What is PuppetHackDay Delhi?

Puppet HackDay Delhi is a fun, interactive, collaborative AND competitive event centered around systems automation, spotlighting Puppet.  Puppet is the model-based configuration and systems management tool that's exciting sys admins and Ruby enthusiasts everywhere. We're also keen to mix it up with practitioners of cfengine, chef, etc.

Schedule:

10:00 AM: Coffee!

10:30 AM:"The Business Case for Puppet" by Jonathan Boutelle, CTO of SlideShare

10:45 AM: "How Puppet Can Change Your Life" by Julie Tsai, Operations Lead for SlideShare

11 AM: "Puppet: A Model-Driven Infrastructure" by Luke Kanies, CEO / founder of Reductive Labs, and Inventor of Puppet.

12PM: Lunch!

12PM -2 PM: Interactive Exercise in creating a simple puppet script (bring a laptop, we will provide servers and guidance)

2PM-6PM: Competition!  Use what you have learned in the interactive exercise to script something really cool with Puppet. If you want you can also use alternate system automation tools like CFEngine or Chef.

6:30 PM: Judging of the competition. Winners get an IPod Touch!

Why You Should Come To This:

You've been building a lot of web app servers by hand over and over, thinking 'There has to be a better way….'

Or, you've been wrangling with an infrastructure with 3 different OS's, multiple competing business units who all want you to  build machines their way, yet scale twice as fast with fewer sysadmins….

Or, you've just been needing to secure your systems in spec any way you can, challenged by a diverse ecology of users and jobs that will always be growing more complex….

The day's goals are:

•  to give newcomers the opportunity to learn Puppet in a collaborative environment (with a two-hour guided exercise on EC2 machines that we will provide)
•  to apply that knowledge in a 4-hour competition immediately following the exercise using Puppet
• develop the community of like-minded operations professionals focused on furthering the promise of systems automation - and the profession

This event is open to anyone who is comfortable with Linux/Unix and want to take their skills to the next level.

When

Saturday, 13th March 2010

Where

SlideShare New Delhi office (221, First Floor,, Okhla Phase III,New Delhi-110020)

Directions : Come to the Modi Mill Compound in Okhla Phase III and ask for the Mercedes Benz showroom; our office is two buildings away from the showroom.

When you enter our building ask for Uzanto on the first floor (thats the name of our company... most people do not know the name SlideShare :)

Signup / Teams

To signup to this event leave your name in the list below.  If you are already in a team then let us know that (maximum team size 2 people).  Otherwise you can join up with a tema1 team can submit as many hacks as they want. Prizes will be given to winning teams.

(please leave names of all team members, plus an email address or blog/website).

Julie Tsai (julie@slideshare.com)

Vineet Sharma (vineet@slideshare.com)

Mayank (mayank@slideshare.com)

Kapil Mohan (kapil@slideshare.com)

Mani Kumar (mani@slideshare.com)

Judges

Jon Boutelle (CoFounder & CTO, SlideShare) and Amit Ranjan (CoFounder & COO, SlideShare)

Prizes

Internal Prize (top team from SlideShare): an ipod touch

External Prize (top team from outside SlideShare): an ipod touch

If two people are on a team, they will each get a prize.

Useful Links

http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet

Connect

IRC: Join #puppethackday room at chat.slideshare.net:46664

Mailing List: http://groups.google.com/group/puppetcampdelhi (puppetcampdelhi@googlegroups.com)

Twitter Hashtag: #puppethackday