1 – 5 September offered new Puppet courses, a rundown of open source licenses and a new VoIP telephone system in store.
Eva kicked off the week with the Icinga project’s status update from 2013, counting 85 days to the OSMC.
She went on to announce two new training courses – Puppet Practitioner and Puppet Architect.
Georg followed by introducing the minimalist Starface Compact VoIP telephone system as Alexander navigated the open source license jungle.
Heading into the weekend, Bernd shared a video for fellow addict Twitterers to enjoy, while Lennart recounted his most recent need for a business card.
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Weekly Snap: LConf, Iperf & Icinga 2 Training
16 – 20 June brought much ado about monitoring – from an LConf release and training course on Icinga 2, to a guide to SMS alerts and a network performance tool.
Christian began the week by announcing a new webinar on Foreman for OpenNebula, as Silke introduced our new training course on Icinga 2.
Meanwhile, Michael released LConf 1.4.2 and LConf for Icinga Web 1.4.0 with compatibility updates for Icinga 2.
Continuing on the monitoring theme, Georg explained how to set up Icinga / Nagios SMS alerts on Linux systems, and Tobias showed how to assess network performance with Iperf.
Lastly, Lennart came to a Puppet course’s rescue in Paris as a substitute trainer.
Weekly Snap: Docker, Heap Fragmentation & Bacula vs. Bareos
16 – 20 December brought us closer to Christmas with developer tools, developer lawsuits and a new course calendar for 2014.
Eva counted 113 days to the OSDC 2014 with Falk Stern’s presentation on ‘Data Center Management with Racktables’, and announced the dates for our Puppet, Logstash and Graphite training courses next year.
Sebastian discovered Docker, a framework to create lean and portable LXC containers, as Gunnar created a profiler called fprofil.cpp to analyse heap fragmentation.
To close the week, Bernd gave his take on Bacula’s copyright lawsuit against its open source fork, Bareos.
Weekly Snap: PuppetCamp Munich, Mac Resets & Puppet Course Online
7 – 11 October was packed with events – in the lead up to the OSMC and PuppetCamp Munich, we dug into online instruction on Puppet and LConf while sharing a few Apple Mac resets on the side.
With just 15 days to the OSMC, Eva shared Mike Adolph’s presentation on “Monitoring Behavior Driven Infrastructures with Cucumber-Nagios”.
Georg rounded up interested participants for a webinar on the Icinga/Nagios configuration tool, LConf and uploaded the video promptly thereafter.
Markus announced the upcoming PuppetCamp III on 28 November in Munich while Silke unveiled our new online Puppet Fundamentals course in cooperation with the Media Linux Academy.
Weekly Snap: TKmon for Servers, Puppet & Pacemaker Courses
22 – 26 July was packed with training courses on Puppet and Pacemaker, tips for SAHI and Vagrant vboxsf, and a new monitoring software for servers to boot.
Martin presented TKmon, a simplified version of Icinga for Thomas Krenn Servers that automatically notifies Thomas Krenn for support on hardware problems.
Eva counted 92 days to the OSMC with Simon Meggle’s presentation on “End-2-End Monitoring of Web Applications with SAHI”.
She went on to introduce our Puppet training courses – the first officially certified classes in Germany for beginners, advanced users and even developers wishing to extend the configuration management software.
Continuing with courses, Lennart gave us a peek into his teaching plan on building clusters with Pacemaker as Eric shared his quick tip for delivering Javascript files and images using Vagrant vboxsf.
Lastly, Bernd lamented superficial Facebook birthday wishes while Stephanie reported on this year’s B2Run and our 17-man team of joggers.
