RootConf Day #1 Notes

Every Conference is a good learning opportunity in identifying best practices, technology trends, learning opportunities. Predominantly all sessions were open source tools for Dev-Ops, Continuous Integration, Automated Deployments.

Consolidated Set of Open Source Tools Discussed are

• Puppet  
• Chef  
• Vortex  
• Docker  
• Vagrant  
• Ansible  
• Sensu   (Open Source Monitoring)
• Saltstack  - Configuration Management

For Performance Testing Open Stack

• Rally Open Stack Perf Testing 
• Test Kitchen

Free Tools to be checked for Windows

• Nagios for Windows Monitoring
• Vagrant for Windows

Notes from Sessions

First session was on Building Elastic Infrastructures by Pankaj Kaushal

• Automated creation of systems
• Centralized monitoring
• VM created with HostDB Entry
• Tools - Puppet, HostDB

HostDB

• Highly Available / Reliable
• Namespaces & access controls
• Rollback / GIT as backend
• Rest APIs for APPs to interact

Puppet

• Manage Configuration
• Define Machine / nodes

Session Quick Prototyping with LXC and Puppet by BENJAMIN KERO

• Tools CVS, SVN, BZR, Dares, RCS, GIT, Mercurial
• Provided good comparision for tools Docker, VMWare VSphere, EC2, Linux + Puppet, C (Control) Groups
• Mercurial, LinuxContainers.org

Session - Avoiding single point of failure in a multi-services architecture

• Tools used - Sensu monitoring, salt stack, jenkins

Interesting Sites to check

• Jaaga  - Study + Startup
• OpenEdx  
• Codeschool, CodeAcademy
• Testing cloud infrastructure  Samples
• Infrastructure Management: Part #1, Puppet

Happy Learning!!!