May features two very special speakers from Charlotte, NC: Jim Van Fleet, the original founder of CVREG, and Kirk Richey. They'll be discussing automated system configuration management strategies with an eye towards cloud architectures.

Meeting Details

• Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011
• Time: 5:30 PM, talk starts at 6:00 PM
• Location: Weinstein Properties, 3961 D Stillman Parkway, Glen Allen, VA 23060

Abstract

The Cloud has all the mindshare when it comes to hosting and capacity planning, but what does it really get you? Kirk Richey will demonstrate how the combination of an abstracted provisioning API and configuration management with Chef can get your environments ready for action in no time flat, without having to depend on any vendors. That leaves you in control to plan the capacity, performance, and price of your operations.

Bios

Jim Van Fleet founded CVREG. Kirk Richey is an assistant organizer of Charlotte.rb.