Configuration in networks can quickly consume a lot of time. The automation tool Ansible helps! You know how to automate things with Ansible and would be open to share your practices with your fellows? Become a speaker at OSCAMP! Open Source Camp is a series of events giving Open Source projects a platform to present themselves to the community. It is a conference format designed bring forward Open Source projects and strengthen their communities.
Its third edition on Ansible takes place right after OSDC‘s lecture program on May 16, 2019, in Berlin. CfP runs until February 28, 2019.
Get on stage! Register as a speaker: opensourcecamp.de/submit-a-talk
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Monthly Snap November
Remember one month ago? The first talks were about to start soon, you had your first coffee, enjoyed the rich Holiday Inn breakfast, took your journal, in which you had your plan for the day scetched, you were happy to meet an old friend in the hallway on your way to Saal Jacobi, where Bernd Erk was preparing to kick-off OSMC. …
OSMC – good times! Take some of its spirit with you into the cold and dark december days and let it warm your heart like a cup of hot Christkindlesmarkt mullet wine.
Form OSMC to Open Infrastructure
How? Make yourself a cup of hot wine and read through OSMC 2018 – Day 1 and OSMC 2018 – Day 2 by Dirk, or OSMC 2018 – or: The Thirteen-Star Conference, in which our attendees share their experiences. Read Michi’s Hackathon stories and Dirk’s report about OSCAMP on Puppet. You’re more of a visual type? Browse through our OSMC Archive and find all the videos, pics and slides.
Right after OSMC our NWS-Team hit the road to Berlin for OpenStack Summit. Check out their managed Open Infrastructure service at nws.netways.de – now with MyEngineer support!
Icinga Seminar & Berlin Camp
Lennart Betz continues his blogpost-seminar Icinga 2 – Monitoring automatisiert mit Puppet Teil 9: Profile and Teil 10: Profile Part II. Join the Icinga community in 2019: Icinga Camp Berlin: Call for Papers is running until Decemeber 31! Find all November Icinga updates here.
For the tech hearts
Achim tell you to Get your RadosGW metrics into Ceilometer. Loei explains the use and functionality of RFID & NFC. Niko shares Neuheiten beim IntelliJ-Update. Tim knows Ceph Mimic | Using loop devices as OSD
In git gud! Henrik tells the story of: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love my Code. Noah introduces you with GitKraken to a nearly perfect Git-Client, while Johannes shares another useful tool: PDF manipulieren mit pdftk.
Presents
In November Silke announced Black Friday mal ganz in Orange – Es darf gespart werden und Die neue Generation der SMSEagle NXS-97xx Linie stellt sich vor. It‘s always a good idea to check our Shop for special offers. Especially if you are looking for Christmas presents. In that sense: Entschleunigung vom Weihnachtsstress bei Netways!
Have a wonderful December and Christmas season! Stay tuned!
OSCamp took a close look at Puppet
If you want to meet the masterminds behind a certain project, one of the best things to do is join OSCamp. Each event in the OSCamp-series throws a spotlight on another Open Source tool. OSCamp‘s second edition was on Puppet – one of the leading configuration management tools, that has been used in many productive environments for years.
Taking place in the same venue as OSMC, the Puppet users among the OSMC attendees took the chance to join the Camp and get in touch with a lot of experienced Puppet people.
From NETWAYS my colleague Dirk Götz took part in the OSCamp as a speaker. Here is his what he experienced that day:
With Walter Gildersleeve being ill we had a changed agenda, so Martin Alfke (picture) started with a great talk on how you should handle Puppet modules. It was one of the best explanaitions of the Roles and Profiles pattern you can get including many pitfalls you should avoid handling the upstream modules.
Tim Meusel‘s first talk was on scaling and monitoring Puppetserver full of practical tipps for configuring Puppetserver, Foreman, PostgreSQL, and PuppetDB.
Bram Vogelaar talked about bootstraping a cloud infrastructure with Puppet and the Hashicorp stack based on his experience from doing so at a costumer.
