8 – 12 September offered tips for cluster admins, programmers and new RPM packagers, plus news on the events front.
Eva counted 78 days to the OSMC with Páll Sigurdsson’s talk on Adagios, an Icinga / Nagios addon for web configuration.
She went on to announce the program for Puppet Camp Dusseldorf, and our participation and sponsorship of DevOps Camp Nuremberg.
Sebastian then shared his thoughts on the Apache Mesos cluster manager while Jean-Marcel explained the Metacircular Evaluator programming process.
Finally, Dirk continued his series on RPM packaging with a post on useful tools.
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Weekly Snap: Puppet Courses, OS Licenses & Starface Compact
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.
Weekly Snap: OSBConf, PHP & Puppet Enterprise Installer
25 – 29 August got excited about the upcoming OSBConf, the new Puppet Enterprise Installer and hash table keys in PHP.
Eva started the week by counting 92 days to the OSMC with Birger Schmidt’s talk on the Flapjack – Monitoring Notification System.
She followed with a reminder to join next month’s Open Source Backup Conf 2014, as Ronny warned readers about the latest wave of zip file spam.
Johannes then showed how to use objects as hash table keys in PHP and Markus introduced the new Puppet Enterprise Installer.
Weekly Snap: Neon 110 & Coshsh, Confs & Camps in San Francisco
18 – 22 August offered an eclectic mix of subjects – from sys admin and handyman tools to configuration generators and analyzers.
On events, Eva counted 99 days to the OSMC with Gerhard Laußer’s talk: ‘Coshsh – Configuration Generation’ while Bernd made plans to join Puppet Conf and Icinga Camp in San Francisco.
Continuing the travel theme, Thomas shared his thoughts on the troubles of flying with and without Swiss army knives as Ronny reflected on the excitement of discovering new sys admin tools.
Lastly, Georg helped bring about a firmware update for the Neon 110 network thermometer and Gunnar offered a peek into a new configuration analyzer for Icinga 2.
Weekly Snap: Galera & Icinga 2 Clusters, Puppet for Tomcat & Nagios
11 – 15 August featured clusters, Puppet automation and a new OSMC workshop.
Eva counted 106 days to the OSMC with Bernd and Sasha’s talk on how “Puppet automatically configures Nagios”.
Bernd followed by announcing a new Advanced Windows Monitoring workshop on NSClient++ to be held by Michael Medin at this year’s OSMC.
On clusters, Enrico looked at Galera as Michael gave an update on his work with Icinga 2 cluster vagrant boxes and the various Icinga 2 webinars and training courses.
Finally, Lennart shared his Puppet module for Tomcat installation and configuration.
