Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions

DevOps in the EDU sector
Tyler Fitch, Chef
Monday, November 9, 9:00 pm–10:00 pm, Jackson

I get to see how lots of Enterprises and Gov’t Depts are progressing on their DevOps journeys. But rarely do I get to speak with the EDU sector. I know I have at least two EDU people in my tutorial and LISA draws a good EDU crowd, so this is my chance to get a talk with them and help answer any DevOps questions they have.

Disclaimer: I’m from Chef but this is not a vendor market-research event. This is just my personal interest in spreading the joy that is working in a DevOps fashion.

Red Hat Vendor BoF: Open Storage Birds of a Feather
Tuesday, November 10, 7:00 pm–8:00 pm, Jefferson

Want to come talk open storage at LISA? Red Hat will be hosting a Birds-of-a-Feather session on Tuesday night, bringing both Gluster and Ceph enthusiasts to discuss open source software defined storage. Be on the lookout for surprise guests from both the Gluster and Ceph communities coming to talk about future releases. Special thanks to USENIX for helping us put this on.

EMC {code}'s Mars Data Challenge Hackathon

You and your team have just landed on Mars. As you prepare the base, massive sun storms are coming your way. That was the last communication you had from Earth. Now connectivity to Earth has been cut, and although the base has enough energy, your protective shields can run for a only few minutes at a time without recharging. Your only chance of survival is to monitor the current temperature and radiation levels in the planet's atmosphere to detect sun flares and activate your base shields for protection. You have only a few hours to implement a sensor array, build and deploy the monitoring application to engage/disengage your shields, then fine tune an algorithm based on your data analysis that decides when to charge your shields and when to engage them for protection. Will you and your team survive? The top survivors will win prizes (drones!), and every single participant of this Mars Data Challenge will walk away with a Raspberry Pi 2.

This BoF requires preregistration (free!). Visit the Mars Data Challenge co-located activity page for more information.

CloudBees Vendor BoF: Jenkins Workflow + Docker #FTW
Harshal Dharia, Senior Solution Architect, CloudBees
Tuesday, November 10, 7:00 pm–9:00 pm, Lincoln 3

Jenkins Workflow is a game changing way to write automation jobs with Jenkins. Workflows can support simple, one-step hello-world type jobs to the most complex, parallel pipelines. Best of all, they support manual/automated intervention (eg: approvals) and also workflows survive Jenkins master restarts. Combining Jenkins Workflow with Docker can seriously reduce friction in your DevOps efforts. Come learn how with CloudBees.

Virtual Reality Applications for Sysadmin, SRE & DevOps?
Trey Harris
Tuesday, November 10, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Jackson

With Oculus Rift, Project Morpheus, SteamVR, Microsoft HoloLens and other virtual and augmented reality products soon coming to market, are there applications for this hardware in the kind of work we do? Come to share ideas or proofs of concept and help us figure out if VR is all just fun and games—or if the virtual world has the potential to help us do our real-world jobs better.

GPG Key Signing BoF
Ken Schumacher, High Performance Computing Department, Fermi National Accelerator Lab
Tuesday, November 10, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Jefferson

There has been a key signing BOF at many of the LISA conferences (all of the one's I've attended) in the past. This year, our gathering is scheduled for 8:00 Tues evening in the Jefferson room. Those of you attending this GPG key signing BOF might also be interested in the CAcert BoF starting at 9:00 in the same room.

If you are interested in attending this meeting, please e-mail your key to me at kschu at gswot dot org. I will add your key to a keyring I am creating specific to this event. I will use this keyring to generate the key/fingerprint list we will use at the keysigning.

For more information on Key Signing Parties, I recommend the "GnuPG Keysigning Party HOWTO" document. Our format will follow the suggestions there, specifically the List Based party format. I will bring a printout of the submitted keys. Please submit your keys at least 12 hours in advance of the party to ensure your key fingerprint is on the list.

Please bring multiple forms of ID, at least one being a photo ID, preferrably government issued. Other attendees (such as those coming from over seas) may not be familiar with the format of your ID. By having multiple IDs, you should have at least one that others will find acceptable. I'm bringing my passport, my Illinois Drivers License and my Fermilab (US Dept. of Energy) photo ID card.

PLEASE NOTE: If you don't submit your key in advance, we will have to go through the awkward process of you reading your key aloud so that everyone attending can write down your fingerprint. This can be a bother and not everyone may be willing to go to that extra effort. Please submit your key in advance or bring some handout with your Key ID and the key fingerprint. Printing this info on the back of business cards is probably acceptable. We will complete authentication of the keys that were submitted in advance before we do any "walk-in" keys.

