How to manage your Netgear ReadyNAS using puppet

This talk describes how I installed Ubuntu server 14.04 on a Netgear ReadyNAS Duo v2. The title is deliberately misleading to give it a tiny "DevOps" spin.

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1. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist DevOps 2015-April-16
2. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN What is it? ReadyNAS Duo v2 (RND2000v2)
3. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN What is it? ReadyNAS Duo v2 (RND2000v2)
4. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Handy features RAID levels 0, 1, and JBOD Hot swap support CIFS/SMB, NFS, rSyncd, FTP, AFP, HTTP/HTTPS USB 3 HDD Support Netgear and community add-ons
5. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Add-ons Transmission Enable Root SSH Access Dropbox ...
6. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Under the hood Debian-based, 2.6 kernel, x86 dnsmasq ...
7. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Things it can’t do Puppet btrfs support OwnCloud NTPd OpenVPN NAT Why NAT? 2x 1GigE nics Bridged WiFi
8. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Things it can’t do Puppet btrfs support OwnCloud NTPd OpenVPN NAT Why NAT? 2x 1GigE nics Bridged WiFi
9. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Things it can’t do Puppet btrfs support OwnCloud NTPd OpenVPN NAT Why NAT? 2x 1GigE nics Bridged WiFi
10. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Things it can’t do Puppet btrfs support OwnCloud NTPd OpenVPN NAT Why NAT? 2x 1GigE nics Bridged WiFi
11. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN The solution Install Ubuntu server on it! :) but how?
12. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN The solution Install Ubuntu server on it! :) but how?
13. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Remember this? What’s that in bottom left corner? A serial console port!
14. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Remember this? What’s that in bottom left corner? A serial console port!
15. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Get some hardware Grab a USB to serial converter I bought a pl2303HX on ebay for under $7
16. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Connect it up Note the Rx/Tx wires will have to be crossed.
17. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN minicom These serial console settings worked for me: 9600 Baud 8-N-1 8 data bits No parity 1 stop bit
18. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN UNetbootin I used UNetbootin to create a bootable USB. Don’t forget: Tell SYSLINUX that you want output on the serial console Tell the kernel to print to the serial console port
19. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Success
20. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Success You can now manage your ReadyNAS using puppet! :)
21. Manage your Netgear ReadyNAS with Puppet Stefan Krist SYN Features Limitations The solution FIN Questions Questions? Thanks for your attention! This talk in detail -> http://wp.me/p3QaMT-A @nerdyness sk