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I had an interesting design requirement for a network monitoring host. These monitoring hosts, or collectors, are used to monitor our network from an external perspective – via the Internet. They also needed to be reachable from our internal network for central management, and needed access to shared internal services, such as directory services, time servers, and central logging. Design My initial approach was to deploy the hosts in a public subnet, set the default route over the Internet, and add individual host routes via the transit gateway to the subnet routing table....

I maintain a local mirror site for the Linux distributions we use. This is a simple rsync setup using ftpsync and Apache. I recently added Ubuntu to the list, but ran into an issue when I tested an automated install. The installer complained it was “Unable to locate package puppet.” In the preseed file, I tell the installer to also install this package with a pkgsel directive. (Later, using a late_command directive, the service is configured and started....