Devops Needs Sushi
No really .. it seems like everyone wants to jump on the bandwagon …Or just let us know they were already on the pulling the train ..
Brian Moon weighs in that it isn’t anything new. Hey .. it’s not like we’ve been claiming that Devops is new ..
The dev2ops guys give their views on stuff ..
The rPath crowd weighs in
And if that wasn’t enough … you really should have a listen to what Jono Bacon and his pall have to say about it
So John wrote down his experiences on deploying Drupal sites with Puppet .
It’s not a secret that I’ve been thinking about similar stuff and how I could get to the best possible setup.
John starts of with using Puppet to download Drush… while I want to use rpm for that …
I want my core infrastructure to be fully packaged… not downloaded and untarred. I want to be able to reproduce my platform in a couple of months , with the exact same versions I`m using now .. not with the version that happens to be on ftp.drupal.org at that point in time, or with ftp.drupal.org being down.
Over at the OPenARK blog Shlomi Noach argues that using apt-get or yum to install your MySQL instance will one day most likeley break your MySQL setup. Depdendencies, distros not shipping the MySQL version you want to use and on some distro’s indeed the mysql vs MySQL issue, agreed, it all makes things less trivial.
However why give up a clean packaged system if there are other ways out ?
First of all by claiming that such an installation can break a working production environment looks to me like admitting you don’t have a split development, production environment and that rather than testing stuff upfront indeed you just hack a long in production.
Over 1.5 decade ago, a bunch of us were addicted to irc, I lived on channels such as #coders, #nlcoders, #demoscene, sneaked in on #vlaanderen to see when the Leuven locals were heading to the pub, then started joining multiple Linux and Open Source related channels around 94…
Then some weirdos had an alternative way of chatting ICQ, then the folks from Redmond reinvented the wheel… Luckily XMPP arrived and Jabber became the open alternative, but still all of this time irc stayed
I would like to point the crowd to the Call For Presentaions of Loadays. , the Linux Open Administration Days .
The Linux Open Administration days 2010 will be the first edition of a new conference focusing on Linux and Open Administration, we are trying to fill a gap for System Engineers and Administrators using Open Source technologies"
More details on the Linux Open Administration Days site
I’ll probably be there .. given the fact that the event will be 5 minutes from where I live .
Fosdem 2010 was my 10th fosdem Edition (including the first OSDEM)
As every year Fosdem suffered even more from it’s own success.
On Friday evening ther was the obligatory Beer event… however as people need to eat to .. the Devops crowd fled the scene
I had made reservations for a 20 something group and with the CentOS crowd joining us (as there was some overlap anyhow) we were 25 when we arrived in the restaurant .
I know the biggest part of my fanclub already booked tickets for my upcoming presentations, but the other 2 might want to check their calendars to see if they aren’t missing out on the good stuff :)
Next Sunday I`ll giving a shortish overview of MySQL HA alternatives in the MySQL and Friends devroom at Fosdem.
March will bring me to Manchester again for the UKUUG Spring conference where I`ll be giving a longer version of that presentation with a strong focus on integrating with PaceMaker, and automating the whole boostrap procedure of a HA setup.
When you pull out a disk from your Raid setup it shows a warning in syslog
1. Jan 27 10:18:22 EL860 kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi0: AEN: WARNING (0x04:0x0019): Drive
2. removed:port=1.
3. Jan 27 10:18:22 EL860 kernel: 3w-9xxx: scsi0: AEN: ERROR (0x04:0x0002): Degraded
4. unit:unit=0, port=1.
However if no one is looking at syslog that won’t really be helpfull.
3Ware provides a tool from their site called tw_cli which can be used to manage
the raid setup from the command line.
Fresh laptop arrived, obviously the first thing to do is to install the latest fedora. then do a full yum update.
However that failed with the following failed dependency\
1. mesa-libGL-7.7-2.fc12.i686 from updates has depsolving problems
2. --> Missing Dependency: libdrm >= 2.4.17-1 is needed by package mesa-libGL-7.7-2.fc12.i686 (updates)
3. Error: Missing Dependency: libdrm >= 2.4.17-1 is needed by package mesa-libGL-7.7-2.fc12.i686 (updates)
4. You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
5. You could try running: package-cleanup --problems
6. package-cleanup --dupes
7. rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
Now I don’t really use all the fancy compiz stuff so for now I can just solve it by running
Fosdem is coming up again .. It’s going to be the 10th edition already So it’s going to be 2 days and nights of fun, tech and geek stuff
Lenz already posted the announcement , but allow me to recapitulate.
The MySQL & Friends meetup is on saturday evening , we’ll meet around 1900 in front of the under the big tree in front of the AW building…
As with the Devops Meetup you can once again vote for your preferred food