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Monthly Snap May

by | Jun 6, 2019 | , , ,

May at NETWAYS was above all the month of the OSDC, but our team still found the time to share some news and thoughts with us all!

It all started with development…

Alexander started the month with his Blogpost Generics waren gestern. Lang lebe Golangs Reflection! And he raises the question if we really need Generics, or if Golangs would do too.
Jean wrote that it all started with a Gameboy and let us take a peek at her personal journey into programming.
Digging up hidden information for a scavenger hunt? Feu reflected on the thrill in geocaching, solving puzzles and hidden riddles.
Noah got technical! How to: Merge multiple Git repositories into one

Live from the OSDC!

Michael shared the latest news live from Berlin: OSDC 2019: Buzzwo…erm…DevOps, Agile & YAML programmers
And so did Tim: OSDC 2019 Part 2 – Automating patching, VMs in containers & much more

News from the NETWAYS shop!

Immer im Takt bleiben – mit Gude. As Nicole informed us, it is possible to synchronize the inbuilt clock in your hardware per GPS!
TinkerForge is still new in the NETWAYS shop, and in May Nicole presented a new Check-Plugin for TinkerForge Hardware.
Nicole also proudly announced that SMS Eagle sponsored the OSDC for the first time! Welcome SMS Eagle!

Spectacular lottery!

Did you know that our NWS team decided to hold a little competition with several great prices? The first price was winning our very own CEO Bernd Erk for a whole day! Read all about it in Marius` blogpost NETWAYS Web Services Raffle

Poetic and philosophical consultants!

Thomas once again showed his poetic skills in a fun rhyme on Icinga. This is definitely worth the read! Irgendwer muss es halt machen!
Gedanken tanken is Tobias idea of feeding the brain useful but also entertaining Input.
Our apprentice Tobias went on his first business trip! Meine erste Reise bei NETWAYS! He held an Icinga advanced training with Lennart in Munich. Meanwhile Afeef, another junior consultant, dove deep into comparing Podman vs Docker.
Viel hilft viel- nicht immer, Thomas claims! He used Elasticsearch to monitor thresholds in Java and shared useful tips with the community.

Just fit- just awesome!

Healthy living (or at least a bit healthier) is still an important subject at the NETWAYS HQ. Nadja gave us tips on how to treat your back well Just fit – just awesome: Rückenschule How should we sit? What exercises can easily be carried out while seated in front of the PC? Many helpful tips in this one!
Then Catharina gave a summary on the first ever NETWAYS Wellbeing day! A day packed with healthy recipes, business yoga and other interesting components that helped us heighten our awareness and to lock out the world for a moment.

What`s next?

Julia invited us to the Foreman birthday party taking place here in Nuremberg on July 25! Read all about it and register for a great program. It is all for free! New and Next in Automation: Notes on OSCamp Berlin! Julia reviewed the OSCamp and reminded us of the next one on Foreman. It will take place in Nuremberg on November 7, right after the OSMC! The highlight in May was definitely the OSDC in Berlin. Julia reported about a terrific conference with a great atmosphere. OSDC 2019: Unique views and phenomenal people. And soon afterwards the OSDC Archive was online!

And the others?

Achim contemplated the advantages of mtr compared to traceroute for tracing your routing paths in your network. Finde den Weg mit mtr und traceroute
Martin presented our Icinga starter pack, perfect for the first steps with Icinga, and Blerim from Team Icinga announced future Icinga Camps in Stockholm, Mailand und Zürich!
And last, but not least Bernd is looking forward to Rootconf 2019 in Bangalore taking place June 21 to 22.

Catharina Celikel
Catharina Celikel
Office Manager
Catharina unterstützt seit März 2016 unsere Abteilung Finance & Administration. Die gebürtige Norwegerin ist Fremdsprachenkorrespondentin für Englisch. Als Office Manager kümmert sie sich deshalb nicht nur um das Tagesgeschäft sondern übernimmt nebenbei zusätzlich einen Großteil der Übersetzungen. Privat ist der bekennende Bücherwurm am liebsten mit dem Fahrrad unterwegs.
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OSDC: Archive online!

by | May 28, 2019 | ,

The Open Source Data Center Conference 2019 was unique and fun, thanks to all the lovely people who took part.

You were there?

Thanks so much for attending this years’ OSDC! You missed a talk? Forgot a quote that you wanted to keep in mind? A specific demonstration was a bit too fast and you wanna review it? The Archive is now online! At osdc.de you can find all facts, presentation recordings, pictures and slides.

You couldn’t make it to Berlin this time? The OSDC Archive is also a great possibility to get an impression.

Stay tuned for upcoming conferences

Open Source Monitoring Conference | OSMC | Nuremberg, Nov 04 – 07, 2019
Open Source Camp on Foreman | OSCamp | Nuremberg, Nov 07, 2019

OSDC 2020 will take place in Berlin, June 17 – 18, 2020.
Save the date!

And now have fun browsing through OSDC 2019!

OSDC 2019: Unique views and phenomenal people

by | May 16, 2019 |

When you entered the big, luminous lobby at MOA Hotel Berlin your eyes catched it right away: OSDC‘s pink counter. Behind it either Markus or Lukas from the NETWAYS Events Team welcoming you to the conference, always ready to answer your hardest questions on rooms, rumors, food and all you need to know at OSDC. Thanks to these two guys we‘ve had the pleasure to enjoy a phenomenal conference!

What we’ve done

We‘ve heard tons of entertaining and informative technical talks. We‘ve exchanged thoughts and ideas. We’ve watched demos and fireworks. We got new stickers, job opportunities and insights into our business partners’ stacks, workflows and findings. Not to forget about meeting old pals and making new friends.

