2 items of interest this week in StL. Of most interest & importance, the awaited presentation by SuSE. They This topic had planned to present this to us while they were here for their nation wide, travelling show last September. That show was cancelled, and we’ve been trying to schedule it since. SO, we are elated that Michael will be coming in from Kansas City just to do this. We hope to have a great turnout of our members and other interested parties, so please invite everyone you know who is interested in Linux distress, file systems, or SuSE! So, make sure you all come Thurs nite! (Yes, we used to have the separate SuSE LUG at lunch time but we will do this as the regular nite-time mtng.) The secondary event this week is the revival of the Red Hat Group. Not a part of the StL LUG but rather a wholly-owned marketing arm of RedHat (now IBM) Corp., this group hasn’t me for the 15 months of IBM’s acquisition. Now, on Wed (i.e. TOMORROW) it resumes =============================== StL Linux Users Group ~CephFS file sys. SuSE Linux Thursday, January 16⋅6:30 – 9:00pm Monthly on the third Thursday Nick and Elena's Pizzeria, 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland MO 63114  Description:https://stllug.sluug.org/ Thurs 16 Jan '20 Why EVERY Sysadmin should consider the CephFS file system. Michael Carrington (SuSE Linux Corp.wants us to know WHY EVERY SysAdmin should consider using CephFS, wether for considered for that big-honking Storage Array Cluster on the corporate enterprise or THE SMALL scale user, i.e. small office,... or even home/single user. What features YOU may want to be aware and perhaps use CEPH. Come hear why! Since we haven’t had a speaker from SuSE in awhile, this will be part of a broader discussion, i.e. 1. SUSE - What has happened recently. 2. SUSE Enterprise Linux - you know our kernel 3. SUSE Enterprise Storage - • 50,000' view • architecture • uses • Why you, as a UNIX admin should care 4. Other stuff =========================== The CephFS specifics: Ceph File System is an "object storage based”, free software, storage platform that stores data on a single distributed computer cluster. It provides interfaces for object-, block- and file-level storage. Ceph aims primarily to be: completely distributed without a single point of failure, scalable to the exabyte level, and freely available. Ceph replicates data and makes it fault-tolerant,[4] using commodity hardware and requiring no specific hardware support. As a result of its design, the system is both self-healing and self-managing, aiming to minimize administration time and other costs. Ceph started in 2012. Was considered production ready in 2017. It was most recently updated in March 2019 w nearly annual releases. Developers include: Canonical, CERN, Cisco, Fujitsu, Intel, Red Hat, SanDisk, & SUSE. We in SLUUG had talks on it in Apr 2016 & Aug 2017. by Michael Carrington, SUSE Linux Corp. Storage System engineer from Kansas City) VENUE Nick and Elena's Pizzeria 3007 Woodson Rd, Overland, MO 63114 ========================================= The STLLUG meetings are usually on the third Thursday of each month from 6:30PM to 9:00PM. ====================================== ====================================== The secondary event this week is the revival of the Red Hat Group. Not a part of the StL LUG but rather a wholly-owned marketing arm of RedHat (now IBM) Corp., this group hasn’t me for the 15 months of IBM’s acquisition. Now, on Wed (i.e. TOMORROW) it resumes =================================== Red Hat LUG ~Quarkus, Ansible Integration Wednesday, January 15⋅5:00 – 7:30pm Granite City Food & Brewery, 11411 Olive Blvd, St. Louis, MO 63141  Description:https://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-RHUG/ Wed, Jan 15, '20 RHUG: Intro to Quarkus and Integrating Ansible with Red Hat Solutions Hosted by Robert ProffittThis group is focused on bringing together the St. Louis Red Hat User Community for business and technical (not Sales) presentations, conversations, food and drink. Membership is open to Red Hat customers, partners and people interested in Red Hat technologies. Please take a moment to register in advance for this RHUG event at the following link (a Meetup RSVP is not required): https://events.redhat.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x126180abcd The St. Louis RHUG resumes in the new decade on Wednesday January 15! This meeting will deliver engaging discussion and demonstrations applicable to any IT professional engaged with, or interested in modern DevOps practice: Chris Bowland, Application Solution Architect at Red Hat will deliver a fun and informative dive into Quarkus, the new Kubernetes-native Java stack that combines some of the most popular Java libraries with new techniques and technologies to create compact and high performing Java applications. Shadd Gallegos, Sr. Specialist Solution Architect at Red Hat will present and demonstrate Ansilble Playbook Integrations with existing Red Hat Solutions, including Ansible Tower, Satellite, and select 3rd-party products. Please make plans to join us for food, drinks, peer-networking, and engaging presentations! Attendees (6) VENUE: Granite City Food & Brewery 11411 Olive Blvd · St. Louis, MO ================================ EVERY QUARTER: As of July 2018: Founded Sep 18, 2017 About us… RHUGers92 Group reviews1 Upcoming Meetups1 Past Meetups5 Organizers: Crystal Murphy="Raleigh, NC . I manage the Meetup and User Group programs for North America for Red Hat. ", Nicole Maselli '"Raleigh, NC. Field Marketing Intern. Supports Crystal Murphy on all NA RHUGs and Meetups". Robert Proffitt ="Monument, CO , Sr. Solution Architect" We're about: Linux · Open Source · System Administration · Red Hat · Cloud Computing · Configuration Management · DevOps · JBoss Enterprise Middleware · Continuous Delivery · OpenShift · Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) · Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) · Ansible · Docker · Containers  Organizer: St. Louis UNIX Users Group, Inc. ~ STL technical events St. Louis UNIX Users Group, Inc. ~ STL technical event