From purpleidea at gmail.com Tue Oct 24 00:15:34 2017 From: purpleidea at gmail.com (James) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:15:34 -0400 Subject: [mgmt] release: 0.0.13 Message-ID: <1508804134.27606.21.camel@gmail.com> I've just released version 0.0.13 of mgmt! I guess this is an appropriate number for a scary October release. We recently re-licensed to the more permissive GPL. I put a lot of thought into it, and also wrote up a short blog post about some of the reasoning. It's here: https://ttboj.wordpress.com/2017/10/17/copyleft-is-dead-long-live-copyl eft/ If you read to the end you'll also see that Red Hat is not funding my mgmt work anymore. This is too bad, and means I'll only have small amounts of personal time available to work on this. If you'd like to help fund my work, or know someone who'd like to, please let me know! Having said that, there's some great new stuff that landed since 0.0.12, including: * new resources from new contributor Jonathan Gold (aws, group, user) * an HCL frontend from new contributor Chris McKenzie * polish in a number of places including in the nspawn resource and so much more... If you'd prefer to have releases more often, then please let me know! Lastly, the language and a number of associated parts are on its way. I hope to push this monster patch to git master before February. It's also worth mentioning that we have 17 resources now! wow. NEWS 140 files changed, 3921 insertions(+), 848 deletions(-) * Many improvements to tests, testing and small fixes to avoid false- failures on travis. * golint now reports 0 issues. * An HCL frontend if you'd prefer that to the YAML. Also a great example of how to plug in a new frontend. * An update to golang 1.8 as the minimum version required. * Bump the etcd version to 3.2.6+ -- Looking forward to a 3.3 release which should probably include some patches we upstreamed. * Addition of new user and group resources. These also include a bunch of automatic edges. * Addition of an AWS resource! I've wanted this for a while, as it demonstrates nicely how event based cloud resources can fit nicely into our design. There's still a lot to do, and we have some suggestions for Amazon too. If you have a contact there, please put me in touch! * Our nspawn resource is more polished now. * See the git log for more NEWS, and for anything notable I left out! MISC We're still looking for new contributors, and there are easy, medium and hard issues available! You're also welcome to suggest your own! Please join us in #mgmtconfig on Freenode IRC, or ping this list if you'd like help getting started! MENTORING We offer mentoring for new golang/mgmt hackers who want to get involved. This is free and friendly. You get to improve your skills, and we get some patches in return. Ping me off-list for details. THANKS Thanks (alphabetically) to everyone who contributed to the latest release: AdnanLFC, Arthur Mello, ChrisMcKenzie, Dennis Kliban, Ismael Puerto, James Shubin, Jonathan Gold, Juan Luis de Sousa-Valadas Casta?o, Juan- Luis de Sousa-Valadas Casta?o (although I suspect the last two are the same ;)) We had 9 unique committers since 0.0.12, and have had 38 overall. Run 'git log 0.0.12..0.0.13' to see what has changed since 0.0.12 Happy hacking, James @purpleidea -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: From purpleidea at gmail.com Tue Oct 24 00:31:10 2017 From: purpleidea at gmail.com (James) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 20:31:10 -0400 Subject: [mgmt] announce: Upcoming Events Message-ID: <1508805070.27606.35.camel@gmail.com> Here's a list of upcoming mgmt related events 1) 03/Nov/2017 - Driving IT 2017, Copenhagen, Denmark https://universe.ida.dk/driving-it/speaker/next-generation-config-mgmt- reactive-systems/ I'll be giving a talk and will most likely demo a bunch of new features! Expect to see a bit of the language as well. Sign up today if you'd like to come. 2) 22/Nov/2017 - OSMC 2017, Nuremberg, Germany https://osmc.de/events/next-generation-config-mgmt-monitoring/ The folks at Netways put on some great events, and they've asked me to give a monitoring focused talk in Nuremberg. I'll try and demo some fresh material, and I'll be thinking heavily about monitoring. You'll want to get a ticket before they sell out! 3) 24/Nov/2017 - OSMC 2017 Hackathon, Nuremberg, Germany https://osmc.de/hackathon/ Two days after my talk at OSMC, they're hosting what will surely be an amazing hackathon! I'll be there to help you get your first patch merged, mentor you if you have any questions, listen to your design ideas, or just around if you want to chill. 4) 4/Feb/2018 - FOSDEM 2018, Brussels, Belgium https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2017-October/002608.html There will be a Config Management Devroom at this years FOSDEM. Please submit an mgmt related talk today! There are also a number of other devrooms which you might consider submitting to in case your topic is more relevant there. (Eg: a mgmt+nspawn talk in the container devroom.) The CFP closes soon! Please submit today. If you'd like me to review a draft of your proposal, please send it to me and I'll be happy to help. 5) 5-7/Feb/2018 - CfgMgmtCamp.eu, Gent, Belgium http://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ Right after FOSDEM, take a ~30min train ride to Gent and stay for the premier Config Management related event in the world. I hope to have a talk accepted (new things), and I hope you do too! On the last day of the conference, there is a "fringe" day where we'll be around to talk about mgmt, help you write patches, and discuss the future! Join us! The CFP closes soon! Please submit today. If you'd like me to review a draft of your proposal, please send it to me and I'll be happy to help. Happy Hacking, James @purpleidea -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 833 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: