EP07 - Linux, Salt, Open Source Get Togethers and Hacking Low Orbit Satellites

Episode Summary

This week on the Carolina Code Cast, host Barry Jones chats with Jās Eckard, YAML Engineer at VMWare/SaltStack. During the episode, Barry and Jās talk about Salt Stack, Ansible, YAML configuration management, Terraform, ToFu, the IDEM Project, Southeast Linux Fest, Upstate Carolina Linux Users Group (UCLUG) and Columbia too, benefits of speaking at local meetups and how we learn more when we share, open source tools for event management like Get Together Community and Jitsi. Plus the next UCLUG meeting on November 14th where we’ll learn about Hacking Low Orbit Satellites…because reasons.

“Be kind to the next programmer, it may be you.”
- Jās Eckard

Episode Notes

Highlights from this week’s conversation include:

• Secret Agent(less) Man - Salt, Ansible, YAML, Puppet, Chef (0:38)

• Perl, Regex, TCL over SSH (9:18)

• Southeast Linux Fest (13:29)

• Upstate Carolina (and Columbia) Linux Users Group (19:26)

• Perks of giving talks at local meetup (27:29)

• Using screen to serial connect to modems, multitail and pairing (30:47)

• Hacking Low Orbit Satellites at UCLUG on Nov 14th (37:42)

• Open Source Events Management with Get Together Community (40:45)

Links

• Salt Project

• IDEM Project

• Southeast Linux Fest

• UCLUG on Get Together

• Get Together Community - Open Source

Carolina Code Cast is a podcast that covers a wide variety of topics in the coding and data space. Learn more about this year’s Carolina Code Conference at carolina.codes.

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