[SLUG] Fwd: RE-ANNOUNCE: July Sydney DevOps Meeting - Thursday 22 July

[dave b <db.pub.mail@xxxxxxxxx>]

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From: Mick Pollard <aussielu...@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Jul 19, 9:01 am
Subject: RE-ANNOUNCE: July Sydney DevOps Meeting - Thursday 22 July
To: DevOps Australia


Hi All,

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 2:26 PM, Lindsay Holmwood <lind...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Hey all,
> There's been a date change, so I'm re-announcing the July Sydney DevOps
> Meeting:

>  When: THURSDAY, July 22nd, doors open 18.15 for 18.30 start
>  Where: Atlassian, 173-185 Sussex St, Sydney

> The meeting will be 45 minutes of talks, then heading off to the
> Redoak for drinks and dinner.

> Tentative speakers include:

>  - Mick Pollard on bootstrapping your devs with libvirt, kickstart and
> Puppet

Just to extend on this a little.
At $WORK we let our devs choose the OS (*nix) for their workstation and set
it up the way that suits them best.
This helps with their productivity as they get to work with their favourite
tools etc but it presents the problem that they are no longer developing on
systems that look like a customers Prod. environment.
With mostly all machines of today having a ton of RAM and KVM being in the
mainline kernel now it became easy to give them access to what's needed to
build their own VM's that mimic the customers production environment.

This Thursday  I will demonstrate how we make use of libvirt,(plus assoc.
tools), kickstart, a yum mirror and puppet to accomplish this.

Feel free to bring a laptop with libvirt + the packages that provide
'virt-install + virsh + virt-viewer' and participate.

There's an excellent video + presentation up at [1] by R.I. Pienaar that
talks about this subject that's worth watching if you haven't already.

 - Tim Moore on Lightweight Monitoring and Information Radiators

>  - Lindsay Holmwood on Visage

> See you there!

> Lindsay

See you all Thursday

Mick
@_lunix_

[1]http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Enabling-Development-Accessible-Pl...