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Comment on An Awesome New Role by Ajay Arora

Ajay Arora — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 12:30:50 +0000

Dan,

heard a lot about you from your old friends at Sun.. Currently at EMC.. Never had a chance to meet up with you.. Good luck in the new role..

Ajay

Comment on An Awesome New Role by Eric Bernhard

Eric Bernhard — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 21:58:54 +0000

Welcome to CSC! Looking forward to leveraging your expertise on our solutions.

Comment on An Awesome New Role by dhushon

dhushon — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 16:18:16 +0000

Thanks very much Scott, you still in the DC area? As I recall you’re further South?

/dan

Comment on An Awesome New Role by Scott Lowe

Scott Lowe — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:58:40 +0000

Best of luck in the new role, Dan! It sounds like a great opportunity, and a role in which you will most certainly excel.

Comment on Project Razor: EMC and Puppet Labs by dhushon

dhushon — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 11:58:16 +0000

Loks, I cannot disagree, I didn’t mean to cast any disparaging remarks on administrators. In the face of ever larger scale environments, clouds and the like, we are seeing a massive expansion of OS’s (as deployed in VM’s or web scale) that can no longer afford personal attention. One presenter I recently saw said “name your pets, number your livestock.” In these conditions, we do need to scale the administration role through automation to deal with the “too busy for other things”, or “allow me to test and then version at scale” models as afforded by puppet labs or Bosh/Foundry. These allow scripts to become “teamable” and allow for community based innovation for further acceleration.

HTH, dan

Comment on Project Razor: EMC and Puppet Labs by Loks Kuski

Loks Kuski — Wed, 06 Feb 2013 00:31:49 +0000

“In my view, this is an environment designed, not for the traditional system administrator, but for the hyper-productive, administrative developer”

I my opinion system admins were doing fine on their own with perl and shell scripting and irrespective of all the hype puppet have not made deploymnet less time consuming because most IT shops already had other automation tools. Puppet is just another tool to automate configuration but there are many other and in fact simpler ways in to do the same in traditional unix based systems.

Comment on Project Razor: EMC and Puppet Labs by harshit

harshit — Tue, 08 Jan 2013 13:37:52 +0000

hi,
I am facing some issues installing razor. please help me with the problems.
1. My proxies are disabled to download from the site directly using the command

#puppet module install puppetlabs/razor –version 0.3.0

2. I downloaded two razor images…
a) https://github.com/puppetlabs/Razor
— from this site I downloaded the available razor master
b) http://forge.puppetlabs.com
— from this site I downloaded the another puppetlabs/razor (above command only points to this site )

Now, I am not able to install any razor module downloaded. I am not able to find any excutable file? Can you please brief me with the steps how to build razor environment and install it? What all packages I need to download? Once I will install it I will be thruogh withe configuration and access of the tool.
regards!!

Comment on Project Razor: EMC and Puppet Labs by dhushon

dhushon — Sat, 26 May 2012 14:24:26 +0000

hmmm, grammar police? 3 linux variants [ubuntu, sles & rhel], VMware … Windows.

And I do agree Windows != linux, shame vCenter still requires it for now.

/dan

Comment on Project Razor: EMC and Puppet Labs by Bostjan Skufca

Bostjan Skufca — Fri, 25 May 2012 05:49:39 +0000

“but my environment needed 3 linux variants, VMware vSphere 5, Windows 8 and even Solaris.”

Windows != linux… yet

Comment on Project Razor: EMC and Puppet Labs by Introducing Razor, A Next-Generation Provisioning Solution | Puppet Labs

Introducing Razor, A Next-Generation Provisioning Solution | Puppet Labs — Wed, 23 May 2012 13:16:09 +0000

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