Tag Archive: puppet

Jul 24

KermIT: Dynamic Groups for resources

A new interesting feature we are actually coding in KermIT web application is Dynamic Groups. You can define a rule to group servers (and later, all kind of resources) and will be automatically added to this group if they match the rule. In this way, any new server added (or removed) to KermIT network will appear …

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Jul 20

KermIT: assign puppet classes to a server within the webui

These days we are working, on the KermIT‘s master branch, adding some new interersting features (and refactoring lot of our code). Here a video that shows how you can provision the servers, changing the assigned puppet classes directly within the KermIT web interface. What you should have is the puppet master configured to use Hiera, that …

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May 31

New website and videos for KermIT project

We take our time, or better, Louis worked on it , to refactor the KermIT project website. Actually created using Octopress blogging engine. We have many other work in progress for KermIT, but, for the moment you can enjoy this first website refactor and some new videos.

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Jan 29

KermIT: a WebUI for MCollective

Server control and provisioning is everyday more important due to server farms “growth”. In reality today server farms are not too big, but using virtualization systems you can have many machines in a single server. So, the problem is (was!!) a way to create or recreate our virtual or physical machines and a simple way …

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