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From: NYLUG Announcements <[email protected]> To: NYLUG Announcements <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:30:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! NYLUG 11/18 Meeting: Larry Ludwig on Puppet: What it is and how can it make system administration less painful Reply-To: Announcements from NYLUG <[email protected]> REMINDER: This meeting is tomorrow, RSVP closes TOMORROW Visit http://rsvp.nylug.org to see if RSVP is still open. Wednesday, November 18, 2009 6:30pm-8:00 PM IBM 590 Madison Ave, 12th Floor corner of 57th Street ** RSVP Closes at 4:30pm the day of the meeting (sharp!) *** Please RSVP for EVERY meeting at this time. Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/ Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge. Larry Ludwig - on - Puppet: What it is and how can it make system administration less painful Please join us on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 for a discussion of Reductive Labs' Centralized configuration management framework, Puppet. Puppet is a model-driven open source framework designed to efficiently manage data center infrastructure. It's the sysadmin's best friend, reducing error counts and downtime, saving countless hours and providing significantly higher service quality. Puppet lets sysadmins spend less time on mundane tasks and instead focus on managing their infrastructure as a whole. System administrators have long written custom scripts and tools to help automate common tasks such as configuration management and system updates. But as networks scale and reach outside the corporate firewall, custom tools become yet another management headache. The benefits of automated infrastructure go beyond policy-enforced consistency and auditing. In conjunction with virtualizaton, the ability to reliably create new systems running consistent services creates auto-scaling applications as well as test systems identical to production environments. Puppet abstracts the system from the system administration, providing developers and system administrators with a simple service-based policy framework that allows for more consistent, transparent and flexible systems. Puppet is currently in use at many organizations, large and small, including: Google, Yahoo, and RedHat. More Information: * Puppet http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/ * Reductive Labs http://github.com/reductivelabs * Puppet Wiki http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki * Puppet Users Discussion http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users * Puppet Developers Discussion http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev * Puppet NYC User Group http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-nyc About Larry Ludwig: Larry Ludwig is a Solutions Architect at Brandorr Group LLC. Larry has been in the industry for over 15 years as a system administrator, DBA and system programmer. He`s had previous experience working for Fortune 500 corporations and holds a BS in CS from Clemson University. Larry has written over 120 puppet modules. Larry, along with Eric E. Moore and Brian Gupta are founding members of the NYC Puppet Usergroup. Meeting Location: Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, 590 Madison Ave, 12th floor, corner of 57th Street, and not at Google. This is the building with the IBM logo on the front of the building. Map: http://nylug.org/mapofibm Books!!! Our friends at Prentice-Hall kindly provide us with review copies of various new titles. One of these could be yours, all you have to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of time. Swag (Give Away): During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given away. Stammtisch: After the meeting ... You may wish to join up with other NYLUGgers over at TGI Fridays located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor. Northeast corner. Python Workshops/Hacking Society: We are a group that wants to learn about Python and other things, and hack on code. Sometimes we go out to eat afterward. The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library, Hudson Park Branch. 66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM Next meeting is November 24, expected to be followed by December 8. See the calendar at: http://nylug.org/pythoncalendar Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good stuff. ______________________________________________________________________ Hire expert Linux talent by posting jobs here :: http://jobs.nylug.org nylug-announce mailing list [email protected] http://nylug.org/mailman/listinfo/nylug-announce </blockquote> Distributed poC TINC: Jay Sulzberger <[email protected]> Corresponding Secretary LXNY LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization. http://www.lxny.org _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
