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@purpleidea

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Release 1.0.2 ยท purpleidea/mgmt Full release notes at: https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/raw/refs/heads/master/docs/release-notes/1.0.2 for all the details. Verify the signatures of all packages before you use them. The signing ...

I just released #mgmtconfig version 1.0.2

Don't let the small version numbers fool you, there are a lot of goodies here!

github.com/purpleidea/m...

22.02.2026 23:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
10 years of mgmt - https://purpleidea.com/ I can't believe it's been 10 years

Big News:

Ten years of #mgmtconfig

Version 1.0.0 now released

I've started a company called "m9rx"

We have a crazy deal on our website right now, so please share the news and sign-up today!

purpleidea.com/blog/2025/09...

github.com/purpleidea/m...

m9rx.com/news/10-year...

25.09.2025 05:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Better git status - https://purpleidea.com/ Avoid needing to scroll git status

New Blog Post:

Better git status

purpleidea.com/blog/2025/08...

(Avoid needing to scroll git status.)

05.08.2025 01:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Running etcd over SSH - https://purpleidea.com/ Using authorized_keys options to securely tunnel

New Blog Post:

Running etcd (and #mgmtconfig) over SSH.

purpleidea.com/blog/2025/05...

(Contains a sneaky debugging challenge and the solution!)

14.05.2025 23:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Mgmt Config: Running in Production and Best Practices CfgMgmtCamp 2025 Ghent Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe. Is this running in production? What's taken so long? It was important for us to be better than legacy tools, not just a 1:1 replacement. I be...

My #mgmtconfig talk is TODAY at #CfgMgmtCamp at 14:50 sharp! (B.Con room)

I'll be giving a different kind of talk today. Less hardcore internals, more "real-production, boring use-cases".

Come early for the pre-show!

cfp.cfgmgmtcamp.org/ghent2025/ta...

03.02.2025 09:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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mgmt/docs/release-notes/0.0.27 at master ยท purpleidea/mgmt Next generation distributed, event-driven, parallel config management! - purpleidea/mgmt

I just released #mgmtconfig version 0.0.27

This is a pretty giant release, so have a look at the release notes:

github.com/purpleidea/m...

Binaries are available here:

github.com/purpleidea/m...

31.01.2025 08:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

New Blog Post:

Working around an iPXE issue
(not syncing, kernel panic)

purpleidea.com/blog/2025/01...

24.01.2025 02:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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James Just James (@purpleidea@mastodon.social) 1.71K Posts, 472 Following, 662 Followers ยท devops/golang/mentoring/config mgmt hacker, mgmtconfig architect, and physiologist. hi formerly AWS, Red Hat, Montreal MNI, McGill University

I'm primarily over at mastodon.social/@purpleidea because open source tooling is a better way to go, but I might use this as a primarily write-only feed (like I do with twitter/X now) for folks interested in getting notifications about new blog posts, and other more notable events.

11.12.2024 05:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0