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 ..
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.
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.
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.
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.
