Notes on Life, ‘Puters and Hawaii
I use the amazon metadata for creating /etc/hosts and do this on a cron schedule. This does everything I need. Instead of fancy DynDNS tricks or having to run and manage an internal DNS server I just have a ruby script that looks at the metadata ec2 to build /etc/hosts. It’s easy. [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by dysinger
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This last spring I blogged about creating gentoo images for ec2. Since then I have evolved it into a project and added portage tools and Puppet to the mix. You can find the project over at github.com. Basically I now use Puppet to bootstrap and configure servers from scratch for ec2, including completely optimizing [...]
Posted on October 13th, 2008 by dysinger
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It’s been a while. I have been super busy at work. I have mostly been doing puppet sysadmin on gentoo (more on that later) and erlang coding. I released a demo app (mostly for fun) of a Rails scaffold app (simple) talking to a mochiweb rest (json) backend on github. Erlang and Ruby are a [...]
Posted on October 9th, 2008 by dysinger
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