull related events from the Riemann index and attach context to email alertsSun, 14 Jun 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/4/connecting-riemann-and-zookeeper/https://kartar.net/2015/4/connecting-riemann-and-zookeeper/Looking up HAProxy node counts in Zookeeper from a Riemann stream so monitoring thresholds update without waiting for configuration convergenceMon, 20 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/4/just-enough-clojure-for-riemann/https://kartar.net/2015/4/just-enough-clojure-for-riemann/A crash course in Clojure syntax, collections, functions, and namespaces that gets you ready to write Riemann configuration filesSat, 11 Apr 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/3/custom-emails-with-riemann/https://kartar.net/2015/3/custom-emails-with-riemann/Using the Riemann mailer plug-in's :subject and :body options to build custom email alerts driven by event fields like hostThu, 26 Mar 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/2/treat-github-wiki-like-a-repository/https://kartar.net/2015/2/treat-github-wiki-like-a-repository/A quick note that every GitHub wiki is a Git repository so you can clone it directly instead of scraping the contentThu, 26 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/2/the-art-of-monitoring/https://kartar.net/2015/2/the-art-of-monitoring/Announcing a hands on book on building modern, scalable monitoring with Riemann, Graphite, Sensu, Flapjack, and LogstashSun, 01 Feb 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/1/riemann-sample-configurations/https://kartar.net/2015/1/riemann-sample-configurations/Asking the community to contribute real Riemann configurations to a shared GitHub repository to help newcomers learn the Clojure based configSat, 31 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/1/using-riemann-for-metrics/https://kartar.net/2015/1/using-riemann-for-metrics/Installing Graphite, configuring Carbon retention schemas, and forwarding Riemann events to generate metric graphs from Nginx status dataSun, 18 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/1/a-monitoring-maturity-model/https://kartar.net/2015/1/a-monitoring-maturity-model/A simple three stage model, manual, reactive, and proactive, for describing how organisations evolve their monitoring practicesMon, 12 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2015/1/riemann-streams/https://kartar.net/2015/1/riemann-streams/Using Riemann streams and the index to detect down services via TTL expiry, then routing alerts to email and PagerDutySun, 04 Jan 2015 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/12/an-introduction-to-riemann/https://kartar.net/2014/12/an-introduction-to-riemann/Installing Riemann and walking through its event-centric push model for aggregating, processing, and alerting on events from hosts and applicationsThu, 25 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/12/the-docker-book-14/https://kartar.net/2014/12/the-docker-book-14/Version 1.4.1 of The Docker Book is out, with updates and fixes for the Docker 1.4.1 release plus accumulated reader errataMon, 22 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/12/monitoring-survey-data/https://kartar.net/2014/12/monitoring-survey-data/Releasing the anonymised CSV source data from the 2014 monitoring survey along with notes on the R and ggplot2 analysisThu, 11 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/12/monitoring-survey-effectiveness/https://kartar.net/2014/12/monitoring-survey-effectiveness/Looking at unanswered alerts, undetected outages, and configuration management adoption across the 2014 survey responsesTue, 09 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/12/monitoring-survey-environments/https://kartar.net/2014/12/monitoring-survey-environments/Examining what infrastructure layers respondents monitor and when checks are added during the 2014 survey resultsSat, 06 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/12/monitoring-survey-metrics/https://kartar.net/2014/12/monitoring-survey-metrics/Looking at who collects metrics and what they collect them for in the 2014 monitoring survey responsesMon, 01 Dec 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/11/monitoring-survey-tools/https://kartar.net/2014/11/monitoring-survey-tools/Nagios leads the 2014 primary tool results with Icinga, Sensu, Zabbix, and New Relic also figuring stronglyThu, 27 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/11/monitoring-survey-background/https://kartar.net/2014/11/monitoring-survey-background/Outlining the 12 questions, methodology, and 1,016 respondents that drove the 2014 monitoring maturity surveyTue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/11/monitoring-survey-demographics/https://kartar.net/2014/11/monitoring-survey-demographics/Breaking down job roles, organisation sizes, and who owns monitoring across the 866 complete responses to the 2014 surveyTue, 18 Nov 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/10/the-docker-book-13/https://kartar.net/2014/10/the-docker-book-13/Version 1.3.1 of The Docker Book is out, with updates and fixes for the Docker 1.3.1 release plus reader contributed errataThu, 30 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/10/monitoring-survey/https://kartar.net/2014/10/monitoring-survey/Asking readers to fill in a short anonymous survey on IT monitoring to gather data for a conference talkSun, 26 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/10/using-puppet-blacksmith/https://kartar.net/2014/10/using-puppet-blacksmith/Installing and configuring Puppet Blacksmith Rake tasks to automate version bumps, tagging, building, and pushing modules to the ForgeSun, 19 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/10/getting-started-with-puppet-strings/https://kartar.net/2014/10/getting-started-with-puppet-strings/Installing the Puppet Strings face, running it against the Sensu module, and publishing the generated HTML documentation to GitHub PagesSun, 12 Oct 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/9/when-logstash-and-syslog-go-wrong/https://kartar.net/2014/9/when-logstash-and-syslog-go-wrong/Replacing Logstash's syslog input with tcp, udp, and grok plugins so you can catch non-RFC syslog variants and route failed parses to a fileFri, 19 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/9/a-whole-lot-of-heka/https://kartar.net/2014/9/a-whole-lot-of-heka/Installing and configuring Mozilla's Go-based logging tool Heka, comparing it to Logstash for tailing files and routing eventsMon, 08 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/9/the-docker-book-consul/https://kartar.net/2014/9/the-docker-book-consul/Version 1.2.0 of The Docker Book is out, adding a section in chapter 7 on using Consul for service discovery with DockerMon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/8/the-docker-book-new-chapter/https://kartar.net/2014/8/the-docker-book-new-chapter/Version 1.1.0 of The Docker Book is out, with a new chapter on orchestration focused on Fig and the usual update instructionsSat, 16 Aug 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/7/the-docker-book-released/https://kartar.net/2014/7/the-docker-book-released/Announcing the 1.0 release of The Docker Book, with download details for pre-orders and a roadmap for future updatesSat, 12 Jul 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/5/presenting-with-docker/https://kartar.net/2014/5/presenting-with-docker/Packaging Reveal.JS and Wetty into a Docker image so each