While prepping for activating the Markdown/Spectre mitigations, a co-worked dug up this python library python-hwinfo for retrieving hardware data from linux systems (including remotely). I haven’t actually tried it but it seems pretty cool. #

Puppetizing a cert steps:

1. transfer the cert from my mac to the jump box: scp -P #### -p %filepath% cori@jumpbox:/tmp
2. xfer again to the puppet master box
3. move to the puppet secrets folder and set permissions and access #