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ANN: LinuxConfZA at Baobab Mon October 8, 9p


LinuxConfZA
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When: 9 AM Monday October 8, 2018
Where: Baobab
LinuxConf [ZA] 2018 is a one-day conference aimed at the Linux and Open Source community within South Africa. It provides anyone working on or with Linux and Open Source tools & applications, or with a passion for Open Source development, to discover new trends, network with like-minded individuals, irrespective of whether the attendees are developers, system or database administrators, or anyone else working with Linux and Open Source applications.
https://linuxconf.co.za

Topics
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1. Opening
Malcolm McLean

Conference Opening
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2. Simplicity, Reliability, Redundancy
Jaco Kroon

As the complexity of systems increase the reliability comes down, and the requirement for redundancy becomes even greater, as redundancy increases so does the complexity.
Striking the balance between these factors, as it turns out, is really hard.
 recording release: yes license: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0  

3. Linux and Open Source for SMEs - (DevOps)
Freddy Mahhumane

Learn new strategies on how to implement Linux and Open Source using the best available open source software. As an engineer innovation using open source software will keep you and your environment ahead of the rest, making sure software deliverable is quick, stable, monitored and automated. It's time for engineers to talk both business and technical language and I'll show you how.The implementation of DevOps using Open Source for SMEs creates a competitive urge for small business owners in South Africa. I will share the best Open Source tools for SMEs to stay ahead and save costs. Learn, Compete, Lead in a free open environment, which breeds the future for the SA economy.
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4. Scaling Data Science with Spark, Linux, AWS, and Flintrock
Helge Reikeras

The capability to process large amounts of data in parallel is imperative to any high-performing data science operation. However, the maintenance and cost overhead of running and maintaining a large data cluster are often significant and may become prohibitive for some teams. In this talk I'll discuss a kick-ass toolchain that makes launching, dynamically scaling nodes, and disposing of large data clusters on-demand a simple task for developers, system administrators, and data scientists alike.
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5. Docker from development to production
Tim Haak

This talk will cover how to use Docker to deploy your application.
It will cover from using Docker for development to how to deploy to your live environment, using Docker swarm.
Though this will cover the practical examples it will be more focused on the patterns of how it's done.
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6. NGINX as a high performance reverse proxy
Kobus Wolvaardt

How to setup NGINX http server as a SSL reverse proxy with 10ks of active connections. Open file descriptor count and port timeouts and other fun.
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7. SUSE and Openstack
Johann Els

Like most businesses today are you challenged with rapidly changing market conditions and customer demands? Are you dealing with rapidly evolving technology trends that create both new business opportunities and new competitive threats while having to focus more and more on IT budgets and spending?
OpenStack can help. OpenStack software provides an open source cloud computing solution that gives your business an IT infrastructure with the agility, speed, and cost savings it needs to meet these challenges and take full advantage of new market opportunities. OpenStack is the ideal private cloud platform to help transform your data center. It delivers the next level of efficiency and innovation without the risks of vendor lock-in and high costs often associated with proprietary platforms.
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8. Automation of an entire stack with Ansible
Johan Zietsman

(Needs description.) 
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9. How we automated deployment and testing with docker
Bennie Swart

Note: Video had problems, what is here is the best we can do.  sorry.

Docker, dockerhub, ci and how we build our testing and deployment around containers.
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10. Diverging Deception Designs: Honeypots and tokens in modern networks
Jason Bissict, Marco Slaviero

Honeypots have seen a long incubation since they were first publicised in the 80s. The turn of the century saw renewed interest, but it's only now that they're starting to help organisations stay safe(r). Legacy Open Source honeypots focus on providing logs of attacker behaviour, which is not where the true value of honeypots is to be found.
	We run two projects, OpenCanary and Canarytokens. In the talk we'll demo the software, discuss what sets them apart from similar tools, introduce new features, and show how they can help organisations improve their detection capabilities. Along the way we'll touch on our experiences in running the projects, briefly chat licensing (of course!) and expand on lessons learned in running a free Canarytokens instance. We'll end by explaining how our two Open Source projects run in parallel with (and are supported by) our commercial offering.
	 If you're looking to introduce or augment breach detection in your organisation, or just want to hear from folks who've combined building Open Source projects into their day jobs, this is the talk for you.
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11. ZFS on Linux (and inside VMs)
Hendrik Visage

ZFS on Linux might not be “in” the kernel, but it is production usable and integrated enough that Ubuntu ships with it and it's even bootable. With it's compression on the fly, snapshots and various other features, it is a filesystem that all Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris-based system administrators should consider and get to know. We'll demonstrate some of these features and it's applications in real life production systems. The ZFS filesystem sounds like it is the be-all-end-all of filesystems, but lets also show some of it's limitations (given also it's not integrated into the Linux kernel) to be aware of to not be caught by surprise.Imagine a filesystem that will detect (and fix) on-disk data corruption. Then image that same filesystem have already compressed the log files, not to mention it can provide near instantaneous snapshot recoveries. Not to mention capable of RAID6 levels of disk failure protection.
It's called ZFS!
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12. Test-driven infrastructure
Karl Fischer

Where Test-driven development and Infrastructure as code have a love child.
Everything around you is made up of atoms, dna or code, there is a recipe on how everything is put together, and like most things... as soon as things get created organically it gets messy. With the advent of composable infrastructure or infrastructure as code, we need to focus more on getting reproducible systems as opposed to a patchwork of chaos. Using Test Driven techniques we can create and implement reliable, repeatable infrastructure.
Some slides, lots of memes and of course gorgeous un-canned demos
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13. Learning to succeed
Brendan Widlake

Having started out his career as a Instructor, Systems Engineer and a Solutions Architect, Brendan pivoted, and for the last 15 years has helped a number of international companies excite, enable and manage their Channel Partners to achieve both their grow aspirations and end-customer success.Stronger skills, better business, greater success. Whether you’re updating your expertise or building brand new skills, this is where it all begins.
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14. Software development using Gentoo, Sabayon and Arch Linux
Nico Schlebusch

Linux in my life as a Developer and OSS enthusiast. A comparison of three Linux Operating Systems used as a desktop and/or laptop computer for software development purposes.
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15. Then and now, what about tomorrow?
Muggie van Staden, Ross Addis

(Needs description.) 
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16. Tools hackers use
Anonymous

Hack the planet
Tools Hackers use, Physical and Software
Let's hack
Let's protect
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17. ZFS workshop
Hendrik Visage

Workshop on ZFS, which follows on and compliments the ZFS talks at both LinuxConf and PostgresConf.
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18. PostgresConf workshop - Performance tuning PostgreSQL
Malcolm McLean, Kobus Wolvaardt

Performance tuning PostgreSQL workshop
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Location
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Baobab


About the group
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