25th Large Installation System Administration Conference schedule

Wednesday 7th December 2011

• Keynote: The DevOps Transformation

  by Ben Rockwood

  DevOps may be a new term, but it's not a new idea. in this session we'll deconstruct it into its three transformation phases, look back at the often referenced but rarely explained history that influences it, and see how it is a catalyst that is changing the craft of system administration.

  • DevOps
  • Keynote

  At 8:45am to 10:30am, Wednesday 7th December

  Coverage slide deck video

• ZFS: A Filesystem for Modern Hardware

  by Richard Elling

  • ZFS

  At 9:00am to 5:00pm, Wednesday 7th December

  Coverage slide deck

• GameDay: Creating Resiliency Through Destruction

  by Jesse Robbins

  At 2:00pm to 3:00pm, Wednesday 7th December

  Coverage video slide deck

• DevOps: The past and future are here. It's just not evenly distributed (yet)

  by Kris Buytaert

  We've come a long way since introducing new ideas in server automation and deployment, and also in creating a culture of collaboration between the traditional silos in organizations. But how does this impact the traditional sysadmin world? Are we all a DevOps now? Does a DevOps person = sysadmin 2.0? Will DevOps put us out of a job? I will give a brief overview of how culture, workflow, and behavior have evolved. After evaluating the past and the present, I will tallk about the future, identifying technical gaps in monitoring, packaging, and data collection and identifying emerging human, organizational evolutions.

  • DevOps

  At 4:45pm to 5:30pm, Wednesday 7th December

  Coverage slide deck video

Thursday 8th December 2011

• Fork Yeah! The Rise and Development of illumos

  by Bryan Cantrill

  In August 2010, illumos, a new OpenSolaris derivative, was born. While not at the time intended to be a fork, Oracle sealed the fate of illumos when it elected to close OpenSolaris: by choosing to cease its contributions, Oracle promoted illumos from a downstream repository to the open source repository of record for such revolutionary technologies as ZFS, DTrace, and Zones. This move accelerated the diaspora of kernel engineers from the former Sun Microsystems, many of whom have landed in the illumos community, where they continue to innovate. We will discuss the history of illumos but will focus on its promising future.

  • OpenSolaris

  At 10:45am to 11:45am, Thursday 8th December

  Coverage slide deck video

Friday 9th December 2011

• Puppet

  Who should attend: System administrators who are interested in deploying Puppet to subdue the chaos in their infrastructure.
  We will take the student through a condensed version of the three-day Puppet Master training, describe the Puppet resource model, introduce the Puppet language, write and test Puppet modules, and deploy the Puppet Master and Dashboard. To get the most out of this class, students should bring a laptop running either VMware or Virtualbox.
  Take back to work: A thorough understanding of what you need to know and do to deploy Puppet in your organization.
  Topics include:

  • Describing system state via Puppet Resource
  • Organizing resources in Puppet modules with classes and defines
  • Writing custom facts and functions
  • Automating configuration of network services
  • Deploying Puppet Master and Dashboard

  At 9:00am to 4:30pm, Friday 9th December