In January, we were focusing a lot on all the news that are happening in the Icinga cosmos. Gunnar told us about the new 
Features in Icinga 2.3 like setting conditional statements, the development console or the manipulation of dictionaries with datatypes.
Johannes schmoozed about one of our favorite projects at the moment: a barrier-free version of Icinga Web2. Alexander followed up the topic with giving some examples on the HTML level for how a barrier-free software works.
Besides all Icinga related news, I gave the starting signal for the Call for papers at Open Sounce Backup Conference on Bareos.
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Weekly Snap: Heira, HTML Floats Upgraded & Logstash Quick Start
6 – 10 October offered guides on Heira, Logstash and the new generation of floats in HTML, plus a few OSDC announcements along the way.
Eva started the week counting 50 days to the OSMC by sharing Alan Robertson’s talk: “Monitoring and Discovery with Limit”.
She went on to announce early bird specials for the OSDC in Berlin coming up in April, and tout the Call for Papers.
Achim then gave a short guide to Hiera, a key value backend for Puppet while Thomas W presented his updated quick start tutorial on Logstash.
Lastly, Marius celebrated “Flexible Box Layout Module” as the neo-“floating” containers in HTML.
Weekly Snap: VM migration & PuppetCamp Dusseldorf Deal
29 September – 3 October started a new month with VM migration and much ado about Puppet – from courses to Camps, plus a promo to boot.
Eva started by counting 57 days to the OSMC with Thomas Lehmann’s talk: “Monitoring as the Source of Truth in Deploying a Dynamic Website by Waves.
She went on to share a 25% off promo code for the upcoming Puppet Camp in Dusseldorf, and hurry on interested attendees to get their tickets while they last.
Thilo then compared three methods of migrating virtual machines, as Lennart reported back from his Puppet Architect course in London.
Weekly Snap: OSBConf, Puppet Conf & NSClient++
22 – 26 September was packed with events – while driving up to Cologne for the OSBConf and flying down to San Francisco’s Puppet Conf, we managed to squeeze a mini-guide on NSClient++ in between.
Eva started as usual, counting 64 days to the OSMC with Reiko Streng’s presentation on his “Monitoring Environment based on OMD”.
She continued to thank OSBConf 2014 sponsors while Markus reported live from the OSBConf in Cologne with photos and stories galore.
Thomas W too gave his review of the OSBConf, sharing details on the talks ranging from Bareos and Puppet, to Grau OpenArchive and Ceph.
Meanwhile Michael dialed in from San Francisco to share his impressions of the Puppet Conf 2014.
To end the week, Christoph finished up his blog series on NSClient++, adding a post on installation with SSL and gnoMint.
Weekly Snap: DevOps Camp & Icinga 2 Workshop, PuppetDB & Foreman
15 – 19 September was filled with sys admin tips and events – looking ahead to the OSMC, and back on the DevOps Camp and Icinga 2 Monitoring Redesigned workshop just past.
Eva started by counting 71 days to the OSMC with Rihards Olups’ talk on Zabbix and Marius G continued by sharing his impressions from the recent DevOps Camp 2014 in Nuremberg.
Meanwhile, Michael gave the lowdown on the Icinga 2 Monitoring Redesigned workshop just past as Markus explained how to make the most of Puppet’s ‘exported resources’ feature with PuppetDB and Foreman.
Finally, Georg introduced three water intrusion sensor systems from our hardware store.
