Marc Cluet

Consul is a Service discovery tool created by Hashicorp, in this talk I will guide the audience through the basics of its functionality and how to take the best out of it.

Consul is a Service discovery tool created by Hashicorp, in this talk I will guide the audience through the basics of its functionality and how to take the best out of it. The talk will be composed of the following parts: 1- What is Service Discovery 2- What is Consul 3- Consul components 4- How does it fit in your platform (cloud, docker, hardware) 5- Advanced functionality 6- Extra modules

How to handle metadata in puppet and chef, what are our observed best practices and how to maintain coherency

• Introduction to metadata in chef
• Metadata organisation in chef
• Introduction to metadata in puppet (classic and hiera)
• Metadata organisation in puppet (hiera)
• Bad metadata practices in chef and puppet
• How to enforce good behaviours
• How to avoid brain metadata fragmentation between provisioners and configuration management
• Questions

This talk will cover the basics of autoscaling, different types of auto-scaling, and how you can use your metrics to take good auto-scaling decisions. Targeted to entry level to mid level auto-scaling users.

• What is autoscaling
• Different kinds of traffic peak scenarios
• Autoscaling reactive vs proactive
• Autoscaling with external tools - Rightscale, Autoscale API, Heat, Ceilometer
• Autoscaling with your metrics - Graphite, Provisioning, Configuration Management