Tuesday December 12th, 2023 NCLUG Meeting

[Bob Proulx]

j dewitt wrote:
> What: Tuesday December 12th, 2023 NCLUG Meeting

Alex gave a shout out to the NOCO Hackers group which is running a
Capture The Flag competition right now.  There are only a few people
who are working the challenges and Alex is throwing down the gauntlet
that he would like to battle it out!  Check it out!

    https://nocohackers.github.io/

Aaron talked about how he does infrastructure management using Salt
and other tools.

    https://saltproject.io/

We had a small disagreement about whether YAML and JSON are either
officially subsets of each other or equivalent or what.  YAML can
parse JSON now?!  Who knew?  Salt configuration are YAML files.  YAML
Ain't Markup Language.  It's declarative.  Say the state that you want
systems to result in and then Salt makes it so.  The concept here is
that you don't admin a 10,000 single machines instead you administer
one collection of many machines.  It's the collection which is
configured.  Then individual hosts are just grains of sand in the salt
collective.  Salt Shaker?

Aaron's discussion of infrastructure configuration with Salt was the
main topic of the night.  After that we adjourned.