Hi everyone,
The next GLLUG meeting will take place on Thursday 22nd Feb, starting at 19:00hrs and we have Luke Kanies talking about Puppet.
We will be meeting at the Fotango offices (
http://www.fotango.com/contact_us.htm ) and need to be out by 20:45.
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About the talk :
Puppet is a system administration automation framework, written entirely in Ruby. The big difference between Puppet and other frameworks is that Puppet provides an abstraction layer between the sysadmin and all of those messy operating system details -- instead of caring about how useradd or crontab work, you talk about users and cron jobs, and Puppet will figure out how to create or modify the objects as necessary. This allows you to focus on data specification, and Puppet translates the specification into functional operating system details.
Project page :
http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/index.html
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About Luke :
Luke Kanies is a 31 year old system administrator turned developer living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been a Unix and Linux administrator for ten years, and has spent the last five years focused on developing automation frameworks. In 2003 he founded Reductive Labs to work on new open source automation and administration tools, and Puppet is its first major project.
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After the talk + q & a we will head off to a local Pub ( Recommended by the london.pm folk ) The Masque Haunt. It's a Wetherspoons pub, but should fit the entire group in it. (
http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/49/4959/Masque_Haunt/Old_Street )
Some of us will be heading off for a Curry after, everyone is welcome to join in.