Want to know about the talks? Read Michi‘s and Tim‘s blogposts “OSDC 2019: Buzzwo…erm…DevOps, Agile & YAML programmers” and “OSDC 2019 Part 2 – Automating partching, VMs in containers & much more”

Inbetween the two-day program Markus and Lukas placed a special treat. What would Berlin be without the Spree? Locals and tourists love its urban flair. And that we enjoyed in one of the best possible ways: on board of the restaurant ship Patio. We‘ve had sundowner drinks on deck, followed by delicious dinner and drinks combined with a unique view and the feeling of being on the water. Can you imagine a better place to socialize?

Thanks to all people – speakers and attendees – who made OSDC special! We are also thankful to our sponsors Thomas Krenn, SMSEagle, Linux Magazin and Admin Magazine for their support and all the NETWAYers for making it happen. See you in 2020, June 17 – 18! Save the date!

Stay tuned for the OSDC archive with all videos, slides and photos!

 

OSDC 2019 Part 2 – Automating patching, VMs in containers & much more

by | May 15, 2019 |

After having a really successful and sublime evening event on Tuesday, today was the last day of the Open Source Data Center Conference.

Reading all the #osdc tweets tells me that I missed a great conference. ?

— Marcel Weinberg (@winem_) May 15, 2019

Andreas Lehr and Rico Spiesberger showed off with their automated patch management using Ansible and Rundeck at Lidl and Kaufland.
Things to keep in mind:

  • rebooting bare metal takes time
  • firmware updates might change things
  • have enough space in /var/yum and /tmp -> might result in kernel panics (:

And why not doing a Live Demo at a production system and simply patch the spanish webshop?

Live demo at a new level: @crsp and @shakalandy patching the spanish shop live with the audience #osdc pic.twitter.com/EHa7nZJoPS

— Nicolai Buchwitz (@NicolaiBuchwitz) May 15, 2019

On the next slot, it was our pleasure to welcome Kosisochukwu Anyanwu with kinvolk.io. She showed us how to use KVM as a Hypervisor, running a VM in a Docker Container! Get in touch with her at @kosyfrances and feel free to ask her for their use case.

Nikhil Kathole presented how to simplify your IT Workflow with Katello and Foreman. You can use Foreman for provisioning, configuration and monitoring (to some extend) of your hosts. It also provides you with many plugins for flexibility for provisioning tools and infrastructure. If you want to manage your .rpms/.debs, katello should be your choice

A talk at #osdc about @ForemanProject by @NikhilKathole1 and missing #DirkGötz here

— Toshaan Bharvani (@toshywoshy) May 15, 2019

 

Troy Harvey started with tossing shirts and gave a quite interesting introduction into the concept of privacy. Privacy demands ethical behaviour of professionals and they should always try to automate things

3 Big Ideas: 1. Privacy has a strange history. 2. Privacy-first systems are designed by people with a professional ethic. 3. Privacy can be automated away. – @troyharvey from Carta #osdc pic.twitter.com/DiocjWGGhW

— NETWAYS Events (@NetwaysEvents) May 15, 2019

 

Furthermore, if you want to have to use slack, try to get a job at Carta.

Colin Charles closed the conference with mysql & mariadb security. Obviously breaches are bad and there are the issues you can easily avoid. Use TLS for replication – also update your instances!

I don’t know how you feel after these two days. But I feel like I want more of that! Save the date for next OSDC!

Goodbye! ??

See you next #osdc 17-18 June in Berlin

Save the date https://t.co/hYX8SlM2CA pic.twitter.com/ZawVzImVTg

— NETWAYS Events (@NetwaysEvents) May 15, 2019

 

 

Tim Albert
Tim Albert
Senior Systems Engineer
Tim kommt aus einem kleinen Ort zwischen Nürnberg und Ansbach, an der malerischen B14 gelegen. Er hat in Erlangen Lehramt und in Koblenz Informationsmanagement studiert. Seit Anfang 2016 ist er bei uns tätig. Zuerst im Managed Services Team, dort kümmerte Tim sich um Infrastrukturthemen und den internen Support, um dann 2019 - zusammen mit Marius - Gründungsmitglied der ITSM Abteilung zu werden. In seiner Freizeit engagiert sich Tim in der Freiwilligen Feuerwehr – als Maschinist und Atemschutzgeräteträger -, spielt im Laientheater Bauernschwänke und ist auch handwerklich ein absolutes Allroundtalent. Angefangen von Mauern hochziehen bis hin zur KNX-Verkabelung ist er jederzeit...
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You missed out OSDC? — Sign up for OSCamp!

by | May 15, 2019 | , , ,

Hey folks!

The OSDC 2019 is in full swing! You didn’t get to be part of the happy DevOps crowd meeting in Berlin?

Here‘s your chance to find some relief by participating in the next big Open Source thing happening in Berlin this week: Be part of our OSCamp on Ansible!

But you gotta be really fast to grab one of the few remaining seats at opensourcecamp.de

To get a glimpse of how it feels to be one of the OSDC guys, just take a look at the photos published so far on our Twitter channel. And start getting excited what’s coming up at the OSCamp…

See you in Berlin on Thursday!

Pamela Drescher
Pamela Drescher
Head of Marketing
Seit Dezember 2015 ist Pamela Anführerin des Marketing Teams. Mit ihrer stetig wachsenden Mannschaft arbeitet sie daran, NETWAYS nicht nur erfolgreicher, sondern auch immer schöner zu machen. Privat ist sie Dompteurin einer Horde von drei Kindern, zwei Pferden, drei Katzen und einem Hund. Für Langeweile bleibt also keine Zeit!
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