What Are You Doing Right Now
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@dbeato said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Just finished installing all Tvs, firewall, switches, Ubiquiti AP, beds, outlet covers and replaced light switches at the house and brought lots of boxes. Now I am catching up a little.
Remember to vote for SodiumSuite before turning in the for the night.
Can you clarify what you mean by using Salt via SodiumSuite?
Salt and SS are separate products. At the moment. SS uses Salt under the hood for a lot of what it does, but SS isn't necessarily tied to Salt long term, could certainly use other things like Ansible if it wanted to, is actively considering the possibility of needing to replace Salt to add more power, and is definitely going to be doing things that SAlt doesn't do. SS is not Salt, but right not, it does leverage it.
Interesting, there's a ton of potential there I didn't realize about SS.
What are some things they want SS to do that Salt can't?
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What are some things they want SS to do that Salt can't?
Big pieces there are performance and control. Salt has a lot of stability issues that are a problem for SS. And Salt lacks a lot of uniformity around different operating systems that would be very difficult to fix, to the point of rewriting large portions of Salt to improve them, which is what the current plan is.
The biggest features are not around system management itself, but around end user support. More concepts of asset control, user monitoring, user notification and communications are the biggest issues. Salt isn't supposed to do those things, but SS is. Once SS has its own separate agent for all platforms, having it start to take over duties from the Salt agent (minion) might make sense. Or possibly that each does its own thing and things that make sense for Salt stay there and the SSA takes care of things that Salt does not do.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
What are some things they want SS to do that Salt can't?
Big pieces there are performance and control. Salt has a lot of stability issues that are a problem for SS. And Salt lacks a lot of uniformity around different operating systems that would be very difficult to fix, to the point of rewriting large portions of Salt to improve them, which is what the current plan is.
The biggest features are not around system management itself, but around end user support. More concepts of asset control, user monitoring, user notification and communications are the biggest issues. Salt isn't supposed to do those things, but SS is. Once SS has its own separate agent for all platforms, having it start to take over duties from the Salt agent (minion) might make sense. Or possibly that each does its own thing and things that make sense for Salt stay there and the SSA takes care of things that Salt does not do.
Cool. Seems like systems management parts only via salt and the rest through their own part then. Or whatever they decide works best.
I may have to get on the SS train. I just wish dev was faster, butvim do understand it's a small team.
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I may have to get on the SS train. I just wish dev was faster, butvim do understand it's a small team.
It was moving really quickly, but then had to take a break for other things. But Quixotic has brought on three new team members in the last week. So lots of hope that QX stuff will be speeding up soon once they are up to speed.
@quixoticgerber was working with @QuixoticJeremy and @BigLittle last night to get to know what QX is working towards.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I may have to get on the SS train. I just wish dev was faster, butvim do understand it's a small team.
It was moving really quickly, but then had to take a break for other things. But Quixotic has brought on three new team members in the last week. So lots of hope that QX stuff will be speeding up soon once they are up to speed.
@quixoticgerber was working with @QuixoticJeremy and @BigLittle last night to get to know what QX is working towards.
Oh nice that's good news.
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@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@tim_g said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I may have to get on the SS train. I just wish dev was faster, butvim do understand it's a small team.
It was moving really quickly, but then had to take a break for other things. But Quixotic has brought on three new team members in the last week. So lots of hope that QX stuff will be speeding up soon once they are up to speed.
@quixoticgerber was working with @QuixoticJeremy and @BigLittle last night to get to know what QX is working towards.
Oh nice that's good news.
Yeah, QX is trying hard to get several projects going. One is releasing this weekend (nothing of interest around here) and hopefully will be out of the queue and out of the way in the next week or two once the initial deployment gets settled down.
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Five new SAMIT videos are uploading right now.
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@dominica just dropped a knife and cut her thumb really badly. Hoping that she doesn't need stitches.
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Finally settling in to my first coffee of the day, now that the wife is all bandaged up.
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Reading RHCSA book before teaching today’s saxophone lesson.
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@scottalanmiller How’s Dominica’s thumb?
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Lesson = complete. Time to see if I can catch the UGA vs. Auburn game.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller How’s Dominica’s thumb?
Painful but doing okay. We have it tightly wrapped in a large bandage so that it can't move, it's loaded with Neosporin, and she is eating ice cream. It's a flesh would, the knife hit no tendons and did not make it to the bone. So she should be okay. Doesn't look like stitches will be necessary, but we won't know for several hours.
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@scottalanmiller Hope that she feels better soon.
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@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading RHCSA book before teaching today’s saxophone lesson.
What kind of job are you going for with all the Linux stuff, just curious?
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@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading RHCSA book before teaching today’s saxophone lesson.
What kind of job are you going for with all the Linux stuff, just curious?
Probably a Linux one
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@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading RHCSA book before teaching today’s saxophone lesson.
What kind of job are you going for with all the Linux stuff, just curious?
Even SMB jobs could benefit from Linux skills.
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@bigbear said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@eddiejennings said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Reading RHCSA book before teaching today’s saxophone lesson.
What kind of job are you going for with all the Linux stuff, just curious?
System administrator, but that’s a long way off.
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Catching up on emails again. Thanks ML.
