Cloud Automation Using Terraform and Ansible

This month, we are hosted by Everbridge at their training center. Everbridge is also sponsoring food and drink.

ABSTRACT:

The software lifecycle does not end when the developer packages their code and makes it ready for deployment. The delivery of this code is an integral part of shipping a product. Infrastructure orchestration and resource configuration should follow a similar lifecycle (and process) to that of the software delivered on it. In this talk, we will discuss how to use Terraform and Ansible for automating your infrastructure and software delivery.

Terraform is an Infrastructure-as-Code tool for building, managing and versioning your infrastructure. It allows you to provision and orchestrate your resources effectively while ensuring that all your resources configured the way you defined in your code. We will see a practical example of deploying a complete AWS environment using Terraform.

Ansible is an automation tool that excels at configuration management and application deployment. We will use Ansible and AWX (the open source version of Ansible Tower) to configure our resources, deploy applications and perform patch management.

SPEAKER:

Rami Al-Ghanmi - Principal Software Engineer, Symantec Corporation

Rami is a virtual member of SGVLUG and the DevOps technical lead for Endpoint Protection Cloud products at Symantec Corporation where he works on building, deploying and managing security infrastructure and services on AWS. Also, he is an outspoken advocate of Open Source Software, tools and practices within Symantec.

DIRECTIONS:

The building is on Hudson Ave, between Colorado and Green St. The meeting room is off Hudson, next to the first floor gym with the classic glass walls and gym equipment. You are responsible for your own parking. The onsite parking is very expensive. Please check the Parkopedia link for your options or take public transit.

https://en.parkopedia.com/parking/locations/790_east_colorado_boulevard_pasadena_ca_united_states_9q5fpzcrguw/?country=us&arriving=201808091830&leaving=201808092130

TIMETABLE:

7:00pm - People start to arrive and socialize

7:30pm - SGVLUG meeting begins with announcements, Linux in the News, and then the presentation

9:00pm - End meeting, clean up, and then head over to Du-Par's (214 S Lake Ave, Pasadena) to socialize further.

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Working with Data in the Unix Shell

Join us for our monthly LUG meeting, featuring some very interesting shell data tools written by this month's speaker, Dima Kogan.

The UNIX shell is a useful environment to get work done. There're a number of standard, simple tools that talk to each other via a universal interface: the pipeline. This talk focuses on methods to manipulate and visualize data directly in the shell, without moving to specialized environments (numpy, matlab, etc). Specifically I will demonstrate and describe

  • feedgnuplot - a tool plot data coming in on STDIN
  • vnlog - a toolkit to read, write and manipulate columnar ASCII data

These are independent tools that are useful standalone, but with shell piping are EXTRA useful together and in conjunction with other standard UNIX tools. This unification of data processing and normal shell usage enable powerful workflows that are otherwise unavailable.

SPEAKER

Dima Kogan - Robotics Engineer, Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Dima is a long-time user and contributor to various Free Software projects. He lives in the shell inside Emacs on his Debian box, and is constantly looking for ways to save keystrokes. He plays with robotics tools during the day, and tries to give away as much of his work as possible.

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SGVLUG/SGVHAK BBQ #6

You and your friends and family are invited to the SGVLUG & SGVHAK potluck BBQ on Saturday, July 7th from 4pm to 9pm to Lan's house in the city of San Gabriel.

Details on the Google form. Please RSVP before July 5th: https://goo.gl/forms/LuFdd1zaAMfCsVJg1


OpenVPN, SSH Agents and VPNFilter vulnerability

Michael Starch will give an informal talk about OpenVPN, SSH agents, and the recent VPNFilter vulnerability in routers. You are welcome to share your own security tips.

Dinner begins around 7pm and the presentation will start after most people have received their food or 8pm, whichever comes first. Buying dinner is optional.

Bio

He's a red-headed baker,
a tinker, a maker,
an engineering fool
who can learn any tool.

He's a teacher who inspires
the next generation who aspires.

He'll be teaching us security to avoid the woes
of leaving our devices open to any foes.

He totally did not write this bio.

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JPL Open Source Rover

Eric Junkins, a Software Systems Engineer with the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will talk about the JPL Open Source Rover. SGVHAK is one of the beta build groups for this project, so we have lots to discuss and show off.

TOPIC

The JPL Open Source Rover is an open source robotics project aimed at STEM education at the high school level. The robot is designed to have the same mechanical suspension and steering mechanism that the Mars rovers employ. This project teaches many aspects that go into robotics, with aspects in mechanical and electrical design/engineering, and software development. At this point we have had a few beta test groups on our build instructions, and after refienment of those are quickly approaching the release date. Eric will be talking about the project, its' background, and is hoping to get feedback from some members who have had lots of experience in the Open Source realm.

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Raspberry Pi

Dr. Sam Coleman will share his experiences with the Raspberry Pi.

TOPIC

The raspberry pi computer has become one of the most versatile computer platforms in the world. However few people truly understand what can be done with this $35 single board computer. In this presentation I'll share with you a few of the projects that I have put together using this inexpensive ARM based computer. The presentation will conclude with a brief Q and A session.

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