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Talks in South Africa

As mentioned earlier I'll be going to South Africa for 2 weeks soon, I have a few talks lined up.

I'll be talking at the Gauteng LUG on the 1st of July 2009 and I will give the same talk in Cape Town LUG the following Thursday - 9th of July.

The talks will be about Configuration Management and about Puppet, both subjects are pretty huge subjects so I won't pretend to cover either in depth.

I'll just run through some problems teams who use Linux or Unix have encountered and how CM systems can be used to help with those problems. 

I'll work through a sample of installing, configuring and starting Apache using Puppet.  Finally I'll show how company standards can be encapsulated in simple re-usable Puppet logic to easily roll out large amounts of vhosts according to company standards with minimal effort.  The demonstration will be done using 2 virtual machines, one being managed by the other using Puppet.

Ideally the talks won't be just me standing up and going on for x minutes, I'll invite participation, answer any questions etc.

Trip to South Africa

I'll be heading to South Africa for roughly 2 weeks end of June to early July.  I'll be visiting Johannesburg, Potchefstroom and Cape Town.

I'd be keen to hear from anyone interested in having some hours from me for consultation, it's not really a lot of time to spend with people so I am not sure what would be viable time spent. 

I think it might be worthwhile from companies who are considering adopting Puppet for configuration management to meet with me, I'd definitely be able to help you decide if it's the right tool for you or even if you should consider configuration management as a whole.

I might also be open to having a short talk about Puppet if there are any LUGs or something that would be interested in hearing about CM or Puppet.