[NCLUG] Tuesday August 14th, 2018 NCLUG Meeting

[jdewitt at verinet.com]

Hi NCLUGers,

UPDATE: 
Unfortunately, Aaron is not well today, and so we will have to postpone 
the Ceph storage cluster demo scheduled for tonight, Aug 14.
We plan to reschedule when Aaron is able, so please keep this topic in
mind.

Tonight:  Short topics.  
    And, Did you have any problem setting up for the Ceph demo?

Please feel free to bring your hardware and questions you had preparing 
for the Ceph demo.  If there is interest, we can have a short "Ceph
install fest,"
and perhaps solve some general installation problems.  Also, we can 
collect questions to ask Aaron or the group offline.

As always, if we run out of topics, we will break for food.

Thanks, and see you there!
James

On Sat, 11 Aug 2018 12:13:51 -0600, <jdewitt at verinet.com> wrote:
> What: Tuesday August 14th, 2018 NCLUG Meeting
> When: Tuesday August 14th, 2018, 6pm
> Where: Fort Collins Creator Hub,
>   1304 Duff Dr Unit 15, Fort Collins, CO; map:
>  
>
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1304+Duff+Dr+Unit+15%2C+Fort+Collins%2C+CO%2C+us
> 
> Please join us Tuesday at the Collins Creator Hub, 
> 1304 Duff Dr Unit 15, Fort Collins, CO 80524.
> 
> Topic:  
>     Come and build a storage cluster with Ceph!
> 
>     Ceph (https://www.ceph.com/) is a highly available clustered storage
>     platform.  It keeps your data safe and scales to very very large
size.
>     We'll be building a cluster, adding lots of hard drives to it,
putting
>     some data in it, and seeing what happens when hardware fails.
> 
>     Want to participate?
>       No)
>         That's OK.  Come and heckle.
>       Yes)
>         Awesome!  We have several participation options:
>         * Bring a SATA (3.5 inch and SATA2, preferably) or USB hard
drive
>           and we can use it to store bits.  (The contents of this drive
> will
>           be wiped, so please don't bring your only copy of priceless
> family
>           photos to the event.)
>         * Bring a whole PC!  We can make your system part of the
cluster.
>           (Ideally this will be running a recent 64-bit x86 Linux OS.
>           And have at least one totally free drive to use for holding
> data.
>           1000baseT Ethernet preferred, but we can handle WiFi only
> systems.
>           If you're able to get the Ceph Luminous packages from ceph.com
>           installed, that's even better.  No need to turn them on or
> configure
>           them yet.)
>         * Bring a client system!  There are several client options:
>           - An Amazon S3-like interface
>           - A block device interface, it looks like a disk (4.9.x or
newer
>             kernel preferred)
>           - A filesystem interface. (4.9.x or newer kernel preferred)
> 
>     Have a look at https://frankencluster.alltheshortonesweretaken.org/
>     for a little more info.
> 
>     +++
>     ATH0
> 
> If you have a Linux related topic, short or long, that you would like to
> present in a future meeting, please let us know.
> 
> Following the meeting, please join us for food.
> 
> Space for the meetings is generously provided by The Fort Collins
> Creator Hub. Thanks, FCCH! 
> 
> For more information about FCCH, please visit:
> http://www.fortcollinscreatorhub.org/
> http://www.meetup.com/Fort-Collins-Creator-Hub/
> 
> See you there!