Open Tech Calendar

Please ensure you arrive before 6:30pm, entry afterwards is extremely unlikely.

Agenda:

18:00 - Networking / Pizza / Beer
18:30 - Super SaltStack by Glynn Forrest
19:30 - Networking

Super SaltStack-Event Driven Orchestration & Configuration Management

Salt, Puppet, Chef, Ansible - which one to choose?

Learn what makes SaltStack stand out from other configuration management solutions, and how you can use the built-in orchestration engine, event bus, reactor, cloud, beacons, and much more, to take your operations to the next level.

We'll see how to get started in less than 5 minutes, and look at some good practices to follow as your infrastructure grows. We'll go beyond configuration management and look into reacting to incidents, self healing-infrastructure, auto-scaling, and other use cases.

We'll also examine some of Salt's weaknesses, and where other tools can be used as inspiration for improvement.

About the Speaker:

When not thinking about Salt, Glynn Forrest combines being a classical musician with freelance programming. Having completed a MMus degree at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in 2013, he now plays percussion professionally with orchestras and ensembles in and around Scotland. Simultaneously, he has transformed his programming hobby into a side-career as a freelance software developer. He enjoys helping companies tackle difficult software projects, and refactoring scary legacy codebases.