Archiv:Devops Meetup

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A regular meetup of people interested in DevOps.

DevOps is kind of a new sysadmin buzzword for ways to close the gap between software development and operations; it's what happens when agile development spreads to the server room. We meet to discuss culture, processes, tools and trends that contribute to this field.

DevOps — slides from introductory lightning talk at Metaday #36

There is a mailing list for announcements and discussions.

Next meetup

DATE CHANGE: Tue., 2011-02-15, 19:00, Metalab Bibliothek

Agenda

1. Time management - basic ideas – japhy (based on the Time Management for System Administrators book)
2. …enter your own proposition?

Who's coming?

1. japhy
2. Michael
3. Ch
4. Tony
5. …you?

Presentation/topic propositions for future

If you have something to present, discuss, show, or ask around about, but don't want to commit to a date yet – here's the place to do it. If you want to hear about something specific, add it here too - maybe there's someone here who can tell about it.

1. A comparative analysis of Linux HA Solutions by Bernhard Miklautz
2. Tier1 hardware - what is it good for after all? (Comparing the workhorse products from HP, IBM and Dell) - Michael Renner
3. Debian kFreeBSD? Nexenta? ZFS and dtrace in a manageable package?
4. Cloudservices. S3? Static CDNs? Route53? anything else worth talking about/looking at?
5. …

People

A list of all users for quick reference

• Maciej Pasternacki AKA japhy <maciej@pasternacki.net>
• Michael Renner <michael.renner@amd.co.at> - More info (blog et al) on my userpage
• Hannes Nagl <admin@cyberkov.at>
• Stefan Schlesinger <sts@ono.at>
• Oskar M. Grande <musha68kBRACKETAPEgmailPUNKTcom>
• David Gabriel <b2c AT dest-unreachable net>
• Christian Hofstädtler <christian@hofstaedtler.name>
• ... you? :>

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DevOps
• http://www.jedi.be/blog/2010/02/12/what-is-this-devops-thing-anyway/
• http://dev2ops.org/blog/2010/2/22/what-is-devops.html

Tools

• Automated installation & configuration
  • Opscode Chef Ruby-based automated system configuration
  • Puppet Another Ruby-based automated system configuration
  • Fai Fully Automated Installer
  • Cobbler Rapid deployment system, script/pluggable infrastructure, python-based
• Cloud
  • Eucalyptus Open-source cloud platform
  • Ubuntu Cloud
  • OpenQRM Datacenter Management Platform
• Deployment and control
  • Capistrano Remote multi-server automation tool (deployment)
  • MCollective Framework to build server orchestration or parallel job execution systems
  • Vertebra [1] Another job execution system, XMPP-based
  • ControlTier cross-platform build and deployment automation framework (job automation / infrastructure orchestration)
• Continuous Integration & Testing
  • Hudson Continuous Integration server
  • Buildbot Another Continuous Integration server
  • Selenium Web application testing system
  • Cucumber Behaviour Driven Development testing tool
• Documenting infrastructure
  • OCS-ng Inventory system + GLPI Asset Management
  • Ohai Detecting information (facts) about system
  • Facter Detecting information (facts) about system
  • puppet + facter + puppet-dashboard
  • SICE Kit A set of tools and templates designed for MediaWiki to aid people who maintain systems and infrastructure
• Interpreter "sandboxes"
  • virtualenv Python
  • rvm Ruby
• Misc
  • Grml Debian-based live CD
  • Mongrel2, a language-agnostic Web server

History

2011-01-11

1. Mongrel2 introduction by Lukas Fittl
   • http://www.igvita.com/2010/09/03/zeromq-modern-fast-networking-stack/
   • http://www.igvita.com/2010/11/17/routing-with-ruby-zeromq-devices/
2. Grml fly-by by Christian Hofstädtler (slides)
3. - The web development platform comparison

2010-12-14

• A 10 minute PostgreSQL crash course including Q&A for operations-relevant Stuff - Michael
• A hopefully short and functional live presentation of my company's infrastructure User:b2c
  • Overview: puppet+dashboard, vmware, storage
  • live server deployment
  • automated tests
• Free talk, show&tell, …

2010-11-23 Bootstrap meeting

• WTF devops? (lightning talk, japhy)
• WTF this meetup? (discussion)
• Achieving Fully Automated Provisioning (whitepaper review and discussion, japhy, sauce: http://blog.controltier.com/2009/04/new-whitepaper-achieving-fully.html and http://dev2ops.org/blog/2009/11/2/6-months-in-fully-automated-provisioning-revisited.html)