USENIX Configuration Management Summit 2013
2013-06-24
San Jose, United States
who it's for
devops engineers, system administrators, site reliability engineers, release engineers, configuration management engineers, windows systems administrators, continuous integration engineers
topics
Ansible agentless SSH deployments; playbooks with handlers; rolling upgrade with serial hosts; Windows Desired State Configuration; MOF intermediate format and OData pull; Salt ZeroMQ bus and reactor; real-time event streams via Redis; remote execution at scale (100,000+ nodes); Puppet CI with rspec-puppet and Vagrant; Jenkins-driven catalog compilation testing; package metadata in Bigtable with torrent-like transport; immutable-label package rollback
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| The Business of Configuration Management | Mark Burgess | 01h 19m |
Argues that open-source firms are commercializing config management but current tools mostly speed old patterns instead of solving scale and comprehension… | ||
| DevOps, Desired State, and Microsoft Windows | Bruce Payette | 01h 17m |
Windows adds a built‑in Desired State Configuration system layered on PowerShell: author configurations with the new configuration keyword, compile to MOF… | ||
| Continuous Deployment with Ansible | Tim Gerla | 39m |
Ansible is shown automating zero-downtime multi‑tier deploys by using agentless SSH to push modules, Playbooks with handlers to restart only when files change… | ||
| Beyond Open Source Configuration Management: Rapidly Building Any Cloud at Scale | Thomas Hatch | 39m |
Salt combines a ZeroMQ bus, a master/minion agent model, and modules for Cobbler, Nova, Rundeck, Jenkins and many clouds to deliver 5 seconds across 1800… | ||
| Continuously Integrating Puppet | Matthew Barr | 43m |
Continuous integration for Puppet combines Jenkins, Vagrant, rspec‑puppet, puppet‑lint and a custom Jenkins job set to run catalog compilation with… | ||
| Maintaining Consistency in a Massively Parallel Environment | Dinah McNutt | 43m |
Proprietary package manager Midas (MPM) stores metadata in Bigtable and package data in Colossus, using a modified torrent-like transport to fetch… | ||
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