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Franz Pletz
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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.
  • The Puppet Anchor Pattern in Practice

    The Puppet Anchor Pattern in Practice

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    Franz Pletz
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    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…

  • Development Environments with Vagrant and Puppet

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    Paul Seiffert
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    Motivation Setting up the infrastructure for new projects can be quite a pain in the ***. Even after the initial setup is done, adding new developers to the team requires a lot of time. Besides explaining the project to the new team member, the project’s development environment has to be installed on the new developer’s…

  • IPC die Zweite – DevOps

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    Alberto Assmann
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    Nach einem sehr guten Mittagessen, in tollem Ambiente ging es weiter mit dem Powerworkshop von Soenke Ruempler (Jimdo) und Johann-Peter Hartmann (SektionEins GmbH, Mayflower GmbH). Da sich, vielleicht zum Glück, nur wenige Teilnehmer für diesen Workshop fanden, ging die Vorstellungsrunde recht flink und es wurde schnell deutlich was wir als Publikum zu erwarten hatten. Die…