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Giving a Presentation at the Tennessee Higher Education IT Symposium

I’m heading to the IT Symposium this morning to give a talk on creating a managed Unix infrastructure from scratch, somewhat of a summary of several things I’ve posted here over the last year or so. Thanks to the folks on #puppet who read over them and gave editing suggestions.

Slides for presentation
Handouts for presentation

Update: So [...]

2008 04 22 Mike Renfro Debian
Solaris
infrastructures
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Unattended Debian Installations (or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the preseed.cfg)

A CMR project recently bought 12 new Dell PowerEdge SC1435 servers to replace some of our aging compute cluster systems. In previous server rollouts, I’d generally get one system installed and configured, image it with SystemImager, and then PXE-boot the rest of the systems to pull that image. However, it’s tough to audit exactly what [...]

2007 04 17 Mike Renfro Debian
infrastructures Comments (2)