If you have any questions, feel free to send me email at "kschu at gswot dog org".

LGBTQA* & Friends
Trey Harris, Apcera, Inc. and Tom Limoncelli, Stack Overflow
Tuesday, November 10, 9:00 pm–10:00 pm, Jackson

For members of the LGBTQA* community and our friends to meet, network, discuss workplace and benefits issues, current politics affecting the community, and chat. Join us, we’re friendly and almost never bite!

CAcert Assurance BoF
Ken Schumacher, High Performance Computing Department, Fermi National Accelerator Lab
Tuesday, November 10, 9:00 pm–10:00 pm, Jefferson

CAcert.org offers digital certificates to everyone for free. The goal of this event is to inform attendees how the CAcert assurance process works. The presentation will also review recent changes to the CAcert Community Agreement. The primary purpose of our gathering is to bring together qualified assurers in order to help those interested in attaining the points needed to start assuring others. By helping new assurers qualify, we will help make CAcert free digital certificates available to more people.

For more details, I recommend that you review the complete event description on the CAcert Wiki site. There are instructions there for preparations you can accomplish in advance of the BoF session. Make sure you bring more than one government issued photo ID to the event.

If you are a qualified CAcert Assurer, please consider attending this session and helping us get a pool of new assurers started with their first 100 points. Feel free to add yourself to the Registration portion of the Wiki page. Please contact Ken Schumacher if you have any questios or to discuss your availability.

The GitHub Showcase BoF: Present your new or improved OpenSource tool
Tobias Oetiker
Wednesday, November 11, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm

Have you written and published any cool new OSS tool this year? Present it in 5 Minutes to your fellow sysadmins! Enter yourself on the list: https://goo.gl/ZehW0M

Kubernetes and Container Management: Bi-Directional Q&A
Tim Hockin, Kubernetes Lead, Google
Wednesday, November 11, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Thurgood Marshall Northeast

Let's talk about containers and orchestration and Kubernetes. I'd like to hear how people use containers and get feedback on what works and doesn't work well in Kubernetes. We can dig into details of how Kubernetes works, how to use it, how to set it up, and even demos, if people want to see them. Mostly: you ask me questions and I'll ask some back.

Raytheon|Websense Vendor BoF: Hunting Threats in Linux® Memory
Andrew Tappert, Product Lead, Linux Security Solutions
Wednesday, November 11, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Lincoln 3

To establish a beachhead inside an organization, attackers need to compromise only one system. Ironically, this means that organizations must protect every system. Confidential discussions with victim organizations show that in the aftermath of an attack, victim organizations often identify a single unprotected system that enabled the attack to proceed to fruition.

As Linux continues to play an increasing role in corporate data centers and institutions, ensuring the integrity and protection of these systems must be a priority. With 60 percent of the world’s websites and an increasing share of organization’s mission-critical workloads running on Linux, failing to stop malware and other advanced threats on Linux can impact an organization’s reputation and bottom line

While Linux contains several features that can provide enhanced system security and integrity, most organizations either do not implement or only occasionally ensure proper enforcement. Why? Because they lack real-time visibility into their environments and the ability to centrally enforcing policy across their entire system.

Pythian Vendor BoF: Making Change Happen - Being an Agent of Change in Your Own Organization
Alex Lovell–Troy, Director of DevOps, Pythian
Wednesday, November 11, 8:00 pm–9:00 pm, Lincoln 5

The only thing that defines a leader is whether people will follow you. What have you done that inspires people to follow your lead? How do you make the positive change happen in your workplace? Whether you're the first DevOps engineer in your company or the first advocate of new workflows, what strategies have worked for you? Join me to explore how we can share knowledge and encourage each other to transform our companies.

Apcera Vendor BoF: Container Management Systems, The Morning After
David Blank-Edelman, Technical Evangelist, Apcera
Wednesday, November 11, 9:00 pm–10:00 pm, Lincoln 3

So you’ve just installed (or maybe you’ve just learned about) something like Kubernetes, Mesos or the Apcera Platform…now what happens? Let’s get together and talk about our experiences bringing a system like this off of a laptop and into production. Technical, cultural or operational, what are the challenges you’ve seen so far? Apcera is hosting drinks and snacks, so come share your answers—or even better—your questions about getting real with container management systems.

Release Engineering BoF
Dinah McNutt, Google
Thursday, November 12, 8:30 pm–9:30 pm, Lincoln 2 - LISA Lab

Come discuss all things release engineering!

Online Rights with EFF BoF
Maggie Kazmierczak, Membership Assistant, Electronic Frontier Foundation
Thursday, November 12, 8:30 pm–9:30 pm, Lincoln 3