James Shubin

Mgmt is a next gen config management tool that takes a fresh look at existing automation problems. The tool has two main parts: the engine, and the language. This presentation will have a large number of demos of the language. The language is a minimalistic, functional, reactive DSL. It was designed to both constrain the user with safe types, and no core looping constructs, but also to empower the user to build powerful real-time distributed systems. This year we will expand on last years talk by showing more of the core language features like classes, functions, closures and more! Finally we'll talk about some of the future designs we're planning and make it easy for new users to get involved and help shape the project.

Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe. One goal of the tool is to allow users to model and manage infrastructure that was previously very difficult or impossible to do so previously.

The tool has two main parts: the engine, and the language. This presentation will have a large number of demos of the language.

To showcase this future, we'll show some exciting real-time demos that include scheduling, distributed state machines, and reversible resources.

As we get closer to a 0.1 release that we'll recommend as "production ready", we'll look at the last remaining features that we're aiming to land by then.

Finally we'll talk about some of the future designs we're planning and discuss our free mentoring program that helps interested hackers get involved and improve their coding, sysadmin, and devops abilities.

Over the past twenty years, the automation landscape has changed dramatically. As our hunger for complex technical infrastructure increased, and our inability to keep up with these demands faltered, we've outsourced a lot of the work to third-parties and cloud providers. We'll step backwards and show where we came from, and where we're going. If we don't understand this future, and step up to the challenge, then we eventually won't control our own computers anymore. We'll discuss this timeline from a tools perspective and showcase many live demos of the past, present, and what will be possible in the future. This presentation will contain many demos and interactive examples. I will showcase some modern ideas I have with my Free Software project called mgmtconfig.

Mgmt is a next gen config management tool that takes a fresh look at existing automation problems. The tool has two main parts: the engine, and the language. This presentation will demo both and include many examples showing how monitoring is built-in to each resource, and how events can cause the system to react and fix a problem before your pager even goes off. The language demos will show how you can feed real-time monitoring data from a tool such as prometheus, into your code and use that data to make real-time decisions. Lastly, we'll talk about our existing prometheus integration for exporting useful information about mgmt.

Mgmt is a next gen config management tool that takes a fresh look at existing automation problems. The tool has two main parts: the engine, and the language. This presentation will demo both and include many examples showing how monitoring is built-in to each resource, and how events can cause the system to react and fix a problem before your pager even goes off. The language demos will show how you can feed real-time monitoring data from a tool such as prometheus, into your code and use that data to make real-time decisions. Lastly, we'll talk about our existing prometheus integration for exporting useful information about mgmt.

Mgmt is a next gen config management tool that takes a fresh look at existing automation problems. The tool has two main parts: the engine, and the language. The engine has a number of resources, including a container resource. We will feature a number of demos of this resource, and discuss how the language can be used to build a custom container automation solution. The language is a minimalistic, functional, reactive DSL. It can be used to build a real-time, distributed container automation solution, or something else entirely! We'll also use it to demo, service discovery, auto-scaling, and scheduling! Finally we'll talk about some of the future designs we're planning and make it easy for new users to get involved and help shape the project.

Mgmt is a next gen config management tool that takes a fresh look at automation. It has tight integration with a number of virtualization related functionality. This presentation will demo our virt resource and other virtualization related features! We'll demo live scaling a cluster of virtual machines, hot swapping the cpu count dynamically in seconds, and automatic load adjustment of vm's. We'll also show some unique integrations of these virtual machines with the existing mgmt language functions. We'll include many interactive examples showing you how to build reactive, autonomous, real-time systems with vm's! Finally we'll talk about some of the future designs we're planning and make it easy for new users to get involved and help shape the project.

Mgmt is a next gen config management tool that takes a fresh look at automation. It has tight integration with a number of virtualization related functionality. This presentation will demo our virt resource and other virtualization related features! We'll demo live scaling a cluster of virtual machines, hot swapping the cpu count dynamically in seconds, and automatic load adjustment of vm's. We'll also show some unique integrations of these virtual machines with the existing mgmt language functions. We'll include many interactive examples showing you how to build reactive, autonomous, real-time systems with vm's! Finally we'll talk about some of the future designs we're planning and make it easy for new users to get involved and help shape the project.

