[Cluster-devel] [Linux-HA] [RFC] Organizing HA Summit 2015

[Fabio M. Di Nitto <fdinitto@redhat.com>]

Hi Alan,

On 09/09/2014 03:11 PM, Alan Robertson wrote:
> Hi Fabio,
> 
> Do you know much about the Brno DevConf?

It would be my first visit to DevConf so not much really :)

> 
> I was wondering if the Assimilation Project might be interesting to the
> audience there.
>     http://assimilationsystems.com/
>     http://assimproj.org/
> 
> It's related to High Availability in that we monitor systems and
> services with zero configuration - we even use OCF RAs ;-).  Because of
> that, we could eventually intervene in systems - restarting services, or
> even migrating them.  That's not in current plans, but it is technically
> very possible.

I don't see why not. HA Summit != pacemaker ;)

Having a pool of presentations from other HA related project would be cool.

> 
> But it's so much more than that - and HUGELY scalable - 10K servers
> without breathing hard, and 100K servers without proxies, etc.  It also
> discovers systems, services, dependencies, switch connections, and lots
> of other things.  Basically everything is done with near-zero
> configuration.  We wind up with a graph database describing everything
> in great detail - and it's continually up to date.

sounds interesting. Would you be willing to join us for a presentation/demo?

> 
> I don't know if you know me, but I founded the Linux-HA project and led
> it for about 10 years.

Yeps, your name is very well known :)

Cheers
Fabio

> 
>     -- Alan Robertson
>         alanr at unix.sh
> 
> 
> On 09/08/2014 04:30 AM, Fabio M. Di Nitto wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> it's been almost 6 years since we had a face to face meeting for all
>> developers and vendors involved in Linux HA.
>>
>> I'd like to try and organize a new event and piggy-back with DevConf in
>> Brno [1].
>>
>> DevConf will start Friday the 6th of Feb 2015 in Red Hat Brno offices.
>>
>> My suggestion would be to have a 2 days dedicated HA summit the 4th and
>> the 5th of February.
>>
>> The goal for this meeting is to, beside to get to know each other and
>> all social aspect of those events, tune the directions of the various HA
>> projects and explore common areas of improvements.
>>
>> I am also very open to the idea of extending to 3 days, 1 one dedicated
>> to customers/users and 2 dedicated to developers, by starting the 3rd.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>
>> Fabio
>>
>> PS Please hit reply all or include me in CC just to make sure I'll see
>> an answer :)
>>
>> [1] http://devconf.cz/
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