NYC LOCAL: Wednesday 18 November 2009 NYLUG: Larry Ludwig on Puppet: What it is and how can it make system administration less painful

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 Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:30:02 -0500 (EST)
 Subject: [nylug-announce] TOMORROW! NYLUG 11/18 Meeting: Larry Ludwig on 
Puppet: What it is and how can it make system administration less painful
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 REMINDER: This meeting is tomorrow, RSVP closes TOMORROW
 Visit http://rsvp.nylug.org to see if RSVP is still open.

 Wednesday, November 18, 2009
 6:30pm-8:00 PM
 IBM
 590 Madison Ave, 12th Floor
 corner of 57th Street

 ** RSVP Closes at 4:30pm the day of the meeting (sharp!) ***
 Please RSVP for EVERY meeting at this time.
 Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
 Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge.

       
                             Larry Ludwig
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 Puppet: What it is and how can it make system administration less painful

 Please join us on Wednesday, November 18th, 2009 for a discussion of
 Reductive Labs' Centralized configuration management framework, Puppet.

 Puppet is a model-driven open source framework designed to efficiently
 manage data center infrastructure.  It's the sysadmin's best friend,
 reducing error counts and downtime, saving countless hours and providing
 significantly higher service quality.  Puppet lets sysadmins spend less
 time on mundane tasks and instead focus on managing their infrastructure
 as a whole.

 System administrators have long written custom scripts and tools to help
 automate common tasks such as configuration management and system updates.
 But as networks scale and reach outside the corporate firewall, custom
 tools become yet another management headache.

 The benefits of automated infrastructure go beyond policy-enforced
 consistency and auditing.  In conjunction with virtualizaton, the ability
 to reliably create new systems running consistent services creates
 auto-scaling applications as well as test systems identical to production
 environments.

 Puppet abstracts the system from the system administration, providing
 developers and system administrators with a simple service-based policy
 framework that allows for more consistent, transparent and flexible
 systems.

 Puppet is currently in use at many organizations, large and small,
 including: Google, Yahoo, and RedHat.

 More Information:
   * Puppet
     http://reductivelabs.com/products/puppet/

   * Reductive Labs
     http://github.com/reductivelabs

   * Puppet Wiki
     http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/wiki

   * Puppet Users Discussion
     http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users

   * Puppet Developers Discussion
     http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-dev

   * Puppet NYC User Group
     http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-nyc

 About Larry Ludwig:
   Larry Ludwig is a Solutions Architect at Brandorr Group LLC.  Larry has
   been in the industry for over 15 years as a system administrator, DBA
   and system programmer.  He`s had previous experience working for Fortune
   500 corporations and holds a BS in CS from Clemson University.  Larry
   has written over 120 puppet modules.

   Larry, along with Eric E. Moore and Brian Gupta are founding members of
   the NYC Puppet Usergroup.

 Meeting Location:
   Please note that this meeting will be held at IBM, 590 Madison Ave,
   12th floor, corner of 57th Street, and not at Google.  This is
   the building with the IBM logo on the front of the building.

 Map:
   http://nylug.org/mapofibm

 Books!!!
   Our friends at Prentice-Hall kindly provide us with review copies
   of various new titles.  One of these could be yours, all you have
   to do is agree to review the book within a reasonable period of
   time.

 Swag (Give Away):
   During/after the meeting... unusually terrific swag may be given
   away.

 Stammtisch:
   After the meeting ... You may wish to join up with other NYLUGgers
   over at TGI Fridays located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th
   Street, second floor. Northeast corner.

 Python Workshops/Hacking Society:
   We are a group that wants to learn about Python and other things,
   and hack on code.  Sometimes we go out to eat afterward.

   The workshops meet every other Tuesday, at the NY Public Library,
   Hudson Park Branch.  66 Leroy St. NY NY from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
   Next meeting is November 24, expected to be followed by December 8.
   See the calendar at: http://nylug.org/pythoncalendar

 Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
 version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
 stuff.
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