talk is just slides and images mounted into a containerThu, 15 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/5/alumni-versus-ex-employee/https://kartar.net/2014/5/alumni-versus-ex-employee/Treating people who leave your company as alumni rather than ex-employees pays dividends through advocacy, recruiting, and future returnsFri, 02 May 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/3/some-useful-docker-bash-functions-and-aliases/https://kartar.net/2014/3/some-useful-docker-bash-functions-and-aliases/A handful of Bash aliases and functions for daily Docker work, including inspecting IPs, bulk removing containers and images, and tagging buildsSat, 22 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2014/3/logstash-book-updated-for-14/https://kartar.net/2014/3/logstash-book-updated-for-14/The Logstash Book has been revised for the 1.4.0 release, covering new installation methods, configuration language changes, and plugin updatesWed, 19 Mar 2014 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/12/building-puppet-apps-inside-docker/https://kartar.net/2013/12/building-puppet-apps-inside-docker/Combining Dockerfiles with Librarian-Puppet to reuse existing Puppet modules when building application images, demonstrated with NginxSun, 22 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/12/beginnings-with-docker-inc/https://kartar.net/2013/12/beginnings-with-docker-inc/Leaving Venmo after the PayPal acquisition to join Docker Inc as VP of Services, building out support, training, and professional servicesWed, 11 Dec 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/11/whos-afraid-of-angry-feminists/https://kartar.net/2013/11/whos-afraid-of-angry-feminists/On why tone arguments against angry feminists protect privilege, and why their anger is what actually drives accountability and progressThu, 14 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/11/docker-and-configuration-management/https://kartar.net/2013/11/docker-and-configuration-management/Why Docker and configuration management tools like Puppet and Chef will coexist rather than one supplanting the otherFri, 08 Nov 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/9/new-edition-of-the-logstash-book/https://kartar.net/2013/9/new-edition-of-the-logstash-book/A new edition of The LogStash Book ships with updates for LogStash 1.2.0, errata fixes, and a free upgrade for existing buyersMon, 02 Sep 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/8/seeking-technical-reviewer-for-docker-book/https://kartar.net/2013/8/seeking-technical-reviewer-for-docker-book/Looking for unpaid technical reviewers for an upcoming Docker book, with a credit and bio in the front matter as the rewardTue, 20 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/8/how-to-make-change-in-corporate-environments/https://kartar.net/2013/8/how-to-make-change-in-corporate-environments/Tactics for cutting through change theatre and blame culture in ITIL-heavy shops by showing safe repeatable changes and centring customer needsMon, 19 Aug 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/7/what-makes-a-good-tech-reviewer/https://kartar.net/2013/7/what-makes-a-good-tech-reviewer/What a tech reviewer should and should not do, drawn from a bruising first experience on my Hardening Linux bookWed, 31 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/7/what-recruiters-do-wrong/https://kartar.net/2013/7/what-recruiters-do-wrong/Common failure modes in recruiter outreach including impersonal templates, vague roles, stale CV data, and avoidance of compensationSun, 21 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/7/making-changes/https://kartar.net/2013/7/making-changes/Leaving Puppet Labs after three and a half years to become VP of Engineering at Venmo in New YorkSun, 14 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/7/puppet-and-new-relic-deployments/https://kartar.net/2013/7/puppet-and-new-relic-deployments/Releasing a module that ships deployment events from Puppet to the New Relic Deployment API via a custom type or a report processorTue, 09 Jul 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/6/puppet-and-sematext/https://kartar.net/2013/6/puppet-and-sematext/Releasing a Puppet report processor that ships each metric generated during a Puppet run to Sematext using the sematext-metrics gemSun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/6/thoughts-on-recruiting-process/https://kartar.net/2013/6/thoughts-on-recruiting-process/Seven practical tips for both hiring managers and candidates covering communication, on-site interviews, follow-up, and feedbackSun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/6/the-docker-book/https://kartar.net/2013/6/the-docker-book/Announcing a new book on Docker covering installation, containers, services, building your own PaaS, and writing custom imagesSun, 02 Jun 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/5/review-of-elasticsearch-server/https://kartar.net/2013/5/review-of-elasticsearch-server/A short review of Packt's ElasticSearch Server book, praising its coverage of concepts, indexing, and administration but wanting more on scalingFri, 24 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/5/it-is-okay-to-be-wrong/https://kartar.net/2013/5/it-is-okay-to-be-wrong/On unlearning the engineer habit of getting grumpy and defensive about mistakes, and instead treating them as openings rather than punishmentSat, 04 May 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/4/does-service-matter/https://kartar.net/2013/4/does-service-matter/Wondering whether good service can compensate for a bad product, and how the answer depends entirely on context and stakesSat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/4/igal/https://kartar.net/2013/4/igal/A memorial for Igal Koshevoy and a plea to check in on people in our community who may be struggling with their mental healthThu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/3/puppet-and-opsgenie/https://kartar.net/2013/3/puppet-and-opsgenie/Releasing a Puppet report processor that pushes notifications of failed runs to Opsgenie using a customer API key and recipient listSat, 02 Mar 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/2/puppet-and-stathat/https://kartar.net/2013/2/puppet-and-stathat/Releasing a Puppet report processor that ships per-host metrics like changed resources and config retrieval time to StatHatMon, 11 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/2/the-logstash-book-released/https://kartar.net/2013/2/the-logstash-book-released/Announcing the release of a book on deploying log management with LogStash, available as PDF, ePub, or Kindle editionSun, 03 Feb 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/1/monitoring-sucks-a-rant/https://kartar.net/2013/1/monitoring-sucks-a-rant/Why Nagios and its kin fail virtualised and cloud environments, and why a fresh paradigm is needed to handle the new scaleMon, 28 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/1/the-logstash-book-sample-chapter-available/https://kartar.net/2013/1/the-logstash-book-sample-chapter-available/A free sample chapter is now available covering how to get logs into LogStash without using the LogStash agentMon, 21 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2013/1/lessons-from-self-publishing/https://kartar.net/2013/1/lessons-from-self-publishing/Multi-part series on lessons from self publishingFri, 11 Jan 2013 