Adding the nginx-plus Repository to apt-mirror and Puppet

February 8, 2014Updated on November 19, 2024 JS Morisset Puppet, Ubuntu

Nginx Inc. provides access to the nginx-plus package and repository using SSL certificates. Their instructions include the configuration of apt for Ubuntu, but for people using apt-mirror and Puppet to manage their internal servers, additional custom configurations are required.

The standard apt configuration for nginx-plus might look like this:

$ cat /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90nginx 
Acquire::https::plus-pkgs.nginx.com::Verify-Peer "true";
Acquire::https::plus-pkgs.nginx.com::Verify-Host "true";
Acquire::https::plus-pkgs.nginx.com::CaInfo      "/etc/ssl/nginx/CA.crt";
Acquire::https::plus-pkgs.nginx.com::SslCert     "/etc/ssl/nginx/nginx-repo.crt";
Acquire::https::plus-pkgs.nginx.com::SslKey      "/etc/ssl/nginx/nginx-repo.key";

The connection to the nginx-plus repository must be made using HTTPS and authentication is handled by client certificates. As provided, apt-mirror is not able to manage SSL certificates, so two sections in the apt-mirror script must be modified. The %config_variables array defines the settings read from its configuration files. We will add the ‘certificate’, ‘private_key’, and ‘ca_certificate’ settings to the array.

apt-mirror Module for Puppet

November 16, 2013Updated on November 20, 2024 JS Morisset Puppet

Here is my solution to maintaining Development, Staging, and Production apt mirrors on a “deployment” server with Puppet. I assume the reader is familiar with Puppet and has a working Puppet infrastructure.

Date-Based Rewrites for Static CDN

September 21, 2012Updated on November 20, 2024 JS Morisset HTTP Server

Content Delivery Networks (CDN) have become very popular in the past several years. They offer an easy way to save bandwidth and bring content physically closer to end-users. CDNs offer a variety of services, though pricing and features are usually tailored to larger content providers. As a smaller provider myself with only an ADSL line to host my personal websites — and as a SysAdmin who prefers to host his own content — I decided to mirror my static content, and redirect traffic as I needed. The following describes a solution to keeping all of my content local, yet mirroring the static content for faster delivery.