-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ???? 09/09/2013 11:30 ??, ?/? Martin Zobel-Helas ??????: > Hi, > > as announced in [0] Faidon and I attended GanetiCon 2013 in Athens > on behalf of the Debian Systems Administration Team (DSA). Please > find below my report on the conference. > > Agenda also all slides of the conference can be found at [1]. > > I arrived in Athens on Monday afternoon and joined a Team from > Google visiting Acropolis and Athens downtown. > > [0] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2013/08/msg00065.html > [1] https://sites.google.com/site/ganeticon/ > > > Conference Day 1 ---------------- Day one of the conference (hosted > by Skrutz) started with an extended workshop on the new and > upcoming features. Of special interest for the DSA team will be the > upcoming new features in hroller(1) - like rebooting a cluster in a > coordinated way- and the possibility of clustering clusters (which > reduces some administration overhead for the DSA team). > > Also very helpful is the new extStorage feature in Ganeti 2.7, > which provides a tighter integration of shared SAN devices to > Ganeti. This will reduce a lot amount of administration overhead > for the DSA team at our Bytemark and UBCECE data centres. > > After lunch, Skrutz, Debian (Faidon and I) and OSUOSL gave their > user experience reports. Skrutz gave a deep insight in moving their > platforms between datacenters using Ganeti and the challenges they > experienced. Faidon and I gave an insight talk about the current > Debian setup and how we moved from libvirt to Ganeti. Lance > Albertson from OSUOSL showed us the progress of his current version > of the Ganeti web manager and gave some ideas on how instances > could get deployed more dynamicly. > > > Conference Day 2 ---------------- Day two continued with user > experience reports. GRNET reported about their own implementation > of a Ganeti web manager, the "~okeanos Public Cloud Service" and > the challenges they experienced due to the speed of the Queue and > RAPI Daemon. > > I took the opportunity that having access the Ganeti developers > presented to upgrade Ganeti on our clusters[2] from version 2.5 to > 2.7. During that upgrade, a design bug was detected and reported > upstream. It has been scheduled to be fixed in the next version. > > While the afternoon was mostly about design discussion regarding > "Location Awareness in Ganeti", "Ganeti Job Queue Control" and > improvement in the network management of Ganeti, I took the time to > file several [3][4][5] enhancement request bugs, and started > writing a patch for [5]. > > [2] http://lists.debian.org/<20130904073922.ga13...@ftbfs.de> [3] > https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/issues/detail?id=562 [4] > https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/issues/detail?id=565 [5] > https://code.google.com/p/ganeti/issues/detail?id=566 > > > Conference Day 3 ---------------- Day three started with a > discussion about reducing the need of the "root" user within > Ganeti. Several suggestions have been made, from using sudo for all > the calls that need root to chroot'ing the daemons. Also discussed > was the need to address the need to monitor ganeti nodes but to > avoid spawning the monitoring processes frequently. > > The second discussion was about Deploying & Managing Instance > Images and how to improve the status quo. This discussion was quite > heated and no real solution that suits all needs had been found > until the lunch break. > > I needed to leave the conference at that point, as I needed to > catch my flight back to Germany. Skroutz and Google talked about > "Build System Overhaul and Upgrades" and GRNET about "Disks as > Independent Entities" after I left. Maybe Guido Trotter, part of > the Google Ganeti team, can give us more details about that. > > > Conclusion ---------- All in all it was a very successful > conference, which gave me good insight into Ganeti development. It > was helpful to meet all the developers and contributors in person > and share the all the ideas and thoughts that are floating around. > > I would like to thank everyone who donated to the Debian Project > and made it possible for me to attend. > > Cheers, Martin -- http://www.crowdrise.com/supportdebian/ >
Hi, I live in North Greece Thessaloniki and here we have the biggest Debian community. I'm wondering why was non announcement for that event at all. Or maybe it is a natural behavor? cheers gnugr -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.14 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Icedove - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJSLYkVAAoJELhCc/Le9mb8ulwH/2krCeKRB/k/rqc6Bu/3jEkH OJirvm+cEm2gaN45nKhEhrg/6o8HlDxHSZaa9IfJFFgS+PSPRQvMgz2As04s1rpl Y/Am2qajyMCO6pe1XKCcNqAx+ymvz4BwlbBKqktwXaTxbvbPHHgdM2xJP9TVsZOz qEdU0NxIWITK6dBYmWJr00UiL7KjOv7qoR/e/Ft8ceKqpABOjiCGeFvfA4pduHNK mcaMbDnzBd+CIt2Feh0Znj6fLlho60wrc+tTV5XSn/68PUJQMYm5i0QrrYbtxrXh b9cXkJlep8jMo1K95rKDz+eLa4c4D3bY9rtujALxZkwAQc9ZqRjtLM0k2TG9yK8= =2B8D -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/522d8915.9050...@gnugr.org