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/12/listing-captions-with-delimited-code-blocks-and-pandoc/https://kartar.net/2012/12/listing-captions-with-delimited-code-blocks-and-pandoc/How to add captions to delimited Markdown code blocks so that Pandoc emits LaTeX listings with both syntax highlighting and a captionSat, 29 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/12/puppet-types-and-providers-the-book/https://kartar.net/2012/12/puppet-types-and-providers-the-book/Nan Liu and Dan Bode have written a whole book on developing Puppet types and providers, available on Kindle and in printFri, 28 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/12/logstash-book-mailing-list/https://kartar.net/2012/12/logstash-book-mailing-list/Announcing a mailing list for updates and announcements about The Logstash Book, prompted by a reader pointing out it was overdueTue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/12/the-logstash-book/https://kartar.net/2012/12/the-logstash-book/Announcing work on a hands-on book about deploying log management infrastructure with the open source LogStash tool, due February 2013Thu, 13 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/12/puppet-and-appfirst/https://kartar.net/2012/12/puppet-and-appfirst/Releasing a module that installs the AppFirst collector on Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu and adds a type and provider for managing NRPE checksSun, 02 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/11/portland-to-new-york/https://kartar.net/2012/11/portland-to-new-york/Relocating from Portland to a place in downtown Brooklyn for a stretch in a much larger citySun, 25 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/11/puppet-and-cube/https://kartar.net/2012/11/puppet-and-cube/Sharing a report processor that ships each Puppet log event to Square's Cube time series collector as a labelled event for dashboard displayWed, 21 Nov 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/10/customer-service-tips-for-young-players/https://kartar.net/2012/10/customer-service-tips-for-young-players/Lessons from years of customer-facing roles: own the impact, over-communicate, keep your cool, and treat people as you would want to be treatedSun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/10/puppet-linter-supports-private-repos/https://kartar.net/2012/10/puppet-linter-supports-private-repos/Adding GitHub OAuth2 support to the Puppet Online Linter so authorised private repositories can now be linted on commitThu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/10/sending-metrics-from-puppet-to-librato/https://kartar.net/2012/10/sending-metrics-from-puppet-to-librato/A Puppet report processor that sends Puppet run metrics to Librato using the librato-metrics gem, with module install stepsThu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/10/firing-right/https://kartar.net/2012/10/firing-right/Why firing well matters, the three broad reasons it happens, and guidelines for handling it with honesty, transparency, and minimal damageSat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/10/twinger/https://kartar.net/2012/10/twinger/A tiny Ruby gem that provides finger-style command line output for any Twitter user, built mostly to entertain myself for ten minutesSat, 06 Oct 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/9/is-devops-the-new-silo/https://kartar.net/2012/9/is-devops-the-new-silo/Worrying that naming a team DevOps just relocates the silo problem instead of changing the culture, process, and tooling underneathSat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/9/visiting-new-mexico/https://kartar.net/2012/9/visiting-new-mexico/Notes from a trip to Socorro for a job fair, green chili season, and a detour out to see the Very Large Array radio telescopeSat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/9/puppet-and-kestrel/https://kartar.net/2012/9/puppet-and-kestrel/Sharing a report processor that pushes each Puppet log entry onto a Kestrel distributed message queue via the kestrel-client gemFri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/9/copperegg/https://kartar.net/2012/9/copperegg/A look at CopperEgg's SAAS monitoring and updates to their Puppet module adding a type and provider for their uptime monitoring APISun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/8/why-i-dont-care-where-you-went-to-school/https://kartar.net/2012/8/why-i-dont-care-where-you-went-to-school/Younger candidates lean too hard on their schooling, so here is what to lead with instead: cover letters, published code, and clubs or collaborationTue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/7/psigner-signing-puppet-certificates-via-api/https://kartar.net/2012/7/psigner-signing-puppet-certificates-via-api/Releasing a small Sinatra prototype called PSigner that exposes an API for signing Puppet certificates as a starting point for extensionFri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/7/puppet-online-linter-github-hook/https://kartar.net/2012/7/puppet-online-linter-github-hook/Adding a GitHub post-receive hook to the Puppet Online Linter so each commit gets parsed, linted, and emailed back to the committerSat, 07 Jul 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/6/puppet-online-linter/https://kartar.net/2012/6/puppet-online-linter/Launching a small Sinatra service that accepts Puppet manifest uploads or API submissions and returns lint errors on screenFri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/6/home-and-place/https://kartar.net/2012/6/home-and-place/Reflecting on what home means as an expat in Portland, and the short list of criteria I actually use to judge a place to liveTue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/6/the-cloud-may-be-for-you/https://kartar.net/2012/6/the-cloud-may-be-for-you/A pushback against absolutist takes on Heroku and the cloud, arguing the right answer depends on performance, compliance, and your needsSun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/5/sending-events-from-puppet-to-riemann/https://kartar.net/2012/5/sending-events-from-puppet-to-riemann/A Puppet report processor that sends run status and metrics to a Riemann server using the riemann-client gemSun, 20 May 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/5/boundary-module-released/https://kartar.net/2012/5/boundary-module-released/Releasing v1.0.0 of the Puppet module to install, manage, and report to Boundary, now available on the ForgeMon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/5/yana-and-puppet/https://kartar.net/2012/5/yana-and-puppet/A small external node classifier that pulls node definitions from the Yana node authority and maps Yana tags and attributes into PuppetFri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/5/imposter-syndrome/https://kartar.net/2012/5/imposter-syndrome/Practical habits I am trying to manage feelings of being a fraud at work, including trusting fear, finding a mentor, and naming the problemTue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/4/the-grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side/https://kartar.net/2012/4/the-grass-is-greener-on-the-other-side/Wrapping up seven months of paperwork to get our US Green Cards via the Diversity Lottery, and what the new status changes for usSat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/4/education-is-a-business/https://kartar.net/2012/4/education-is-a-business/American education providers are businesses dressed up as philanthropic institutions, and students are customers whether they realise it or