Containers, de-mystified
Martin volunteered to give his great “Ops hates containers. Why?” talk as a second one which shows a good example for what Devops should not look like. But then he de-mystified containers and explained how to combine container and configuration management in a good way.
After lunch I tried to squeeze all my tipps on deploying Foreman into an already existing Puppet environment into 30 minutes and to convince attendees to do so with a demo.
Kris Buytaert and Lander Van den Bulcke explained why it is so complicated to get on newer versions of Puppet in an enterprise environment and shared helpful information on how to get this done successfully.
Introduction into Vox Pupuli
Tim finished the round of talks with an introduction into Vox Pupuli the biggest community maintaining Puppet modules. It is always fascinating and inspiring to see how much work some Open Source communities do to get the tool of their choice into its best shape.
Afterwards a platform for open discussion was provided so people could share more knowledge, learn from each other and get new ideas and optimization hints for their own environment. Stay tuned to get to know what Open Source project the our next OSCamp will focus on!
Monthly Snap September – NETWAYS News | Tips & Tricks | DevOps | Conferences & Trainings
Hellooooo Huuumans!!! 🙂
Autumn is here & I came to think of the most famous GOT quote “Winter is coming!!“. Well, Let’s move back to the current season – “Autumn”. Did you also have the feeling, that this was a very quick month? #Vacayisover
What happened in the NETWAYS Shop?
The New of AKCP: Battery Temp Sensor (BTTS) . Time to celebrate! Our NETWAYS Monitor – Silke. The brand new software version 3.32 of SMS Eagle is here! Callback URL, Autoreply, SMS forwarding, and more. Silke shared her best autumn- tips: “Wir haben aufgeräumt und aufgestockt! Neues Gude Sortiment steht im Shop zur Verfügung” (We have lots of new products from Gude in our online shop!)
What are they up to now? #Developers
#Monitoring: everything is regulated. But!! What Thomas said??? Jennifer reports on DevOpsDays Berlin 2018, “Warum ist das jetzt wichtig und was hat das mit IT zu tun?“ Weg mit dem Schrott: Müll im Weltraum – says Marius. (Store the garbage in space?). Michael released GitLab training v2.3.0 which includes bug fixes and new features. He also updated the material and tagged v2.3.0 . Aleksander (our new trainee) has got some news on “Ubuntu 18.04 LTS“. Michael told us about the days away with his fellow developers at the “Franconian Alps” #DEV Retreat 2018 Recap
How do they do this all the time? #superactive | The most awaited conference is coming soon! #OSMC
Julia claimed that the workshops are the best place to learn and get inspired. #OSMC workshops (FYI: Prometheus and Icinga 2 / Puppet workshops are sold out. Get your Graylog and Ansible workshops tickets quickly, before it`s too late!). Preparing for the OSMC? A perfect way to get in the mood for the OSMC 2018 is by watching the recap from 2017! Julia wrote about a great opportunity at this- years` #OSMC “Going to the OSMC? Join the OSCAMP #Puppet! Check out the speakers and their talks“.
Stay tuned for many more upcoming NETWAYS voices!! 🙂
Going to OSMC? Join OSCAMP! Program is now online
Want to be a Master of Puppet? – Join OSCAMP! Open Source Camp is a brand new series of events giving Open Source projects a platform to present themselves to the community. OSCAMPs second edition is on Puppet. The one-day event comprises expert presentations and tech tutorials, insights into latest developments, how-tos and future trends.
We are very happy to announce this year’s program! Come and listen to the trailblazing ideas and works of…
- Walter Gildersleeve – Puppet
- Tim Meusel – GoDaddy
- Martin Alfke – example42
- Kris Buytaert – Inuits
- … and many more
To see the program visit Open Source Camp website.
Taking place on November 8, the camp directly follows OSMC‘s lecture program. Extend your stay in Nuremberg and get in touch with the Open Source enthusiasts behind Puppet. Benefit from their extensive know-how, learn, discuss and discover new grounds! Register now!
Get to know all the important Puppet facts and faces!
#OSCAMP | November 8, 2018 | Nuremberg