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While Alvar who wrote the recap of yesterday was at the OSMC for the first time, you know me probably from one off the earlier editions and so do many attendees. This is the reason I really enjoyed most seeing familiar faces and having a chat with people. And this does not mean I did not enjoy giving a workshop on Tuesday or the talks yesterday as everything at OSMC is high quality in my opinion and I can compare it with many different conferences I attended over the years. The Morning Easy...
This year, it was again my task to organize the Birthday Event for the Foreman Project. A tradition we started with the 7th Birthday in 2016! The event evolved and changed over the years with ATIX helping us by sharing responsibility, it survived a pandemic, and this year it seems to come back stronger than ever. So one big change you can already see in the headline. While I started planning the VoxPupuli community reached out to me asking about the option of co-locating another event and...
Vor einer Weile kamen die Kollegen von Icinga auf mich zu und wollten ein Interview zum Thema Migration von Nagios zu Icinga führen, um daraus ein Whitepaper zu bauen. Da es in einer guten Partnerschaft ein stetes Geben und Nehmen ist, hab ich mich natürlich gerne bereit erklärt. Mittlerweile ist das aus dem Interview entstandene englischsprachige Whitepaper verfügbar. Was kannst du von dem Whitepaper erwarten? Wer sich mit mir schon mal zu dem Thema Migration oder allgemein dazu unterhalten...
After yesterday's workshops and welcome dinner the conference started with the typical welcome by our Bernd introducing the many new attendees to the event and remembering those recurring perhaps now for the 18th time of important things like wearing the batch and the evening event. The welcome included also a short introduction by Jochen from Search Guard as our gold sponsor. The Morning After the welcome I joined the first talk "Cypress, Playwright or Selenium: choosing the right testing...
On Monday, 15.07.2024, I met early with my colleagues Lennart and Matthias to travel to Garching for the Foreman Birthday Event. This year it was again hosted by ATIX at a conference room next to their office, so thanks to all of them for having as there, especially to Bernhard! And also thanks to the community members that joined us! It was a nice mix from the German community with also some international guests from Red Hat, mostly familiar faces but also some new ones. And it is as great to...
Yesterday's evening event was full of great food, drinks, and conversation. I have to admit the gambling had no appeal to me, but many seemed to enjoy it as most socializing happened around the roulette table. Of course, the attendees could not play for real money, but the one who won the most chips will get handed over a big Lego kit today as a prize. So while most were gambling, smaller groups found them to talk. I had a great conversation with Sebastian from our Marketing team who attended...
When our Event team asked for some to join stackconf this year, I happily volunteered and so it is me again writing our conference blog. I think the last time when I joined our conference in Berlin it was still its predecessor, so it's my first stackconf. But if you know our Event team you can expect a well organized conference and great talks. And the talks were what made me excited already in advance as they are not on my typical topics, so I can widen my horizon. The Morning The...
I want to spread the word as we will have our first Foreman Birthday Event on-site again after many years of online conferencing on 15.07.2024. This year's host is ATIX, so it will take place at their Conference room at Parkring 4, 85748 Garching, near Munich, Germany. What is the Foreman Birthday Event? So if you missed our last events, the Foreman Birthday Event is a small conference with a mix of talks and networking. The event was born out of the idea to celebrate the birthday of...
Der ein oder andere Admin wird sich vermutlich schon lange den 30. Juni 2024 im Kalender vorgemerkt haben, denn dann ist für CentOS Linux 7 das "End of Life" erreicht. Aber auch Benutzer von Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 sollten sich Gedanken machen, denn auch dieses verlässt an dem Tag die "Maintenance Support 2 Phase" und geht in den "Extended life cycle" über. Was bedeutet das nun? "End of Life" ist relativ einfach erklärt, ab diesem Termin wird die Unterstützung für das Produkt eingestellt...
Eine Warnung an alle Nutzer von Puppet, aber auch Foreman oder dem Icinga-Installer, die Version 7.29.0 und 8.5.0 von Puppet enthält einen kritischen Fehler, der die Erstellung eines Katalogs und somit die Anwendung der Konfiguration verhindert. Daher stellt bitte sicher diese Version nicht bei euch einzuspielen! Was genau ist das Problem? Durch eine Änderung in den Versionen werden Klassenparameter mit einem Integer mit negativem Minimum nicht mehr als solche erkannt und stattdessen kommt es...
SNMP Monitoring at scale After a warm welcome by Bernd and the sponsor Eliatra the talks started. The first talk I was interested in was "SNMP Monitoring at scale" by Rocco Pezzani from Würth Phoenix and Thomas Gelf from NETWAYS Professional Services. They teamed up to modernize SNMP monitoring and I was curious if the managed to do so. The talk started with anice summary of the problems you face in realtiy when using SNMP, and I think everyone using it practically known how complicated MIBs...