bglug meeting – 17 september – topic: data center automation

The September meeting of the Bluegrass Linux User Group will be this Saturday, 17 Sep.

We’ll be meeting at Collexion’s facilities in Lexington at 2:30p.

I will be presenting on data center automation, specifically on HP’s Server Automation platform (the tool I use on my day job).

Some [limited] history of HPSA is available on the Opsware wikipedia page.

We’ll also briefly touch on some of the OSS alternatives to a full-blown environment like HPSA, such as:

• Puppet
• CFEngine
• Chef
• Cobbler
• xCAT