Devops Needs Sushi
James Dixon has some polls on his blog, they let you choose between being a free software junkie, an open source hacker or what I’d call a an incompetent moron ;)
I had mostly 2’s , no 3 in case you’d wonder.
Ronald Bradford wants to know what kind of Monitoring you use..
He specifically wants to know about Alerting tools
There’s different cases , looking at it from a full infrastructure point my current favourite is Zabbix or good old Nagios,
But when looking at it from a debugging perspective you have MySQLAR or Hyperic, but those aren’t in the alerting list.
However, when you are building HA clusters, you have custom scripts running either from mon or from pacemaker ..
When your machine knows what you mean ..
1. [s3p-root@XMS-1 tomcat6]# crm configure
2. crm(live)configure# bye
3. [s3p-root@XMS-1 tomcat6]# crm confiure
4. crm(live)configure# bye
5. [s3p-root@XMS-1 tomcat6]# crm confiture
6. crm(live)configure# bye
7. [s3p-root@XMS-1 tomcat6]#
I’d better\
1. apt-get install coffee
As every year in october a small crowd navigated to Eindhoven to spend 2 days discussing Open Source , Free Software and Beer
The good part about T-Dose is the fact that it is so small, you actually get the chance to talk to a lot of people, you get the chance to sit down with them and play with the code they have been working on ,
T-Dose had talks on IPv6, Bind10 , Linux Auto Update USB, eTokens on Linux , VirtSec, Django , Puppet and other topics.
I actually missed talks that I had wanted to see.. just because I was in the middel of interresting discussions with people. That’s totally different from some other conferences where I don’t even make it to the talks because of the smalltalk :)
I`m gonna have to quote Tarus once again :
For years now I’ve been struggling to educate the market on the fact that the business around open source software is not about software. It’s about solutions.
Let me repeat that .. it’s not about selling software …
It’s about solutions
And obviously FLOSS is the Ideal platform to build value for your customers
With the fresh launch of inuits.be this long overdue post popped up again , Earlier this year we got this very nice letter from the BSA That’s right the Business Software Alliance.
The letter pictured below is in dutch, so allow me to translate
some parts :) (Although I`m pretty sure you’ve seen variations of this letter in different languages before..)
In short they are warning us about using software with no licenses.
For those who wonder why my blogging is so low these days (apart from today) .. I`m actually writing more Lines of Code than Blog Entries the last couple of weeks:)
And when Im not writing code Im reading :) Either proofreading an upcoming book on Zabbix or reading some of the other books Packt sent me.
Next to that I`m busy preparing my T-Dose presentation
Oh and did I mention a 40 something questions questionnaire about some merger ?
I found the initial announcement in my Spambox, thats where I send all the mails from GroundWork as unsubscribing from their marketing lists doesn’t seem to work ..
Tarus pointed it out.. he already mentionned Marketing, low community imput etc..
Nevertheles I had a look, and my first and last impression was, NagiosForge, no active community, and empty pages on other imvho more relevant Monitoring Projects created by GroundWork employees.
There is once again a lot of fuzz going on about Open Source Business models,
First on my eyballs was the article that Customers don’t seem to like openCore what a big surprise ..
So that’s not the one that makes the customers happy ,
Then there is the other side of the coin, the people that create open source
Authors realize the dual licensing model comes hunting back at you after a merger or a hostile acquisition, yes they still have the source code to build on but they can’t sell commercial licenses to their customers anymore they way they used to.
I mean, we are heading towards 2010 , some of us have been using Open Source for decades, the Open Source vs Free Software discussion was like last millenium, and we’ve been doing open source consultancy for over a decade, yet today companies still think their customers are stupid,
Fancy this story on ZDNet today .. there’s actually companies out there claiming that “Bind” because of it’s FreeWare nature , yes that’s right you’ve Read FREEWARE , (hadn’t heard that word for over 5 years..) , is less secure than their proprietary offering in the Cloud. So the very nature of their Secure product is offering Security by Obscurity in an insecure environment .