(Edit: See at the end)

Ansible is known to be good at running things in the order you write them and that’s why it’s awesome for orchestration.

How to find a great Openstack provider. Isn’t that a good question ?

About a year ago, Andrew Crouthamel launched a kickstarter to produce a free series of videos about the CCNA Cisco certification. Andrew is a Cisco Certified Academy Instructor and he’s actually been teaching CCNA courses so he’s knowledgeable about the training material.

You probably use cat everyday. Did you know that tac existed ? It’s the reverse of cat! (no, really).

If you use Puppet at all, you should be using Hiera if you’re not already !

I was preparing an update for a Xenserver pool with over 100 VMs on it and I forgot that when you apply patches on Xenserver nodes, you need to eject images/ISO/DVDs from the virtual machines.

It happens.
You have a Master -> Slave MySQL replication and your master crashes for a reason or another.

Thanks to the hard work of the puppet-openstack community, Puppet was the preferred method of deployment for Openstack in the latest Openstack User Survey.