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NLUUG Spring Conference 2010

Last week the NLUUG Spring Conference was held in Ede, this years topic was System Administration in general.. which means there was a pretty wide range of talks … some of the talks were extremely interesting and gathered a lot of people , others really shouldn’t have been put in the main room.. Frequenly organising them myselve it’s always a difficult choice for a conference organiser.

Must say this was one of my better talks .. it all went smooth and nicely fit within time. Probably the promise of drinks and food after my talk helped some.

MySQL HA , an alternative approach

For those who’ve seen my presentation on MySQL HA, you already know that I often use a multimaster setup with a meta OCF resource that groups my favoured MySQL instance with the service ip , using a meta resource means that pacemaker monitors mysql, but it doesn’t actually manage it. It’s an approach that works for us.

One of the other approaches I will be looking at soon is the freshly released OCF resource that Florian announced last week.

Devops and Cloud

Whenever I give my Cloud security talk there’s a slide in there talking about the most scary idea about Cloud and Security, the fact that Marketing people will build things on their own while IT, or any other departement isn’t involved, and as we all know marketing people have no clue about security, it’s not on their mind they won’t even think about adding some sort of security to their application.

Zabbix, the book

Ages ago the folks over at Packt asked me if I was interested in writing a book about Zabbix, I kindly declined, I didn’t have time to write a book ,

Months later we got back in touch and I got involved in reviewing the book


It just arrived in the mail .

There’s a couple of things I’d have done different , but overall it’s a good read if you are interrested in Zabbix.

Linux Open Administration Days 2010

So about 4 monts ago there was the crazy idea to start a new FOSS event in Belgium targeted at sysadmins.

What started out as an event for local people to meet local people with some local speakers actually ended up being a small local event with some top international speakers on onfiguration mananagement and system administration mixed with a bunch of good local ones !

I had the honour to open the conference with an extremely short version of the Devops talk I gave earlier last year.. extremely short as I knew that over the course of the weekend the topic would reoccur a lot.

UKUUG Spring Conference 2010

Last week I was in Manchester for the 2010 UKUUG Spring Conference, right .. make that 2 weeks ago , :)

The UKUUG usually hosts the more interesting conferences around … , it’s not just the schedule that attrackts me , yes there’s the strong focus towards Larger Scale Unix (and mostly Linux) deployments and how to manage them, but there’s also the opportunity to chat in real life with the Devops from across the chunnel.

Starting a Collection

Apparently I started a collection ..
Of DNS books signed by their author …

As already mentioned on twitter, Jan-Piet Mens kindly gave me a signed copy of his alternative DNS Servers book, last week at the UKUUG 2010 Spring Conference

When I got that book I didn’t even know yet that this morning I was going to be at a seminar on DNS sec by Cricket Liu
and because of having registered so late for the event I certainly wasn’t expecting to get one of the books that were going to be handed out to the first 50 people that signed up … but I was lucky ..

11 days till Loadays

That’s right .. only 11 more …
The schedule looks promising, there will be some devops juice, some open spaces, some tutorials, som regular talks .. it really looks promising … the schedule is packed ,

Apart from the talks, tutorials and open spaces there’s also the
Pizza party and the Beer event on saturday …

No need to register .. just show up ..