notSat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/4/addendum-to-the-rule/https://kartar.net/2012/4/addendum-to-the-rule/Adding to Luke Kanies' rule about avoiding food in transportation hubs with my own hard-earned rule: never eat the breakfast buffetSat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/4/sinatra-and-sub-uris/https://kartar.net/2012/4/sinatra-and-sub-uris/Fixing 404s and broken asset paths when deploying a Sinatra app under a sub URI, using sinatra-static-assets and the url helperWed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/4/that-time-she-danced-with-me-in-brooklyn/https://kartar.net/2012/4/that-time-she-danced-with-me-in-brooklyn/A short personal piece on loving cities, their noise and smell, mass transit, the rain on concrete, and the crush of peopleTue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/3/hiring-challenges/https://kartar.net/2012/3/hiring-challenges/How Puppet Labs uses written exercises and short coding challenges to filter candidates before phone screens and reduce screening timeTue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/3/how-we-use-irc-at-puppet-labs/https://kartar.net/2012/3/how-we-use-irc-at-puppet-labs/Why the Puppet Labs ops team picked IRC for team chat and how a Cinch-based bot called Lampwick handles tickets, alerts, and assorted memesThu, 08 Mar 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/2/please-take-an-arts-degree/https://kartar.net/2012/2/please-take-an-arts-degree/Why so many Arts graduates wind up in IT and how consuming, assimilating, and synthesising information makes us well suited to itMon, 13 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/2/knives/https://kartar.net/2012/2/knives/Why I gave in and started carrying a folding clasp knife after moving to Portland and meeting American consumer packaging up closeSat, 04 Feb 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/1/most-hacker-movies-ever/https://kartar.net/2012/1/most-hacker-movies-ever/A run through Hackers, Swordfish, Firewall, WarGames, Sneakers, AntiTrust, and The Net with notes on what each gets right and wrongSat, 28 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2012/1/puppet-and-flowdock/https://kartar.net/2012/1/puppet-and-flowdock/Releasing a Puppet report processor that pushes notifications of failed runs to a Flowdock team collaboration room via the Flowdock gemWed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/12/james-nigel/https://kartar.net/2011/12/james-nigel/A short post sharing an animated graphic a colleague made of me alongside Nigel from the Spinal Tap movieThu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/12/cloudkick-and-puppet/https://kartar.net/2011/12/cloudkick-and-puppet/Releasing a Puppet module that handles Cloudkick agent installation and node creation via the Cloudkick APISat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/11/why-i-hate-product-comparisons/https://kartar.net/2011/11/why-i-hate-product-comparisons/Why most so-called product comparisons are really subjective case studies, and how to identify and write objective ones worth usingMon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/11/world-of-warcraft/https://kartar.net/2011/11/world-of-warcraft/Why World of Warcraft never grabbed me despite a fair shot: repetitive grind quests and a social model that depends on awkward time zonesSun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/11/sensu/https://kartar.net/2011/11/sensu/An early look at Sensu, Sonian's RabbitMQ based cloud monitoring framework, plus a Puppet module and Vagrant file for trying itMon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/11/boundary/https://kartar.net/2011/11/boundary/A look at Boundary's network and flow monitoring tool and a Puppet module I wrote to deploy their probesSat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/11/weechat-notifications-for-android/https://kartar.net/2011/11/weechat-notifications-for-android/A small Weechat plug-in that pushes IRC highlights and private messages to an Android phone via the NotifyMyAndroid serviceFri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/10/why-am-i-a-tool-maker/https://kartar.net/2011/10/why-am-i-a-tool-maker/Why I keep publishing small open source tools and plug-ins on GitHub: ego, career value, learning, and paying back what other sysadmins gave meMon, 31 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/10/mafia/https://kartar.net/2011/10/mafia/Trying out Mafia, a Sinatra application generator, and contributing a binary plus a default action to scratch my own itchMon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/10/tally/https://kartar.net/2011/10/tally/A small Sinatra and DataMapper scoreboard built for Puppet Labs ticket triage days, fed by a Redmine plugin that emits update eventsSat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/10/what-a-great-little-book/https://kartar.net/2011/10/what-a-great-little-book/Reading more Kindle titles, wading through self-published genre fiction, and thinking about what value print publishers still offer authorsThu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/10/mexico/https://kartar.net/2011/10/mexico/Heading off on a week in Oaxaca and Mexico City followed by a week in New Orleans with a side trip to New IberiaWed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/10/when-mvps-go-wrong/https://kartar.net/2011/10/when-mvps-go-wrong/Three failure modes that derail a minimum viable product: failing to ship, ignoring customer feedback, and conflating MVP with poor qualityMon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/9/hello-jekyll/https://kartar.net/2011/9/hello-jekyll/Moving the site from Wordpress to Jekyll to better fit my workflow of writing locally in Vim and version controlling everythingSat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/8/bunraku-v0-0-3/https://kartar.net/2011/8/bunraku-v0-0-3/Cleaning up the Puppet status panel with a per-node detail screen, per-node run history, Redis hashes instead of JSON, and tidier codeTue, 02 Aug 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/7/bunraku-a-puppet-status-panel/https://kartar.net/2011/7/bunraku-a-puppet-status-panel/A Sinatra and Redis prototype that displays Puppet run statuses by collecting reports via a custom Puppet report processorSun, 31 Jul 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-and-datadog/https://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-and-datadog/Adding a Puppet report processor that pushes metrics and events from each Puppet run to the DataDog API for graphing and event trackingSun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-zendesk/https://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-zendesk/A Puppet report processor that opens a Zendesk ticket for each failed Puppet run, with the run log as the ticket descriptionTue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/6/redmine-ticket-face/https://kartar.net/2011/6/redmine-ticket-face/A Puppet Face sub-command that queries and creates Redmine trouble tickets from the Puppet command line, requiring Puppet 2.7Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-hipchat/https://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-hipchat/Sharing two weekend bonus report processors that notify a HipChat room or send an SMS via Twilio when a Puppet run failsSat, 04 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-growl/https://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-growl/Releasing a report processor