Category: MongoDB

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Happy New Year! (Okay, it's February — we're a little behind.) It's time for another edition of our regular What’s new in Puppet modules feature. Due to the lull that accompanies the holidays, we decided to roll up December and January into one post. We’re looking forward to another great year of module development, but let’s start by looking back on what we’ve done in the last few months.As of 1 February, we have 4,743 modules on the Forge.puppetlabs-mount_providers-1.0.0Provides the mounttab and mountpoint resource types.2017-01-27 - Release 1.0.0Bug fixesSets ensure on the mountpoint ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; This post, written by LogicMonitor’s Director of Tech Ops, Jesse Aukeman, originally appeared on HighScalability.com on February 19, 2013. It has been reprinted with permission on our blog. If you are like us, you are running some type of linux configuration management tool. The value of centralized configuration and deployment is well known and hard to overstate. Puppet is our tool of choice. It is powerful and works well for us, except when things don’t go as planned. Failures of puppet can be innocuous and cosmetic, or they can cause production issues, for ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; A long time ago (well, June of this year) the Puppet Forge was running without a leader. In my role as community manager, I saw the Forge as having this awesome potential to be the resource for user-generated content surrounding the Puppet community. I knew it was getting more attention, but that was mostly anecdotal. My next step was to find some data that could tell a good story. Puppet Modules are often the first way people learn and start using Puppet. We’ve had our Puppet Forge for a while, but I didn’t ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Purpose Razor Provisioning Software Module puppetlabs/razor Puppet Version 2.7+ Platforms Ubuntu Precise Razor is next generation provisioning software that handles bare metal hardware and virtual server provisioning with inventory discovery and tagging, rule-based policy management, and extensible broker plugin integration. The usage of Razor for provisioning is discussed briefly in this blog, and additional information is available on a separate post by Nick Weaver, one of authors of the Razor project. Broker handoffs will be discussed in a follow up article. Razor is currently released as a beta for preview, so there are ... Read More

Feed: Puppet.com Blog RSS Feed. Author: ; Indeed uses puppet in testing, integration, staging and production environments. Puppet has enabled Indeed Operations to scale to hundreds of servers across multiple datacenters with differing infrastructure while maintaining configuration consistency in testing, integration, staging and production environments. Our new Vice President of Marketing, Scott Johnston, was recently poking around on Indeed.com and discovered the trend feature. He did a quick search: In an email to all, our CEO proclaimed: "Pretty sweet." What can only be described as a the virtual equivalent of the Ninja Turtles signature jumping group high five quickly followed ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: Anna Mulamba; Someone forgot to close the figurative “door.” A third-party vendor affiliated with CenturyLink misconfigured a MongoDB database leaving it open and accessible to the public for about 10 months.  CenturyLink, a Fortune 500 technology company, was alerted by a security research firm that approximately 2.8 million records were left unprotected and vulnerable to potential misuse. Included in the affected database were API logs containing multiple pieces of personally identifiable information (PII), including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and addresses, along with account-specific information. While CenturyLink has stated that they found no evidence that its records ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: Ayush Goel; As discussed in my last blog, there are 2 types of databases SQL and NoSQL. So in this blog, we will be looking at one type of NoSQL database that is MongoDB. MongoDB is an example of a document-type database, which means it stores data in JSON-like documents. One of the biggest reasons for its popularity is the data model used is a highly elastic one that allows us to combine and store data of multivariate types. MongoDB Architecture Let’s first discuss the architecture of MongoDB. A typical MongoDB architecture has 3 parts-  Database: A database ... Read More

Feed: CronJ. Author: Vignesh M; AI is been in our imagination for the last 40 50 years.In fact, from all the way from 2001 Space Odyssey to even like Ex Machina, there’s been a lot of movies about our fascination with AI.Unfortunately, that’s been a very negative twist around AI because ultimately all those movies are about the machines turning on humans and ultimately killing them. So I would like to offer a more optimistic outlook about AI. But it’s clear that this is something that’s really caught our imagination.The other thing that was clear was that this is all ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; by David Mundy | Jul 30, 2019 | Amazon Web Services, Blog Post, Security Capital One Data Breach Impacts 100 Million Customers In yet another cloud misconfiguration involving AWS S3 Buckets, Capital One joins Facebook as another major enterprise to expose the data of over 100 million users. What happened? It would appear that Capital one... by David Mundy | Jul 29, 2019 | Blog Post, Product Information, Security DivvyCloud Listed in CRN's 2019 Emerging Vendors List We are honored to announce that DivvyCloud was included on CRN’s 2019 list of “Emerging IT Vendors You Need ... Read More

Feed: DivvyCloud. Author: David Mundy; by David Mundy | Jun 7, 2019 | Blog Post, Security JCrush Joins the Database Leak Club Last week, TechCrunch reported security researchers at vpnMentor discovered that JCrush, a dating app designed for the Jewish community, left a MongoDB database containing 18.454 GB of unencrypted records unprotected and publicly... by David Mundy | Jun 5, 2019 | Amazon Web Services, Blog Post, Compliance, Containers, Google Cloud Platform, Governance, Microsoft Azure, Product Information, Security DivvyCloud is a way to deploy policy, minimize blast radius, and give developers the freedom to operate within the guide rails of ... Read More