Re: Config Management Camp in Ghent 2023
Martin Simons <[email protected]>
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What do you knowabout other CFEngine related cfp's? On Wednesday, 7 December 2022 at 15:59:54 UTC+1 Nick Anderson wrote: > 👏 > > 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 >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "help-cfengine" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/help-cfengine/775bba16-f93c-4da3-8d53-2c61b9f133fdn%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/help-cfengine/775bba16-f93c-4da3-8d53-2c61b9f133fdn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "help-cfengine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/help-cfengine/a43a0439-54a8-44a8-ae4c-0f75edfdcb7dn%40googlegroups.com.