In the past year some Mayflower colleagues have started using and contributing to NixOS, a purely functional GNU/Linux distribution that combines package and configuration management. We decided that we would give it a try in production but stumbled upon some issues that had to be resolved first. We have added new packages, services and fixed up some internal. Due…
Autor: Franz Pletz
Being a purely functional and lazy hacker at heart, Franz keeps our infrastructure running with style and advises our customers and development teams regarding automation, deployment, configuration management and security with his rich Unix and Open Source experience.
Secure Password Authentication
If you’re running a web service where your users have to authenticate, one of your options will probably be the classic password authentication. The user provides a term that uniquely identifies it, probably a user name or an email address, and a secret only known by the two involved parties, your service and the user.…
The Puppet Anchor Pattern in Practice
Recently, my team rewrote all Puppet manifests for Mayflower’s core infrastructure with our two year long Puppet experience in mind. Many mistakes were made in the past, but this time we decided to write clean and structured Puppet code based on the latest language features from Puppet 3. More blog posts about advanced Puppet topics…