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what="official UNIGROUP announcement"
assurance="there will be giveaways and food"
rsvp="registration requested, see below"
entrance-fee="yes, see http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-fees.html"
location="The Cooper Union School of Engineering, see below"
info="http://www.unigroup.org"
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Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 12:32:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Unigroup_of_NY <uni...@unigroup.org>
Subject: Reminder: UNIGROUP 16-MAY-2013 (Thu): Configuration Management Systems Comparison
Unigroup is TOMORROW Thursday...
Please RSVP if you will be attending, and have not already done so...
================================================================
UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MAY 2013 ANNOUNCEMENTS
================================================================
----------------------------------
1. UNIGROUP'S MAY 2013 MEETING NOTICE
----------------------------------
When: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 (*** 3rd Thursday ***)
Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: 505_CS (5th Floor)
** Please RSVP ** (Note: Room Changes Month-to-Month)
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.
< rather see http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-fees.html />
------------------------------------------------
Topic: Comparison of Configuration Management Systems
(ansible, chef, puppet, salt ; foreman ; etc.)
------------------------------------------------
Speaker: Sam Kottler,
Member of The Foreman Project <http://theforeman.org>;
Software Engineer, Red Hat <http://redhat.com>.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
INTRODUCTION:
-------------
Unigroup's May 2013 meeting will discuss Configuration Management
Systems, one of the hot topics in Systems Administration in recent
years. We hope to compare and discuss some of the major
Open-Source configuration tools such as: ansible, bcfg2, cfengine,
chef, puppet and salt.
Our speaker Sam Kottler, is a member of The Foreman Project,
and as such, we hope to also talk about Foreman, a "complete
life-cycle management tool for physical and virtual servers",
which can provision on bare-metal, and public or private clouds.
Sam recently presented The Foreman at the LOPSA-EAST 2013
Systems Administration Conference.
Also, in the pre-meeting, we plan to do a brief followup on the
LOPSA-EAST Conference, and hope to take a look at a couple
of Embedded Linux systems: Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone Black.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
---------------------
Most Unigroup meetings are open to the public!
To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please avoid Emailed RSVPs.
Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your Email for any last
minute announcements as the meeting approaches. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from
our mailing list.
Also, if you have an interest in Unigroup, be sure to receive
Unigroup information DIRECTLY from Unigroup, via direct receipt
of Emails and by visiting the Unigroup Web Site. NO OTHER SOURCE
provides timely, accurate and complete Unigroup information.
Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.
Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list".
-------------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN PRESENTATION
-----------------
Topic: Comparison of Configuration Management Systems
Introduction & Description of Talk:
-----------------------------------
This talk will be on Configuration Management Tools, and how
they are used to perform various Systems Administration,
Configuration and Deployment tasks.
Outline of the Talk:
--------------------
- What is configuration management?
- Why is it important?
- Leading contenders in the space
- Puppet, Chef, Salt, and Ansible
- Agents (pull) vs. SSH (push)
- Internal vs. external DSL's
- Core language constructs of each tool
- Modularization
- Puppet modules
- Chef cookbooks
- Ansible playbooks
- Salt formulas
- Running the tools
- Installing Apache & NTP with each tool on a linux system
(live demo)
- Some well-known users of each tool and how they're using
each system
References & Web Resources:
---------------------------
Wikipedia on Comparison of Configuration Management Systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_configuration_management_software
Bcfg2
http://www.bcfg2.org
Cfengine
http://www.cfengine.com/community
Chef
http://www.opscode.com/chef
http://www.opscode.com/community
Foreman:
http://www.theforeman.org
Puppet
http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-open-source
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Speaker Biography:
------------------
Sam Kottler,
Member of The Foreman Project;
Software Engineer, Red Hat,
Sam Kottler is a software engineer in the Virtualization R&D
group at Red Hat. He's helped build infrastructure for leading
startups, including Digg.com, Acquia, and Venmo and is a
contributor to Puppet, the Fedora Project, Drupal, and the
Rubygems.org. Sam speaks around the world on the topics of
internet security, systems automation, and software architecture.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Company Biography:
------------------
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source solutions,
using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and
high-performing cloud, virtualization, storage, Linux, and
middleware technologies.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Giveaways:
----------
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
< ... />
Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Food:
-----
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.
This normally includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef,
chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads
(potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water
and assorted SOFT beverages.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Directions:
-----------
The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)
Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.
Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).
Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East,
or take the new transfer to the uptown '6'.
Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.
There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street).
-----
Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
< ... />
=========================================================================
= For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
= visit our World Wide Web Home Page: =
= http://www.unigroup.org =
=========================================================================
For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
List send an EMail message to:
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
uniboard (-a_t-) unigroup.org
If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.
Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
</blockquote>
Distributed poC TINC:
Jay Sulzberger <secr...@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
what="official UNIGROUP announcement"
assurance="there will be giveaways and food"
rsvp="registration requested, see below"
entrance-fee="yes, see http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-fees.html"
location="The Cooper Union School of Engineering, see below"
info="http://www.unigroup.org"
edits="one line inserted, and some paragraphs removed
so notice fits in mailboxen">
Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 12:32:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Unigroup_of_NY <uni...@unigroup.org>
Subject: Reminder: UNIGROUP 16-MAY-2013 (Thu): Configuration Management Systems Comparison
Unigroup is TOMORROW Thursday...
Please RSVP if you will be attending, and have not already done so...
================================================================
UNIGROUP OF NEW YORK - UNIX USERS GROUP - MAY 2013 ANNOUNCEMENTS
================================================================
----------------------------------
1. UNIGROUP'S MAY 2013 MEETING NOTICE
----------------------------------
When: Thursday, May 16th, 2013 (*** 3rd Thursday ***)
Where: The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Ave @ 7th St, bet. 6th & 7th Sts)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City
Meeting Room: 505_CS (5th Floor)
** Please RSVP ** (Note: Room Changes Month-to-Month)
Time: 6:15 PM - 6:30 PM Registration
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM Ask the Wizard, Questions,
Answers and Current Events
6:45 PM - 7:00 PM Unigroup Business and Announcements
7:00 PM - 9:30 PM Main Presentation
Cost: See the Meeting+Membership Fee Schedule Below.
< rather see http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-fees.html />
------------------------------------------------
Topic: Comparison of Configuration Management Systems
(ansible, chef, puppet, salt ; foreman ; etc.)
------------------------------------------------
Speaker: Sam Kottler,
Member of The Foreman Project <http://theforeman.org>;
Software Engineer, Red Hat <http://redhat.com>.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
INTRODUCTION:
-------------
Unigroup's May 2013 meeting will discuss Configuration Management
Systems, one of the hot topics in Systems Administration in recent
years. We hope to compare and discuss some of the major
Open-Source configuration tools such as: ansible, bcfg2, cfengine,
chef, puppet and salt.
Our speaker Sam Kottler, is a member of The Foreman Project,
and as such, we hope to also talk about Foreman, a "complete
life-cycle management tool for physical and virtual servers",
which can provision on bare-metal, and public or private clouds.
Sam recently presented The Foreman at the LOPSA-EAST 2013
Systems Administration Conference.
Also, in the pre-meeting, we plan to do a brief followup on the
LOPSA-EAST Conference, and hope to take a look at a couple
of Embedded Linux systems: Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone Black.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS:
---------------------
Most Unigroup meetings are open to the public!
To REGISTER for this event, please RSVP by using the Unigroup
Registration Page:
http://www.unigroup.org/unigroup-rsvp.html
This will allow us to automate the registration process.
(Registration will also add you to our mailing list.)
Please avoid Emailed RSVPs.
Please continue to check the Unigroup web site and meeting page,
for any last minute updates concerning this meeting. If you
registered for this meeting, please check your Email for any last
minute announcements as the meeting approaches. Also make sure
any anti-spam white-lists are updated to _ALLOW_ Unigroup traffic!
If you block Unigroup Emails, your address will be dropped from
our mailing list.
Also, if you have an interest in Unigroup, be sure to receive
Unigroup information DIRECTLY from Unigroup, via direct receipt
of Emails and by visiting the Unigroup Web Site. NO OTHER SOURCE
provides timely, accurate and complete Unigroup information.
Please RSVP as soon as possible, preferably at least 2-3 days
prior to the meeting date, so we can plan the food order.
RSVP deadline is usually the night before the meeting day.
Note: RSVP is requested for this location to make sure the guard
will let you into the building. RSVP also helps us to
properly plan the meeting (food, drinks, handouts,
seating, etc.) and speed up your sign-in at the meeting.
If you forget to RSVP prior to the meeting day, you may
still be able to show up and attend our meeting, however,
we cannot guarantee what building security will do if
you are "not on the list".
-------------------------------------------------------------------
MAIN PRESENTATION
-----------------
Topic: Comparison of Configuration Management Systems
Introduction & Description of Talk:
-----------------------------------
This talk will be on Configuration Management Tools, and how
they are used to perform various Systems Administration,
Configuration and Deployment tasks.
Outline of the Talk:
--------------------
- What is configuration management?
- Why is it important?
