The document is a presentation about configuring cloud infrastructure with Chef. It introduces Chef as a configuration management tool for defining the desired state of systems and infrastructure components. It describes key aspects of Chef including resources that define abstractions for configuring systems, providers that take actions to configure resources, roles that describe nodes and their run lists, and cookbooks that contain reusable configuration code. It provides an example architecture showing how Chef could be used to configure a load balanced web application on AWS.
The future of advertising, a conversationedward boches
As requested by many in attendance, slides from my presentation at MIMA's Conversations About the Future of Advertising in Minneapolis on Monday, February 8, 2010. Without notes it may not be totally clear, but if you were there, it makes sense. Look for full video on Vimeo.
The future of advertising, a conversationedward boches
As requested by many in attendance, slides from my presentation at MIMA's Conversations About the Future of Advertising in Minneapolis on Monday, February 8, 2010. Without notes it may not be totally clear, but if you were there, it makes sense. Look for full video on Vimeo.
Slides from 08-27-2013 Opscode webinar on using Chef to automate your Microsoft Windows-based infrastructure, including a live demo of Windows automation and a review of the latest and greatest resources available for running Chef with Windows-based infrastructure.
Jamie Winsor and a team of engineers created Berkshelf to help take the sting out of Chef’s learning curve. After encountering numerous challenges while developing Chef cookbooks, Jamie was inspired to create a tool based on criteria that’d be important for a developer’s productivity. Berkshelf, like Rebar, Go, or Mix, is a source code management tool.
Are you the only one working on your Chef configuration? I was. Then within six weeks my client quadrupled the staff working with Chef. Okay, they just hired three people but that was still disruptive.
We had to learn how to work together in the same repo. While I knew all the 'best practices' around testing and deploying cookbooks it wasn't as critical when I was the only one committing changes. Suddenly I needed a better plan.
Implementing the community practices would only get me so far. I needed to help this team of diverse skill levels manage their work AND their Chef repository. I needed to highlight to my customer when we were processing interrupts at the expense of scheduled work. I needed to make sure the work was small enough that no one disappeared down a rabbit hole for days on end, but still met the needs of the rest of the organization.
I needed Kanban.
In this talk I will walk through my experiences, painful and glorious, building a team and managing their work. I will cover the good, the bad, and the ugly of a deadline crunched, pre-launch operations team and what we did to bring sanity, from discovering the real flow of work to documenting interruptions, and how we used (and misused) Chef throughout.
SDN, Network Virtualization and the Software Defined Data Center – Brad HedlundChef Software, Inc.
IT organizations around the world are transforming data center operations and economics by virtualizing their networks. Much like server virtualization decoupled VMs from the underlying X86 server hardware transforming the operational model of compute, network virtualization decouples software-based virtual networks from the underlying network hardware to enable a new operational model for networking. Deployed non-disruptively on any existing network without change, network virtualization transforms the physical network into a pool of capacity that can be consumed and repurposed on demand.
You will learn how, today, companies like AT&T, NTT, eBay and Rackspace have transformed their operational model and reduced network provisioning time from days/weeks to seconds. You will learn how network virtualization, OpenStack cloud management and Chef automation can be leveraged together and examine the architectural decisions you should be considering now to prepare for this transformation
Using Chef and AppFirst to Automate Scale-out/Scale-down of Web Applications ...Chef Software, Inc.
We will demonstrate how using Chef and AppFirst you can automate scaling out and down a multi-tiered web application. As Chef builds out the multi-tier stack, it will dynamically add the AppFirst collectors to the servers it’s executing on. Once this is running we will drive load to our web application which triggers an AppFirst alert as utilization thresholds are met. Based upon receiving the alert Chef automatically deploys another web server with an AppFirst collector and adds it to the load balancer. Using AppFirst’s UI we’ll see that our web application is now handling the load without any problems.
The InstallShield of the 21st Century – Theo SchlossnagleChef Software, Inc.
Today's systems are complex and the most successful products are SaaS. When you need to ship a SaaS architecture to someone (private SaaS) there are a lot of moving parts to install and maintain. I'll talk about what we do at Circonus to provide our complex software stack on large clusters on-premise using Chef as the orchestration framework.
At Rackspace, sysadmins have taken responsiblilty for what was a "developers problem" only a few years ago. What started as a way to solve an image build problem turned into a socially collaborative DevOps community. Come see what Chef started.
When most people talk about automating infrastructure, they focus on things like consistency, scalability, and flexibility. While fine goals, we recently converted several projects to Chef for both systems AND application deployment, and found that, with a little work, these tools could also help you enable better software quality assurance, load modeling, and even improve resource allocation.
By sharing cookbooks across projects, we were able to standardize practices and eliminate arbitrary differences, while using parameterization to perfectly isolate the special needs of each project. This allowed us to transfer knowledge among staff much more quickly. Pulling in and parameterizing application state – database contents, website assets, uploaded content – allowed us to spin up new environments with as much or as little state as needed. Integrating with Vagrant and Jenkins, we were then able to use chef to treat the entire image – system and application – as a test fixture. As each engineer (ops or dev) has visibility into the whole stack, we can more easily move people between dev and ops, or between projects.
