Topic:Coronavirus and TriLUG
Presenter: COVID-19
When: NOW
Where: HERE
Parking: Way over there
Map: Google Maps will get you close, but use the NCSU College of Textiles link for proper directions to building
Video:
Speaker notes
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/267708988/

Summary

  As you have noticed, things have been getting interesting due to the COVID-19. 

To name a few since I type slowly,

• UNC in Chapel Hill has prohibited gatherings with more than 50 people. Regardless of the wording, it has been interpreted by many as faculty, staff, or student are not to be somewhere with more than that magic number.
• NCSU has a similar rule but with its limit raised to 100 people.
• The governor of NC ordered the IEEE SoutheastCon 2020 closed yesterday. I do not know what the few speakers and participants who have flown to Raleigh will do until they are scheduled to fly back.
• Classes have been cancelled, Spring Break "extended", and online classes replacing physical ones planned.
• Our own March meeting at the School of Textile was cancelled, with emails sent about the cancellation from both the mailing list and meetup with a link for a virtual meeting instead.

So, how does that affect the TriLUG? Well. let's avoid using weasel words:

All of our live events are cancelled until further notice.

That includes at the very least the planned Kubernetes class in the end of the month and next month's meeting. Hopefully by then the weather would have warmed enough so the virus' grasp will have subsided. Of course the mailing list and irc channel will still be available; they are susceptible to other kinds of infection.

Be prepared for other conferences and events to be cancelled.

I am not going to do the standard "we will be judiciously monitoring the statues of the coronavirus" message since you can keep track of it on your own as well as we do. With that said, if you have questions do ask us. Worse case scenario is we will say we do not know the answer.

And stock on food and water, for you can only eat so much toilet paper.

Bio

COVID-19 a.k.a. the corona virus is not related to a Mexican beer of similar name.

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Topic: iRODS Executive Overview and Demo
Presenter: Terrell Russell, Chief Technologist, iRODS Consortium
When: Thursday, 12 March 2020 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: NCSU College of Textiles, 1020 Main Campus Dr., Room 2207
Parking: Underground parking deck immediately adjacent to the building (see map)
Map: Google Maps will get you close, but use the NCSU College of Textiles link for proper directions to building
Video:
Speaker notes
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/267708964/

Summary

The Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System (iRODS) is open source data management software used by research, commercial, and governmental organizations worldwide. It is a C++ client/server application that provides a programmatic surface to an organization's infrastructure. The plugin architecture supports microservices, storage systems, authentication, networking, databases, rule engines, and an extensible API. iRODS has been deployed in thousands of locations worldwide, across industries as diverse as oil and gas, life sciences, physical sciences, archives and records management, and media and entertainment. This talk will provide an overview of the technology, some use cases, a live demo, and time for Q&A.

https://github.com/irods/irods_demo

Bio

Terrell Russell works at the iRODS Consortium at the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) at UNC-Chapel Hill. He oversees the iRODS development team and handles code review, package management, documentation, and high level architecture design. He's interested in distributed systems, metadata, security, and open source software that accelerates science.

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Topic: My Home(lab) away from home: An update to my personal infrastructure
Presenter: Jeff Moore
When: Thursday, 13 February 2020 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: NCSU College of Textiles, 1020 Main Campus Dr., Room 2207
Parking: Underground parking deck immediately adjacent to the building (see map)
Map: Google Maps will get you close, but use the NCSU College of Textiles link for proper directions to building
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE5dCXNjiK0i
Speaker notes PDF
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/267708955/

Summary

Homelabs Homelabs. Who has one? Who doesn't? Jeff Moore will discuss how his use case for a "home"lab has transformed over time and how he manages its necessary components today using Terraform, Ansible, Identity Management, and Elastic Stack. The different ways tasks are automated and the use cases they satisfy will be a heavy focus of this talk.

Bio

Jeff Moore is a Systems Engineer at Bandwidth with a focus on AWS, Kubernetes, and the Elastic stack. He has been an avid Linux user for over half a decade, choosing to focus on the Red Hat family of operating systems.

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Topic: Misuing Docker for Fun
Presenter: Mauricio Tavares
When: Thursday, 09 January 2020 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: NCSU College of Textiles, 1020 Main Campus Dr., Room 2207
Parking: Underground parking deck immediately adjacent to the building (see map)
Map: Google Maps will get you close, but use the NCSU College of Textiles link for proper directions to building
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CihB6siIMow
Speaker notes
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/267708930/

Summary

First of all, we will be announcing the some Trilug News. Be there or be square!

About the talk, people use docker -- by itself, in a swarm, or behind kubernetes -- to do software as a service or something like that. But, is that all it can do? Can we use it for other applications when we are too lazy to build a full virtual machine or baremetal server? And, why should we do that?

