Version Control & Synchronization, Tricks & Traps
Leeland Artra
Topic: Systems Management
Audience: All audiences
Description:
Source code control systems would seem to be a natural tool for systems administration. Yet, most SAs don't use any kind of source code control. After years of not using it myself I started using CVS (Concurrent Versioning System) which is based on the old BSD RCS source code control system. CVS has many unique and key features. There are others (BitKeeper for one) but I keep coming back to CVS.
In the distant past I slapped together a well met short introduction talk to CVS. I dusted that talk off and gave it a poor revamping in less then an hour creating a truly bad talk. But, later Jeremy Mates gave another good talk on CVS. These talks have been requested enough and seem very appropriate for the current "focused series on systems administration" we are doing. So I am dusting off my original (not too bad), the emergency rewrite (pretty poor as it was slapped together in an hour), Jeremy's presentation and adding in all the requested "advanced topics" items to create a new presentation on CVS uses for Systems Administration (and other cool tricks). This will only breifly introduce CVS before moving into examples and HOWTO topics. I have been doing some real (as in actually setting up new repositories and trying things out) research into uses and abuses of CVS.
This presentation will include a brief introduction (it is not a complex tool) to a very good directory synchronization tool that works cross platform, on the same system and remotely through SSH (without requiring root access). This useful little tool is call "unison".
Plus detailed descriptions on how to tie everything together using only SSH and user level access... mmmm and security too...
Prerequisites:
none
History:
Given to Seattle SAGE local Group and at national USENIX conferences
Posted: Oct 4, 2006 12:39:13 PM; Last change: Oct 4, 2006 12:43:35 PM
The Speaker: Leeland Artra
Contact Organization: Nintendo of America
Location: Seattle, Washington
Phone: (206)380-2036
Email: lartra@GreyDragon.COM
Will travel: Anywhere
Payment required: All offers
Bio:
Leeland is a regularly invited speaker for SANS, SAGE and USENIX on database administration and security topics, systems & network security, hacking, programming for SAs, Java programming, version control systems and systems administration. He has personally designed and implemented a number of new computer technologies. Currently Leeland's efforts are on creating a new technologies to store, access, mine, and analyze information to improve Nintendo of America's operations and services. Leeland Artra started and sold a DNS and web hosting provider company that had grown to over 5000 clients. In the late 1990s he was the Director of Computer Systems Technology for the Cell System Initiative (CSI) at the University of Washington. CSI was a combined biological research program and information systems research & development program focused on bringing the power and technologies available in today's computer industry to the biology research laboratory environment. The primary goal of the information systems research component of CSI is to develop an optimal computing environment for collaborating, distributed groups of biologists. Prior to that Leeland was the Senior Researcher for the Cellworks Project at the University of Washington (CWP). The CWP had nearly the same goals as CSI and at CWP Leeland was the inventor of numerous database Java technologies. One of which was the Moulage System, which was highly recognized as an important research step in data mining and sharing. The Moulage System was nominated by Oracle for the Computer World Smithsonian 1998 award and became one of the finalists for that award. Prior to that Leeland designed and built the data center for the ITER project. Leeland was also named an Oracle Futures Development Partner for Oracle version 8.
Posted: Oct 4, 2006 03:32:49 PM; Last change: Oct 4, 2006 03:32:57 PM
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