Devops Drop 017

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$3m Wellington rail project behind schedule

http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/5606019/3m-Wellington-rail-project-behind-schedule

 KiwiRail said Project Sirius, a $3 million project to install an IBM asset management system, is six months behind schedule.

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LexisNexis Releases Code for Its Hadoop-Killer

http://www.devx.com/DailyNews/Article/47281?trk=DXRSS_LATEST 

LexisNexis Risk Solutions' division HPCC Systems has announced that it is open sourcing the code for its High Performance Computing Cluster (HPCC) software. HPCC is a data-processing-and-delivery solution that the company is marketing as an alternative to Hadoop. HPCC includes two major components: Thor, which analyzes large datasets in a manner similar to Hadoop, and Roxie, which is closer to a traditional RBDMS or a data warehouse.

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The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache Whirr as a Top-Level Project

https://blogs.apache.org/foundation/entry/the_apache_software_foundation_announces15 

Apache Whirr provides a Cloud-neutral way to run a properly-configured system quickly through libraries, common service API, smart defaults, and command line tool. Whirr is being used for proof of concepts and a way to try out new Cloud services utilizing a variety of Apache products that include Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra, and ZooKeeper. An example of this is enterprise software providers Cloudera, who use Whirr to make it easy to try out their CDH product and run distributed clustered services.

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Chef Hack Day - Seattle

Saturday, September 24, 2011 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (PT)

Seattle, WA

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Joyent arms cloud for death match with Amazon

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/15/the_new_joyent_cloud/ 

The pixar of cloud Jason Hoffman: Chief Scientist, Founder - PhD in Molecular Pathology

Mark Mayo: CTO... 

A month after open-sourcing what it calls "the first major hypervisor" to arrive in half a decade, cloud computing pioneer Joyent has added this hypervisor to its flagship service, allowing Linux and Windows applications onto the Joyent Cloud for the first time.

Joyent and its firebrand CTO told the world they had ported the KVM hypervisor from Linux to SmartOS. They promptly open-sourced the code in an effort to "make the world a better place", and now they've rolled the hypervisor into a new incarnation of the Joyent Cloud

The company claims that its SmartOS virtual machines are up to 14 times faster than comparable Amazon server instances

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Rundeck And Nagios Nrpe Checks

http://www.dzone.com/links/r/rundeck_and_nagios_nrpe_checks.html

I’ve played with a few different jobs so far, including triggering Puppet runs across machines triggered by a Jenkins plugin. I’ve also been looking at running all my monitoring tasks at the click of a button (or again as part of a smoke test triggered by Jenkins) and I thought that might make a nice simple example.

My checks are written as Nagios plugins, and run periodically by Nagios. I also trigger them manually, using Dean’s NRPE runner script.