James (purpleidea)
James is a DevOps/Config mgmt. hacker and physiologist from Montreal, Canada.
He often goes by @purpleidea on the internet, and writes "The Technical Blog of James".
He works on a Next Generation Config Management project that he started called mgmt.
He studied Physiology at university and sometimes likes to talk about cardiology.
Sessions
Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe.
In this workshop, we'll be teaching you how to build a complete cluster from scratch. The focus will be on new users, but you are also welcome to join to hack on mgmt itself.
It's strongly recommended that you come with a modern Linux laptop. (VM's, Mac or Windows will make this more difficult for you!)
A number of blog posts on the subject are available: https://purpleidea.com/tags/mgmtconfig/
Attendees are encouraged to read some before the workshop if they want a preview!
Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe.
Is this running in production? What's taken so long?
It was important for us to be better than legacy tools, not just a 1:1 replacement.
I believe we've surpassed what was possible classically, and we're now using mgmt for real production workloads.
We are managing routers, vm hosts, provisioning metal with automatic power-on,
and so much more. I'll also dig into the new language features, and show you a
bunch of common mcl patterns so you can learn to read and write effective code.
As usual, I'll live demo to your hearts content!
A number of blog posts on the subject are available: https://purpleidea.com/tags/mgmtconfig/
Attendees are encouraged to read some before the talk if they want a preview!
Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe.
We'll walk you through the code for your first module in mgmt.
This will run you through "pkg->file->svc" to "roles and profiles" to intermediate module building, and by then end, you'll be putting together your first deployments.
I'll also dig into the new language features, and show you a bunch of common mcl patterns so you can learn to read and write effective code.
As usual, I'll live demo to your hearts content!
A number of blog posts on the subject are available: https://purpleidea.com/tags/mgmtconfig/
Attendees are encouraged to read some before the talk if they want a preview!