SaltStack Netherlands

Come and network, learn, engage and hear talks on SaltStack best practice from SaltStack and Risk Focus. Presenters on the night will be from SaltStack, Risk Focus and Snow BV. Bios and abstracts below!

Gareth Greenaway; SaltStack HQ engineer and developer. Gareth is a software developer on the open source core team at SaltStack. Prior to joining SaltStack, Gareth was a community contributor to the open source project for 3 years. Some particular areas of interest within the SaltStack project include Salt Beacons, Engines and the Salt scheduler. Gareth lives in the United States in Southern California with his wife, where they are owned by several pets.

The Salt project is already very powerful Python based DevOps platform that ships with almost 500 remote execution modules and just over 300 state modules, it has the means and the ability to support many different systems and environments, but that doesn’t mean that they all suit your needs perfectly. By extending Salt with your own modules or building enhancements into existing ones, you can bring the functionality that you need to increase your productivity. In this talk, we’ll look how easy it is to write a new remote execution module and then look at how we can use our remote execution module. Finally we’ll take a look at how to extend some of other subsystems of Salt such as engines and beacons.

Oded Nahum; Risk Focus EMEA. Oded is Head of DevOps and NetOps Solutions at Risk Focus EMEA. Oded brings 20 year experience in full stack architecture and open source technologies, Prior to joining Risk Focus, Oded was Director of System Engineering at Cloudify where we was responsible for delivering Solutions architecture and integration for some of the largest Telecoms and Enterprise focusing mainly on Orchestration and Automation Platforms.

Mattijs Vreeling; Snow BV Unix Engineer. Mattijs has been with Snow BV for over 12 years, the last 4 of which using SaltStack to make his life easier wherever possible. Whenever he's not building things for work, or coding Python and Go in his free time in the Netherlands, he's probably wandering around Europe with his girlfriend or visiting her family in Louisiana.

Abstract - While knowing where you're going is preferable to being lost, with all the state modules available, there are often quite a few ways to get to where you need to be. Sometimes you find yourself doing things in ways they probably weren't meant to be done. We will have a look at what lead up to the writing of a custom state module, and the trail it's been leaving behind.