by Keya Kher | Jun 19, 2018 | English, Events, Open Source, OSDC
Hello awesome people!
Curious to hear what happened behind the scenes of #OSDC? I am here to share some insights from the NETWAYS Event Team with you.
Let me start with
pre-OSDC Day – 0
June 11, 2018, Monday
A motivated and full of energy OSDC-team from NETWAYS headquarter in Nuremberg arrives at MOA Hotel in Berlin. First of all we start the preparations for welcoming our OSDC speakers and attendees. Lukas and I have a great time welcoming everyone and Markus makes sure everything is in flow!
7 p.m., MOA Hotel Bar, meet and greet: All participants and speakers meet to have delicious food and a couple of drinks together. What a fantastic pre-conference warm-up!
OSDC Day – 1
June 12, 2018, Tuesday
The conference program begins with Bernd’s kick-start to #OSDC Day 1, followed by interesting and amazing talks. We in the OSDC-team attend the lectures and update everyone who doesn’t have the chance to be at OSDC on our social media channels. It is fun to see how many people react to what happens at the conference.
In between the stunning presentations everyone enjoys the delightful coffee breaks and yummy lunch.
7 PM @ PURO Sky Lounge: The evening event surprises with a great show. The view over Berlin from 20th floor at PURO Sky Lounge is just amazing, with sun lights breaking through the clouds, later the illuminated skyline. Everyone is mesmerised by this beautiful view of Berlin, all enjoy the outstanding food, drinks and desserts.
There could have been no better setting for the open source community to socialize.
OSDC Day – 2
June 13, 2018, Wednesday
After spending an awesome evening the day before everyone enjoys the second day with wonderful talks.
We are thankful to our sponsoring partners Thomas Krenn, Linux Magazin and Admin Magazine for their support and all the NETWAYers for making it happen. And here ends OSDC 2018… See you again in 2019! Save the date!
Keya hat im Oktober ihr Praktikum im Marketing bei NETWAYS gestartet. Letzten Dezember startete Sie gemeinsam mit Ihrem Mann das “Abenteuer Deutschland”. Seitdem lernt Sie fleißig deutsch und fühlt sich bei NETWAYS schon jetzt pudelwohl. Sie hat schon viele Erfahrungen im Social Media Marketing und ist gerade dabei auch im Grafikdesign ein Profi zu werden. Wenn sie nicht gerade dabei ist, sich kreativ auszuleben, entdeckt sie die Stadt und schmökert gerne im ein oder anderen Büchlein. Ihr Favorit ist hierbei “The Shiva Trilogy”.
by David Okon | Jun 15, 2018 | Bash, Betriebssysteme, Development, DevOps, Engineering, English, Icinga2, Internet, Language, Linktipps, Linux, Mac, Monitoring, Vagrant, Zsh
Hi !
This week I will take a little look into three command line tools which I find very nice for daily use on a server where we have almost no interface except the command line.
The first tool I would like to bring to your attention is a file explorer for the command line.
Ranger
Ranger is a finder/explorer/nemo/nautilus replacement for the command line with a simple but straight forward file management approach. It uses the almost everywhere liked miller columns and i personally like it more than the midnight commander but that is a personal preference.
I also like the extensibility as an example you can extend ranger with poppler for pdf support or mutool whatever is available for your distro.
It can be easily installed and can be just started from it’s own directory so no big installation fuzz. Simply unpack and start ranger.
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Weltenbummler David hat aus Berlin fast den direkten Weg zu uns nach Nürnberg genommen. Bevor er hier anheuerte, gab es einen kleinen Schlenker nach Irland, England, Frankreich und in die Niederlande. Alles nur, damit er sein Know How als IHK Geprüfter DOSenöffner so sehr vertiefen konnte, dass er vom Apple Consultant den Sprung in unser Professional Services-Team wagen konnte.
Er ist stolzer Papa eines Sohnemanns und bei uns mit der Mission unterwegs, unsere Kunden zu glücklichen Menschen zu machen.
by Dirk Götz | Jun 14, 2018 | English, Events, Foreman, Graylog, OSCAMP
Right after OSDC we help to organize the Open Source Camp, a brand new serie of events which will give Open Source projects a platform for presenting to the Community. So the event started with a small introduction of the projects covered in the first issue, Foreman and Graylog. For the Foreman part it was Sebastian Gräßl a long term developer who did gave a short overview of Foreman and the community so also people attending for Graylog just know what the other talks are about. Lennart Koopmann who founded Graylog did the same for the other half including upcoming version 3 and all new features.
