San Gabriel Valley Linux Users Group Monthly Meeting
Rebuilding an Entreprise Class Linux Infrastructure in Under an Hour
A modern day Linux Infrastructure should be flexible, scalable and able to deal with the constant changes any business will require. Automation is key to a reliable and consistence server infrastructure, Automation also allows for easy integration of new changes.
The DevOps movement melds two traditionally siloed teams; Application Developers and Operations Engineers. Writing infrastructure as code presents a number of challenges and potential pitfalls, Operations Engineers need to write code (something they may not be familar with) and Developers need to have a strong understanding of the system (many Developers don't want to be considered with anything other than web applications). There are several major projects related purely to the management of infrastructure as code.
We will examine Opscode Chef and make a strong use case for the implementation of Opscode Chef in a Linux Environment. David will demonstrate many techniques to utilize Chef quickly and efficiently to minimize the time of implementation. Although Opscode Chef can be run on Solaris, FreeBSD and even Windows, the presentation will discuss Linux and only Linux. David will also discuss the techniques to operate Chef on various Linux Distros which can provide a layer of abstraction from the package management systems (apt & yum). Finally David will discuss how Chef can be used to rebuild an Entire infrastructure (regardless of size or complexity) in a time previous thought impossible. The only limitation in speed of deployment is the hardware.
Please note that we are in a different room this month.
Speaker: David Rodriguez
Date: Thursday, December 13th, 2012 @ 7 pm
Location: Caltech - Lauritsen 269 (Connected to Downs)
For more information, please contact James McDuffie by email at [email protected] or visit Rebuilding an Entreprise Class Linux Infrastructure in Under an Hour.