Month: August 2012

Puppet ENC With MongoDB Backend

So I decided to release this bit of code I wrote which allows you to leverage mongodb as an ENC for puppet. I am not yet sure if this is a premature move or not but I plan to be using it in production in the next few weeks. I have a list of features

Send Zabbix Alerts To HipChat

In my current environment we use HipChat extensively for communication, and our CI server sends a lot of events to HipChat so I figured I would send Zabbix alerts there as well. This is a pretty simple how-to and should only take you about 10 minutes to implement.

Puppet Relationships & App Deployment

I wanted to write a blog post about something that I assume other people might be struggling with when deploying applications to EC2. Specifically how do I tell my deployment scripts (fabric in my case) to wait until puppet has finished before moving on to actually deploying my application.

Backup Mongodb with LVM Snapshots

Today I decided I would write a little blog entry about how to backup mongodb using Linux LVM snapshots. I have seen a lot of questions regarding “what” is the best method to backup mongodb lately on the IRC channel #mongodb.