I`m not the biggest fan of openSUSE but this weeks post by Colin Charles makes me happy ..
openSUSE users can now do a mariadb install from their default repositories.
With all the fuzz about Snoracle and MySQL’s future last year to me it became clear that we would end up having different MySQL based distributions, probably with different names, and that it would be up to the Linux distributions to provide the users with what they preferred, working with those Linux distributions
therefore would be very important for the MySQL distributions.
People start actually building it (French Article)
Then add to that list that there’s also people out there that think that running MySQL over NFS is providing them High Availability, or that using DNS Round Robin will provide them a scalable setup,
So yes .. apparently there is indeed a parallel universe out there.
And no .. I don’t want to see Webmin in any Appliance .. that is a joke…, or rather a rant ..
Couple of Fridays ago we had one of our @Inuits days again. Rather than having some people give talks and presentations about what they have been doing for the past couple of months this time we set out to research, test, and build stuff.
We split up in 3 different groups, one focusing on CI and testing freshly build stuff with cucumber, a second one setup and tested Galera
We setup a 3 node Galera cluster , not really as smooth as we’d like to ..
It’s a typical situation, the developers develop on their own boxen, they only start to integrate their code on on the production platform 3 hours before the deadline. And then the problems start, the typical “But it works on my system” , “its your problem now” is something nobody really likes to hear .
Q: Are you related to Dries ?
A: No we aren’t (as far as we know)
Q: Do you know Dries ?
A: Yeah .. I’ve known him since before he started his work on Drupal, now can you stop asking about Dries and refocus on me ?
Q: Are you related to Thomas Buytaert
A: No.
Q: Why are you sdog on irc ?
A: Back in my DemoScene days my nick was Sleeping Dog , whch was too long for a unix account name , sleeping didn’t feel like a good choice and neither did dog, so the abbrev became sdog
Yesterday @beaker posted his ideas on the #devops movement …
Apparently we haven’t been stressing enough on the fact that it isn’t just about Devs and Ops,
So let me repeat it’s not just about Devs and Ops, it’s about breaking silo’s , about being good at our jobs, about getting conversation started, about talking to different stakeholders in the processes . We are absolutely trying to include all groups, not exclude some.
Last week was pretty heavy on conferences for me. On wednesday I had to give my Building Virtual Appliances talk at the at the Sizing Server event on Advanced Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud Computing , but the most important part of the week was the first edition of Puppetcamp Europe.
When the first ideas about PuppetCamp Europe started I asked Luke when and where it’d be held. He replied that I should know as I was supposed to organise it… I thanked for the honour , he went on to ask Patrick , he accepted … I hope I helped him out enough :) I even handed out a personal invitation to some of the most famous configuration mgmt people on this planet and Inuits sponsored the event too
For all the security experts : the NLUUG has published it’s Call For Abstracts for it’s Fall conference.. as you might have guessed the topic is Security, we welcome all abstracts tackling security in a broad sense.
Possible topics include:
* cloud security
* online privacy
* rfid hacking
* secure programming
* programma-analysis-tools
* web services security
* web browser security
* embedded hardware hacking
* incident response and forensics
* malware and rootkits
* responsible disclosure
* legal response
* fighting spam
* patch policies
* identity management
* central point of administration
* DNSsec
* VPN based WANs
* etc.
Johan from Sizing Servers asked me if I could talk about my experiences on building (virtual) appliances at their Advanced Virtualization and Hybrid Cloud seminar . Off course I said yes ..