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#334 – byop – Bring Your Own Patches – an Infra-DPK Builder

This week on the podcast, Dan discusses a new tool he built to simplify CPU patches by using the same tools as the Infrastructure DPK. byop, or Build Your Own Patches, will take a list of patches to download and store them in a format that matches the Infrastructure DPK.

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Dan’s method to apply CPU patches

Custom Fact to trigger Infrastructure-DPK processing

  • /puppet/production/modules/pt_role/lib/facter/cpu.rb

    # Set the env var APPLY_INFRA_CPU=true and run the DPK to apply the Infra-DPK patches
Facter.add(:apply_infra_cpu) do
  setcode do
    apply_infra_cpu = ENV["APPLY_INFRA_CPU"] || 'false'
  end
end

Bash alias I use to apply CPU patches via Infrastructure-DPK

$ alias applycpu='sudo APPLY_INFRA_CPU=true && puppet apply -e "contain ::pt_profile::pt_tools_deployment" --confdir <dpk_home>/puppet -d'
$ applycpu
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#322 – Control Groups

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This week on the podcast, Dan shares some follow-up on the PeopleTools 8.59 Infrastructure DPK and its advantages, and then Kyle and Dan talk about using Control Groups on Linux.

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#315 – DMSViewer

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This week on the podcast, Dan revisits a tip for debugging Change Assistant issues and a replacement for the ls command, and Kyle talks about the new PeopleTools 8.59 Infra-DPK.

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#282 – Infra-DPK Gotchas


This week on the podcast, Dan shares his good experience with the Infrastructure DPK and a few things that didn’t work as expected, and Dan and Kyle discuss the 8.58 Login page and the Elasticsearch DPK Silent Install option.

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#262 – Cloud Manager Backups


This week on the podcast, Kyle learns how the Cloud Manager repository download and tracks files, and Dan shares how he configured backups for Cloud Manager in OCI.

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#235 – Wireshark


This week on the podcast, Dan and Kyle discuss “toil”: what it is and how it affects your team. Then Dan shares a debugging story about the Integration Broker and how he solved the issue with Wireshark.

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