Config Management Camp 2024 Ghent

Jan Bundesmann

Jan works is Senior orcharhino QA Engineer at ATIX - the Linux & Open Source Company.
He is specialized in infrastructure automation and has several years of experience setting up orcharhino in customer environments to automate their datacenters.

Jan is currently living in Munich - a city most famous for its beer.
Although he is originally from there and was raised with the Munich Helles, he got to know a lot of other beer styles while travelling around the world.
So he started brewing his own beer - of course supperted by a lot of automation.


Sessions

02-05
15:55
50min
Patch reporting with Foreman
Jan Bundesmann

Foreman/Katello can perfectly show us the current status of our infrastructure. But how about reviewing past operations? While audits can show actions performed on foreman, patching managed hosts is not necessarily mediated through the central server.

This talks presents a way to gather package versions as a function of time. Issues we will discuss is performance of API requests and homogenizing package information for RPMs and DEBs.

Foreman
B.3.037
02-06
16:45
50min
Fun with downstream pipelines and artifacts in GitLab CI
Jan Bundesmann

This talk will present some insights into how to combine pipelines from different projects in GitLab CI.
The goals are

  • to allow single pipelines to run individually and
  • to pass parameters between different pipelines

However, it's not as simple as that, as our second requirement, passing parameters, can easily break the first.

DevOps
B.3.036