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More strings for the Puppet
Automating system configuration is something every sysadmin should want to achieve. Even if you don’t have physical boxes to configure and manage on a regular basis, increasingly we use virtualisation to spin up machines everywhere from a developer box to the cloud (e.g. EC2) and these machines all need to go from zero to hero, preferably without human intervention.
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http://ifconfig.me/host →
You want your external hostname when stuck inside an AWS EC2 instance? Handy.