This first Puppetcamp in Europe was very interesting and well organized. The combination of formal presentations in the morning and open sessions in the afternoon was really a good idea.

This event started by the talk of Luke Kanies , CEO of Puppet Labs (the company behind Puppet); the original author of Puppet particularly highlighted the stability of Puppet and announced the imminent release of "Rowlf " which will be directly stamped version 2.6! This version will also offer new features such as class parameters, the complete migration to REST and many other great improvements.

Puppet Labs has also officially launched the Puppet Forge which is a Central Repository for Puppet Modules open to the community. Creating "good modules" was one of the topics discussed during an open session and was also covered by the presentation of Alessandro Franceschi . This talk also identified the collections of modules available, including the ones provided by Camptocamp on Github and also the ones already posted on the Puppet Forge.

We also appreciated the aspects related to Change Management presented By Jeff McCune and also the open session on Test Driven Deployment combining mcollective and cucumber .

A big thanks to all Puppetlovers for these two exciting days!

Camptocamp recherche pour compléter son équipe «Infrastructure Solutions » un/une Spécialiste GNU/Linux expérimenté.

En tant que spécialiste GNU/Linux, vous êtes intéressé par la gestion d’infrastructures complexes, l’utilisation et le développement de solutions innovantes visant à automatiser et professionnaliser ce domaine.

De contact facile, vous avez la capacité de travailler en équipe et de comprendre les besoins des clients.

Responsabilités :

• Installation, maintenance et support sous GNU/Linux
• Participation à la gestion d’un grand parc de serveurs
• Gestion de projets (internes, externes)
• Implication dans les communautés Open Source en lien avec nos activités

Compétences :

• Au minimum 5 ans d’expérience dans l’administration système et réseau sous GNU/Linux
• Maîtrise des distributions Debian et RedHat
• Maîtrise des principaux logiciels liés aux applications Web (Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Bon niveau de programmation
• Connaissance des principaux outils de virtualisation Open Source (OpenVZ, Xen, KVM)
• Compétences liées à la VoIP et plus particulièrement le logiciel Asterisk serait un atout

Profil :

• Diplôme d’ingénieur en informatique ou télécommunications EPF, HES ou équivalent
• Langues : Français excellent, maîtrise de l’anglais (oral et écrit), allemand oral un atout
• Autonome, enthousiaste et ayant le sens des responsabilités
• Capacité à prendre des décisions stratégiques

Date d’engagement : de suite ou à convenir.

Lieu de travail : Suisse (Lausanne) ou France (Chambéry).

Les personnes répondant au profil sont invitées à envoyer leur dossier complet avec lettre de motivation, CV et références par courriel à job.ch@camptocamp.com ou par courrier à l’adresse suivante : Camptocamp SA, PSE-A, CH-1015 Lausanne.

** ENGLISH **

Camptocamp «Infrastructure Solutions» team is looking for an experienced GNU/Linux specialist.

As a GNU/Linux specialist, you are interested in complex infrastructure management, the use and the development  of  groundbreaking solutions in this area.

Outgoing, you are able to work in a team and to understand client needs.

Responsibilities:

• GNU/Linux installation, maintenance and support
• Participation to the management of an multiple severs park
• Project management (internal and external)
• Involvement in Open Source communities related to our infrastructure division

Skills:

• A least 5 years of experience in system and network asset management on GNU/Linux
• Perfect command of Debian and RedHat distributions
• Perfect command of main Web applications software (Apache, MySQL, PostgreSQL)
• Good programming level
• Knowledge of major Open Source virtualization tools (OpenVZ, Xen, KVM)
• VoIP skills an advantage (most particularly Asterisk)

Background:

• Computer or telecommunication engineering diploma (EPF, HES or equivalent)
• Languages: perfect French,  English (written and spoken), oral German a plus
• Independent, enthusiastic and responsible
• Ability to make strategic decisions

Hiring date: immediately or to be agreed upon.

Work site: Lausanne (Switzerland) or Chambéry (France)

Please send your application including a motivation letter, CV and references by email at job.ch@camptocamp.com or by mail at : Camptocamp SA, PSE-A, CH-1015 Lausanne.

The first edition of the Open Source Data Center Conference (OSDC) is taking place in Nürnberg during two days (April 29th and 30th).

The conference program includes talks on many Open Source Tools for System Administration.

• Keynote talk by Luke Kanies , Puppet ’s main developper
• Syslog-ng version 3.0 by Balazs Scheidler
• Zabbix by Alexei Vladishev
• Huge MySQL deployment at booking.com by Kristian Köhntopp

Camptocamp makes heavy use of Puppet as a tool to manage system configuration on internal and customers servers as well as workstations. Therefore, we are very excited to share experiences with other European Puppet users there.

Stay tuned for more updates !

marc@lonquimay:/tmp/puppetmaster$ bzr merge -q
Text conflict in modules/mysql/manifests/classes/server.pp

As every decent machine has vim installed, you are only one step away from resolving these conflicts in a comprehensive and colorful way. Just type:

vimdiff modules/mysql/manifests/classes/server.pp.{THIS,OTHER}

Vim will open both files, splitted in the same window:

As usual with splits, you can switch back and forth with CTRL-W CTRL-W. Now position the cursor on one of the conflicting lines. Then type do to "obtain" the code block from the other file or dp to "push" it to the other file. You can of course edit any of the files as usual.

That’s it, don’t forget to bzr resolve the conflict !