DebianNYC/Workshops/ManagingServerFarm

Announcement

Starting an outline for a workshop/presentation on managing a large amount of servers with opensource tools available on puppet.

For other Debian-NYC events, including Novice Nights aimed at new users, see http://wiki.debian.org/DebianNYC

Date/Time/Location: TBD

Registration: TBD

Contact: IRC via #debian-nyc on irc.debian.org ; debiannyc@vireo.org ; Richard Darst (rkd at zgib.net)

Web: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianNYC/Workshops/ManagingServerFarm

Configuration Management
- What we use
  - puppet http://www.puppetlabs.com/puppet/introduction/
- Other Options
  - chef http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Home
  - Cfengine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cfengine
  - Comparative list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open_source_configuration_management_software
Central Logging
- syslog-ng
Monitoring
- Nagios
- logwatch (under logging?)
- logcheck
- scripts ??? ( move under syslog-ng ?)?
Virtulization (re-org this section)
- openvz
- vmware (not opensource )
- kvm
- xen (bah)
Authentication
- kerberose
- ldap / ad
- ssh keys
- monkey sphere
?VersionControl
- svn
- git
- just to mention others
  - cvs
  - mercurial http://mercurial.selenic.com/
  - Bazar ?? or any other worth mentioning ??
Package management
- reprepro
- build packages
- package proxy
Backups ?
- you know backup data Need something better here
Filesystems ?!?!?!
- san, nas, dfs, nfs, ...