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Automate all things - boxen #7

Open ItGumby opened 10 years ago

ItGumby commented 10 years ago

partner with @jdigger

Outline (in progress)

tlberglund commented 10 years ago

@DOSUG/boardmembers Your thoughts? I would love two things:

So I'm pretty :+1: on this, but discussion is always open.

jdigger commented 10 years ago

As stated, this is still being developed, but in addition to what's there I'm thinking in terms of talking about the reasons for doing it (theory), and some basics of config management in Puppet. I'd like it to be more about configuring your workstation, with Boxen being a great concrete implementation of the practice.

tlberglund commented 10 years ago

@jdigger Sounds good to me. Despite being a Boxen user and occasional speaker, my Puppet is actually quite weak, so I'd benefit from moar Puppet stuff. I would be happy to bounce around some philosophy ideas with you, since I've heard from the original developers on what they were thinking on that point. (Knowing you, you may also have a line on that same info, but I'm just saying. :grinning:)

tlberglund commented 10 years ago

@ItGumby and @jdigger You guise ready for this in May?

jdigger commented 10 years ago

Sure, though the Meetup site shows Joe McTee speaking on Hadoop for May. Would June be better since it currently shows as being open?

danhillenbrand commented 10 years ago

@jdigger @ItGumby @tlberglund Jim, the site is wrong(!) Joe McTee actually did his talk in March, according to the schedule (I missed the meeting but I assume he did his talk then), and I failed to clear the May meeting. So I'll take his information down for May, and I'll put up a placeholder for you in it's place.

When you have a complete abstract, I'll update the site again.

Best of luck with the preparation!

Thanks--Dan Hillenbrand

jdigger commented 10 years ago

Abstract:

“Infrastructure as code” is accepted for our servers, but why don’t we apply it to our desktops? Boxen is a tool that enables not just automated installation of software, but also configuration of our desktops. Boxen puts the developer in control of their desktop (as if they weren’t anyway) but also scales across companies, teams, and even home vs work computers.

We will cover the basic ideas and tools involved, as well showing some of the things you can configure (hint: everything) for really pimping your machine and making upgrading your environment much faster and consistent WAAAY beyond dotfiles. We’ll also talk about our experiences in scaling this across the developers in our team.

tlberglund commented 10 years ago

@jdigger I declare this to be :basketball:er. Everybody else, you good?

Also, I vote we title it "Boxen: Config Beyond Dotfiles."

jdigger commented 10 years ago

I like the title suggestion. We should probably put something in either the title or abstract about it being really a tool for OS X since while theoretically it can also be used for other OSes, in reality...

ItGumby commented 10 years ago

I kind of want to lead people to want to migrate it to other platforms... a call to action, if possible

tlberglund commented 10 years ago

Boxen: OSX Config Beyond Dotfiles

danhillenbrand commented 10 years ago

@tlberglund @jdigger I've update the site, but not certain who @ItGumby is. Is this Brian Street?

ItGumby commented 10 years ago

yes, @ItGumby is Brian Street

danhillenbrand commented 10 years ago

Thanks, @ItGumby!