[Lilug Planning] [Lilug] Topic next meeting
Matt Surico
surico at mail.buoy.com
Wed Apr 23 13:57:48 PDT 2014
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On 04/23/2014 04:12 PM, odinson wrote:
> 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.
Can do!
Sagi, when you get a chance, can you get me Sean's last name so I
properly credit him on the wiki announcement.
Once you see my feeble attempt at creating said announcement, feel
free to send me alternate verbiage to make it sound more exciting! I
hope to have something posted by tomorrow (Thurs) evening.
Cheers,
Matt S.
>
> Thank you both!
>
> Matt
>
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2014, Matt Surico wrote:
>
> On 04/23/2014 02:13 PM, Sagi Brody wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>
>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 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 "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 we are
>>>>>>>> reincarnated after we die, and time in between lives
>>>>>>>> is not linear, who to say we are not all the same
>>>>>>>> person.
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>>>>>
Matthew Newhall, M.A.Newhall at warcloud.net
>>>>> <mailto:M.A.Newhall at warcloud.net> A.S. in Computer Science,
>>>>> SUNY 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
>>>>> newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper
>>>>> you are misinformed. -- Mark Twain
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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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