that ships failed Puppet runs as Growl notifications to a desktop Growl server over UDP port 9887Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-xmpp/https://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-xmpp/A Puppet report processor that sends Jabber and XMPP notifications when Puppet runs fail, using the xmpp4r gemThu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-pagerduty/https://kartar.net/2011/6/puppet-pagerduty/A Puppet report processor that sends alerts to PagerDuty when Puppet runs fail, including the failing host name and log outputWed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/5/puppet-twitter/https://kartar.net/2011/5/puppet-twitter/A Puppet report processor that posts failed Puppet runs to Twitter via OAuth, with setup steps for the gems and yaml configTue, 31 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/5/puppet-campfire/https://kartar.net/2011/5/puppet-campfire/Releasing the second report processor of the week, this one notifies a Campfire room when a Puppet run fails and pastes in the log outputMon, 30 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/5/puppet-irc/https://kartar.net/2011/5/puppet-irc/Kicking off a week of report processor demos with two new processors that notify an IRC channel of failed runs and send metrics to GangliaSun, 29 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/5/puppet-noah/https://kartar.net/2011/5/puppet-noah/Releasing a Puppet integration for John Vincent's Noah configuration store with an ENC, get and put functions, and a config factTue, 24 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/5/puppet-github-face/https://kartar.net/2011/5/puppet-github-face/Building a Puppet Face inspired by knife-github-cookbooks that installs modules from GitHub and diffs them against your installed copiesWed, 18 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/5/github-and-redmine-integration/https://kartar.net/2011/5/github-and-redmine-integration/GhostRed is a prototype gem that scans GitHub pull requests, opens matching Redmine tickets, and closes the request with a linkSun, 15 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/5/install-cloud-foundry-vcap-via-puppet/https://kartar.net/2011/5/install-cloud-foundry-vcap-via-puppet/A rough Puppet module that installs Cloud Foundry VCAP on Debian, Ubuntu, and CentOS, going beyond the Ubuntu-only vcap-setup installerTue, 10 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/5/pro-puppet-released/https://kartar.net/2011/5/pro-puppet-released/Announcing that the book Jeff McCune and I wrote is now shipping, complete with the proper index readers asked forSun, 08 May 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/4/amsterdam/https://kartar.net/2011/4/amsterdam/A handful of photos taken around Amsterdam in the days before Puppet CampThu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/4/network-management-with-puppet/https://kartar.net/2011/4/network-management-with-puppet/Puppet 2.7 ships an early network device type and provider letting you manage Cisco interfaces and vlans over ssh or telnetWed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/4/pro-puppet-2/https://kartar.net/2011/4/pro-puppet-2/Wrapping up the manuscript for Pro Puppet with Jeff McCune, covering Puppet 2.6.x, MCollective, scaling, and reporting in a dozen chaptersSun, 10 Apr 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/1/puppet-rundeck-v0-0-4/https://kartar.net/2011/1/puppet-rundeck-v0-0-4/Puppet-RunDeck 0.0.4 adds tag output to the generated XML resource document, available via a gem updateThu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/1/vagrant-and-puppet-server/https://kartar.net/2011/1/vagrant-and-puppet-server/A new Vagrant provisioner shipping in 0.7.0 that lets a VM connect to a Puppet master in client-server mode and run as a configured nodeWed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/1/kickstarter/https://kartar.net/2011/1/kickstarter/Why I have been spending a few minutes a week funding small creative and community projects on Kickstarter and what backers receive in returnWed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/1/puppet-rundeck-v0-0-3/https://kartar.net/2011/1/puppet-rundeck-v0-0-3/Puppet-RunDeck 0.0.3 drops the stored configuration requirement and now pulls nodes and facts from the YAML terminus insteadTue, 11 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/1/github-plug-in-for-rbot/https://kartar.net/2011/1/github-plug-in-for-rbot/A simple Rbot plugin using the GitHub API that lets an IRC channel query issues and commits for a configured repositoryMon, 10 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2011/1/what-are-common-strategiestools-used-by-tech-companies-to-manage-configuration-of-hundreds-of-servers/https://kartar.net/2011/1/what-are-common-strategiestools-used-by-tech-companies-to-manage-configuration-of-hundreds-of-servers/Strategies for managing configuration across many servers covering lifecycle mapping, context, green-field projects, buy-in, and tool selectionSun, 09 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/12/puppet-and-rundeck/https://kartar.net/2010/12/puppet-and-rundeck/Hacking up puppet-rundeck as a Resource Model Provider that feeds RunDeck a list of nodes from Puppet's stored configuration in XMLSun, 26 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/12/pro-puppet/https://kartar.net/2010/12/pro-puppet/Announcing work on a follow-up to Pulling Strings with Puppet, with updated content covering 2.6.0 features, scaling, environments, and extension writingThu, 23 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/12/vagrant-and-puppet/https://kartar.net/2010/12/vagrant-and-puppet/My stand-alone Puppet provisioner has shipped in Vagrant 0.6.9, letting boxes be provisioned with Puppet manifests instead of ChefWed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/12/the-state-of-devops/https://kartar.net/2010/12/the-state-of-devops/A pointer to my guest post on the Agile Web Operations blog covering DevOps, smoking, operations, and occasional swearingWed, 15 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/12/paul-kelly-how-to-make-gravy/https://kartar.net/2010/12/paul-kelly-how-to-make-gravy/Reading Paul Kelly's mongrel autobiography in one long chain smoking gulp and finding the song behind the titleMon, 06 Dec 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/11/old-posts/https://kartar.net/2010/11/old-posts/Marking around a thousand old blog posts private because they record parts of other people's lives that aren't mine to shareFri, 19 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/11/logging-a-good-bug-report-is-easy/https://kartar.net/2010/11/logging-a-good-bug-report-is-easy/A checklist of context, versions, platforms, and reproduction steps that turn a bug report from painful to easy for a maintainer to act onSat, 06 Nov 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/10/rape-is-rape-is-rape-is-rape/https://kartar.net/2010/10/rape-is-rape-is-rape-is-rape/A direct response to Australian media debate about consent, arguing that sex with someone unable to consent is rape, full stopTue, 12 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/10/puppet-2-6/https://kartar.net/2010/10/puppet-2-6/Releasing 2.6.2 with new user type properties for managing password minimum and maximum age and account expiry datesThu, 07 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/10/porting-mootbot-to-rbot/https://kartar.net/2010/10/porting-mootbot-to-rbot/A