BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//pretalx//cfp.loadays.org// BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Brussels BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20001029T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20000326T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-GT8NS7@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T105000 DESCRIPTION:An overview of the Linux curriculum in the "professional bachel or applied information theory" at University College Ghent DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Linux curriculum at HOGENT - Bert Van Vreckem URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/GT8NS7/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-TH8CFY@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T115000 DESCRIPTION:InSpec is an open-source testing framework created by Chef that enables you to specify compliance\, security\, and other policy requireme nts.\nHowever\, the usage is not limited to compliance checking only as yo u can also use it to validate systems.\nAnd\, as InSpec is code which is v ery readable and easy to implement it can be used in a lot of different ca ses.\nFor a DevOps engineer it is a must have to tool which can be used to gether with Chef\, Puppet or Ansible.\nWe will go over the language\, use cases along with short demo’s.\n\nThe workshop can be retrieved from htt ps://github.com/gdha/inspec-workshop DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:What did you InSpec? - Gratien D'haese URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/TH8CFY/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-TFRG8G@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T115000 DESCRIPTION:An opinionated talk on maintainable\, testable and readable she ll scripts. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:Clean Bash - Leveling up your shell scripting skills - Bert Van Vre ckem URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/TFRG8G/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-8FUM8T@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T125000 DESCRIPTION:Sudo is installed by default on almost all Linux system\, still even system administrators often only know it is the “prefix” to use before entering a command requiring root privileges. Learn how much more t his simple looking tool can do! DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:What you most likely did not know about sudo… - Peter Czanik URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/8FUM8T/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-MHC3BE@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T125000 DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I'll discuss `systemd-nspawn` and `machinectl`\, two tools in the `systemd` suite for container management. We'll discuss the tools themselves\, the differences between them and other container so lutions and how to manage systems that use these containers. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Running containers and Operating System images with systemd-nspawn - Pieter Lexis URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/MHC3BE/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-BJP9KR@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T145000 DESCRIPTION:Discovering (or rediscovering) ssh tips and tricks we can use w ith (and without) Ansible DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:(Re)discovering the ssh tips for Ansible (CentOS infra use case) - Fabian Arrotin URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/BJP9KR/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-SSUFZP@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T145000 DESCRIPTION:A fun deep dive into the world of designing electronics intende d to encourage you to look beyond the end of your (software) nose DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:How I accidentally became an electronics engineer (actually I didn' t) - Pieter Hollants URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/SSUFZP/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-VGS9YL@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T155000 DESCRIPTION:how to configure Low Level Discovery in zabbix for JMX and wha t is new or coming in 4.2 DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:IT Consultant / Zabbix Trainer - Patrik Uytterhoeven URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/VGS9YL/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-9XX37L@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T155000 DESCRIPTION:Some bits about the Ansible Molecule project and how to use it. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:molecule test ansible - Fabrice @themr0c Flore-Thébault URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/9XX37L/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-YCCEB3@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T165000 DESCRIPTION:We will discuss how we implement Zabbix Low-Level Discovery dir ectly from a C module and how the same C module is used to provide up-to-d ate information to Zabbix items. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Zabbix loadable C modules and Low-Level Discovery (LLD) - Jan-Piet Mens URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/YCCEB3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-GWEDAS@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T165000 DESCRIPTION:Ansible is often used in a develop\, accept and production envi ronment\, but there are no general use cases available.\n\nThis presentati on shows how we solved the `dev`\, `acc` and `prod` environment issues wit hin a clients setup and how this can aid you in solving similar problems. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:Ansible in a real world situation. The One Role to Rule Them All!! - Ton Kersten URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/GWEDAS/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-9LVCKD@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T175000 DESCRIPTION:Ansible agentless nature and semplicity are definitely two of t he aspects that determined its incredible success as configuration managem ent and automation tool.\nHowever - despite being very powerful - agentles s automation has some limitations when managing complex distributed infras tructures.\nIn this talk we will deep dive into Ansible configuration and execution model to discuss some workarounds to effectively implement Ansib le as configuration management tool at scale without compromising performa nces and/or the readability of the code. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:Scaling Ansible - Andrea Tosatto URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/9LVCKD/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-9LFBP3@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T175000 DESCRIPTION:@arrfab suggested this on Twitter DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Ignite Karaoke - Kris Buytaert URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/9LFBP3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-CWEDZJ@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T171500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T172000 DESCRIPTION:It's not a coincidence if your shoe strings loosen all the time . If something that works for others but not for you\, you're probably not doing it right. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Tying shoe laces - Tim Speetjens URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/CWEDZJ/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-YE8TTQ@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T173000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T173500 DESCRIPTION:A brief rundown of what not to use puppet for and how to use it anyway. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:What not to puppetize and how to do it anyway - Bart Janssens URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/YE8TTQ/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-ZQXSAG@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T173500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T174000 DESCRIPTION:In order to optimize your continous delivery pipelines\, and to make sure your delivery actually is continuous\, it can be useful to coll ect some metrics about your pipelines. This talk is an introduction to jen kins_exporter\, which can be employed in order to use Prometheus for this purpose. