2026-02-02, 16:00–16:50, D.Aud
Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe. It has passed version 1.0.0 and is almost too powerful to describe, so we'll demo!
It can manage GNOME settings, change firmware BIOS settings, build virtual machines, manage firefox, and more.
This will be a smorgasborg of small mgmt demos and other topics which will showcase many of the things that were built for customers.
We are managing routers, vm hosts, provisioning metal with automatic power-on, and so much more.
We'll show new features in the 1.0.0 release including real-time exported resources (how they should have been done) declarative looping, show our gloriously fast function engine, and more!
As usual, I'll live demo to your hearts content!
Some introductory documentation is available: https://mgmtconfig.com/docs/guide/
Attendees are encouraged to read some before the talk if they want to get up to speed.
A number of blog posts on the subject are available: https://purpleidea.com/tags/mgmtconfig/
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.
This automation work led to him founding a company called m9rx.
He studied Physiology at university and sometimes likes to talk about cardiology.