Category Archives: Installation

Managing Razor provisioning with Puppet – Part 2

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

So we went through Puppet configuration of deploying a functional Razor installation in the first part here. Now let’s look into how we can get Puppet to manage our Razor environment, namely models, images, policies and brokers. For this we’re … Continue reading →

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Managing Razor provisioning with Puppet – Part 1

Posted on December 9, 2012 by

If you’ve gone through the tutorials on how to get started with Razor and Puppet that I’ve posted earlier (see here for the first part of five) you should have a Razor and Puppet installation already up and going. For this … Continue reading →

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VMworld Barcelona recommended agenda – Wednesday

Posted on October 10, 2012 by

Hope all of you enjoyed the start of VMworld yesterday, and that you’re ready for another full day of awesome sessions, exhibitions and labs! Not sure which sessions to focus on today? I’m sure you will find at least one … Continue reading →

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Automating lighttpd installations with Puppet – Part 3

Posted on October 2, 2012 by

If you’ve followed through the two earlier parts found here and here, you should now have a basic installation of lighttpd installed on your node, together with a nice small Puppet module that you’ve created yourself on your Puppet master. … Continue reading →

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Install VMware ESXi 5.1 automatically using Razor

Posted on September 11, 2012 by

Once again, Razor comes to the rescue for all of you who’d like to automate the installations of VMware ESXi 5.1 that was just publically released. If you already have a Razor environment up and running you can dive right … Continue reading →

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Deploying VMware ESXi on your HP MicroServer automatically with Razor

Posted on August 22, 2012 by

Also posted on Simon Seagrave’s Techhead.co. Razor is a cool new deployment tool for your entire server infrastructure. It’s has been and is still being developed as a joint venture between EMC and Puppetlabs (who also make the amazing open source … Continue reading →

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Automating lighttpd installations with Puppet – Part 2

Posted on August 14, 2012 by

In Part 1 of this series, we configured our puppetmaster to make sure that our nodes would get an installation of lighttpd up and running quickly. Now to get a smarter environment where you don’t have to add all the stuff … Continue reading →

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Automating lighttpd installations with Puppet – Part 1

Posted on August 13, 2012 by

The time has come to move further in our Automation series, now that we’re pretty much done with the “physical” provisioning part using Razor. One of the first things I’d like to share with you is how to get lighttpd … Continue reading →

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How to get started with Razor and Puppet – Part 5

Posted on July 11, 2012 by

Please read the comments, updates there! Razor has gotten a CLI and API update, making some of the commands shown here not work correctly. If you come across something that doesn’t work, please look at the Razor wiki for help regarding that … Continue reading →

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How to get started with Razor and Puppet – Part 4

Posted on July 9, 2012 by

Please read the comments, updates there! Razor has gotten a CLI and API update, making some of the commands shown here not work correctly. If you come across something that doesn’t work, please look at the Razor wiki for help regarding that … Continue reading →

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