Packer HCL Environment Variables

Converting Packer templates from json to HCL for Packer version 1.7.2. The easiest thing to do is try the automated conversion: packer hcl2_upgrade -output-file=template-converted.pkr.hcl template.json For environment variables we need to set them... » More

CentOS 8 munin-node needs PowerTools

I had the following error installing munin-node on a new CentOS 8 system: Depsolve Error occured: Problem: package munin-node-2.0.54-2.el8.noarch requires perl(Net::SNMP), but none of the providers can be installed\n - conflicting requests - nothing... » More

Gitlab API and Python

To start, create a config file with your Gitlab personal token: vi ~/.python-gitlab.cfg With contents similar to below: default = gitlab ssl_verify = true timeout = 5 url = https://gitlab.com private_token = 1234ABCD1234ABCD... » More

Chef Knife List Nodes with IPs

I had to fiddle a bit with this so possibly worth keeping a note of it. I wanted to pull all the node hostnames and ip addresses from chef for use in hostname lookups and ssh config. knife exec -E 'nodes.find("*:*") {|n| printf "%s - %s \n",... » More

Resetting MySQL root password on newer MySQL 5.7

In newer versions of MySQL it looks like the 'Password' field has been replaced with the 'authentication_string' field so older instructions online may not work. Stop the currently running MySQL service: systemctl stop mysql Start mysql... » More

LHT65 setup and UART Serial Connection

I wired a CP2102 USB to TTL Serial Converter to the LHT65 UART connector - see images below: Then on the linux command line ran: dmesg | tail to check the device name that was added by the system. I then connected to that serial device... » More