Tanya Tereshchenko one of the Pulp developers started the sessions with “Manage Your Packages & Create Reproducible Environments using Pulp” giving an update about Pulp 3. To illustrate the workflows covered by Pulp she used the Ansible plugin which will allow to mirror Ansible Galaxy locally and stage the content. Of course Pulp also allows to add your own content to your local version of the Galaxy and serve it to your systems. The other plugins a beta version is already available for Pulp 3 are python to mirror pypi and file for content of any kind, but more are in different development stages.
“An Introduction to Graylog for Security Use Cases” by Lennart Koopmann was about taking the idea of Threadhunting to Graylog by having a plugin providing lookup tables and processing pipeline. In his demo he showed all of this based on eventlogs collected by their honey pot domain controller and I can really recommend the insides you can get with it. I still remember how much work it was getting such things up and running 10 years ago at my former employer with tools like rsyslog and I am very happy about having tools like Graylog nowadays which provide this out of box.
From Sweden came Alexander Olofsson and Magnus Svensson to talk about “Orchestrating Windows deployment with Foreman and WDS”. They being Linux Administrators wanted to give their Windows colleagues a similar experience on a shared infrastructure and shared their journey to reach this goal. They have created a small Foreman Plugin for WDS integration into the provisioning process which got released in its first version. Also being a rather short presentation it started a very interesting discussion as audience were also mostly Linux Administrators but nearly everyone had at least to deal in one way with Windows, too.
My colleague Daniel Neuberger was introducing into Graylog with “Catch your information right! Three ways of filling your Graylog with life.” His talk covered topics from Graylogs architecture, what types of logs exists and how you can get at least the common ones into Graylog. Some very helpful tips from practical experience spiced up the talk like never ever run Graylog as root for being able to get syslog traffic on port 514, if the client can not change the port, your iptables rules can do so. Another one showed fallback configuration for Rsyslog using execOnlyWhenPreviousIsSuspended action. And like me Daniel prefers to not only talk about things but also show them live in a demo, one thing I recommend to people giving a talk as audience will always honor, but keep in mind to always have a fallback.
Timo Goebel started the afternoon sessions with “Foreman: Unboxing” and like in a traditional unboxing he showed all the plugins Filiadata has added to their highly customized Foreman installation. This covered integration of omaha (the update management of coreos), rescue mode for systems, VMware status checking, distributed lock management to help with automatic updates in cluster setups, Spacewalk integration they use for SUSE Manager managed systems, host expiration which helps to keep your environment tidy, monitoring integration and the one he is currently working on which provides cloud-init templates during cloning virtual machines in VMware from templates.
Jan Doberstein did exactly what you can expect from a talk called “Graylog Processing Pipelines Deep Dive”. Being Support engineer at Graylog for several years now his advice is coming from experience in many different customer environments and while statements like “keep it simple and stupid” are made often they stay true but also unheard by many. Those pipelines are really powerful especially when done in a good way, even more when they can be included and shared via content packs with Version 3.
Matthias Dellweg one of those guys from AITX who brought Debian support to Pulp and Katello talked about errata support for it in his talk “Errare Humanum Est”. He started by explaining the state of errata in RPM and differences in the DEB world. Afterwards he showed the state of their proof of concept which looks like a big improvement bringing DEB support in Katello to the same level like RPM.
“How to manage Windows Eventlogs” was brought to the audience by Rico Spiesberger with support by Daniel. The diversity of the environment brought some challenges to them which they wanted to solve with monitoring the logs for events that history proved to be problematic. Collecting the events from over 120 Active Directory Servers in over 40 countries generates now over 46 billion documents in Graylog a day and good idea about what is going on. No such big numbers but even more detailed dashboards were created for the Certificate Authority. Expect all their work to be available as content pack when it is able to export them with Graylog 3.
Last but not least Ewoud Kohl van Wijngaarden told us the story about software going the way “From git repo to package” in the Foreman Project. Seeing all the work for covering different operating systems and software versions for Foreman and the big amount of plugins or even more for Katello and all the dependencies is great and explains why sometimes things take longer, but always show a high quality.
I think it was a really great event which not only I enjoyed from the feedback I got. I really like about the format that talks are diving deeper into the projects than most other events can do and looking forward for the next issue. Thanks to all the speakers and attendees, safe travels home to everyone.
Dirk ist Red Hat Spezialist und arbeitet bei NETWAYS im Bereich Consulting für Icinga, Puppet, Ansible, Foreman und andere Systems-Management-Lösungen. Früher war er bei einem Träger der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung als Senior Administrator beschäftigt und auch für die Ausbildung der Azubis verantwortlich wie nun bei NETWAYS.
by Eric Lippmann | Jun 14, 2018 | Datenbanken, Development, English
In the upcoming Icinga Web 2 release the filter functionality becomes even more powerful.
Version 2.6.0 introduces the possibility to exclude hosts and services that are member of specific groups.
You now filter for hosts that are not part of the production host group for example.
You want to filter for hosts that are member of the host groups linux and database? That will be possible as well.
