Devops , a Barcamp Gent 3 Talk
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UKUUG Spring 2009 Conference, the after post
Last week the UKUUG Spring , Large Scale Infrastructure conference took place in London,
Altough only 1 track was scheduled, the content was very good, some talks were a bit short, others were a bit too long. And luckily the talks that didn’t really bring me new content were entertaining :) Also the after conf chatter in the pub across the street was so much fun we almost failed to catch our plane back to Antwerp.
Image Sprawl , and the new cure ..
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 ..
What does your BOFH want ? :)
Larry, I`m glad you asked ..
With the risk of receiving a flood of comments pointing me to already existing tools here’s my go at what I as a sysadmin of often large deployments am looking for in Drupalland .
You suggest LDAP and syslog integration .. guess we already have that don’t we ?
But what I haven’t found yet ..
An rpm/deb repository of Drupal modules So we can do an apt-get install drupal-package , yes I know about Drush, but I want the files on my system to be in a package and clearly identified, it helps me keeping my system uncluttered.
Is anybody else confused about Chef ?
Chef absolutely confuses me..
Luke is confused too ..
I’m clearly disappointed that someone who has been a high-profile user of Puppet but has never contributed much in the way of code (Ohloh claims 2 commits) would decide to start a whole new project rather than attempt to contribute to Puppet
Now , if you know me a bit you know that reinventing the wheel, or creating identical projects with no clear reasons is something I dislike .