Re: Config Management Camp in Ghent 2023

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On Wed, Dec 7, 2022 at 8:32 AM Martin Simons <[email protected]> wrote:

> @your service!
>
> The Config Management Camp 2023 Ghent organisers
>
> Full proposal content:
>
> Title: To Kea or not to Kea
>
> Abstract: Do I need a commercial product to support, like ISC-KEA, in
> order to provide an integrated DHCP-DDNS solution, including reverse
> lookups?
>
> Description: Serving names is a hot topic within organisations and when
> not carried out to perfection, problems arise. In this process we relate
> MAC addresses, IP addresses and hostnames. So, if ever a machine comes to
> live, it has a name, a MAC address and an optional IP address.
>
> This is a process we like to automate in order to prevent issues, like
> providing: - an address from a pool by a DHCP server - registering the MAC
> address, hostname and IP address in the DHCP servers' backend - Dynamically
> update the Domain Name System, for hostname and reverse lookups
>
> Kea is a product, by a company of fame, designed to integrate existing
> systems and it has the ability to administer the above. It is a commercial
> product, though, and you have to buy licences in order to obtain the full
> advantages of the product.
>
> Is this the only way to go, or do we have an alternative available?
> CFEngine, like we know comes with a theoretical model, Promise Theory.
> Promise Theory is defined as a "model of voluntary cooperation between
> individual, autonomous actors or agents who publish their intentions to one
> another in the form of promises."
>
> In this talk I demonstrate the fulfillment of: providing: - an address
> from a pool by a DHCP server - registering the MAC address, hostname and IP
> address in the DHCP servers' backend - Dynamically update the Domain Name
> System by a simple set of CFEngine policies.
>
> These policies interact with a DHCP service and a DDNS service registering
> the agent to the DHCP service and the DDNS service for A and PTR records
>
> Notes: This is a live demonstration.
>
> Language: en
>
> On Tuesday, 6 December 2022 at 18:53:30 UTC+1 Nick Anderson wrote:
>
>> Martin Simons <[email protected]> writes:
>>
>> Dear CFEngineer,
>>>
>>> Registration is open!
>>>
>>> https://t.co/nRtq0F82z4
>>>
>> And, *only a few hours left to submit talk proposals*. I submitted a
>> few, I very much encourage you to submit as well.
>>
>> – Nick Anderson | Doer of Things | (+1) 785-550-1767 <(785)%20550-1767>
>> | https://northern.tech
>>
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