Next Meeting June 20th: SparkleFormation

[Spencer Krum]

Hi All,

Our next meeting is June 20th. This is moved up a week so as to not conflict with Monitorama.

Our presenter is Chris Roberts and the topic is SparkleFormation.

Summary: SparkleFormation is a Ruby based DSL to programmatically build templates for cloud orchestration APIs. It even has a companion CLI tool for interacting with remote providers. This talk will give a brief history on how SparkleFormation came into existence, its evolution to becoming the library and application it is today, and an overview of the things possible with SparkleFormation. Once a common foundation has been laid, we'll dive in a bit deeper to examine some non-trivial use cases touching on nesting, graphing, planning, cross provider support/interactions (AWS CFN isn't the only rodeo in town), integrating Serverspec via callbacks, and how sparkle packs can delegate infrastructure composition across teams. If there's still time and interest after all this, we can touch on why CFN is currently the best orchestration API, why CFN sucks, what's great and horrible about other orchestration APIs, why you should have an "infrastructure repository", the absurdity of humans composing documents in serialization formats, and anything else people want to talk about.

As usual, we'll be at New Relic, with Volt providing pizza. If anyone has any dietary restrictions please reply to this list and we'll do our best to accomodate you.

Thanks,

Spencer

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Spencer Krum
(619)-980-7820

[Spencer Krum]

We'll also have a talk on Chef's new thing, Habitat, from Eric Maxwell

Habitat is a new approach to automation that focuses on the application instead of the infrastructure it runs on. With Habitat, the apps you build, deploy, and manage behave consistently in any runtime — metal, VMs, containers, and PaaS. You'll spend less time on the environment and more time building features.

I unfortunately wont be there (still traveling) but have a great event!

Spencer

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Spencer Krum
(619)-980-7820