31 March – 4 April started a new month with monitoring tips and fun galore, a how-to guide or two, as well as new hardware.
Eva started the week by counting 8 days to the OSDC and sharing Jan Gehring’s talk on “Orchestrating Servers with Rex” as Bernd peddled our last two tickets to the Berlin event.
He also released the ultimate check_netways plugin just in time for April 1st and offered video evidence that we are home to Germany’s most flexible salesman.
Johannes then gave a guide to installing VMware tools on a FreeBSD 6-8 guest while Christoph showed how to set up end-to-end monitoring with Watir WebDriver and Headless.
Christian continued the monitoring theme, reminding interested attendees to join our Icinga Web webinar and Georg announced newcomers to our hardware store: Braintower SMS Gateway S & L with workshops to boot.
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Weekly Snap: Webinars & Neon 110, Sflow Traffic & Kibana
24 – 28 March was packed with previews for monitoring, graphing and hardware, as well as webinars and an imminent OSDC.
On events, Eva counted 15 days to the OSDC 2014 with Olivier Renault’s ‘Introduction to Hadoop’ as Christian announced our webinar calendar for spring, and jumped straight into one on Puppet.
Of previews, Sebastian offered insight into a Ruby application we’re working on that graphs Sflow traffic with Elasticsearch and Kibana, while Thomas Icinga Web 2.
Continuing on the monitoring theme, Gunnar showed how he achieved auto-discovery with SNMP in Icinga 2, and Georg introduced the newest product to hit our hardware store: environment-monitoring sensor Neon 110.
Weekly Snap: Colorize, FLOSS UK 2014 & Teltonika USB/E10
17 – 21 March took us to the FLOSSUK, shared news from our hardware store and introduced a colourful sys admin tool.
Beginning with events, Eva counted 22 days to the OSDC with Udo Seidel’s presentation on ‘Distributed Storage with GlusterFS’ while Bernd headed off to FLOSS UK 2014 in Brighton to give talks on Icinga and OpenNebula.
Georg sold out of Teltonika USB/E10 modems and Matthias shared Colorize, a tool to colour-code the terminal when working on multiple SSH hosts.
Weekly Snap: CeBIT 2014, LConf 1.4.1 & Spacewalk
10 – 14 March saw a new release of LConf, a preview of Icinga Web 2 and review of Spacewalk all despite the frenzy of a weeklong CeBIT 2014.
Eva counted 29 days to the OSDC with Michael Prokop’s presentation on ‘Continuous Integration in Data Centers’.
She then headed off to CeBIT 2014, and reported back with highlights and photos from the 5-day trade fair.
On the monitoring front, Marius offered a quick preview of Icinga Web 2 and Michael released LConf 1.4.1 with improved Icinga 2 compatibility.
Last but not least, Dirk took a look at Spacewalk for software management.
Weekly Snap: Vagrant & Virtual Box, Puppet Camp Berlin & Ceph Day
3 – 7 March offered events aplenty- from Puppet Camp Berlin and Ceph Day Frankfurt to the OSDC and a webinar on Icinga 2. It was all topped off with a sprinkling of VMs such as Vagrant and Virtual Box.
Eva started the week at 36 days to the OSDC by sharing Ohad Levy’s presentation on ‘Foreman – An Interface for Puppet’. Keeping in theme, she then announced the final program for Puppet Camp Berlin coming in April.
Continuing on events, Christian reminded interested participants to join our webinar on Icinga 2 as Achim shared his impressions of the first German Ceph Day in Frankfurt.
Finally, Michael F configured a multi-instance Vagrant setup to run an Icinga 2 cluster while Markus optimised Virtual Box images to be leaner and faster.
