MHVLUG is proud to announce our August 2009 meeting: Puppet
Puppet is an open source systems management policy engine for Linux/Unix systems. Put simply, with puppet you create a policy for a machine (or class of machines) that describes what the machine should look like, and puppet ensures that it always is in that state. With this new way of looking at managing you systems you can quickly automate out much of the boring aspects of administration, and make it much easier to bring new systems on line to known configurations. The talk will cover the basics of Puppet, using the example of the IBM OpenSim Grid as an implementation. The meeting should be highly interactive, and hopefully give you a new set of tools for doing systems administration. Before the main talk we will do a series of lightning talks (up to 3), each 10 minutes or less, on something Open Source related. It could be a fun new program, a book, a blog post, or really anything you think the wider MHVLUG community would find some interest in. People that have posted their talk subject to the wiki in advance have priority. Time permitting, we'll also take impromptu lightning talks from the floor. If you are planning on using the projector for your lightning talk, please arrive at 5:30, to ensure we can work out any kinks with the projector prior to the meeting. We often have Ubuntu CDs, OpenCDs, or Prentice Hall technical books to give away. They will be given away on a first come first served basis, so be sure to get there on time. The meeting will take place at the Mid Hudson Library System Auditorium, in Poughkeepsie, NY, on Wednesday, August 5 from 6pm - 8pm. A nice map to the Auditorium can be found here: http://midhudson.org/help/mhls_building_map.htm. All meetings are *free* and open to the public, and everyone from all levels of expertise and interest in Linux and Open Source Software are encouraged to attend (and bring a friend or two)! In addition, after each meeting ends everyone is welcome to join in on an informal dinner gathering at the Palace Diner (http://www.thepalacediner.com/) on Washington St. This is a great opportunity to interact with members of the local Linux community, and a forum where questions and comments are strongly welcomed. For more details, please see http://mhvlug.org. You can also keep up to date with MHVLUG events via our public calendar: HTML: http://cal.mhvlug.org/events iCAL: http://cal.mhvlug.org/events.ics Hope to see you all there! -Sean
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_______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Jul 1 - Linux High Performance Computing Aug 5 - TBD Sept 2 - Linux and HDTV
