Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 18:45:23 -0800 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> To: Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org, Deb Goodkin <deb@freebsdfoundation.org> Subject: Re: projects to better support FreeBSD sysadmins Message-ID: <CAG=rPVdV3Lmh0o3mGZSxPn=MXup_y3p2F%2BHN4N0%2B3EjGTUVNWA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20150114023330.GA80986@FreeBSD.org> References: <CA%2BE3k90y3LOaoQoHH7-916M435t0TmDMpsKR7rF69MkyMMgibg@mail.gmail.com> <20150114023330.GA80986@FreeBSD.org>
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On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 02:14:24PM -0900, Royce Williams wrote: > But the overall project list needed to be rebalanced towards system > administration. I request that the Foundation consider this when > calling for proposals for the next round of funded projects. Royce, I agree with what you wrote, but I want to add to it. I would like there to be a focus on making FreeBSD more "devops-friendly" so that the current generation of devops engineers can pick it up and easily deploy it in large cluster and cloud environments. We need to move beyond the 1990's era view of Unix administration where we only have a few Unix servers administered by hand by a few sysadmins. Today's datacenter has hundreds or thousands of nodes. These nodes need to be installed, maintained, and upgraded. These nodes are more and more maintained by devops teams who use automation frameworks (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Saltstack, CFEngine, etc.) to accomplish these tasks. devops teams will write C and shell script if they have to, but are very pragmatic about using newer scripting languages like Python, Ruby, etc. if it is necessary to get the job done. What is FreeBSD doing to be more devops friendly? How can we make FreeBSD friendlier to people who are trying to deploy hundreds and thousands of FreeBSD nodes, especially in datacenter and cloud environments? I would like to see the project and Foundation focus on these types of problems. -- Craig
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