Push jobs: an orchestration building block for private ChefChef Software, Inc.
Push jobs is a new feature in Opscode Private Chef that will allow a user to run commands across hundreds of chef managed servers. Push Jobs leverages Erlang/OTP and ZeroMQ to provide scalable and fault tolerant execution.
In this talk I’ll cover the general motivation behind the design and an architectural overview of the system. This will include details of we used Erlang and ZeroMQ to build a robust, scalable system. I’ll also do a demo of the push job feature in action, covering the push jobs server, execution client and knife command line interface.
With Vagrant 1.1, you can use the same configuration and workflow to spin up and provision machines in VirtualBox, VMware, AWS, RackSpace, and more. You get all the benefits of Vagrant with the power of working in whatever environment you need to.
In this talk, you’ll learn how to use the new multi-provider features of Vagrant to more effectively develop and test Chef cookbooks.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Slides from 08-27-2013 Opscode webinar on using Chef to automate your Microsoft Windows-based infrastructure, including a live demo of Windows automation and a review of the latest and greatest resources available for running Chef with Windows-based infrastructure.
Jamie Winsor and a team of engineers created Berkshelf to help take the sting out of Chef’s learning curve. After encountering numerous challenges while developing Chef cookbooks, Jamie was inspired to create a tool based on criteria that’d be important for a developer’s productivity. Berkshelf, like Rebar, Go, or Mix, is a source code management tool.
Are you the only one working on your Chef configuration? I was. Then within six weeks my client quadrupled the staff working with Chef. Okay, they just hired three people but that was still disruptive.
We had to learn how to work together in the same repo. While I knew all the 'best practices' around testing and deploying cookbooks it wasn't as critical when I was the only one committing changes. Suddenly I needed a better plan.
Implementing the community practices would only get me so far. I needed to help this team of diverse skill levels manage their work AND their Chef repository. I needed to highlight to my customer when we were processing interrupts at the expense of scheduled work. I needed to make sure the work was small enough that no one disappeared down a rabbit hole for days on end, but still met the needs of the rest of the organization.
I needed Kanban.
In this talk I will walk through my experiences, painful and glorious, building a team and managing their work. I will cover the good, the bad, and the ugly of a deadline crunched, pre-launch operations team and what we did to bring sanity, from discovering the real flow of work to documenting interruptions, and how we used (and misused) Chef throughout.
SDN, Network Virtualization and the Software Defined Data Center – Brad HedlundChef Software, Inc.
IT organizations around the world are transforming data center operations and economics by virtualizing their networks. Much like server virtualization decoupled VMs from the underlying X86 server hardware transforming the operational model of compute, network virtualization decouples software-based virtual networks from the underlying network hardware to enable a new operational model for networking. Deployed non-disruptively on any existing network without change, network virtualization transforms the physical network into a pool of capacity that can be consumed and repurposed on demand.
You will learn how, today, companies like AT&T, NTT, eBay and Rackspace have transformed their operational model and reduced network provisioning time from days/weeks to seconds. You will learn how network virtualization, OpenStack cloud management and Chef automation can be leveraged together and examine the architectural decisions you should be considering now to prepare for this transformation
Using Chef and AppFirst to Automate Scale-out/Scale-down of Web Applications ...Chef Software, Inc.
We will demonstrate how using Chef and AppFirst you can automate scaling out and down a multi-tiered web application. As Chef builds out the multi-tier stack, it will dynamically add the AppFirst collectors to the servers it’s executing on. Once this is running we will drive load to our web application which triggers an AppFirst alert as utilization thresholds are met. Based upon receiving the alert Chef automatically deploys another web server with an AppFirst collector and adds it to the load balancer. Using AppFirst’s UI we’ll see that our web application is now handling the load without any problems.
The InstallShield of the 21st Century – Theo SchlossnagleChef Software, Inc.
Today's systems are complex and the most successful products are SaaS. When you need to ship a SaaS architecture to someone (private SaaS) there are a lot of moving parts to install and maintain. I'll talk about what we do at Circonus to provide our complex software stack on large clusters on-premise using Chef as the orchestration framework.
At Rackspace, sysadmins have taken responsiblilty for what was a "developers problem" only a few years ago. What started as a way to solve an image build problem turned into a socially collaborative DevOps community. Come see what Chef started.
When most people talk about automating infrastructure, they focus on things like consistency, scalability, and flexibility. While fine goals, we recently converted several projects to Chef for both systems AND application deployment, and found that, with a little work, these tools could also help you enable better software quality assurance, load modeling, and even improve resource allocation.
By sharing cookbooks across projects, we were able to standardize practices and eliminate arbitrary differences, while using parameterization to perfectly isolate the special needs of each project. This allowed us to transfer knowledge among staff much more quickly. Pulling in and parameterizing application state – database contents, website assets, uploaded content – allowed us to spin up new environments with as much or as little state as needed. Integrating with Vagrant and Jenkins, we were then able to use chef to treat the entire image – system and application – as a test fixture. As each engineer (ops or dev) has visibility into the whole stack, we can more easily move people between dev and ops, or between projects.
