Jeff Sheltren

Earlier this year we undertook a project to upgrade a client's infrastructure to all new servers including a migration from old Puppet scripts which were starting to show their age after many years of server and service changes. During this process, we created a new set of Puppet scripts using Hiera to separate configuration data from modules. The servers in question were all deployed with CentOS, and it soon became obvious that we needed a...

Jeff Sheltren

I was recently working on scripting some OS installs of CentOS 5 and 6. As part of the deployment, I required drush be installed. Now, I’ve considered using the drush package found in EPEL but it don’t meet my needs for a number of reasons: It is built for Drupal 6. It has a dependency on the Drupal 6 package in EPEL meaning I have to install that if I want to pull in drush...