first cut port of Ubuntu's Mootbot meeting bot from Eggdrop to an Rbot plug-in, with voting and tracking workingMon, 04 Oct 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/9/puppet-2-6-1-released/https://kartar.net/2010/9/puppet-2-6-1-released/Shipping a maintenance release with preliminary JRuby support, an extlookup function, a master load testing tool, and md5 hashingMon, 13 Sep 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/8/dear-america-how-much-is-the-tip/https://kartar.net/2010/8/dear-america-how-much-is-the-tip/Puzzling over American tipping etiquette as an Australian: who to tip, how much, what counts as good service, and whether staff actually receive itTue, 10 Aug 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-camp-san-francisco-2010/https://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-camp-san-francisco-2010/Pointing readers at the Eventbrite registration page for the 2010 San Francisco Puppet Camp gatheringThu, 29 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-2-6-0-is-here-its-alive/https://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-2-6-0-is-here-its-alive/Shipping the 2.6.0 major release with the full XMLRPC to REST cut-over, Windows support, a rewritten reporting system, and a single binaryMon, 19 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-rc4-nearly-almost-production-out/https://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-rc4-nearly-almost-production-out/Puppet 2.6.0 RC4 ships with the REST cutover, Windows support, language enhancements, and a rewritten events and reporting systemSun, 18 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-dashboard-1-0-1-released/https://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-dashboard-1-0-1-released/Shipping a Dashboard maintenance release with bug fixes, UI updates, search on index pages, and new APT and Yum packages from Puppet LabsSat, 17 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-rc3-out-of-the-gates/https://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-rc3-out-of-the-gates/Puppet 2.6.0 RC3 lands with the XMLRPC to REST cutover, basic Windows support, a rewritten reporting system, and an internal Ruby DSLTue, 13 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-2-6-0rc2-now-available/https://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-2-6-0rc2-now-available/Asking for more testing on RC2 of the 2.6.0 release with the XMLRPC to REST cut-over, basic Windows support, and language enhancementsSun, 11 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-2-6-0-release-candidate-1-available/https://kartar.net/2010/7/puppet-2-6-0-release-candidate-1-available/Putting the 2.6.0 release candidate out for testing, with the XMLRPC to REST cut-over, basic Windows support, and a rewritten reporting systemFri, 09 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/7/oscon-2010-puppet-tutorial-pre-work/https://kartar.net/2010/7/oscon-2010-puppet-tutorial-pre-work/Pre-work instructions for attendees of the beginner Puppet tutorial at OSCON 2010, including the CentOS 5.4 VM imageThu, 01 Jul 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/6/dear-almost-americans-tips-and-tricks-for-the-e-3-visa/https://kartar.net/2010/6/dear-almost-americans-tips-and-tricks-for-the-e-3-visa/Practical notes on the E-3 application, the consulate interview, arriving in the US, getting an SSN, and dealing with American bankingWed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/6/puppet-is-awesome-sauce/https://kartar.net/2010/6/puppet-is-awesome-sauce/Sharing Canllaith's crochet diagram of her Puppet architecture as an example of a presentation visual done very wellMon, 21 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/6/dear-america-i-am-not-from/https://kartar.net/2010/6/dear-america-i-am-not-from/Grumbling about Americans being unable to identify accents from other English-speaking countries, sometimes mistaking Australian for DanishSun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/6/neat-git-reference/https://kartar.net/2010/6/neat-git-reference/Pointing at the friendlier Git reference site that GitHub has put together to spare you wading through the official docsSun, 13 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/6/dear-america-what-happened-to-g/https://kartar.net/2010/6/dear-america-what-happened-to-g/Discovering that American lifts have no Ground button because the ground floor here is called the 1st FloorMon, 07 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/6/status-of-puppet-on-windows/https://kartar.net/2010/6/status-of-puppet-on-windows/An update on porting Puppet to Windows by David Schmitt and Markus, with a link to the in-progress branch on GitHub for testingSat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/5/puppet-module-repository-isnt-just-for-modules/https://kartar.net/2010/5/puppet-module-repository-isnt-just-for-modules/Reminding the community that the Forge holds standalone types, providers, functions, and facts as well as modules to make sharing easierMon, 31 May 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/5/puppet-forge-in-beta/https://kartar.net/2010/5/puppet-forge-in-beta/Announcing the public beta of the Puppet Module Repository along with the puppet-module gem for building, managing, and installing modulesWed, 26 May 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/5/devopsdownunder-what-the-fuck-is-devops/https://kartar.net/2010/5/devopsdownunder-what-the-fuck-is-devops/Slides from my DevOps DownUnder talk are now up on SlideshareTue, 11 May 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/5/introducing-scaffold/https://kartar.net/2010/5/introducing-scaffold/A small gem that scaffolds Puppet configuration, modules, nodes, classes, defines, functions, and types from the command lineMon, 03 May 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/4/puppet-type-for-http-authentication/https://kartar.net/2010/4/puppet-type-for-http-authentication/Building a Puppet type and provider to manage HTTP Basic and Digest password files using WEBrick's htpasswd and htdigest classesSat, 24 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/4/yes-mum-still-behaving/https://kartar.net/2010/4/yes-mum-still-behaving/Using Cucumber Scenario Outlines to collapse repetitive infrastructure tests into a single template fed by a table of example valuesWed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/4/strange-things-are-afoot-at-the-circle-k/https://kartar.net/2010/4/strange-things-are-afoot-at-the-circle-k/Announcing a move to Puppet Labs as Director of Operations, covering support, infrastructure, community work, and a bit of codeSun, 11 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/4/what-the-fuck-is-devops-devopsdownunder/https://kartar.net/2010/4/what-the-fuck-is-devops-devopsdownunder/Announcing my talk at the inaugural DevOpsDownUnder conference exploring the competing definitions of DevOps and whether there is even a debateThu, 08 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/4/rpm-and-deb-packages-available-for-puppet-dashboard/https://kartar.net/2010/4/rpm-and-deb-packages-available-for-puppet-dashboard/Instructions for installing Puppet Dashboard 1.0.0rc1 from new RPM and DEB packages hosted in the Puppet Labs APT and Yum repositoriesMon, 05 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/3/quiesce-reductive-labs/https://kartar.net/2010/3/quiesce-reductive-labs/Reductive Labs has rebranded as Puppet Labs, with a short link to the