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Using Prometheus to monitor your deployment pipelines - Lander Van den Bulcke URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/ZQXSAG/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-XUKLKX@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190504T210000 DESCRIPTION:Have your own pizza build on demand.\nPizza and Beer ..\nMore P izza..\nChat with speakers and attendees ... \nMore Pizzaa .. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Pizza Party - Everybody URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/XUKLKX/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-RXVVYW@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T105000 DESCRIPTION:A story on success\, impostor syndrome and self-inflicted\, per petually non-existent comfort zone.\n\nDo you recognize the fear of being exposed as a fraud? I do. And I’ve had success because of the syndrome. I’ve learned to harness it\, figuring out how to come to terms with it a nd use it for good. I now live in a self-inflicted\, perpetually non-exist ing comfort zone\, and I want you to\, too! DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Come listen to me\, I’m a fraud\; a story on impostor syndrome - Joep Piscaer URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/RXVVYW/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-YBSKZA@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T105000 DESCRIPTION:Why does centos.org infra use both Bind\, Unbound\, PowerDNS an d Dnsmasq ? let's find out ! DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:OSS diversity is good (aka why we run various DNS servers flavors i n CentOS.org infra) - Fabian Arrotin URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/YBSKZA/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-RDVLUD@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T115000 DESCRIPTION:"Only accept features that scale" is one of Elasticsearch's eng ineering principles. So how do we scale metrics stored in Elasticsearch? A nd is that even possible on a full-text search engine? DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Scale Your Metrics with Elasticsearch - Philipp Krenn URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/RDVLUD/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-EPUH7J@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T115000 DESCRIPTION:This talk walks the audience through a green fields exercise th at sets up service discovery using Consul\, infrastructure as code using t erraform\, using images build with packer and configured using puppet. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:Bootstrap your Cloud Infrastructure using puppet and HashiCorp stac k - Bram Vogelaar URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/EPUH7J/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-BT8PAW@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T125000 DESCRIPTION:There are a multitude of ways to let Prometheus know about the systems you want it to monitor. This talk will introduce a number of ways you can leverage service discovery to let it generate the configuration fo r you. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:Leveraging Prometheus service discovery - Lander Van den Bulcke URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/BT8PAW/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-8LJVEM@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T120000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T125000 DESCRIPTION:An introduction to Podman and Buildah DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Containers on RHEL 8 - Christopher Peeters URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/8LJVEM/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-STRQAS@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T145000 DESCRIPTION:Enterprise systems are as secure as their resilience to system glitches and human error. Even external attacks do not succeed so much due to the superiority or ingenuity of the attacker\, rather than due to the inherent imperfections of our systems. Deployment of distributed technolog ies like Kubernetes in organizations fall short with respect to security. A pragmatic methodology is required\, whereby chaos engineering principles are extended to security. In this session we will be discussing about pat terns\, best practices on how to continuously approach defense from inhere nt security flaws in software. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:Chaos security engineering in Kubernetes - Evis Barbullushi URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/STRQAS/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-SZKHT9@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T145000 DESCRIPTION:MySQL is a very popular open source database and for many years now\, devops world encouraged DBAs to use system management system like p uppet\, chef\, ansible to take care of the installation and configuration of their favorite database. This was brilliant ! However all the implement ations are not optimal and mostly because there was no easy way to do diff erently. Since MySQL 8.0\, with the help of the MySQL X admin API (and oth er improvements)\, it's now much easier and safer to manage MySQL via a co nfiguration management system. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:How to write efficient and correct MySQL recipes for you configurat ion management system in 2019 - lefred URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/SZKHT9/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-PLVANX@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T155000 DESCRIPTION:OpenShift\, the container platform by Red Hat\, offers Platform as a Service capabilities on top of Kubernetes.\nIn this presentation we will explore multiple ways to get from source to a deployable container. O nce built\, the story continues with having it deployed in multiple enviro nments. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:CI/CD with OpenShift - Tim Speetjens URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/PLVANX/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-NWYKLV@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T155000 DESCRIPTION:High Availability is essential for business-critical applicatio ns. What options exist in the community and why should I choose one or the other? DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:Open Source databases and HA - Dimitri Vanoverbeke URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/NWYKLV/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-G97X3X@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T165000 DESCRIPTION:An implementation of an immutable infrastructure using packer.i o\, terraform and ansible. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:Look mom without containers! - Matteo Valentini URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/G97X3X/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-RCKHSM@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T165000 DESCRIPTION:In this session we discuss why Scality decided to use Kubernete s as the platform underlying its on-premise storage and data-management so lutions\, why we started the open-source [MetalK8s](https://github.com/sca lity/metalk8s) project\, the lessons we learned from the first iteration\, and most importantly what's coming in the next major version. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:MetalK8s: An opinionated Kubernetes distribution with a focus on lo ng-term on-prem deployments - Nicolas Trangez URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/RCKHSM/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-BAQXTL@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T175000 DESCRIPTION:Tesla Hacking experiments evolved into the FreedomEV OpenSource project. Where are we at\, what are the challenges and what's new? DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room A SUMMARY:From Tesla Hacking to the FreedomEV Project - Jasper Nuyens URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/BAQXTL/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:pretalx-2019-YMXZRK@cfp.loadays.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20190505T175000 DESCRIPTION:In this session the speaker will help you in taking your first steps towards running your own mainframe on your own laptop. For fun. Or p rofit. DTSTAMP:20260720T003904Z LOCATION:Room B SUMMARY:Running a mainframe on your laptop (for fun and profit) - Jeroen Ba ten URL:https://cfp.loadays.org/2019/talk/YMXZRK/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR