Biography

Michael Stahnke began working with Unix in the late 1990s.  After getting a CS 
degree from Ball State in 2002, he quickly found his passion in Linux 
administration and automation. He has worked with Fortune 100 companies, and 
several open source projects.  Michael has concentrated on Identity Management 
as well security integration into administration and automation processes. 

In 2005, Michael authored Pro OpenSSH for Apress Publishing.  Michael also 
joined the Fedora project in that year.  Today he (co)maintains about 30 
packages, and is an active member on the  Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 
(EPEL) steering committee.  He also is a contributor to the Fedora 
Ruby Special Interest Group, and several other facets of the Fedora Project, 
and many other open source projects.  

In 2008, Michael moved to a leadership position on his Unix and Virtualization 
team at Caterpillar.  In 2010 Michael became the Enterprise Architect for Servers
and storage at Caterpillar.  Michael also works as an independent contractor for 
various technology organizations in Nashville, TN.

Proposal 

Operations needs to be able to adjust to the business quickly, and implement
large-scale changes while maintaining availability and security throughout the
entire process. This presentation will show real-world examples of agile
development methodologies applied to system administration and operations on
RHEL utilizing several well-known open source tools.

Modeling operations after agile development methodologies, we'll walk through
system specifications, design, testing and implementation using frameworks
provided by Red Hat Network (spacewalk), Nagios, Puppet, and StatusNet.  Topics
and examples will include models of test-driven infrastructure,  continuous
integration, and scrum techniques.

Have you thought about Unit Testing your servers? Can you be friends with your
application components and send have them notices about issues via a
twitter-like interface? This presentation will include examples of testing,
notifications, and getting feedback from your systems and customers.