[CALUG] CapBUG March 2011 - FreeBSD in the Cloud with Chef

[Jason Dixon]

Thought this might be of interest to some CALUG members. Stephen is a
leader in the DevOps community and a former peer from Digex. He will be
speaking remotely using the BigBlueButton virtual conference FOSS
project, so it's a big dose of free software all around. :)

If you'd like to attend, please contact me offlist so I can guarantee
you a seat. CapBUG meets at OmniTI, just up the hill from Tenable on
Samuel Morse Drive.

Thanks,
Jason

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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 13:41:14 -0400
From: Mike Erdely <mike at erdelynet.com>
Subject: March 2011 Meeting
To: capbug at googlegroups.com

This month we will be meeting at OmniTI on Thursday, March 31, 2011 @ 6:30 PM.
We have a special guest speaker (Stephen Nelson-Smith) who will be
giving a remote talk from the UK.

After the talk, we will head over to Victoria Gastro Pub for dinner and drinks.

Below is what Stephen sent regarding his talk (and his background):

Title: FreeBSD system automation with pc-sysinstall and Chef

Synopsis

Although FreeBSD is in many ways one of the most advanced operating
systems in the world, boasting access to a vast array of current,
upstream software, and with ZFS and dtrace increasingly mature in the
latest releases, it still has a reputation for being difficult to
manage and automate, compared to Linux.  This talk looks at system
automation and configuration management strategies on FreeBSD,
exploring unattended installs using the pc-sysinstall tool, system
management using Opscode Chef, and options for running FreeBSD in the
cloud.

Prequisites: None

Tags: FreeBSD, pc-sysinstall Installation, Automation, Chef, Devops,
Infrastructure-as-code, configuration management

Bio:

Stephen Nelson-Smith is an experienced agile infrastructure
consultant, UNIX system administrator and Ruby and Python programmer.
As principal consultant at Atalanta Systems, he evangelises 21st
century systems infrastructure, and specialises in system automation,
monitoring, and the application of lean and XP-derived principles on
the operations side of the business.
A ruthlessly logical problem solver, powerful communicator, and
enthusiastic mentor and motivator, his skills have been employed by
household names such as Sony, Motorola, the AA, the Department of
Education, and a host of young, technology-driven  enterprises. A
thought leader in the emerging infrastructure-as-code community, his
blog agilesysadmin.net is essential reading for anyone building
software today.

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