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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s also talk of the local Devops meetup group hosting an additional meetup !
About a month later Ill be heading to San Francisco for a talk at [PuppetConf 2012](http://puppetconf.com/). I'll probably be around in the valley a bit earlier\ so if you anyone wants to meet up Im open for suggestions.
I’ve taken over a bit of Patricks workload this year , thus I`m trying to guide the local crew in Rome into organising yet another awesome Devopsdays Europe,
If you haven’t noticed yet , Devopsdays is going to be in Rome this year on october 5 and 6. Both registration and the call for participation are still open !
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.
I’ve just finished presenting my talk on how I currently work on Puppet modules at Puppetcamp here in Edinburgh where I’ve been for the week talking on both FlossUK 2012 and Puppetcamp.
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.
“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.