Sessions at FOSDEM 2011 about Disaster Recovery

Sunday 6th February 2011

• A tale of disaster recovery (Cfengine everyday, practices and tools)

  by Jonathan Clarke and Nicolas Charles

  After a brief presentation of configuration management (CM) basics, we'll start with an ill-fated tale from the recent past about disaster recovery (also known as a case study, if you must): how our CM saved us, how it didn't, and what could have been done better. This could lead to a discussion about best practices around beers after the session.

  We use Cfengine 3, and will introduce the software, overview the main differences with other open source CM tools before explaining why we like this choice. But Cfengine is not all: what enables us to manage our configuration completely are the practices and tools we've built around it. We will describe these in detail, probably offering a live demo (if Murphy permits).

  • CFEngine
  • Configuration Management
  • DevOps
  • Disaster Recovery
  • Open Source

  At 9:00am to 9:45am, Sunday 6th February

  Coverage slide deck

• Linux Disaster Recovery as a Service (with rear)

  by Gratien D'haese

  • Disaster Recovery
  • Linux
  • System Administration

  At 3:00pm to 3:50pm, Sunday 6th February

  Coverage video