We had our first CM meetup today at the Square Cafe Coffee Day; We booked a Huddle room for this meetup. It is well equipped with projector, wifi etc. Few folks have RSVPed yes but as expected they did not turn up :) but anyway we had a great session. There were only four of us for the first meetup. Participants:
1) Bernard L'Allier- RackSpace Inc
2) Roopesh Kumar- Streamnet Cloud
3) Krishna Gowda- Streamnet Cloud
4) Subhankar Sengupta- Sabre Inc.
We waited for 15 minutes for others to join and then finally started by 2.30 PM. After the introduction was over, I did a presentation about "Configuration Management as a Practice". This was more about looking at the whole picture of CM practice and not just System/Service provisioning and deployment. Spoke more about the control tier API. Control tier includes Orchestration, Dispatcher and Scheduler. Then covered the provisioning tier with example of Puppet/Chef/Salt etc. Touched upon importance of version control and artifact repo for infrastructure configuration components. After that Bernanrd shared his insight about the CM practice in Rackspace and specifically discussed few case studies for CM. Apart from that Bernard shared his vision for Rackspace in India with us. Roopesh and Krishna shared how CM practice with a introduction of tool like puppet/chef could make their support echo system more effective.
Finally we did a Live Workshop on Puppet and we covered following topics (Hands-On) -
1) Puppet Installation.....
2) Puppet Directory Structure....
3) Apache Deployment with Puppet...
3) Script Deployment with Puppet...
Meetup ended in a very positive note and all of us took good amount of learning back home :) We decided to meetup again in near future (Date will be announced) and will uphold our promise :)- No Sponsor, Zero Marketing, Strictly Open Source and Vendor Agnostic :)
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