[Lilug Planning] [Lilug] Topic next meeting

Wed Apr 23 13:12:34 PDT 2014

Hi

 	OK sounds like a done deal.  Matt please pencil it in.  Rocco's 
talk on the lidmug server setup may happen in June instead.

 	Thank you both!

Matt

On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Matt Surico wrote:

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> On 04/23/2014 02:13 PM, Sagi Brody wrote:
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>> 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.
>
> Where were you guys 6 months ago? LOL :-)
>
> I just spent a bunch of time getting myself up to speed on Ansible as
> it's just begun to be used in our company.  We're just about to start
> using it for config management of many of our production servers (it's
> been piloted in our dev shop).
>
> Seriously, I do look forward to this as a LILUG topic - always good to
> hear about it from someone else after just getting started on learning
> something.
>
> Thanks Sagi for the suggestion on the topic and to Sean who will be
> able to do it.
>
> Cheers,
> Matt S.
>
>
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>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Sagi Brody* /|/ /Chief Technical Officer @ Webair.com
>> <http://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 <mailto:sagi.brody at webair.com>
>>
>>
>> On Apr 23, 2014, at 12:45 PM, odinson <odinson at warcloud.net
>> <mailto: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 <http://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
>>>> <http://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
>>>> <mailto: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.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks, <image002.jpg>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Sagi Brody | Chief Technology 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
>>>>>
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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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> Matthew Newhall, M.A.Newhall at warcloud.net
>>>>>> A.S. in Computer Science, SUNY Farmingdale President of
>>>>>> LILUG;  president at lilug.org, http://www.lilug.org My blog
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>>>>>> Author; "Thicker Than Blood"
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>>> Farmingdale President of LILUG;  president at lilug.org
>>> <mailto:president at lilug.org>, http://www.lilug.org My blog "The
>>> Civilization Gene" http://civgene.matthewnewhall.com Author;
>>> "Thicker Than Blood" http://www.thickerthanbloodthebook.com
>>> Giselle's husband, Sebastian and Maxximus's father.
>>> http://www.warcloud.net/~odinson/us/ If you don't read the
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Matthew Newhall, M.A.Newhall at warcloud.net
A.S. in Computer Science, SUNY Farmingdale
President of LILUG;  president at lilug.org, http://www.lilug.org
My blog "The Civilization Gene" http://civgene.matthewnewhall.com
Author; "Thicker Than Blood" http://www.thickerthanbloodthebook.com
Giselle's husband, Sebastian and Maxximus's father.
http://www.warcloud.net/~odinson/us/
If you don't read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper
you are misinformed.
 	-- Mark Twain
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