Devops Drop 025

Got open source cloud storage? Red Hat buys Gluster

http://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2011/10/05/got-open-source-cloud-storage-red-hat-buys-gluster/

-Red Hat’s $136m acquisition of open source storage vendor Gluster marks Red Hat’s biggest buy since JBoss

-GWOS and Zenoss rumors... 

-Given its recent quarterly earnings report and topping the $1 billion annual revenue mark, Red Hat seems again to be bucking the bad economy.

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1 Million User Party: Mon Oct 17 in SF

Openbar till 11pm... Wish I could be there.... 

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2012 Fukuoka Ruby Award Competition & FOG

Wesley Beary

@geemus 

https://gist.github.com/1248281

http://www.myfukuoka.com/events/2012-fukuoka-ruby-award-competition

Grand Prize (1 Million Yen)

Outstanding Performance Awards (100,000 Yen)

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Ubuntu and the Cloud...

http://cloud.ubuntu.com/2011/10/ubuntu-cloud-live/

Ubuntu Orchestra

JUJU using LXC on a Laptop .. can run it in virtulization.. openstack or EC2.... 

In the front of the stage, we have a portable rack of servers (a 40-core Intel Emerald Ridge, a 24-core HP Proliant, a 16-core Dell Precision, with a System76 local Ubuntu mirror, and Cisco networking hardware).  We've used Ubuntu Orchestra to remotely install the systems, and we've deployed OpenStack to the rack.  Once OpenStack is running, Clint has a series of Hadoop jobs that he spins up and runs against dozens of instances on the local Nova compute node.  And for the real whiz-bang, Clint uses gource for dynamic visualization of the Hadoop cluster, the various nodes, and their relationships.  It is absolutely stunning to behold!

To get started download the image from:

http://people.canonical.com/~akarama/binary.img

Ubuntu 11.10 Oct 13...

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Open Stack Summit Summary...

Matt Ray... Bell of the ball.... I worked my ass off to hire him at Opscode... 

Ironic story... 

User adoption is really taking off, and we’ll be hearing from MercardoLibre, CERN, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Fidelity, Disney, and NeCTAR Summit...

Rackspace’s intention to form an OpenStack Foundation in 2012

http://www.openstack.org/blog/2011/10/openstack-foundation/

-organizations backing OpenStack is now well over 110, including industry giants such as Cisco, HP, and Dell.

-Clouscaling, Piston and Nebula

-Techstars recently announced an incubator program for Cloud start ups

-User adoption is really taking off, and we’ll be hearing from MercardoLibre, CERN, Sony Computer Entertainment America, Fidelity, Disney, and NeCTAR

-HP using Openstack huge contributor... 

-They also plan on posting their own Chef cookbooks and apparently they have their own crowbar like implementation. 

-Dell w/Crowbar was giving demos... 

Complete list for blueprints...

https://blueprints.launchpad.net/openstack

Git support for gt/jenkins....

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Windows Registry-based Idempotence Check with Chef

http://delivermind.blogspot.com/2011/10/windows-msi-idempotence-with-chef.html

registry_helper.rb is used to check for an already installed product... 

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Puppet vs. Chef, Fight!

http://devopsanywhere.blogspot.com/2011/10/puppet-vs-chef-fight.html

If you aren't yet using Puppet or Chef for managing your *nix infrastructure, you should seriously consider it.

The Criteria

-Community Strength

-Leadership

-Corporate Adoption

-Technical Merits

-Hands-on Experience

Community Size

Number of people on IRC on Sunday Oct 9th, 2011 10 AM GMT

#puppet   541 users

#chef       233 users

Mailing Lists

puppet-users  3363 members, 5961 topics

chef: 600 members, # of topics unknown

Quality of Cookbook Sites

http://community.opscode.com/cookbooks

http://forge.puppetlabs.com/

Github Repositories:

puppet:  1622 repositories

chef:      1299 repositories

 Pro Puppet, by Puppet Labs engineer James Turnbull, is an awesome introduction to Puppet. I found it immensely helpful. There is a 50-page O'Reilly publication on Chef, Test-Driven Infrastructure with Chef, but it cannot match the breadth of Pro Puppet...

Leadership

Luke... I spoke to Luke .. he told me he actually put a lot of efford into becoming a CEO... 

Scott Johnston new VP or Product and Marketing

Director, Product Management, New Business Ventures atCisco Systems

Director, Customer Operations at Loudcloud

Director, Product Management at Geocast Network Systems

Director, Product Management, Web/Application Servers atNetscape

 Partner at Alloy Ventures

 

Opscode now has Mitch Hill: Chief Executive Officer

8 guys to almost 1bill exit...

Opscode has battery and Puppet kliener perkins