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Fabric - Sysadmin Swiss knifeBasic usage of Fabric for deploying websites. Carrying out system administration task with Fabric. Different usecases of Fabric more
Configuration Management
Beginner
Demo
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Continuous Integration made fun with Jenkins & Hubot (+ Gtalk)Learn how to setup Jenkins (http://jenkins-ci.org) to make your life easy as a sys-admin. Further make it easier for developers to interact with Jenkins using hubot (http://hubot.github.com/) more
Configuration Management
Intermediate
Tutorial
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habeeb rahman Cloud Meets Fog & Puppet, A Story of Version Controlled InfrastructureHow tools like git, ruby, puppet and fog come together and automate cloud deployments. more
Configuration Management
Intermediate
Lecture
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Using Delicious Chef Recipes, to automate provisioning of cloud server and quality Fabric for deployment.To automate provisioning of a cloud server with Chef and deployment of source using Fabric. more
Configuration Management
Intermediate
Tutorial
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Puppet in Stand Alone Mode or Why Config management is useful for 0+ systemsLearn the benefits and advantages of using puppet in stand alone mode. Discuss the pros and cons of it. more
Configuration Management
Intermediate
Discussion
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Kashyap Chamarthy Virtualization with KVM (and Libvirt)An architectural overview of KVM based Virtualization stack . And, an illustration of virt library(‘Libvirt’) and tools(based on ‘libguestfs’) which are helpful in solving some of the day-day problems in your ever increasing virtualization infrastructure. more
Cloud and Virtualization
Intermediate
Demo
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Automated and Adaptive Infrastructure Monitoring using Chef, Nagios and GraphiteAn overview of how chef, nagios and graphite can be integrated to provide a robust monitoring and performance analytics system. more
Configuration Management
Beginner
Lecture
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Migrating apps to CloudThis session will share experiences on planning and executing a legacy .net application from a hostile vendor, non-technical customer, non-compiling codebase to public cloud. more
Cloud and Virtualization
Intermediate
Lecture
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High performant virtualization using OpenVZAn overview of OpenVZ virtualization and ways to achieve on demand high performance infrastructure. more
Cloud and Virtualization
Beginner
Lecture
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Zero-touch Drupal deployment with Features, Jenkins, Aegir, Git, Fabric and DrushBuild a workflow where your Drupal development team can just commit their code to GIT and automatically deploy changes across development, testing and live environments. more
Configuration Management
Intermediate
Lecture
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Riscy Ciscy : How did I bootstrap Infrastructure Cloud in 40 daysIngredients of an Infrastructure as a Service - for DevOps, SysAdmins and everybody who matters more
Cloud and Virtualization
Beginner
Lecture
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freeIPA - Identity ManagmentAn overview of freeIPA architecture. An illustration of its installation and command line usage. more
Configuration Management
Intermediate
Demo
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Virtualizations all, which to choose?Understand the different virtualization technologies available. more
Cloud and Virtualization
Beginner
Lecture
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Performance Tuning 101 - An introduction to performance tuning an application in managed environmentThis is to share our learnings from performance tuning ThoughtWorks Go(a CI/CD server) across different customer environments, hardware and usage style(s). This will go into fundamentals of the nature of performance testing/tuning problem and brush up dos and don’ts of detecting or fixing performance issues. Usually intution tends to work very poorly in the area of performance tuning, so general … more
Performance Tuning
Advanced
Lecture
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Build your own Storage Device (SAN) !Attendees will understand what’s involved in building one’s own SAN device, and also see some real world experience reports. more
Cloud and Virtualization
Intermediate
Tutorial
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Devops on WindowsThere are lots of things that you can improve and automate in a Windows environment using Devops practices. more
Configuration Management
Intermediate
Lecture
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Beyond LocalhostSome lessons learned with recreating production configs in dev environments more
Cloud and Virtualization
Intermediate
Demo
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Harish Badrinath Functional package managementVarious shortcomings in widely used package managers are identified and we look at ways to address them using system level solutions. more
Configuration Management
Intermediate
Lecture
