This week on the podcast, Dan has follow-up on using Hiera with Puppet environments, capturing WebLogic logs in Elasticsearch, and Kyle shares his thoughts on the Solaris “change”. Then Kyle discusses the in depth failover testing and how Unified Navigation behaves when app servers fail. Show Notes Solaris is “not… Read More »#98 – Failover Testing
This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle discuss strategies to organize and manage Event Mapping code, writing code that other people will use, trying to work with Push Notifications and custom ACM modules. Kyle ends the podcast with a funny story about searching for images. Show Notes … Read More »#97 – Dozens of Us
Since the Deployment Packages were released with PeopleTools 8.55, one of my criticisms has been that the DPK is a bit of a sledgehammer. If you define multiple PeopleSoft environments on a server and you want to configure one web server, ALL the domains that the DPK knows about are… Read More »Using Puppet Environments with the DPK
The way PeopleSoft delivers Puppet and the Hiera backend, is that everything you define in psft_customizations.yaml overrides configuration defined elsewhere. This is a useful setup when getting started with the DPK and Puppet. But when using YAML files to manage your configuration across multiple servers, you’ll quickly find that you… Read More »Convert the DPK to use Hiera Hash Merging
In the psft_customizations.yaml file we store configuration information for a server, including passwords. There is a project, hiera-eyaml, that supports encrypting and decrypting sensitive data in Hiera YAML files. Out of the box, the Windows-based DPK doesn’t work with hiera-eyaml. For Linux DPK, check out 2188771.1 – there is better… Read More »Encrypt psft_customizations.yaml Passwords