Devops Needs Sushi
Whenever I give my Cloud security talk there’s a slide in there talking about the most scary idea about Cloud and Security, the fact that Marketing people will build things on their own while IT, or any other departement isn’t involved, and as we all know marketing people have no clue about security, it’s not on their mind they won’t even think about adding some sort of security to their application.
Here’s how it started :
So I used to be a software developer, writing perl for the web, then C, then Java, then PHP, till I realized nobody ever configured my servers correctly and I changed trades becoming a system engineer, while teaching new developers the basics of their trade, whom grew into doing Infrastructure Architecture .. familiar story for much of the crowd at DevopsDays … a crowd that wants to stopping the war between developers and system engineering , a crowd that wants to automate builds, integrate testing, deploy, deploy on very large scale, deploy in the cloud and much more.
So yesterday a 100+ crowd met in the Antwerp Zoo.
I heard different comments from that crowd… some of them liked the event, good networking, interresting topics , a broad overview, meeting new vendors active in the Cloud, others of them didn’t .. it wasn’t a real camp , just some vendors pitching, they didn’t hear any new stuff , or we didn’t touch the real stuff.
So different opinions from different expectations…
The slides from the presentation I gave last friday at Lsec are now online, both at My Site and on Slideshare
VirtSec, and the Open Source impact
View more presentations from Kris Buytaert.
I learned a lot last friday , I`ll be talking to some more people about the technical details , but be expecting some of my findings on Virtualization.com soon :)
When I tell people that the concept of copying VM’s around as frequently done in the VMWare world is one of the most stupid ideas on this planet, I get the weirdest looks.
In my world it is, I want my infrastructure to be reproducible , I want to be able to throw any machine in my infrastructure out of the 10th floor of a building and be up and running again in no time. If I spread a bunch of VM copies around who knows what kind of life they start leading. Some will get upgrades, some won’t ..
If I get an image from someone, how did he get there ? Nobody knows ..
This comment by Jim Leonard, Trixter/Hornet for those who still remember our previous lives , is right on the spot.
“This is the longest post I’ve ever seen that says “do not put your only copy of data on a site you do not pay for or trust.”
Weird, how you suddenly bump online into someone you haven’t heard from for over a decade, and even weirder how they still seem to have similar ideas to yours :-)
Am I the only one who thinks the JoliCloud screenshot on TechCrunch really really looks like a default eeebuntu setup ?
