Michigan Red Hat Enterprise User Group
Are you a programmer, architect, or systems administrator that leverages Open Source, Red Hat technology in a business critical environment? Do you wish that you could go to Red Hat Summit, but can’t find budget for travel? Then, this local user group is for you.
The Michigan Red Hat Enterprise User Group is a place for technical users to share technical content and best practices on a range of Red Hat technologies, including JBoss, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Fuse, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, and OpenStack.
Our second quarterly meeting is on May 8th, 2014 and will include the following technical agenda:
01:00 – 01:30PM Welcome
01:30 – 02:00PM Red Hat News, Red Hat Summt Recap (Scott McCarty)
02:00 – 03:00PMÂ Infrastructure as Code: Modern Systems Administration with Puppet (Sean Millichamp & Kevin DeGraaf)
03:00 – 04:00PM TBA (TBA)
04:00 – 05:30PM Open Discussion, Appitizers, and Drinks
05:30 – 06:30PM Core Builds in the Age of Cloud (Scott McCarty)
06:30 – 07:00PM Closing & Future Topics Discussion
If you are interested in learning more, stop by and check it out, drinks and food will be provided. We are building a local community around Open Source technology in the enterprise.
Talk 1: Infrastructure as Code: Modern Systems Administration with Puppet
Configuration management and the infrastructure-as-code paradigm have fundamentally redefined Linux systems administration. Brittle shell scripts and ad-hoc methods have given way to powerful declarative tools that reliably enforce consistency at scale. This talk will explain why the new approach is so powerful and describe how Puppet fits into the picture. We will briefly cover the Puppet language, the interaction between Puppet agents and masters, and related tools such as Facter, Hiera and PuppetDB. A question-and-answer period will follow, time permitting.
Sean’s has worked more than 20 years in Information Technology. Sean currently works as an Enterprise Architect at Secure-24, LLC, a Southfield based managed hosting provider. In this role he is responsible for evaluating and recommending new products, technologies, and operational policies for the organization, with a focus on Linux. Sean is also an adjunct professor in the CIS department at Oakland Community College. Sean graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Engineering in 2001. In his “spare time†Sean has contributed to a number of open source projects, including Puppet. In 2012 Red Hat named Sean their Worldwide Certified Professional of the Year. Find Sean online at http://www.linkedin.com/in/seanmillichamp
This is Kevin’s 14 th year working in Information Technology. He began deploying Linux and other open source software in production in 2001. Kevin currently works as an Automation Engineer at Secure-24, LLC, a Southfield-based managed hosting provider. In this role, he is responsible for developing, maintaining, documenting and supporting Puppet modules and infrastructure. Kevin’s past work includes Linux systems administration at a manufacturing company, a software company and a Web design firm. Kevin studied Computer Science at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, MI. Find Kevin at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinjdegraaf
Marc Skinner will present on “RHEL Performance Tuning” which will walk
through three performance profiles that system administrators routinely
face. Â The presentation will provide insight into the ease of tuning
while exploring the tooling that is available in every OS instance.
Talk 2: To be Announced
To be Announced
Talk 3: Core Builds in the Age of Cloud
* Kickstart
* Puppet
* Image Maintenance
* API Contracts & Maintenance
* Handling Subsystem Upgrades
* Testing
As infrastructure architects and support teams begin to engage in the process of providing a store front of core builds and services for their internal customer, service contracts will become increasingly important. Scott will discuss practical procedures for building, testing, maintaining, and facilitating a culture of learning within infrastructure teams guided by DevOps.