[Lilug Planning] [Lilug] Topic next meeting

Wed Apr 23 11:13:16 PDT 2014

Matt - Sounds perfect. I spoke to Sean here who is our in house Ansible guru and he'd be happy to talk about it at the next meeting so you can pen it in for sure.

Thanks,

Sagi Brody | Chief Technical Officer @ Webair.com

Webair Internet Development Inc. | 501 Franklin Ave | Garden City, NY  11530
Office 516.938.4100, ext. 112  | Fax 516.938.5100  
sagi.brody at webair.com

On Apr 23, 2014, at 12:45 PM, odinson <odinson at warcloud.net> wrote:

> Hi Sagi
> 
>        This sounds really great.  I like your other topic too, but it
> seems far more relevant to professional admins than anyone else.  Granted Ansible is also, it COULD be used for dev/science, etc.
> 
> 	How about ansible for the May LILUG talk?  Is that OK?
> 
> 	Then maybe troubleshooting as a service at SISIG in whatever summer month works for you?  That's more of the pro group.
> 
> 	Thanks so much for offering.
> 
> Matt
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Sagi Brody wrote:
> 
>> Also... We are using Ansible here to deploy playbooks for Linux servers/instances. Its similar to
> chef/puppet/saltstack
>> 
>> see www.ansible.com
>> 
>> I could have one of my sys admins talk about ansible, how its used, code examples etc...
>> 
>> Its very linux related. That may be more appropriate. LMK
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Sagi Brody | Chief Technical Officer @ Webair.com
>> 
>> Webair Internet Development Inc. | 501 Franklin Ave | Garden City, NY  11530
>> Office 516.938.4100, ext. 112  | Fax 516.938.5100
>> sagi.brody at webair.com
>> 
>> 
>> On Apr 22, 2014, at 9:29 PM, Sagi Brody <sagi at webair.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Not sure if this is related, but I have a talk regarding troubleshooting as a service, i could turn the following into a 30 min talk..
>>> 
>>> The talk is geared towards hosting/infrastructure environments, but its related to any complex systems, especially ones running linux..
>>> 
>>> As the standardized offerings for hosting and cloud providers become more complex and interdependent, so too do the requirements to properly manage and troubleshoot them. The ability for technical teams to quickly localize bottlenecks, capacity limits, application issues, and other problems is now a key factor for a provider’s success. Whereas troubleshooting was considered a soft skill in the past, hosters must acknowledge and nourish the importance of this most important ability.
>>> This session will present background information, case studies of specific events, and recommendations for improving root cause analysis of common complex managed hosting environment issues. The talk will draw upon experience of Webair’s own infrastructure and customer configurations, including complex environments with multiple layers of services.
>>> The session will cover the following topics:
>>> A brief history: Troubleshooting of the past was as simple as 1,2,3…reboot. Today’s infrastructure has greatly increased in complexity, but our approach to issue resolution has not.
>>> Examples of common complex infrastructures found in managed hosting companies of today and an acknowledgement to the amount of layers we’ve added to single customer configurations. Example: Redundant cloud firewalls, redundant cloud load balancers, load balanced cloud web instances, cloud database instances, cloud memory cache instances, cloud application instances, hybrid physical servers, NFS cloud storage, and CDN. Diagrams will be shown of this and other configurations.
>>> How to turn your technical teams into expert troubleshooters. Expert troubleshooters can isolate and resolve issues faster than admins who may have far more knowledge and experience of the effected systems.
>>> Localization: How to quickly and effectively isolate the problem and remove background noise.
>>> Reproduction: The importance of being able to reproduce an issue to effectively resolve it.
>>> Modification: The proper way to fix an issue.
>>> In practice: Case studies of actual outages events, how they were misdiagnosed, why, and what could have been done better.
>>> Monitoring: How to configure customer specific monitoring to allow your teams to immediately zero in on the layer causing the issue.
>>> Misdiagnoses: The short and long term impact of improperly diagnosing issues, technically, and for your business.
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> Thanks,
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>>> Sagi Brody | Chief Technology Officer @Webair.com
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>>> sagi.brody at webair.com
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>>> On Apr 22, 2014, at 5:34 PM, odinson <odinson at warcloud.net> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi
>>>> 
>>>> 	Still looking for a definitive topic for next meeting 5/12. Really like to hear from a LILUGer.  :)
>>>> 
>>>> Matt
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