Sadly I had no time to attend the conference. The first talk was accepted. The pdf can be found here and the online version here.
Tim (bastelfreak) Meusel works as a DevOps Engineer for GoDaddy EMEA in Cologne, Germany where he develops and maintains a big public cloud platform. Tim is pushing and implementing open source solutions at work. He founded the VirtAPI-Stack and besides that he is active as a Vox Pupuli Maintainer and Archlinux community manager. Tim has been doing Sysops stuff since 2009 and playing with Puppet since 2012. Recently he was elected to serve on the Vox Pupuli Project Management Committee. He enjoys good BBQ and ice hockey.
Vox Pupuli is a group of more than 110 puppet module/tooling/documentation authors, all working together to ensure a continuing development process. We elected our first Project Management Committee with one of its goals being to include Vox Pupuli as an official project under the Software Conservancy. We do not only provide a home for every orphaned puppet module, but also proper tooling and automation for every interested developer. Some of the most frequently used puppet modules (zabbix, collectd, archive) are managed by us. Vox Pupuli is in the Top 10 of the most frequent Puppet Forge release groups. Have a look at our funny journey of hunting broken gems and changing upstream software! We invite everybody to participate. We will get into the details of what Vox Pupuli is, how you can interact/contribute/benefit and also we will share some funny and sad stories about all the bugs we discovered in the Puppet and Ruby ecosystem!
Who likes to do major upgrades of a distribution that got installed years ago and has since then got no love? Nobody. Who needs to rely on third party repos or package stuff themselves because the packages provided by the distributions are too old?
Not all of us can run their applications in minimalistic containers. Sometimes we still require traditional operating systems on physical or virtual machines. Archlinux is a rolling release distribution. It allows us to continuously upgrade the system. I will walk you through the GoDaddy EMEA way of running and updating Archlinux on production systems. Including dynamic provisioning of test- and staging-environments. All tested with Beaker and managed with Puppet. There are multiple advantages compared to classic Debian/RHEL deployments that I want to share and discuss with you. Discover if Archlinux is the datacenter distribution you were looking for!