[CentOS-devel] [RFC] Operational tools SIG (was logging and monitoring...)

[Rich Megginson]

On 05/13/2016 01:12 AM, Matthias Runge wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I would like to re-iterate my interest in having a SIG in CentOS
> to provide all kinds of tools for operators providing
> infrastructure by using CentOS.

+1

>
> The scope should be more than just simply packaging applications.
> Another part should be to provide puppet manifests or ansible playbooks
> to get things quicker up and running.

+1 - should ideally provide a standalone installer, and puppet 
manifests/ansible playbooks that can be included in other projects 
(puppet manifests for RDO TripleO, ansible playbooks for 
openshift-ansible, etc.)

>
> Ideally, I would start with providing something like
> * elsasticsearch/fluentd/kibana for centralised logging

+1

> * collectd/graphite/grafana for performance monitoring
> * sensu/uchiwa for availability monitoring
>
> We have already seen around 10 persons interested in helping, testing,
> trying out and providing feedback.
>
> For communcations etc. I would propose to start small, and to share
> already existent CentOS channels (email-lists, irc-channel).

Emails should use the [opstools] prefix?

> This
> decision should be revisited, once amount of SIG related communication
> becomes annoying in general channels.
>
> Questions? Thoughts? Additions?
>
> Best,
> Matthias