Loadays 2011
15 - 17 Apr 2011
at Don Bosco Wilrijk
Talk comments
If I'd known how difficult it is to get a distro out of the door, I wouldn't have previously complained. Kbsingh speaks very well and gave a good insight into how the process works.
Good fun, good speaker, and the sexiest slides of the conference! :-)
I was pleasantly surprised that the talk was so interesting. The speaker does, however, need a larger audience.
Deep and fast drive into Kerberos. Very well done!
Good overview with a bit of live demo.
Very interesting. This talk deserved a much bigger audience.
Talk gave a good overview of HA Frameworks and Pacemaker.
I also valua the insights from day to day usage of the platform and what problems one might run into
I thought, this talk would be a very in-depth talk into the kernel. But, it was not. The speaker wants to inform us what to tool is and what you can do with it. Congratulations!!
He gave a very good overview of rpm/apt. The first step to make our own ubuntu packages. I very nice person to listen.
About your question at the end of your talk.
We make indeed packages but those are Solaris packages but we are going to migrate some virtual servers to Ubuntu.
All are packages are installed into: /opt. We don't want to mess things into /usr/* or /bin/* . It's also much easer to make a tar, to backup it. Much easier if you want to delete those packages afterwards. Maybe, you get questions, hmm, are those binaries ours, or are those installed by the system.
Let me take an example. Tomcat is installed into:
/opt/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.29-01 As you can see, we are speaking about version 6.0.29. The last 2 digest (01) is our version number. If we made changes, we make a new package and installed it in:
/opt/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.29-02 and so on. We never update packages to the same folder, always new packages and new folders.
All are config, logs, libraries, bins, .... are in the same directory and some have symbolic links to other directories.
/opt/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.29-01# ls -l
...
logs -> /var/log/tomcat
You never need to know which folders the package are installed in. Only 1 folder.
In the package we installed also some config files who don't change much. Other configuration (stored in svn), would be rolled out by puppet.
Informative with lots of detail. Perhaps a bit too much detail (packets & stuff) for an overview.