- Leading contenders in the space
- Puppet, Chef, Salt, and Ansible
- Agents (pull) vs. SSH (push)
- Internal vs. external DSL's
- Core language constructs of each tool
- Modularization
- Puppet modules
- Chef cookbooks
- Ansible playbooks
- Salt formulas
- Running the tools
- Installing Apache & NTP with each tool on a linux system
(live demo)
- Some well-known users of each tool and how they're using
each system
References & Web Resources:
---------------------------
Wikipedia on Comparison of Configuration Management Systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_configuration_management_software
Bcfg2
http://www.bcfg2.org
Cfengine
http://www.cfengine.com/community
Chef
http://www.opscode.com/chef
http://www.opscode.com/community
Foreman:
http://www.theforeman.org
Puppet
http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/puppet-open-source
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Speaker Biography:
------------------
Sam Kottler,
Member of The Foreman Project;
Software Engineer, Red Hat,
Sam Kottler is a software engineer in the Virtualization R&D
group at Red Hat. He's helped build infrastructure for leading
startups, including Digg.com, Acquia, and Venmo and is a
contributor to Puppet, the Fedora Project, Drupal, and the
Rubygems.org. Sam speaks around the world on the topics of
internet security, systems automation, and software architecture.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Company Biography:
------------------
Red Hat is the world's leading provider of open source solutions,
using a community-powered approach to provide reliable and
high-performing cloud, virtualization, storage, Linux, and
middleware technologies.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Giveaways:
----------
Addison-Wesley Professional/Prentice Hall PTR, and O'Reilly have
been kind enough to provide us with review copies of some of their
books, which we will continue to raffle off as giveaways at our
meetings. The publishers always ask that the persons receiving
the books provide a review and/or feedback about their books.
Unigroup would like to thank both companies for the support
provided by their User Group programs.
As always, all of the books will be available for review at the
start of the meeting.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
< ... />
Members: Remember to bring your Unigroup membership card with
you to the meeting, to confirm your yearly renewal date!
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Food:
-----
Complimentary Food and Refreshments will be served.
This normally includes "wraps" such as turkey, roast beef,
chicken, tuna and grilled vegetables as well as assorted salads
(potato, tossed, pasta, etc), cookies, brownies, bottled water
and assorted SOFT beverages.
-------------------------------------------------------------------
Directions:
-----------
The Cooper Union <http://www.cooper.edu>
School of Engineering (*** New Building ***)
41 Cooper Square (3rd Avenue @ 7th St, between 6th & 7th Streets)
East Village, Manhattan
New York City, 10003
Meeting Room: ** (See Above, Room Changes Month-to-Month)
Located on the East side of Cooper Square. Look for the
new building with the non-traditional appearance.
Entrance is at the corner of 3rd Avenue and 7 Street.
Building lobby sign-in is required at the guard's desk.
Enter the building, check in with the guard at the lobby for
directions to Unigroup (the room varies from month-to-month).
Nearest mass transit stations are:
'6' to Astor Place (stops right at The Cooper Union),
then walk 1 block East and 1 block South.
'R' to 8th Street, then walk about 2 blocks East
then 1 block South.
'4/5/6/R/N/Q' to Union Square, then walk South and East.
'B/D/F/V' to Broadway-Lafayette, then walk North and East,
or take the new transfer to the uptown '6'.
Free street parking in the area becomes available at 6pm.
There are also parking lots on Broadway, at (or just south of)
Astor Place (8th Street).
-----
Please mark this meeting on your calendar and join us!
Please tell your friends about Unigroup!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
< ... />
=========================================================================
= For Unigroup Information, Events and Meeting Announcements be sure to =
= visit our World Wide Web Home Page: =
= http://www.unigroup.org =
=========================================================================
For further information or to get on the Unigroup Electronic Mail Mailing
List send an EMail message to:
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
To contact the Board of Directors of Unigroup, send an EMail message to:
uniboard (-a_t-) unigroup.org
If you have recently attended a meeting and you are not receiving
Email announcements, please send us an Email and we will make
corrections to our lists.
Please Email the Board with any suggestions, especially potential
meeting topics and speakers. Unigroup welcomes contributions and
content suggestions for our newsletter. Unigroup is a volunteer
organization and we need your assistance! Please let us know if you
can help!
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-Rob Weiner
Unigroup Executive Director
unilist (-a_t-) unigroup.org
http://www.unigroup.org
</blockquote>
Distributed poC TINC:
Jay Sulzberger <secr...@lxny.org>
Corresponding Secretary LXNY
LXNY is New York's Free Computing Organization.
http://www.lxny.org
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