Linux - LVM links and images

 

tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshots_backup.html
http://www.tutonics.com/2012/12/lvm-guide-part-2-snapshots.html

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/recipes.html

Puppet - cookbook

http://www.puppetcookbook.com/posts/


add-a-unix-group.html
adding-a-host-entry.html
autosigning-client-certificates.html
change-a-unix-groups-id.html
changing-default-package-provider.html
create-home-directory-for-managed-users.html
creating-a-directory-tree.html
creating-a-directory.html
creating-a-symlink.html
ensure-service-is-running.html
ensure-service-is-stopped.html
ensure-service-started-on-boot.html
ensure-service-stopped-on-boot.html
exec-a-command-in-a-manifest.html
exec-onlyif.html
exec-output-logging.html
fileserver-in-template-function.html
install-multiple-packages.html
install-package.html
install-rubygem.html
latest-package.html
list-facter-facts.html
list-puppet-managed-files.html
lsb-facts.html
managing-crond-entries.html
managing-user-password-fails.html
nicer-exec-names.html
only-create-file-if-absent.html
override-a-facter-fact.html
packages-with-different-name-per-distro.html
remove-a-unix-group.html
remove-all-unmanaged-host-entries.html
remove-duplicated-file-resource-attributes.html
remove-package.html
removing-a-host-entry.html
restart-a-service-when-a-file-changes.html
run-exec-if-file-absent.html
same-rolename-in-each-domain.html
see-all-client-variables.html
select-a-file-based-on-a-fact.html
set-global-exec-path.html
show-puppet-config-setting.html
show-resources-with-ralsh.html
simple-adhoc-execution-with-apply-execute.html
simple-debug-messages.html
simple-facter-timing.html
simple-syntax-check-manifests.html
source-without-modules.html
trailing-commas.html

Analytics - ElasticSearch references

good:
http://blog.qbox.io/using-elasticsearch-in-e-commerce-part-2-simple-analytics-with-aggregations

http://www.slideshare.net/tomzeng/using-elasticsearch-with-rails?next_slideshow=1
(sample inserts & queries..status check & health...API listing...Query DSL...rivers)

http://www.slideshare.net/clintongormley/scaling-realtime-search-and-analytics-with-elasticsearch
and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6lSeNatVFM

http://exploringelasticsearch.com/modeling_data.html

decent:
http://www.slideshare.net/dnoble00/scaling-analytics-with-elasticsearch

http://www.michaelpollmeier.com/elasticsearch-case-study/

eh:
http://www.slideshare.net/AndrewClegg1/scaling-elasticsearch-for-multiterabyte-analytics

Promoted

Got promoted to Tech Lead for the infrastructure team yesterday.

Was pretty much doing that anyways... maybe now they'll pay me for it.  ha

ELK - Growing Pains with kibana, elastic search and logstash

We've had a variety of problems with this stack.  Here are some issues:
Redis dies on us.
Once Redis dies on us... our logstash-forwarders can't send msgs.
They seem to keep log file handles open and thus disk space isn't reclaimed when log rotation occurs.

Nice blog post of someone else's troubles:

antisp.in/2014/07/elk-stack-retrospective/

http://michael.bouvy.net/blog/en/2013/12/06/use-lumberjack-logstash-forwarder-to-forward-logs-logstash/