I’d like to show you how the latter is done with an example. We have a database with user groups, users and their group
memberships:
CREATE TABLE user_group (
id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`name` varchar(64) NOT NULL COLLATE utf8mb4_unicode_ci,
PRIMARY KEY (id),
UNIQUE KEY group_name (`name`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin;
CREATE TABLE user_group_membership (
user_id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
group_id int(10) unsigned NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (user_id,group_id),
CONSTRAINT user_group_membership_user FOREIGN KEY (user_id) REFERENCES `user` (id),
CONSTRAINT user_group_membership_group FOREIGN KEY (group_id) REFERENCES user_group (id)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8mb4 COLLATE utf8mb4_bin;
INSERT INTO user VALUES (1,'john'),(2,'marc'),(3,'peter');
INSERT INTO user_group VALUES (1,'admins'),(3,'dev'),(2,'support');
INSERT INTO user_group_membership VALUES (1,1),(2,2),(2,3),(3,2);
User john is part of the group admins. Marc is member of the groups dev and support while Peter is part of the dev
group only. We now have the task to filter for users that are at least part of the groups dev and support. In this example
it’s easy of course because we only have three users and know the result without executing any queries.
But anyway how would you achieve this with SQL? Easy, let’s just JOIN the tables and add a WHERE IN condition:
SELECT * FROM `user` u INNER JOIN user_group_membership m ON m.user_id = u.id
INNER JOIN user_group g ON g.id = m.group_id WHERE g.name IN ('dev', 'support');
+----+-------+---------+----------+----+---------+
| id | name | user_id | group_id | id | name |
+----+-------+---------+----------+----+---------+
| 2 | marc | 2 | 3 | 3 | dev |
| 2 | marc | 2 | 2 | 2 | support |
| 3 | peter | 3 | 2 | 2 | support |
+----+-------+---------+----------+----+---------+
The result is not surprising. Because of the WHERE IN condition we also get peter who is only part of the dev group.
So, we have to filter for users that produce two or more rows. For this aggregation, HAVING helps:
SELECT * FROM `user` u INNER JOIN user_group_membership m ON m.user_id = u.id
INNER JOIN user_group g ON g.id = m.group_id WHERE g.name IN ('dev', 'support')
HAVING(COUNT(group_id) >= 2);
+----+-------+---------+----------+----+------+
| id | name | user_id | group_id | id | name |
+----+-------+---------+----------+----+------+
| 2 | marc | 2 | 3 | 3 | dev |
+----+-------+---------+----------+----+------+
Looks good! It’s best to move this to a subquery in order to be flexible if the query becomes more complex later on:
SELECT * FROM `user` u WHERE EXISTS (
SELECT 1 FROM user_group_membership m
INNER JOIN user_group g ON m.group_id = g.id
WHERE m.user_id = u.id AND g.name IN ('dev', 'support')
HAVING COUNT(*) >= 2
);
+----+-------+
| id | name |
+----+-------+
| 2 | marc |
+----+-------+
Bonus question: how to filter for users that are member of dev and support but no other groups?
Eric kam während seines ersten Lehrjahres zu NETWAYS und hat seine Ausbildung bereits 2011 sehr erfolgreich abgeschlossen. Seit Beginn arbeitet er in der Softwareentwicklung und dort an den unterschiedlichen NETWAYS Open Source Lösungen, insbesondere inGraph und im Icinga Team an Icinga Web. Darüber hinaus zeichnet er sich für viele Kundenentwicklungen in der Finanz- und Automobilbranche verantwortlich.
by Dirk Götz | Jun 13, 2018 | English, Events, Open Source, OSDC, Puppet
The evening event was a great success. While some enjoyed the great view from the Puro Skybar, others liked the food and drinks even more and at least I preferred the networking. I joined some very interesting discussions about very specific Information Technology tools, work life balance, differences between countries and cultures and so on. So thanks to all starting with our event team to the attendees for a great evening.
But also a great evening and a short night did not keep me and many others from joining Walter Gildersleeve for the first talk about “Puppet and the Road to Pervasive Automation”. He introduced the new tools from Puppet to improve the Configuration management experience like Puppet Discovery, Pipelines and Tasks. What I liked about his demos about Tasks was that he was showing of course what the Enterprise version could do, but also what the Open Source version is capable of. Pipelines is Puppet’s CI/CD solution which can be used as SaaS or on premise and at least I have to commit it looks very nice and informative. If you want to give it a try, you can sign up for a free account and test it with a limited number of nodes.
