FUNC-tional Systems Administration
Date: Monday, March 12th @ 7pm
func is the Fedora unified network controller. Written in python, func allows admins to remotely control their systems securely and without interactive shells. Anything you can do with a shell you can do with func.Func is crazy simple to install and configure, you should be up and running within 5 minutes. Func fills the gap between other provisioning systems, allowing you to make one off changes quickly or to query the current state of your machines interactively. You can make reports, quickly change firewall rules, install a new package on demand, anything you can imagine.
Your speakers for the evening:
Thomas Uphill ( http://ramblings.narrabilis.com/ ):
Thomas has been a System Administrator for 16 years. He currently works at the Institute for Advanced Study where he is one of the main contributors to the PUIAS Linux distribution. Thomas has several Red Hat Certifications and currently holds an RHCA. Thomas enjoys building packages, fixing spec files and maintaining repositories. He’s spent the last year migrating all his perl and bash scripts to python.
Ben Rose ( http://allmybase.com/ ):
Ben recently graduated from Stevens Institute of Technology with a degree in Computer Science. He is currently employed as a Network & Systems Administrator for the Computer Science department at Princeton University. He also contributes to the PUIAS Linux distribution and is responsible for ARM development and support. Ben is RHCE certified and spends his free time programming and helping to run several small web-startup sites.