Push jobs: an orchestration building block for private ChefChef Software, Inc.
Push jobs is a new feature in Opscode Private Chef that will allow a user to run commands across hundreds of chef managed servers. Push Jobs leverages Erlang/OTP and ZeroMQ to provide scalable and fault tolerant execution.
In this talk I’ll cover the general motivation behind the design and an architectural overview of the system. This will include details of we used Erlang and ZeroMQ to build a robust, scalable system. I’ll also do a demo of the push job feature in action, covering the push jobs server, execution client and knife command line interface.
With Vagrant 1.1, you can use the same configuration and workflow to spin up and provision machines in VirtualBox, VMware, AWS, RackSpace, and more. You get all the benefits of Vagrant with the power of working in whatever environment you need to.
In this talk, you’ll learn how to use the new multi-provider features of Vagrant to more effectively develop and test Chef cookbooks.
Threats to mobile devices are more prevalent and increasing in scope and complexity. Users of mobile devices desire to take full advantage of the features
available on those devices, but many of the features provide convenience and capability but sacrifice security. This best practices guide outlines steps the users can take to better protect personal devices and information.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
Dr. Sean Tan, Head of Data Science, Changi Airport Group
Discover how Changi Airport Group (CAG) leverages graph technologies and generative AI to revolutionize their search capabilities. This session delves into the unique search needs of CAG’s diverse passengers and customers, showcasing how graph data structures enhance the accuracy and relevance of AI-generated search results, mitigating the risk of “hallucinations” and improving the overall customer journey.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
SAP Sapphire 2024 - ASUG301 building better apps with SAP Fiori.pdfPeter Spielvogel
Building better applications for business users with SAP Fiori.
• What is SAP Fiori and why it matters to you
• How a better user experience drives measurable business benefits
• How to get started with SAP Fiori today
• How SAP Fiori elements accelerates application development
• How SAP Build Code includes SAP Fiori tools and other generative artificial intelligence capabilities
• How SAP Fiori paves the way for using AI in SAP apps
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Climate Impact of Software Testing at Nordic Testing DaysKari Kakkonen
My slides at Nordic Testing Days 6.6.2024
Climate impact / sustainability of software testing discussed on the talk. ICT and testing must carry their part of global responsibility to help with the climat warming. We can minimize the carbon footprint but we can also have a carbon handprint, a positive impact on the climate. Quality characteristics can be added with sustainability, and then measured continuously. Test environments can be used less, and in smaller scale and on demand. Test techniques can be used in optimizing or minimizing number of tests. Test automation can be used to speed up testing.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
GraphSummit Singapore | The Art of the Possible with Graph - Q2 2024Neo4j
Neha Bajwa, Vice President of Product Marketing, Neo4j
Join us as we explore breakthrough innovations enabled by interconnected data and AI. Discover firsthand how organizations use relationships in data to uncover contextual insights and solve our most pressing challenges – from optimizing supply chains, detecting fraud, and improving customer experiences to accelerating drug discoveries.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Pushing the limits of ePRTC: 100ns holdover for 100 daysAdtran
At WSTS 2024, Alon Stern explored the topic of parametric holdover and explained how recent research findings can be implemented in real-world PNT networks to achieve 100 nanoseconds of accuracy for up to 100 days.
52. Nodes
Infrastructure components.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
53. Nodes
Infrastructure components.
Managed with run list.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
54. Nodes
Infrastructure components.
Managed with run list.
Data stored on server.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
55. Nodes
Infrastructure components.
Managed with run list.
Data stored on server.
Indexed.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
56. A Sample Architecture
Load Balancing
Web Servers
Databases
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanneanette/2710667213/sizes/o/
Thursday, February 11, 2010
57. AWS LB
haproxy/nginx A Sample Architecture
S->M
Load Balancing
Web Servers
Databases
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanneanette/2710667213/sizes/o/
Thursday, February 11, 2010
58. AWS LB
haproxy/nginx A Sample Architecture
S->M
Load Balancing
Your
App Stack
M
Web Servers
EBS?
Databases
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanneanette/2710667213/sizes/o/
Thursday, February 11, 2010
59. AWS LB
haproxy/nginx A Sample Architecture
S->M
Load Balancing
Your
App Stack
M
Web Servers
EBS?
Master/
Slave
M->L->XL Databases
EBS
http://www.flickr.com/photos/susanneanette/2710667213/sizes/o/
Thursday, February 11, 2010
72. Opscode Platform
Managed Chef Server as a service.
Scalable, multi-tenant, auditable, secure.
Thursday, February 11, 2010
73. Opscode Platform
Managed Chef Server as a service.
Scalable, multi-tenant, auditable, secure.
http://www.opscode.com/signup
Thursday, February 11, 2010