A number of blog posts on the subject are available: https://purpleidea.com/tags/mgmtconfig/ Attendees are encouraged to read some before the talk if they want a preview!

Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe. It works by running a DAG (graph) of resources. The DAG is built in real-time, by running a graph-based DSL (language). We'll fill this talk with a number of exciting real-time demos that show how some cleverly applied graph algorithms can solve an incredibly difficult set of problems. We'll finish this off by including a demo of building a real-time, distributed, finite state machine (a distributed graph) using our tool.

Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe. It works by running a DAG (graph) of resources. The DAG is built in real-time, by running a graph-based DSL (language). We'll fill this talk with a number of exciting real-time demos that show how some cleverly applied graph algorithms can solve an incredibly difficult set of problems. We'll finish this off by including a demo of building a real-time, distributed, finite state machine (a distributed graph) using our tool.

A number of blog posts on the subject are available: https://purpleidea.com/tags/mgmtconfig/ Attendees are encouraged to read some before the talk if they want a preview!

Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe. As we get closer to a 0.1 release that we'll recommend as "production ready", we'll look at the last remaining features that we're aiming to land by then. We'll explain and demo the import and module system, classes, and native functions.

We'll also show some exciting real-time demos that include scheduling, finite state machines, and remote execution.

Mgmt is a real-time automation tool that is fast and safe. As we get closer to a 0.1 release that we'll recommend as "production ready", we'll look at the last remaining features that we're aiming to land by then. We'll explain and demo the import and module system, classes, and native functions.

We'll also show some exciting real-time demos that include scheduling, finite state machines, and remote execution.

A number of blog posts on the subject are available: https://purpleidea.com/tags/mgmtconfig/ Attendees are encouraged to read some before the talk if they want a preview!

Mgmt is a next gen config management tool that takes a fresh look at existing automation problems. The tool has two main parts: the engine, and the language. This presentation will have a large number of demos of the language. The language is a minimalistic, functional, reactive DSL. It was designed to both constrain the user with safe types, and no core looping constructs, but also to empower the user to build powerful real-time distributed systems.

Mgmt is a next gen config management tool that takes a fresh look at existing automation problems. The tool has two main parts: the engine, and the language. This presentation will have a large number of demos of the language. The language is a minimalistic, functional, reactive DSL. It was designed to both constrain the user with safe types, and no core looping constructs, but also to empower the user to build powerful real-time distributed systems. We will present a number of traditional use cases that were historically quite difficult to setup and deploy, but which can now be expressed as simple, short snippets of code. Examples will include service discovery, auto-scaling, provisioning, state-machines, scheduling and more! Finally we'll talk about some of the future designs we're planning and make it easy for new users to get involved and help shape the project.

A number of blog posts on the subject are available: https://purpleidea.com/tags/mgmtconfig/ Attendees are encouraged to read some before the talk if they want a preview!

We often hear about the charitable organizations registered in the United States Federal tax system, but talking about the implications is sometimes taboo. I'll try and talk about these issues openly, and discuss some of the consequences (both +ive & -ive) for public software. I'll provide a list of a few well-known organizations, and explain why it both matters and doesn't. Lastly I'll present some reporting that I did while researching this presentation.

We often hear about the charitable organizations registered in the United States Federal tax system, but talking about the implications is sometimes taboo. I'll try and talk about these issues openly, and discuss some of the consequences (both +ive & -ive) for public software. I'll provide a list of a few well-known organizations, and explain why it both matters and doesn't. Lastly I'll present some reporting that I did while researching this presentation.

The main design features of the tool include: * Parallel execution * Event driven mechanism * Distributed architecture And a: * Declarative, Functional, Reactive programming language.

