The Linux Users' Group of Davis (LUGOD) will be holding the following meeting:
Monday April 18, 2016 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presentation: "Configuration Management with Puppet: Present and Future" presented by Greg Larkin, Puppet Labs
In this talk, Greg Larkin, an engineer with Puppet Labs, will discuss some of the historical issues with system management, how Puppet works, how it fits into current types of infrastructure deployments and what some of its enterprise features are. The talk will touch on high-level concepts as well as show some code and how it enforces node configurations. The talk will also cover new Puppet developments that were recently announced during PuppetConf 2015.
About Puppet:
Puppet is an open-source configuration management tool. It runs on many Unix-like systems as well as on Microsoft Windows, and includes its own declarative language to describe system configuration.
Puppet is produced by Puppet Labs. It is written in Ruby and released as free software -- under the GNU General Public License (GPL) until version 2.7.0, and the Apache License 2.0 after that.
About the Speaker:
Greg Larkin is a Professional Services Engineer at Puppet Labs. He has worked as a software developer since the 1980s. In the mid-90s, acting as a self-employed software development consultant, he became involved with many teams of geographically-distributed independent consultants, and began setting up source code control repositories for these teams. Out of this, SourceHosting.net, the first Internet-based hosted source code repository service, was born.
After discovering Puppet in 2012, Greg launched Devopsify IT!, a consulting business focused on assisting and mentoring clients with their first steps towards a more automated and reliable deployment architecture.
About Puppet Labs:
Founded by Luke Kanies in 2005, Puppet Labs is the leader in IT automation. Their software helps sysadmins automate configuration and management of machines and the software running on them. With their software, businesses can make rapid, repeatable changes and automatically enforce the consistency of systems and devices, across physical and virtual machines, on-premises or in the cloud.
Tens of thousands of the world's leading companies (including Bank of America, Cisco, the New York Stock Exchange, and salesforce.com) use Puppet to manage millions of machines and devices.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Puppet Labs employs more than 400 people.
This meeting will be held at:
Explorit 3141 5th Street Davis, CA 95616
For more details on this meeting, visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/upcoming/
For maps, directions, public transportation schedules, etc., visit:
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/explorit/
Flyer:
If you'd like to print and post flyers to help advertise this event, you can download a PDF from:
http://lugod.org/documents/flyers/
------------ About LUGOD: ------------
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Since 1999, LUGOD has held regular meetings with guest speakers in Davis, California, as well as other events in Davis and the greater Sacramento region. Events are always free and open to the public.
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