[Devops] Topics next devops meetup

Mon Jun 18 17:48:30 CEST 2012

Hi  there,

sorry for missing out the last few meetings, I'm buried in work atm and have another maintenance scheduled for tuesday evening. Also I'm more the storage/server guy, so Hannes can probably contribute more to the monitoring topic. However we are evaluating splunk and piwik right now and these things are pretty amazing, perhaps I can show off some stuff in the near future ;)

Also we migrated to the latest puppet +puppet dashboard+git backend this month, so if there is interest I can probably do a little insta-demo of the setup.

greez and br,

d.

-----Original message-----
From:Maciej Pasternacki <maciej at pasternacki.net>
Sent:Mon 18-06-2012 15:07
Subject:Re: [Devops] Topics next devops meetup
To:Michael Friedrich <michael.friedrich at univie.ac.at>; 
CC:devops at lists.metalab.at; David Gabriel <d.gabriel at dest-unreachable.net>; 
Michael (both of you, actually) - great! I'm writing down proper announcement, then.

-- M

On Jun 16, 2012, at 18:56 , Michael Friedrich wrote:

> hi,
> 
> On 16.06.2012 18:42, Michael Renner wrote:
>> Process stuff sounds good, can also contribute a few things from my sweden adventures.
>> 
>> I also met with Michael Friedrich of Icinga fame (Lead dev Icinga core) today - he's attending next week and will give a recap on the story so far (mud slinging galore!), what's happened in the last few years development wise and where the project is heading in the future and how they want to address the sins of the past ;)
> i've been attending the terena tf-noc session in dublin last week with my icinga hat on, and best will be to have those slides with me, but still doing the short version (original presentation was 1,5 hours). plus some discussions where to head at, like already talked with Michael this morning/afternoon. as well as interesting stuff from tf-noch meeting, if any.
> 
> more on the tf-noc meeting here: http://www.terena.org/activities/tf-noc/meeting6/programme.html (slides too)
> 
> plus there's a special icinga demo vm built by myself for tf-noc, if you are interested downloading in advance - at the bottom https://confluence.terena.org/display/NOC/Script+library
> i'm sure i will speak a little about that as well ;)
> 
>> 
>> 
>> I'd be great if the monitoring junkies (Hannes Schaller? David Gabriel?) have time - would make for a nice meet up and general "State of the onion" from the "monitoring sucks" perspective ;)
> yay, would be awesome :)
> 
> (i probably won't have any excuse not to join either, as $work is located @ebendorferstrasse ;-))
> 
> see you next week,
> Michael
> 
>> 
>> 
>> all the best,
>> Michael
>> 
>> On Jun 15, 2012, at 18:55 , Maciej Pasternacki wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi guys,
>>> 
>>> Meetup is next Tuesday (June 19th).
>>> 
>>> I was just writing an email about (lack of) topic for the meetup. Pulling something out of our sleeves would be a good thing :) but I can do the pulling.
>>> 
>>> Aaron - a demo and overview would be nice!
>>> 
>>> Michael - workshop would be GREAT, and LXC is something I'd personally like to see up closer. It looks like a perfect kind of virtualization for automated tests of infrastructure. We'll pick a date for next meetup on Tuesday.
>>> 
>>> Re topic - I was going to propose something more process-oriented this time. Recently I've been reading up a bit on how other complicated industries operate, inspired by Atul Gawande's "Checklist Manifesto" (which I highly recommend, BTW). There is some precious stuff out there in aircraft industry, medicine, NASA, and so on. The human factors research and technique development has been already done and paid for, and the results are available.
>>> 
>>> There is surprisingly large amount of overlap and insight when you read papers on management&  operational techniques operating an aircraft. Come on, they got equivalent of software industry's "pair programming" decades ago, with basically same reasons! They are far ahead of us.
>>> 
>>> I won't be able to prepare a proper presentation (this would require a lot of research), but I can do a presentation sketch as a starting point for a discussion.
>>> 
>>> Interested? Any thoughts on that?
>>> 
>>> -- M
>>> 
>>> On Jun 15, 2012, at 18:41 , Aaron Zauner wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> I wrote a very trivial script mailing abuse addresses of IP-ranges
>>>> which fail2ban picks up on various system services due to DDoS or
>>>> other attacks.
>>>> It's in place for only a short period of time now, but i already
>>>> noticed some odd things (e.g. chinese abuse mailboxes don't seem to
>>>> exist 70%+ of the time).
>>>> 
>>>> I can give a short intro and overview (10mins), if i'm in austria at
>>>> the time and anybody is interested. Do we have a date for the meetup?
>>>> 
>>>> so long,
>>>> azet
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 6:31 PM, Michael Renner
>>>> <michael.renner at amd.co.at>  wrote:
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>> 
>>>>> do you already have something planned for the next devops meet up or do we need to pull something out of our sleeves?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I want to do a "From OpenVZ to LXC" session together with Stefan Schlesinger at the next possibility, preparation time was a bit too short for this one.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> all the best,
>>>>> Michael
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