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vrrp_script chk_haproxy {
   script "killall -0 haproxy"   # verify the pid existance
   interval 2                    # check every 2 seconds
   weight 2                      # add 2 points of prio if OK
}

vrrp_instance VI_1 {
   interface eth0                # interface to monitor
   state MASTER
   virtual_router_id 51          # Assign one ID for this route

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# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).

# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

# The primary network interface

auto eth0

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#!/bin/bash
# check for iptables-persistent package and install if not already installed
script_name="iptablesrules.sh"
# change user to the account you wish to use on the remote nodes
user="root"

tee $script_name <<EOF
if apt-get -qq install iptables-persistent; then
    echo "Successfully detected iptables-persistent"
else

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Installing ELK (CentOS)

This is a short step-by-step guide on installing ElasticSearch LogStash and Kibana Stack on a CentOS environment to gather and analyze logs.

I. Install JDK

rpm -ivh https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5756075/jdk-7u45-linux-x64.rpm

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#!/bin/sh

# Some things taken from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.osx

# Set the colours you can use
black='\033[0;30m'
white='\033[0;37m'
red='\033[0;31m'
green='\033[0;32m'

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Install puppet server and clients

Puppet Server

curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cloudwicklabs/scripts/master/puppet_install.sh | bash /dev/stdin -s -a -v

Puppet Client

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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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Add the following chunk to your existing ISC dhcpd.conf file.

if exists user-class and ( option user-class = "iPXE" ) {
    filename "http://boot.smidsrod.lan/boot.ipxe";
}
else {
    filename "undionly.kpxe";
}

(or see https://gist.github.com/4008017 for a more elaborate setup

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Occasionally we will deploy a virtual instance into our KVM infrastructure and realize after the fact that we need more local disk space available. This is the process we use to expand the disk image. This process assumes the following:

• You're using legacy disk partitions. The process for LVM is similar and I will describe that in another post.
• The partition you need to resize is the last partition on the disk.

This process will work with either a qcow2 or raw disk image. For

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# Basically the nginx configuration I use at konklone.com. 
# I check it using https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=konklone.com
# 
# To provide feedback, please tweet at @konklone or email eric@konklone.com.
# Comments on gists don't notify the author. 
# 
# Thanks to WubTheCaptain (https://wubthecaptain.eu) for his help and ciphersuites.
# Thanks to Ilya Grigorik (https://www.igvita.com) for constant inspiration.

server {