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

Tue May 24 13:48:36 UTC 2016
Matthias Runge <mrunge at matthias-runge.de>

On 24/05/16 15:20, Karanbir Singh wrote:
> On 13/05/16 08:12, 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.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> Ideally, I would start with providing something like
>> * elsasticsearch/fluentd/kibana for centralised logging
>> * 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). This
>> decision should be revisited, once amount of SIG related communication
>> becomes annoying in general channels.
>>
>> Questions? Thoughts? Additions?
>>
>> Best,
>> Matthias
>>
> 
> 
> how much of this overlaps with the config management SIG ?
> 
I would state, it doesn't overlap, which is not *entirely* true.
Opstools SIG could provide scripts/configs to the other SIG. At least
both should cooperate on getting things installed.

Best,
Matthias