announcement explaining the reasoning behind the changeFri, 26 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/3/james-whites-rules-for-infrastructure/https://kartar.net/2010/3/james-whites-rules-for-infrastructure/James White's rules for treating infrastructure as one self-correcting system, for buying small interoperable software, and for API-driven automationSun, 21 Mar 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/2/what-devops-means-to-me/https://kartar.net/2010/2/what-devops-means-to-me/Why dev and ops need to merge, and four quadrants I see as the heart of DevOps: simplicity, relationships, process and automation, continuous improvementThu, 18 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/2/puppet-parsedfile-types-and-providers/https://kartar.net/2010/2/puppet-parsedfile-types-and-providers/Walking through a Puppet type and ParsedFile provider that manages entries in /etc/shells using the built-in parsing helpersFri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/2/help-vampires-a-spotters-guide/https://kartar.net/2010/2/help-vampires-a-spotters-guide/Pointer to a Slash7 article on how to spot help vampires in your community, how to handle them, and how to protect the communityMon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/1/puppet-types-and-providers-are-easy/https://kartar.net/2010/1/puppet-types-and-providers-are-easy/A worked example showing how to write a simple Puppet type and providers for managing Git and Subversion repository checkoutsSun, 31 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/1/puppet-0-25-4-released/https://kartar.net/2010/1/puppet-0-25-4-released/Shipping a fast maintenance release that adds prerun and postrun transaction hooks and fixes a regression breaking cron job creationThu, 28 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/1/the-tortoise-and-not-the-hare-2-principles/https://kartar.net/2010/1/the-tortoise-and-not-the-hare-2-principles/Listing the seven Toyota Production System principles that map most directly to IT operations and previewing how to apply each oneSat, 23 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/1/puppet-chef-deterministic-ordering-and-the-much-maligned-dsl/https://kartar.net/2010/1/puppet-chef-deterministic-ordering-and-the-much-maligned-dsl/Reposting Teyo Tyree's full comment on Puppet versus Chef explaining dependency graphs against procedural ordering and the value of an external DSLWed, 13 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/1/puppet-0-25-3-clifford-released-2/https://kartar.net/2010/1/puppet-0-25-3-clifford-released-2/Releasing the Clifford maintenance build to address a regression in 0.25.2 that broke command execution, along with cron and mount bug fixesMon, 11 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/1/puppet-0-25-2-zoe-released/https://kartar.net/2010/1/puppet-0-25-2-zoe-released/Shipping the Zoe maintenance release with 123 tickets closed, including host alias changes, AIX cron support, and SELinux upper case contextsMon, 04 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/1/photobooth-james/https://kartar.net/2010/1/photobooth-james/A photobooth portrait from the Photobooth Project where, for once, I do not look like shit in the pictureSat, 02 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2010/1/the-tortoise-and-not-the-hare-part-1/https://kartar.net/2010/1/the-tortoise-and-not-the-hare-part-1/Drawing parallels between manufacturing production lines and IT operations, and introducing Toyota Production System concepts like lean, JIT, and KanbanFri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/12/puppet-0-25-2-release-candidate-3-out/https://kartar.net/2009/12/puppet-0-25-2-release-candidate-3-out/Asking the community to hammer on release candidate 3 with a few more bugs squashed, with a production release expected within daysThu, 31 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/12/puppet-0-25-2-release-candidate-2-is-out/https://kartar.net/2009/12/puppet-0-25-2-release-candidate-2-is-out/Calling for testing on the second release candidate after a missing commit forced a quick respin from RC1, with 118 tickets resolvedTue, 22 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/12/yes-mum-ill-behave-beginning-behaviour-driven-infrastructure/https://kartar.net/2009/12/yes-mum-ill-behave-beginning-behaviour-driven-infrastructure/Applying Behaviour Driven Development to infrastructure monitoring using Cucumber and Cucumber-Nagios to test that services actually do what users expectSun, 20 Dec 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/11/puppet-0-25-1-released/https://kartar.net/2009/11/puppet-0-25-1-released/Posting release notes for the zoot maintenance release with clarified require behaviour, regex node matching fixes, and dozens of bug fixesSat, 21 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/11/getting-help-for-puppet-and-facter/https://kartar.net/2009/11/getting-help-for-puppet-and-facter/Where to get help with Puppet and Facter, including the mailing lists, the IRC channel on Freenode, the wiki, and Reductive Labs ticket trackersFri, 06 Nov 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/10/san-francisco-and-puppetcamp/https://kartar.net/2009/10/san-francisco-and-puppetcamp/Reflections on the first Puppet Camp in San Francisco, the unconference sessions, the people met, and lessons learned for next timeSun, 04 Oct 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/9/metaparameter-reference-added/https://kartar.net/2009/9/metaparameter-reference-added/Splitting the Puppet Metaparameter reference out of the Type Reference and moving it to a new wiki pageMon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/9/sysadmin-mini-conf-cpf-extended/https://kartar.net/2009/9/sysadmin-mini-conf-cpf-extended/Call for papers extended for the SysAdmin mini-conf at linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington, looking for talks across sysadmin topicsMon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/9/san-francisco-puppet-camp/https://kartar.net/2009/9/san-francisco-puppet-camp/Travel notes from arriving in San Francisco for Puppet Camp, getting Pro Puppet chapters drafted in business class on the flightSun, 27 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/9/ohloh/https://kartar.net/2009/9/ohloh/A quick nod to Ohloh, a register of open source projects that peers into the code to show the structure and life of each oneSun, 20 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/9/output-github-commits-as-unified-diffs/https://kartar.net/2009/9/output-github-commits-as-unified-diffs/Append .patch to any GitHub commit URL to get the change back as a unified diff patch fileSat, 19 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/9/waging-war-on-drugs-is-utterly-mad/https://kartar.net/2009/9/waging-war-on-drugs-is-utterly-mad/A brief link to a piece in The Age arguing that the prohibition-style war on drugs is failing and counterproductiveSat, 05 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/9/puppet-0-25-0-released/https://kartar.net/2009/9/puppet-0-25-0-released/Shipping the Elmo release with Indirected REST replacing XML-RPC, regex node matching, new language features, and Puppet queuing supportFri, 04 Sep 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/8/the-life-and-times-of-martha-washington-in-the-twenty-first-century/https://kartar.net/2009/8/the-life-and-times-of-martha-washington-in-the-twenty-first-century/Recommending the Dark Horse collected