[ale] Hey! Meeting week!

[Jim Kinney]

On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 17:21 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
> Not certain I can make it in-person. Remote in?
How's that going to work for beer? 
Granted, a virtual beer _is_ very low calorie.... and pretty much sex-
in-a-canoe beer.
> I didn't memorize the presentations and SELF presentations usually require about
> a month to be posted to youtube. Did take notes for myself for many of the
> sessions attended. Sometimes, my notes boil down to "use A, not B" ... but I
> didn't capture the "why." Sorry.
> 
> I've been on libvirt + KVM for about 6 yrs.  The newer releases have native
> support for containers (which I haven't used) since none of my production
> systems use containers.  If I can actually implement the security best practices
> for containers, which is non-trivial, may, switch a few over to be containers. I
> will NOT be grabbing any pre-build containers. THAT is certain.
> 
> After all, if the hostOS is compromised, the war is lost.
> 
> I attended almost all the container/docker/virtualization and video/photography
> sessions:
> 
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Lsr8CMw_fZMUFA89lyQBjYSGiXRqjcs2Ug-kN_bCg24/edit?pref=2&pli=1
> 
> Also attended the Routing With Linux session. This was based on the Ars article.
> Basically, he used a small Ubuntu Linux, manually turned it into a router, added
> about a page of iptables rules and said it was faster after doing some
> throughput testing.  iperf testing didn't count; something about really pusing
> data through that makes the cheap routers fail though iperf shows them handling
> GigE performance without issue. Had some good reasons to prefer a current,
> maintained, Linux distro over pre-made BSD router distros like pfSense.
> 
> 
> 
> On 06/14/2016 03:48 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Yes, please.  And I'm prepared to talk about libvirt, virt-manager, and
> > virt-viewer for desktop usage.
> > 
> > On 06/14/2016 07:26 AM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > Bring it!
> > > 
> > > On Jun 14, 2016 4:52 AM, "DJ-Pfulio" <djpfulio at jdpfu.com
> > > 
> > > <mailto:djpfulio at jdpfu.com>> wrote:
> > > >> wrote:
> > > 
> > >     On 06/13/2016 11:21 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> > >     > We have a group panel discussion. Something about Linux and
> > >     virtual systems and
> > >     > a whole list of ideas. Time to panic and pull this together.
> > >     >
> > > 
> > >     Would it be worth hearing about SELF? There were at least 4 sessions on
> > >     containers and docker - it will change the way I deal with
> > >     containers completely
> > >     - mainly from a security perspective.
> > > 

> > 

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