Rootconf

Rootconf 2016

Rootconf is India's principal conference where systems and operations engineers share real world knowledge about building resilient and scalable systems.

Rootconf is India’s principal conference where systems and operations engineers share real world knowledge about building resilient and scalable systems.

We are now accepting submissions for our next edition which will take place in Bangalore 14-15 April 2016.

##Theme

The theme for this edition will be learning from failure. We are keen to explore how devops think about failure when designing, building and scaling their systems. We invite presentations related to failure in database systems, servers and network infrastructure.

We encourage presentations that relate to failure not only in terms of avoidance but also in terms of mitigation and education. How do we decide which parts of our systems cannot fail? What measures do we take to mitigate failure when it does inevitably happen? And most importantly: what lessons can be learned from failure?

Format

This year’s edition spans two days of hands-on workshops and conference. We are inviting proposals for:

  • Full-length 40 minute talks.
  • Crisp 15-minute talks.
  • Sponsored sessions, 15 minute duration (limited slots available; subject to editorial scrutiny and approval).
  • Hands-on Workshop sessions, 3 and 6 hour duration.

Selection process

Proposals will be filtered and shortlisted by an Editorial Panel. We urge you to add links to videos / slide decks when submitting proposals. This will help us understand your past speaking experience. Blurbs or blog posts covering the relevance of a particular problem statement and how it is tackled will help the Editorial Panel better judge your proposals.

We expect you to submit an outline of your proposed talk – either in the form of a mind map or a text document or draft slides within two weeks of submitting your proposal.

We will notify you about the status of your proposal within three weeks of submission.

Selected speakers must participate in one-two rounds of rehearsals before the conference. This is mandatory and helps you to prepare well for the conference.

There is only one speaker per session. Entry is free for selected speakers. As our budget is limited, we will prefer speakers from locations closer home, but will do our best to cover for anyone exceptional. HasGeek will provide a grant to cover part of your travel and accommodation in Bangalore. Grants are limited and made available to speakers delivering full sessions (40 minutes or longer).

Commitment to open source

HasGeek believes in open source as the binding force of our community. If you are describing a codebase for developers to work with, we’d like it to be available under a permissive open source licence. If your software is commercially licensed or available under a combination of commercial and restrictive open source licences (such as the various forms of the GPL), please consider picking up a sponsorship. We recognise that there are valid reasons for commercial licensing, but ask that you support us in return for giving you an audience. Your session will be marked on the schedule as a sponsored session.

Key dates and deadlines

  • Paper submission deadline: 31 January 2016
  • Schedule announcement: 29 February 2016
  • Conference dates: 14-15 April 2016

##Venue
Rootconf will be held at the MLR Convention Centre, J P Nagar.

##Contact
For more information about speaking proposals, tickets and sponsorships, contact info@hasgeek.com or call +91-7676332020.

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Walter Heck

@walterheck

Workshop Puppet in Production

Submitted Feb 19, 2016

Section: Workshop Technical level: Advanced

The objective of this workshop is to show attendees how to run a puppet setup in a production environment. The workshop will include setting up a puppet code respository from scratch, checking it into a git repository and making sure it can be deployed properly.

Outline

In this workshop we’ll be going through some simple exercises to set up and deploy open source puppet ready for a real world deployment. Git, hiera, r10k, all with best practices and in an extensible way. Participants are expected to have a basic working knowledge of puppet so they can get the best out of this workshop. We’ll deal with any questions and concerns as we go through our exercises, unless the topic requires more time or is not in scope for the session at which point we’ll defer it to the end of the session.

The goal of this session is to configure a proper production-ready repository. An outline of the session is as follows:

Total duration: 6 hours

Introduction (30 minutes)

  • Welcome

  • Overview of the session

  • Round of introductions

  • Intro to puppet

Setup environment (60 minutes)

  • Bring up the virtualbox machine

  • install puppet server

  • install puppet agent

  • create empty git repository

R10k (45 minutes)

  • Puppetfile

  • git branches

  • Adding modules from puppet forge

  • deploying from development through production

Roles and profiles (60 minutes)

  • introduction to roles

  • creating your first role

  • introduction to profiles

  • creating your first profile

Hiera (45 minutes)

  • setting up hiera.yaml

  • what to add to hiera

  • the hiera() function

  • automatic databinding

Final exercise (1,5 hours)

  • create a real world production example

Q&A Time (30 minutes)

Requirements

You should have a basic idea of puppet, know what git is and be able to manage yourself on a linux command line. More specifically:

Knowledge and skills expected about participants:

  • Participants should have few years of experience in administering linux systems
  • Participants should know how to use Git version control system including branching and merging
  • Partipants should be comfortable with one shell (Bash, Zsh, PowerShell etc.)
  • Partipants should be comfortable with one text editor (Vim, Emacs, VS Code etc.)

Other requirements:

  • Partipants should bring a laptop with power adaptor, convertors and other peripherals
  • Internet connectivity should be ensured
  • The laptop should have an operating system of Windows 7 or later, Linux or Mac OS
  • A recent version of Virtualbox should be installed
  • Text editors (Textmate, Sublime Text, Atom, Vim, Emacs etc.) should be installed with all required plugins and it should be ready to use
  • A recent version of git should be installed and ready to use

Speaker bio

Walter Heck is the founder and CTO of OlinData. He is organiser of the configuration management devroom at FOSDEM and co-organiser of the config management camp. Walter has more then a decade of background in Programming, MySQL Databases and more recently Puppet and all the tools that come with it. Walter has spoken at many international conferences on 3 continents over the past 6 years.

Walter is an official puppetlabs trainer and as such has showed the ropes of puppet to hundreds of people around the world.

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