edition of Frank Miller and Dave Gibbons' Martha Washington series for fans of Miller's later workSat, 29 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/8/creating-a-new-gpg-key-and-revoking-the-old-one/https://kartar.net/2009/8/creating-a-new-gpg-key-and-revoking-the-old-one/Pointers to a couple of HOWTOs for generating a fresh GPG key with subkeys and cross-signing, then revoking the old oneThu, 20 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/8/hot-library-smut/https://kartar.net/2009/8/hot-library-smut/A re-post of a gallery of beautiful libraries and a trivia note about a transcription error in the Book of Kells at Trinity CollegeFri, 14 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/8/pro-git/https://kartar.net/2009/8/pro-git/Congratulating Scott Chacon on the release of Pro Git, a book James had been planning to pitch himselfThu, 06 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/8/practical-puppet-the-beginning/https://kartar.net/2009/8/practical-puppet-the-beginning/Starting work on a second edition of the Puppet book, provisionally titled Practical Puppet or Pro PuppetTue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/8/puppet-0-25-0-release-candidate-1-released/https://kartar.net/2009/8/puppet-0-25-0-release-candidate-1-released/Announcing the first release candidate for Puppet 0.25.0 with Indirected REST, regex node matching, new functions, and thin stored configurationsMon, 03 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/8/planet-puppet/https://kartar.net/2009/8/planet-puppet/Brice Figureau has spun up Planet Puppet, a moonmoon planet aggregating community blog posts about PuppetSun, 02 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/8/stashing-with-git/https://kartar.net/2009/8/stashing-with-git/Using git stash to set aside in-progress work, pull or cherry-pick changes into a clean tree, then pop the stash back on topSat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/7/best-comment-ever/https://kartar.net/2009/7/best-comment-ever/A pointer to a TechCrunch comment that made me laugh harder than I had in a whileTue, 28 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/7/installing-pandoc-on-fedora-10cabal/https://kartar.net/2009/7/installing-pandoc-on-fedora-10cabal/Step by step instructions for installing Pandoc on Fedora 10 via Cabal, including the small cabal file edit needed to build from sourceWed, 01 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/6/linux-conf-au-2010-call-for-papers-opens/https://kartar.net/2009/6/linux-conf-au-2010-call-for-papers-opens/An announcement that the call for papers is open for linux.conf.au 2010 in Wellington, with the list of topics and talk formats acceptedSun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/6/hudson-and-amazon-ec2-the-sequel/https://kartar.net/2009/6/hudson-and-amazon-ec2-the-sequel/Following up on the Hudson EC2 plugin with an init script that bootstraps each build node so it can run Facter and Puppet testsSat, 27 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/6/cis-security-metrics-available/https://kartar.net/2009/6/cis-security-metrics-available/The CIS has released a v1.0.0 security metrics guide covering application security, change management, incidents, patching, and vulnerabilitiesFri, 26 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/6/reductive-labs-scores-2m-for-puppet-it-automation-tool-venturebeat/https://kartar.net/2009/6/reductive-labs-scores-2m-for-puppet-it-automation-tool-venturebeat/Linking to VentureBeat coverage of Reductive Labs raising 2 million dollars to fund work on the Puppet IT automation toolMon, 22 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/6/chris-middendorp-on-melbourne-and-heroin/https://kartar.net/2009/6/chris-middendorp-on-melbourne-and-heroin/A pointer to a great article in The Age on heroin, history, and MelbourneSun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/6/git-oh-my/https://kartar.net/2009/6/git-oh-my/Using git apply and git am to pull diffs from tickets and email messages while preserving authorship and credit on contributed patchesFri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/6/opensourcebridge/https://kartar.net/2009/6/opensourcebridge/Back from running a configuration management panel at OpenSourceBridge in Portland with time spent at Powell's and catching up with friendsFri, 19 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/6/hudson-and-amazon-ec2/https://kartar.net/2009/6/hudson-and-amazon-ec2/Trying out the Hudson EC2 plugin to spin up build nodes on demand and cover the many platforms Puppet and Facter need to test againstSun, 07 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/6/new-home-page/https://kartar.net/2009/6/new-home-page/Erin Knowles designed a clean new bio and books home page, leaving this site as the place for the blog itselfFri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/6/puppet-extras-denizens-of-the-puppet-ext-directory/https://kartar.net/2009/6/puppet-extras-denizens-of-the-puppet-ext-directory/Cataloguing the useful scripts, editor modes, Nagios plug-ins, and helper tools that live in the ext directory of the Puppet tarballMon, 01 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/5/pro-linux-system-administration/https://kartar.net/2009/5/pro-linux-system-administration/Announcing a new book with Peter Lieverdink and Dennis Matotek covering Linux administration for small and medium businessesWed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/5/configuration-management-panel-at-open-source-bridge-portland-june-2009/https://kartar.net/2009/5/configuration-management-panel-at-open-source-bridge-portland-june-2009/Running a panel with the creators and maintainers of cfengine, Puppet, AutomateIT, Chef, and bcfg2 to discuss their philosophiesTue, 19 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/5/found-in-translation/https://kartar.net/2009/5/found-in-translation/A note about PEN World Voices, the Sydney Ideas magazine article on it, and Caro Llewellyn moving from the Sydney Writers Festival to direct itWed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/5/the-nagios-fork-responses/https://kartar.net/2009/5/the-nagios-fork-responses/Reflecting on Ethan Galstad's response to the ICINGA fork and whether the community already asked for the openness he now proposesWed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/5/lunch-in-sydney/https://kartar.net/2009/5/lunch-in-sydney/A quick note about lunch with friends and baby Taj at a Vietnamese restaurant in Dulwich Hill, SydneyFri, 08 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/5/nagios-project-is-forked-hello-icinga/https://kartar.net/2009/5/nagios-project-is-forked-hello-icinga/Nagios has been forked into ICINGA, an unsurprising outcome given how tightly Ethan Galstad controlled the original projectWed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/5/your-application-is-a-rotting-old-shack-now-what-phase-1/https://kartar.net/2009/5/your-application-is-a-rotting-old-shack-now-what-phase-1/A satirical fifteen-step trip through how companies hire consulting firms to build an application, descope half of it, and call it a successMon, 04 May 2009 00:00:00 GMThttps://kartar.net/2009/5/puppet-0250beta1-released/https://kartar.net/2009/5/puppet-0250beta1-released/Putting the first beta of 0.25.0 into the wild for testing, with the new Indirected REST transport replacing XML-RPC and queuing supportSun, 03 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT