[BBLISA-announce] July BBLISA talk: Server Names? We don't need names ....

[John P. Rouillard]

Hello all:

(This was originally sent to the admin list a couple of weeks ago, so
some of you may see this as deja vu.)

Our July talk will be held  on Wednesday, July 9, 2014. Our speaker is
Matthew Barr and  he will be talking on:

  Server Names? We don't need names where we're going!

How do you thrive in a environment where you don't know your servers'
names, or if they'll disappear at any time? How do you build servers
with configuration management in this kind of environment? What do you
give up?  This talk will discuss how you can name your hosts to make
life easier, and covers using cloudinit, autoscaling, mcollective,
logstash & sensu.

Matthew Barr has been a sysadmin (professionally) for over 15 years,
managing both cloud based & datacenter infrastructures. He's led the
ops group at Kensho & Snap Interactive, and the US sysops group for
MarkitServ. He recently finished building a production autoscaling
infrastructure in AWS without knowing his hostnames. He's a
co-maintainer on puppet-jenkins, and has contributed code to Puppet,
logstash, and various other projects.

The talk will be held at MIT in building E-51, Room 149 at:

   7:00 - Announcements & Introductions

and at 7:30 - Formal presentation

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For the 20 people who attended my June talk on

  Lay waste to waste

thanks for the interesting questions and comments during and after the
talk.

The slides are available at:

  http://www.bblisa.org/slides/201406-rouillard.odp

(see http://www.bblisa.org/past.html if you want the slides in pdf
format). The video is at:

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzUzZegT2Bg

I have had a couple of people ask where they can see particular
parts of the talk (you should watch the whole thing 8-)) but...:

Story about control chart use in help desks starts at: 1:41:45

The intro to control charts starts at: 1:32:30

Value Stream mapping example starts at: 59:30 (note the slides are
    out of sync).

I hope to see you at Matt's talk in July.

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John Rouillard
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