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Sync Puppet Certs between EC2 regions

In the past I have used nginx to route all cert requests to a single cert server. This worked fine when I had limited my puppet infrastructure to a single EC2 region. However, I recently decided to have puppet masters on separate coasts. Keeping the certs in sync requires a Read more…

By chris, 10 years10 years ago
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HTTP Troubleshooting with tcpdump/tcptrace

Operations people are often called upon to do low level HTTP troublshooting and I often end up using tcpdump and tcptrace to break out HTTP sessions and troubleshoot. Install tcptrace on your localmachine apt-get install tcptrace or for you Mac people brew install tcptrace Run tcpdump on your server tcpdump Read more…

By chris, 10 years10 years ago
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