Invitation: FOSDEM presentation Feb 6 in Brussels

Hello,

On Feb 6. 15.00 hr local time, we'll present a case study on deploying a GLASS system at the Configuration/Systems Management devroom of FOSDEM, the free and open source software developers' european meeting. It would be nice to see some smalltalkers there.

http://www.fosdem.org
http://fosdem2011.puppetlabs.com/

Session: Configuration management for developers, with puppet and some application specific scripting

Presenters: Stephan Eggermont, Willem van den Ende

Intended audience: developers and systems administrators

Session type: case study

Abstract: We created a server environment so a small startup could deploy its web application with all the services it needs. Well, environment is a big word... bootstrapped startups don't have money to manage redundant servers, so we set up just one production server. Still, when disaster strikes, we want to be able to have another server up and running within thirty minutes.
For developers laziness is a virtue. Therefore we want to apply DRY (don't repeat yourself) to systems administration. So for this project we considered each time we log in to the production server a 'systems administration smell'. Attend our case study to see how we used a configuration managent system (puppet), application specific scripts and a few practices to keep us sane. See how far we have gotten towards our goal of DRYness and fast recovery, and learn from our mistakes.

Presenter Bios

Stephan Eggermont - [hidden email] , http://nl.linkedin.com/pub/stephan-eggermont/1/a00/825ew

Stephan has been programming for over 20 years, and has been avoiding
systems administration until recently. Ten years ago he discovered
extreme programming, and has advocated agile development ever since. He contributes to  Pharo, Seaside, Naked Objects, Sanssoucci. He likes helping startups realize their software dreams. He works as an independent consultant, developer and coach.

Willem van den Ende - [hidden email],  http://me.andering.com

Willem has been programming since age 10, and administers linux webservers since 2001, when he started coaching teams in eXtreme Programming. He believes developers should put their own software into production, in close collaboration with systems adminstrators, as currently advocated by the DevOps movement. Willem works as a developer, coach and consultant and dabbles in systems administration.