GLLUG meeting February 22, 2007

The next GLLUG meeting will take place on Thursday 22nd Feb, starting at 19:00hrs and we have Luke Kanies talking about Puppet.

We will be meeting at the Fotango offices ( http://www.fotango.com/contact_us.htm ) and need to be out by 20:45.

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About the talk :

Puppet is a configuration management framework capable of Puppet is a system administration automation framework, written entirely in Ruby.
The big difference between Puppet and other frameworks is that Puppet provides an abstraction layer between the sysadmin and all of those messy operating system details -- instead of caring about how useradd
or crontab work, you talk about users and cron jobs, and Puppet will figure out how to create or modify the objects as necessary. This allows you to focus on data specification, and Puppet translates the specification into functional operating system details.

Project page : http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/index.html

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After the talk + q & a we will head off to a local Pub ( Recommended by the london.pm folk ) The Masque Haunt. It's a Wetherspoons pub, but should fit the entire group in it. ( http://www.beerintheevening.com/pubs/s/49/4959/Masque_Haunt/Old_Street )