From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 14 03:13:36 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 55EBB570 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 03:13:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ie0-x22a.google.com (mail-ie0-x22a.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c03::22a]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1EB80883 for ; Wed, 14 Jan 2015 03:13:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f170.google.com with SMTP id rd18so6653520iec.1 for ; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:13:35 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=webassign.net; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=wXZnyiCYtQoVwPom6uP8HehNwGtDnN/S84dad31RQKI=; b=Ozw7IE4yJShlBG/y+NmiokASsliXuP0JLF8vDDIiDBk7JQRAOn+4eAbMdbqZze0QYa J3q8+v0aDwjTTeI3RFU8SSLdRVa1vtXrukn28hfa4meK/M0V0FZ0x4x7LRKzVZKJOVrg T1vfa6eEmKSe2WKYmSSbZZpMma/DyWXItUePE= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc:content-type; bh=wXZnyiCYtQoVwPom6uP8HehNwGtDnN/S84dad31RQKI=; b=YpBhjxVUJcr283RQqj5BYqGRiP+Cg2xLkMtTKlFsp+GuFM0gPMqZVzsRNJd/fclVap 5/PTbVk4pVs5Yy08S0Rsb5QKNlAoPk2jnKtcmiTMzRE2omlxpi67wQkOxEqmOFe5Vvkm JyDAMh0P2sZANdJS1ryfi2VKmngJifINSosHX33kDAePgUDv2qiC67XUgaTLBtQBI9dy HBMW34YQm0Z9RydXHd4MIbrN9h+4y5iUIzJ0k+vQJd9SJWGTitB+dD0ppAKzEsxKv+se VZgKXAa6Y+qg0JB/k9/vw4P25Z4Wu03tEY/fhxZ+4NjnjVJ39jC6G/FcKx4NmEvwOWeC 1Vvw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQl80QLxQ9id16FzdvOA1EfPmBjKxJ7XKZ9xe4Zcw8ZcJPTBou5ZOsIvnD/Jzjrko73iM6mq X-Received: by 10.107.19.88 with SMTP id b85mr1849381ioj.66.1421205214793; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:13:34 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.64.106.102 with HTTP; Tue, 13 Jan 2015 19:13:14 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20150114023330.GA80986@FreeBSD.org> From: Hunter Satterwhite Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 22:13:14 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: projects to better support FreeBSD sysadmins To: Craig Rodrigues Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Deb Goodkin X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 03:13:36 -0000 Craig, Could you elaborate on these "problems"? Our data center is ~400 nodes and 99% FreeBSD. We've used CFengine, we're implementing Puppet (and its going great!), we use Ansible, and we also use languages such as Python, Ruby, and Google's Go. Oh and not to mention we have a RESTful application running on FreeBSD + node.js + MongoBD/MySQL. I think the project's focus is fine. Year after year we're given a complete, enterprise Unix operating system and it's only getting better. Best, Hunter On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 9:45 PM, Craig Rodrigues wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 02:14:24PM -0900, Royce Williams wrote: > > But the overall project list needed to be rebalanced towards system > > administration. I request that the Foundation consider this when > > calling for proposals for the next round of funded projects. > > Royce, > > I agree with what you wrote, but I want to add to it. > > I would like there to be a focus on making FreeBSD more "devops-friendly" > so that the current generation of devops engineers can pick it up > and easily deploy it in large cluster and cloud environments. We need > to move beyond the 1990's era view of Unix administration where we only > have a few Unix servers administered by hand by a few sysadmins. > > Today's datacenter has hundreds or thousands of nodes. These nodes > need to be installed, maintained, and upgraded. These nodes are more and > more > maintained by devops teams who use automation frameworks (Puppet, Chef, > Ansible, > Saltstack, CFEngine, etc.) to accomplish these tasks. devops teams will > write C and shell script > if they have to, but are very pragmatic about using newer scripting > languages like Python, Ruby, etc. > if it is necessary to get the job done. > > What is FreeBSD doing to be more devops friendly? > How can we make FreeBSD friendlier to people who are trying to deploy > hundreds and thousands of > FreeBSD nodes, especially in datacenter and cloud environments? > > I would like to see the project and Foundation focus on these types of > problems. > > -- > Craig > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > " > -- Hunter Satterwhite Systems Engineer, Technical Operations (TechOps)