Bio

According to Gag Halfrunt, Mauricio "iz just zis guy, you know?"

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Topic: A Special December Gathering
Presenter: YOU!
When: Thursday, 12 December 2019 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: NCSU College of Textiles, 1020 Main Campus Dr., Room 2207
Parking: Underground parking deck immediately adjacent to the building (see map)
Map: Google Maps will get you close, but use the NCSU College of Textiles link for proper directions to building
Video:
Speaker notes
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/mnstrqyzqbqb/

Summary

Each year, TriLUG holds a special, unusual meeting.

Once again, we are planning on our traditional Science Fair. Come one, come all, and show off your latest toys!

As well, we would like a few suggestions for what we might serve. Should we go with our "traditional" pizza, or something else? How about a Pot Luck?

We hope to see you all on the 12th.

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Topic: Continuous Delivery of Kubernetes Resources at Scale
Presenter: Adam King
When: Thursday, 14 November 2019 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: NCSU College of Textiles, 1020 Main Campus Dr., Room 2207
Parking: Underground parking deck immediately adjacent to the building (see map)
Map: Google Maps will get you close, but use the NCSU College of Textiles link for proper directions to building
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HsBG-f_a_Qi
Speaker notes
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/mnstrqyzpbsb/

Summary

Razee.io is a collection of open source Kubernetes operators that allow us to deliver the dozens of workloads across the thousands of clusters that comprise the IBM Kubernetes Service (IKS). I'll describe the stages of continuous delivery evolution that lead us to create and publish these tools. I'll demonstrate how you can use razee.io to deliver workloads to your favorite Kubernetes cloud.

Bio

Adam King is an IBM Kubernetes Service engineer currently focused on delivering Kubernetes resources at scale. He has been developing software for over 25 years, and with IKS for a little over two years

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Topic: Interfacing Bluetooth devices with Linux in Python
Presenter: Warren J. Jasper PhD, PE
When: Thursday, 10 October 2019 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: NCSU College of Textiles, 1020 Main Campus Dr., Room 2207
Parking: Underground parking deck immediately adjacent to the building (see map)
Map: Google Maps will get you close, but use the NCSU College of Textiles link for proper directions to building
Video: This Presentation will not be recorded
Speaker notes
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/mnstrqyznbnb/

Summary

I recently wrote a "driver" to interface my Raspberry Pi to a bluetooth data acquisition board in Python. There are some interesting subtleties in talking to a device in Python that may be of interest to the beginner as well as the intermediate Linux user. This talk will cover some of the basics of how Bluetooth is implemented in Linux with Python.

Bio

Dr. Jasper has been interested in real-time data acquisition and control since his undergraduate days when he measured the variation the earth's gravity due to the tides. Although he has worked in the aerospace industry designing spacecraft altitude and control systems, he currently designs data acquisition and control systems for textile processes. His research interests include measurement and control of dyeing, plasma textiles for nanoparticle filtration, and writing Linux device drivers which can be found at https://github.com/wjasper/Linux_Drivers. In 2014 he was the recipient of a Fulbright grant in engineering education to promote study abroad for undergraduate textile engineers.

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Topic: Observability Through the Lenses of Metrics and Events
Presenter: Jack Neely and Breandan Dezendorf
When: Thursday, 12 September 2019 - 6:45pm to 9:00pm
Where: NCSU College of Textiles, 1020 Main Campus Dr., Room 2207
Parking: Underground parking deck immediately adjacent to the building (see map)
Map: Google Maps will get you close, but use the NCSU College of Textiles link for proper directions to building
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_TFuPPlyxc
Speaker notes
Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/trilug/events/mnstrqyzmbqb/

Summary

What are logs? What are metrics? A look into the challenges you face when building log aggregation pipelines, and how to build an operable and efficient pipeline at any scale. Also a collection of best practices for using metrics for health and alerting and optimizing both metrics and logs for successful observability.

Bio

Jack, a Senior Operations Engineer at 42Lines, has just shy of 20 years experience in Linux/UNIX system administration leading into the DevOps practices currently in use today. He's architected backend, scalable systems for universities with more than 100,000 users and companies with millions of users worldwide. The last several years he has focused on building and deploying telemetry based monitoring, alerting, and analysis tools such as Prometheus, Thanos, Grafana, and Graphite. Turns out that metrics can be quite powerful when used with best practices. Jack has always enjoyed math and has found his passion in working with time series data, statistical analysis, and in training others to get the best use of their metric data.

Breandan has been working in UNIX and Linux operations for almost 20 years. As a Senior Operations Engineer at 42Lines, he currently focuses on distributed systems and log aggregation at scale, building aggregation pipelines that handle hundreds of terabytes of log data a day. He has spent considerable time working for academic institutions and traveling internationally.

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