The tool has two main parts: the engine, and the language. This presentation will demo both and include many interactive examples showing you how to build reactive, autonomous, real-time systems. Finally we'll talk about some of the future designs we're planning and make it easy for new users to get involved and help shape the project.

The main design features of the tool include: * Parallel execution * Event driven mechanism * Distributed architecture And a: * Declarative, Functional, Reactive programming language.

The tool has two main parts: the engine, and the language. This presentation will demo both and include many interactive examples showing you how to build reactive, autonomous, real-time systems. Finally we'll talk about some of the future designs we're planning and make it easy for new users to get involved and help shape the project.

A number of blog posts on the subject are available: https://ttboj.wordpress.com/?s=mgmtconfig Attendees are encouraged to read some before the talk if they want a preview!

Next Generation Config Mgmt

A presentation about a next gen config management tool, and the specific problems this project solves.

Three of the main design features of the tool include: * Parallel execution * Event driven mechanism * Distributed architecture

This talk will demo a prototype I've built that implements these ideas and which is written in golang. I will start by presenting an introduction to the tool. I will then demo the new features that were added since the project was introduced. This will include the automatic grouping, automatic elastic etcd clustering and remote execution features. I will finally share some of the future planned designs for the tool.

An introductory blog post on the subject is available. https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/next-generation-configuration-mgmt/ Attendees are encouraged to read it before the talk if they are interested!

Please note that this talk was originally scheduled to be given at 15:00. The talk originally in this slot, "Puppet Catalog Diffs in TheForeman" by Greg Sutcliffe will now take place at 15:00.

A presentation about a design for a next generation config management tool, and the specific problems this design solves. Three of the main design features of the tool include: * Parallel execution * Event driven mechanism * Distributed architecture This talk will demo a prototype I've built that implements these ideas. It is written in golang, and is completely free software. I will also cover the new functionality we've added to the tool such as the automatic edge and automatic grouping features and other fun stuff that happened between now and the conference. Mgmt's design goes out of its way to ensure that it always has feature parity on both Fedora and Debian simultaneously. An introductory blog post on the subject is available. https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2016/01/18/next-generation-configuration-mgmt/ Attendees are encouraged to read it before the talk if they are interested!

Learn how to get a Vagrant environment running as quickly as possible, so that you can start iterating on your project right away. I'll show you an upstream project called Oh-My-Vagrant that does the work and adds all the tweaks to glue different Vagrant provisioners together perfectly. I'll also demonstrate some tools such as vscreen and vcssh which make it possible to connect to single and multiple numbers of vagrant vm's more easily. We'll do all of this using the libvirt plugin to vagrant, which makes it possible to use the virsh and virt-manager tools in parallel with your vagrant toolset.

After this session, you'll walk away wondering how you ever did any work without these tools! I'll explain and demonstrate many examples on how this makes integration with configuration management tools easier, and how you can use these techniques to simulate clusters of machines running containers! This talk will include live demos of building docker containers, adding in config mgmt, and all glued together with vagrant and oh-my-vagrant.

James Shubin (@purpleidea) will be presenting his review of some of the important legal and licensing issues faced by commercial ventures and enterprises who are involved with or are (in particular) producing software. This will include: current practices and their impact, public discussion and prior art on this topic, the cost of different licenses, and a review and rebuttal of some of the points brought up during previous FOSDEM legal dev room presentations. More info in the full description.

James Shubin (@purpleidea) will be presenting his review of some of the important legal and licensing issues faced by commercial ventures and enterprises who are involved with or are (in particular) producing software. James will discuss: * Advantages and disadvantages to copyleft and permissive licenses * The business cost of some of the different licenses * Differences between license versions as it pertains to commercial ventures (eg: ALv2 vs. GPLv2 vs. GPLv3) * The use of "Newspeak" and "weasel words" in communication * How to interpret the data about license usage * Real world examples and repercussions of some of the business decisions * And a review and rebuttal of some of the points brought up during previous FOSDEM legal dev room presentations

In other words, what you need to know if you are embarking on almost any commercial enterprise, since there are many software and legal aspects involved these days.