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Rootconf 2012

Let there be sysadmins

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Kracekumar R

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Fabric - Sysadmin Swiss knife

Basic usage of Fabric for deploying websites. Carrying out system administration task with Fabric. Different usecases of Fabric more
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  • 18 Apr 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Beginner Session type: Demo

Sameer Segal

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
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  • 23 Apr 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Tutorial

habeeb rahman

Cloud Meets Fog & Puppet, A Story of Version Controlled Infrastructure

How tools like git, ruby, puppet and fog come together and automate cloud deployments. more
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  • 24 Apr 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Saket Bhushan

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
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  • 24 Apr 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Tutorial

sarguru nathan

Puppet in Stand Alone Mode or Why Config management is useful for 0+ systems

Learn the benefits and advantages of using puppet in stand alone mode. Discuss the pros and cons of it. more
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  • 24 Apr 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Discussion

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
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  • 25 Apr 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Pratima Singh

Automated and Adaptive Infrastructure Monitoring using Chef, Nagios and Graphite

An overview of how chef, nagios and graphite can be integrated to provide a robust monitoring and performance analytics system. more
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  • 26 Apr 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Shyam Sundar C S

Migrating apps to Cloud

This 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
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  • 26 Apr 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Nilesh B

High performant virtualization using OpenVZ

An overview of OpenVZ virtualization and ways to achieve on demand high performance infrastructure. more
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  • 26 Apr 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Kaustubh Srikanth

Zero-touch Drupal deployment with Features, Jenkins, Aegir, Git, Fabric and Drush

Build 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
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  • 27 Apr 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Vivek Juneja

Riscy Ciscy : How did I bootstrap Infrastructure Cloud in 40 days

Ingredients of an Infrastructure as a Service - for DevOps, SysAdmins and everybody who matters more
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  • 27 Apr 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Gowrishankar Rajaiyan

freeIPA - Identity Managment

An overview of freeIPA architecture. An illustration of its installation and command line usage. more
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  • 28 Apr 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Venkat Mangudi

Virtualizations all, which to choose?

Understand the different virtualization technologies available. more
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  • 28 Apr 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Janmejay Singh

Performance Tuning 101 - An introduction to performance tuning an application in managed environment

This 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
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  • 29 Apr 2012
Section: Performance Tuning Technical level: Advanced Session type: Lecture

Sriram Narayanan

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
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  • 29 Apr 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Tutorial

Sriram Narayanan

Devops on Windows

There are lots of things that you can improve and automate in a Windows environment using Devops practices. more
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  • 29 Apr 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Sriram Narayanan

Beyond Localhost

Some lessons learned with recreating production configs in dev environments more
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  • 29 Apr 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Harish Badrinath

Functional package management

Various shortcomings in widely used package managers are identified and we look at ways to address them using system level solutions. more
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  • 30 Apr 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Arif Amirani

Centralized logging in a distributed environment

Present the need for centralized logging Out-of-the-box solutions with pros and cons more
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  • 02 May 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Beginner Session type: Demo

Medhamsh

Develop, Test, Deploy, Distribute

The session demonstrates the process of developing, testing and deploying a “Virtual Lab”. (http://vlab.co.in) more
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  • 04 May 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

Anurag

Openshift: Deployments for the rest of us

An overview of Red Hat’s Openshift PaaS. OpenShift is Red Hat’s free, auto-scaling Platform as a Service (PaaS) for applications. more
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  • 07 May 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Beginner Session type: Demo

Exploit Pack

Trojans in web browsers

Show 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
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  • 07 May 2012
Section: Security Technical level: Advanced Session type: Demo

Akash Mahajan

Securing a Linux Web Server in 10 Steps or Less

Learn 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
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  • 09 May 2012
Section: Security Technical level: Beginner Session type: Tutorial

Mohit Chawla

Make your servers sing using MCollective

Leverage modern communication/transport paradigms for better, more organic command & control over your servers. more
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  • 11 May 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Biju Chacko

Varanid: distributed, resilient and scalable alerting

Varanid is a early-stage open source project to build an alerting system that is: more
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  • 12 May 2012
Section: Monitoring Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Discussion

Janakiram MSV

Creating & Provisioning Cloud Resources with AWS CloudFormation

To get introduced to AWS CloudFormation as a tool to deploy and manage applications on the Cloud. more
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  • 13 May 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Demo

t3rmin4t0r

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
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  • 14 May 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Pankaj Kaushal

Create your own Cloud using a small Perl script

Create your own cloud service from the ground up. Outline more
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  • 14 May 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Intermediate Session type: Lecture

Aditya Patawari

Introduction To Metrics Collection

Attendee 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
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  • 14 May 2012
Section: Monitoring Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Aditya Patawari

Monitoring Basics And Tools

Attendee will be able to understand the basic principle behind monitoring, it need and what to monitor. more
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  • 14 May 2012
Section: Monitoring Technical level: Beginner Session type: Demo

Pranil Dasika

Stay in sync with Apache Zookeeper

Understand the application of apache zookeeper in a distributed environment. Use-case: Keeping metadata, config files in sync in a large geographically distributed environment more
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  • 15 May 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

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
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  • 18 May 2012
Section: Performance Tuning Technical level: Beginner Session type: Discussion

Piyush Goel

Optimizing LAMPhp Applications

To 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
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  • 18 May 2012
Section: Performance Tuning Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Ranjib Dey

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
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  • 21 May 2012
Section: Configuration Management Technical level: Advanced Session type: Lecture

Ranjib Dey

Infrastructure tooling patterns

A 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
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  • 21 May 2012
Section: Cloud and Virtualization Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

Gaurav

Real-time distributed monitoring, execution and alert using Ganglia and Nagios

Being able to monitor a distributed system for various system/application level statistics using popular open source tools more
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  • 21 May 2012
Section: Monitoring Technical level: Beginner Session type: Lecture

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