Everything is a Freaking DNS problem

Devops Needs Sushi

Devops Meeting Munich

Quick Note :

With Drupalcon going on next week in Munich , the nice folks of the local Devops Meetup are organising an evening event

Next tuesday at 1900 at Skoobe Gmbh

More details on the Meetup page !

Our #monitoringsucks rpm is repository available

Not only our Rubygems Builds have changed, but also my internal #monitoringsucks repository.

You might have noticed a variety of vagrant- projects on my github acount

http://github.com/KrisBuytaert/vagrant-ganglia
http://github.com/KrisBuytaert/vagrant-graphite
http://github.com/KrisBuytaert/vagrant-puppet-logstash,
Being the #monitoringsucks part of them. All of those Vagrant projects are basically my test setups to play with those new tools.

They contain a bunch of puppet modules that install and configure these tools. (Note that they mostly consist of
of git submodules to other puppet module repositories.

Ruby Gems Yum Repo

For those of you that are looking for my old build-gems Github repo, given that lots of other Inuits collegues are using it too I’ve transferred ownership of that repo to the Inuits group.

It can now be found on https://github.com/Inuits/build-gems/ (Yes directory indexes are disabled on purpose..)

The build result has also been moved. We’ve replaced our static repo.inuits.be with a Pulp powered yum repo.

The new location of the rubygems rpm repo now is at http://pulp.inuits.eu/pulp/repos/rubygems/

Breaking the Silence.

3+ months is probably the biggest timeout I’ve taken from blogging in a while..
Not that I didn’t have anything to write ..but more that I was prioritizing writing different content over
over writing blogposts.

Blogging tech snippets and contributing documentation used to be one now all of that has evolved.
Anyhow ..

So to get things going here’s my preliminary Conference schedule for the next couple of months.

  • First up, in about one week (august 20-24) Ill be chairing the #devops track at [DrupalCon Munich](http://munich2012.drupal.org/)\ Next to talking there myselve explaining the [Drupal Crowd what devops is](http://munich2012.drupal.org/program/sessions/whats-devops-thing-anyhow)\ Plenty of interresting content there ranging from culture over to tooling and back. Im really looking forward to this one.

Devops in Munich

Devopsdays Mountainview sold out in a short 3 hours .. but there’s other events that will breath devops this summer.
DrupalCon in Munich will be one of them ..

Some of you might have noticed that I`m cochairing the devops track for DrupalCon Munich,
The CFP is open till the 11th of this month and we are still actively looking for speakers.

We’re trying to bridge the gap between drupal developers and the people that put their code to production, at scale.
But also enhancing the knowledge of infrastructure components Drupal developers depend on.

Devops and Drupal, the Survey, the Results

I’ve just finished presenting the results of our Drupal and Devops survey at the Belgian Drupal User Group meetup at our office

and I’ve uploaded the slides to slideshare for the rest of the world to cry read.

Drupal and Devops , the Survey Results

View more presentations from Kris Buytaert.

Honestly I was hoping for the audience to prove me wrong and I was expecting all of them to claim they were doing automated and repeatable deployments.

Logstash and ElasticSearch

“An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.”
Niels Bohr

When I setup Logstash for the very first time I got bitten by an empty search, aparently no logs were indexed. Reading the log files indeed told me about\

1. WARN: org.elasticsearch.discovery.zen.ping.unicast: [Blaire, Allison] failed to send ping to [[#zen_unicast_1#][inet[/127.0.0.1:9300]]]
2. INFO   | jvm 1    | 2012/02/06 22:45:55 | org.elasticsearch.transport.RemoteTransportException: [Page, Karen][inet[/127 .0.0.1:9300]][discovery/zen/unicast]
3. INFO   | jvm 1    | 2012/02/06 22:45:55 | Caused by: java.io.EOFException

The above is the typical error when the ElasticSearch version you are using externally is not in sync with the one Logstash is using, yes those versions need to match.

The ultimate 2012 open source and devops conference

Kent Skaar pinged me last week , asking for feedback on Lisa'11 and input for Lisa 2012.

Thought I should share my advise to him with the rest of the world

So If I were to host an event similar to Lisa I’d had either
Jordan Sissel or Mitchell Hashimoto give the keynote because over the past 24 months those people have written more relevant tools for me than anyone else :)

We didn't fix it

MonitoringSucks and we didn’t fix it.

Earlier this week Inuits hosted a 2 day hackfest titled #MonitoringSucks. A good number of people with a variety of backgrounds showed up on monday morning. I don’t know why but people had high expectations for this event , did they really expect us to fix the #monitoringsucks problem in a mere 2 days ?

Next to myselve we had Patrick Debois , Grégory Karékinian, Stefan Jourdan, Colin Humphreys, Andrew Crump, Ohad Levy , Frank Marien, Toshaan Bharvani, Devdas Bhagat, Maciej Pasternacki Axel Beckert Jelle Smet, Noa Resare @blippie , John John Tedro @udoprog, Christian Trabold @ctrabold and obviously some people I missed
A good mixture of Fosdem visitors that stayed a litte longer in our cold country and locals with ideas. We had people from TomTom, RedHat , Spotify, Booking.com, Inuits, Atlassian, coming from Belgium, The Netherlands France, Israel, the UK, Sweden, Germany, Poland and Switzerland if I`m not mistaken.