I`m an oldschool guy .. I still love pop3(s) to get my mails locally and read them with my fat email client. Evolution.
So when gmail breaks their pop/imap infra I`m screwed for a while. I hate reading mail from a web gui and the collapsed threading model gmail uses makes me nauseus.
So I fiddled with my config .. disabled it.. deleted the account.. created it again. But even after gmail was up again . I couldn’t access my mail from my favourite client. Yet from other clients it seemed to work.
Last year we were pretty negative about Monitoring, We shouted out that MonitoringSucked … A year has passed and a lot has changed … most importantly our new found love for monitoring, thanks to an inspirational Ignite talk by Ulf Mansson at devopsdays Rome.
Right after Fosdem about 20 people showed up at the #monitoringlove hacksessions hosted at the Inuits.eu offices to work on Open Source monitoring projects and exchange ideas. Some completely new people, some people with already a lot of experience.
During my Puppetcamp Gent talk last week, I explained how to get alerts based on trends from graphite. A number of people asked ,e how to do that.
First lets quickly explain why you might want to do that .
Sometimes you don’t care about the current value of a metric..as an example take a Queing system .. there is no problem if there are messages added to the queue, not even if there are a lot of messages on the queue, there might however be a problem if over a certain period the number of messages on a queue stays to high.
My last post has been a while … in that I announced that there would be another event right before FOSDEM … I totally forgot to announce it here but I`m sure that most of you already know. Yes. PuppetCamp Europe is coming back to it’s roots… it’s coming back to the city where we hosted it for the first time on this side of the ocean.. Gent. (that’s 31/1 and 1/2 )
The age of #monitoringsucks is over, we’re now transitioning into a #monitoringlove period.
That however doesn’t mean al the work is done, we still need to do a lot of work and a lot of people are working on a lot of stuff.
Therefore like last year we are opening up our offices again right after Fosdem for a #monitoringlove hackfest
That’s right on february 4 and 5 a bunch of people interrested to fix the problem will be meeting , discussing and hacking stuff together in Antwerp. In short a #monitoringlove hackathon
Im in Barcelona this week for LinuxCon Europe ..\ Ill be hosting 3 sessions this week.
Today Ill be helping [Sebastien Goasguen](https://twitter.com/sebgoa) with his session [Building Foss Clouds](http://linuxconeurope2012.sched.org/event/8816c31538f6278779459b3337a45559#.UJi--tHtBrc), Ill be talking about how to use tools such as Puppet, Graphite and Icinga to monitor your clouds. Sebastian inherited the Building FOSS Clouds tutorial last week and asked me to help out.
A couple of us have been taking about it a lot already .. we wanted to host a one day #devops event in .be already last year.. then talks about starting a meetup group started again with @wonko_be but it was @fs111 pushing the final button and calling the rest of the .be community to order, we’ve set a date
and the first session will take place (agenda still needs to be detirmined)
While heading back home from DrupalCon Munich after 4 days of good interaction with lots of Drupal folks.
I realized to my big suprise that there are a lot of people using Vagrant to make sure that developers are not working on platforms they invented their own. Lots of people have realized that “It works on my computer” is not something they want to hear from a developer and are reaching out to give them viable solutions to work on shared and reproducible solutions.
With 2 of the bigger Open Source projects I care about talking about certifications programs questions pop up again …
Should we certify ourselves ?
So let me tell you about my experiences in getting Open Source related Certifications ..
Over a decade ago, (2001) when RedHat was still Redhat and not yet Fedora the company I was working for was about to partner with RedHat and needed to get a number of people certified for that.