Lindsay Holmwood – Devops
Consistency
- config managemnt – puppet
- puppet workflow – write->apply->debug
- testing via snapshots, apply,test, keep/revert
- puppet roles
Repeatability
- capistrano – cap-sub for config management
- railess-deploy (capistrano, externsion)
Visability
- Collectd
- git hub newsfeed
- mk-query-digest (slow sql queries)
Lots of ideas in his talk, far to quickly said for me to type them in a all in.
Deltaclound – David Jorm & Stephen Gordon
- Redhat project
- deploy workloads to multiple clouds (some, internal, some external, multiple vendors )
- free and open standards
- REST API that abstracts other cloud APIs. Drivers for different clouds.
- Support EC2 and Cloundfiles, others being worked on
- Build images, store, push to cloud provider and then deploy instances
Cloud Computing in Govt – Pia Waugh
- Cloud vendors vs govt people – Vendor gtee’d no personal data in their cloud
- SOA buzzwords drop straight in Cloud Buzzwords
- http://soafacts.com/
- Govt + cloud = $$$$ for vendors
- Lots of vendor hype, have to ask the hard questions
- Jurisdiction – govt data can’t go overseas
- standards – avoid vendors, technology lock-in
- data – reliability, what if vendor goes out of business
- AGIMO – official govt cloud strategy doc
- private vs public clouds
- Govt needs good advice
- To influence Govt – “be helpful”
- More consultation events planned in near future
- AGIMO actually using cloud for some things
