btoone

Introduction

An introduction to curl using GitHub's API.

The Basics

Makes a basic GET request to the specifed URI

curl https://api.github.com/users/caspyin

ahpook

The problem

There's enough trouble with puppet's ssl model (mandatory client certs) that people go and do odd things to get around it. The primary problem is that for lab/preproduction environments, if you reinstall machines frequently, you lose access to the private key that generated the original cert but (absent some puppet cert --clean [node] operation) the cert still exists, leading to the dreaded Retrieved certificate doesn't match private key error.

A solution

Generate a single client certificate which all your nodes use, and have the master determine node names from facter rather than the SSL DN. This way you can re-install nodes with impunity and as long as your bootstrap plops down the correct config and the cert+key, you don't have any more SSL issues.

The caveats

If you have autosign turned on, this change represents a shift in security tradeoffs: you can turn off autosign and therefore more tightly control which clients can talk to your server because they need to have your clie

pksunkara

[user]
	name = Pavan Kumar Sunkara
	email = pavan.sss1991@gmail.com
	username = pksunkara
[init]
	defaultBranch = master
[core]
	editor = nvim
	whitespace = fix,-indent-with-non-tab,trailing-space,cr-at-eol
	pager = delta

nstielau

# Send a metric to statsd from bash
#
# Useful for:
#   deploy scripts (http://codeascraft.etsy.com/2010/12/08/track-every-release/)
#   init scripts
#   sending metrics via crontab one-liners
#   sprinkling in existing bash scripts.
#
# netcat options: 
#   -w timeout If a connection and stdin are idle for more than timeout seconds, then the connection is silently closed.