Second one today was Matt Jarvis with his talk “From batch to pipelines – why Apache Mesos and DC/OS are a solution for emerging patterns in data processing”. Like several others he started with the history from mainframes via hardware partitioning and virtualization to microservices running in containers. After this introduction he started to dig deeper into Container Orchestration and changes in modern application design which add complexity which they wanted to solve with Mesos. Matt then has given a really good overview on different aspects of the Mesos ecosystem and DC/OS. This being quite a complex topic a list of all the topics covered would be quite exhaustive list, but just to mention some he covered Service Discovery or Load Balancing for example.
Michael Ströder who I know as great specialist for secure authentication by working with him at one customer in the past introduced “Æ-DIR — Authorized Entities Directory” to the crowd. You already could see his experience when he was talking about goals and paradigms applied during development which resulted in the 2-tier architecture of Æ-DIR consisting of a writable provider and readable consumer with separated access based on roles. Installation is quite easy with a provided Ansible role and results in a very secure setup which I really like for central service like Authentication. The shown customer scenarios using features like SSH proxy authz and two factor authentication with Yuibkey make Æ-DIR sound like a really production ready solution. If you want to have a look into without installing it, a demo is provided on the projects webpage.
First talk after lunch was “Git Things Done With GitLab!” by my colleagues Gabriel Hartmann and Nicole Lang about Gitlab and why it was chosen by NETWAYS for inclusion in our Webservices. Nicole gave a very good explanation about basic function which Gabriel showed live in a demo followed by a cherry pick of nice features provided by Gitlab. Also these features like Issue tracker and CI/CD were shown live. I was really excited by the beta of AutoDevops which allows you to get CI/CD up and running very easy.
Thomas Fricke’s talk “Three Years Running Containers with Kubernetes in Production” was a very good talk about things you should know before moving container and container orchestration into production. But while it was a interesting talk I had to prepare for my own because I was giving the last talk of the day about “Katello: Adding content management to Foreman” which was primarily demos showing all the basic parts.
It was a great conference again this year, I really want to thank all the speakers, attendees and sponsors who made this possible. I am looking forward for more interesting and even more technical talks at the Open Source Camp tomorrow, but wish save travels to all those leaving today and hope to see you next year on May 14-15.
Dirk ist Red Hat Spezialist und arbeitet bei NETWAYS im Bereich Consulting für Icinga, Puppet, Ansible, Foreman und andere Systems-Management-Lösungen. Früher war er bei einem Träger der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung als Senior Administrator beschäftigt und auch für die Ausbildung der Azubis verantwortlich wie nun bei NETWAYS.
by Nicole Lang | Jun 13, 2018 | Cloud und Virtualisierung, Development, English, Git, GitLab, GitLab, Hosting, Kunden & Projekte, Language, NETWAYS, NWS, Open Source, Virtualisierung
For some time it has become clear that Microsoft is going to take over GitHub. As far as official sources can be trusted, GitHub will stay independent although a new CEO (Nat Friedman) will be introduced after the Microsoft takeover.
This question over GitHub’s future independence has raised a lot of skepticism within the developer community and many are considering moving their projects away from GitHub to a different location.
One alternative in this case could be GitLab. GitLab does not only have an online platform but it can as well be installed on your own hardware. Furthermore, it is an extremely solid piece of Open Source software you can fully rely on. This is also shown by the makers of GitLab themselves as they release updates each month – rolling out bug fixes, security updates and many recommendations regarding the use and configuration of your instance.
For those who would like to have their own GitLab instance, NETWAYS offers two options:
First one is available on our NETWAYS Web Services platform where we offer user-managed, hosted GitLab instances as Community or Enterprise Edition. The user does not need to take care of anything regarding installation or maintenance of his GitLab, but can directly go into production in no time with only a few steps needed. You as a customer are also free to decide for how long you would like to run your instances as any app is monthly callable. Furthermore, we regularly update these container based apps and monitor their health for you. As a customer, you can register on NWS and try all the apps we offer 30 days for free.
The second product we offer is done by NETWAYS Managed Services which is exactly what it is called: With managed hosting you can get a virtual machine in our cloud or rented hardware running a full GitLab, either as Community or Enterprise Edition. You can choose the underlying ressources and we will do the rest for you, like installation with individual parameters and health monitoring. With managed hosting, our customers also have the choice to go full 24/7 support with “emergency” calls.
Ihr Interesse für die IT kam bei Nicole in ihrer Zeit als Übersetzerin mit dem Fachgebiet Technik. Seit 2010 sammelt sie bereits Erfahrungen im Support und der Administration von Storagesystemen beim ZDF in Mainz. Ab September 2016 startete Sie Ihre Ausbildung zur Fachinformatikerin für Systemintegration bei NETWAYS, wo sie vor allem das Arbeiten mit Linux und freier Software reizt. In ihrer Freizeit überschüttet Sie Ihren Hund mit Liebe, kocht viel Gesundes, werkelt im Garten, liest Bücher und zockt auch mal gerne.
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