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In /etc/salt/master:

reactor:
  - 'minion_start':
    - /opt/salt/reactor/start.sls
    

in /opt/salt/reactor/start.sls:

run_highstate:

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# This uses the grains module
# http://docs.saltstack.org/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.grains.html#module-salt.modules.grains

# http://salt.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.module.html#module-salt.states.module

salt:
  module.run:
  - name: grains.ls

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reactor:
  - 'salt/minion/*/start':
    - /srv/reactor/sync_all.sls
    - /srv/reactor/graphite_event.sls

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git config --global alias.cowsay '!git commit -m "`fortune | cowsay -f tux`"'

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         +------------+
+Problem->            |
         |  Engineer  +-->Solution
+Coffee-->            |
         +------+-----+
                |
                v
              Sarcasm
            (Side Effect)

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The fastest remote directory rsync over ssh archival I can muster (40MB/s over 1gb NICs)

This creates an archive that does the following:

rsync (Everyone seems to like -z, but it is much slower for me)

• a: archive mode - rescursive, preserves owner, preserves permissions, preserves modification times, preserves group, copies symlinks as symlinks, preserves device files.
• H: preserves hard-links
• A: preserves ACLs

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// derived from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithms_for_calculating_variance#Parallel_algorithm

function map() {
    emit(1, // Or put a GROUP BY key here
         {sum: this.value, // the field you want stats for
          min: this.value,
          max: this.value,
          count:1,
          diff: 0, // M2,n:  sum((val-mean)^2)
    });

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class Command(object):
    '''
    Enables to run subprocess commands in a different thread
    with TIMEOUT option!

    Based on jcollado's solution:
    http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1191374/subprocess-with-timeout/4825933#4825933
    '''
    def __init__(self, cmd):
        self.cmd = cmd

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Installing Graphite:

Graphite does two things:

1. Store numeric time-series data
2. Render graphs of this data on demand

What Graphite does not do is collect data for you, however there are some tools out there that know

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#!py
import pprint
import yaml

space_character = "  "
def run():
    '''
    Print the config files
    '''
    t = {