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Centralized logging in a distributed environmentPresent the need for centralized logging Out-of-the-box solutions with pros and cons more
Cloud and Virtualization
Beginner
Demo
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Medhamsh Develop, Test, Deploy, DistributeThe session demonstrates the process of developing, testing and deploying a “Virtual Lab”. (http://vlab.co.in) more
Cloud and Virtualization
Intermediate
Demo
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Openshift: Deployments for the rest of usAn overview of Red Hat’s Openshift PaaS. OpenShift is Red Hat’s free, auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS) for applications. more
Cloud and Virtualization
Beginner
Demo
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Exploit Pack Trojans in web browsersShow to the audience how a browser can be hacked and controlled remotely without user permission, to achieve this we will show the latest technics and a 0day that we will use to get session persistence more
Security
Advanced
Demo
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Securing a Linux Web Server in 10 Steps or LessLearn the basic approaches to securing linux based web servers without getting too technical. This talk will be useful for anyone running a linux server with full root access. more
Security
Beginner
Tutorial
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Make your servers sing using MCollectiveLeverage modern communication/transport paradigms for better, more organic command & control over your servers. more
Configuration Management
Intermediate
Lecture
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Varanid: distributed, resilient and scalable alertingVaranid is a early-stage open source project to build an alerting system that is: more
Monitoring
Intermediate
Discussion
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Janakiram MSV Creating & Provisioning Cloud Resources with AWS CloudFormationTo get introduced to AWS CloudFormation as a tool to deploy and manage applications on the Cloud. more
Cloud and Virtualization
Intermediate
Demo
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A Cloud "Braindump"Walk through some of the common problems a cloud brings and some of the one-off solutions I’ve accumulated through the last couple of years. more
Cloud and Virtualization
Intermediate
Lecture
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Create your own Cloud using a small Perl scriptCreate your own cloud service from the ground up. Outline more
Cloud and Virtualization
Intermediate
Lecture
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Introduction To Metrics CollectionAttendee would be able to understand the reason of collecting metrics and would be able to pick right tool for collecting different kinds of metrics. more
Monitoring
Beginner
Lecture
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Monitoring Basics And ToolsAttendee will be able to understand the basic principle behind monitoring, it need and what to monitor. more
Monitoring
Beginner
Demo
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Stay in sync with Apache ZookeeperUnderstand the application of apache zookeeper in a distributed environment. Use-case: Keeping metadata, config files in sync in a large geographically distributed environment more
Configuration Management
Beginner
Lecture
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tuxtoti Nginx - Tips and Tricks.Nginx is the second most popular webserver after apache. Its known for its light memory footprint and nimble proxy/loadbalancing features. The objective is to discuss some useful and interesting features of nginx which can be used very effectively in a high volume production environment. more
Performance Tuning
Beginner
Discussion
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Optimizing LAMPhp ApplicationsTo share and discuss the common practices to be followed for scaling up LAMP applications. Cover some tools which can be handy for devops/sysadmins to identify bottlenecks in the applications. more
Performance Tuning
Beginner
Lecture
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A brief overview of current configuration management systems (FOSS)A brief overview of babushka, pallet, cfengine3, chef , puppet and salt . What they do, how, their architecture, what they are best fit for. Some of these frameworks extend the conventional notion of configuration management to support continuous deployment , test-ability like features too, this talk will highlight on those points also. more
Configuration Management
Advanced
Lecture
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Infrastructure tooling patternsA bunch of commonly observed and useful infrastructure automation patterns. With the surge in infrastructure automation frameworks , there are too many buzzwords to pick from , these few patterns will help the audience to understand the core features observed in individual patterns , as well enable them to roughly compare which one might be useful for a particular use case. more
Cloud and Virtualization
Beginner
Lecture
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Gaurav Real-time distributed monitoring, execution and alert using Ganglia and NagiosBeing able to monitor a distributed system for various system/application level statistics using popular open source tools more
Monitoring
Beginner
Lecture
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