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My wish list for Beginning Puppet

A few months ago a question in the very useful 'ask puppet' site attracted my attention. The authors of Beginning Puppet were asking for feedback about the desired content. Since my answer has had some success, I'd like to report it here: These are the things I would have liked to see as soon as I started experimenting with Puppet (in no specific order - this is mainly a brain dump): What's a catalogue and how Puppet builds it Recommended file structure for Puppet manifests How to divide your infrastructure in environments A clear indication that Puppet doesn't guarantee an "order of execution", and how to define dependencies between resources and classes (i.e. the "arrow" syntax to ensure that a class is always applied before/after another one). Before ever writing a module, how to test it (and as a consequence, Continuous Integration for Puppet modules) How to publish a module on github or puppetforge A "build-up example...
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Basic Docker commands

Just a list of docker commands that I've found quite useful so far. List the containers available locally: docker ps -a Just the container IDs: docker ps -a -q Filter the running containers: docker ps -a -q | grep Up or simply: docker ps -q  Build an image: docker build -t <user>/<image name> . Run a container from an image, and execute bash shell: docker run -i -t <user>/<image name> /bin/bash Run a container from an image, in background, linking ports: docker run -d -p <host port>:<container port> <user>/<image name> (You can use -p multiple times, e.g. when the container exposes more than one port) Show logs of running container: docker logs <container id> Stop/start/restart container: docker stop/start/restart <container id> UPDATE - Stop running container with a single command: docker ps -a|grep Up|awk '{ print $1 }'|xargs docker stop  UPDATE - The reason why I'm ...
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Docker on Ubuntu: when apt-get update fails

I've been spending some time with Docker , and since digitalocean provides Ubuntu images with Docker already configured, setting up a new droplet and a few containers with my apps has become a matter of minutes. One of the fist commands you want to run in your Dockerfile is certainly 'apt-get update'. I'm writing this with the hope to save the reader some precious time: if 'apt-get update' fails, you may want to ensure that docker's DNS configuration is complete (and servers are accessible). In my case this meant simply adding the Google DNS servers in /etc/default/docker : DOCKER_OPTS="--dns 8.8.8.8 --dns 8.8.4.4" and restart docker with sudo service docker restart This StackOverflow question is related.
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