I can’t make announcements of the title just yet, but I am excited and pleased to say that I’ve got another devOps book coming soon. Look this fall for an announcement. Contract has been signed, I start progress on the long road this week.
Up and coming appearances.
I’m now maintaining a list of my up and coming appearances (e.g. places to find me and engage me about things I didn’t cover perfectly in my books) over on the Interactions in Real Time site on a permanent page Up and Coming Appearances.
ActiveMQ 5.9.1 RPM for CentOS / RHEL 6
There are some significant scaling issues with ActiveMQ 5.8 and MCollective, especially around SSL connections. I’ve been working with some clients and solved many of these problems by using ActiveMQ 5.9.1 as the middleware.
I’ve created an RPM for Active 5.9.1 on RHEL/CentOS that matches the one published on the Puppet Labs EL6 dependencies repository, with the following changes:
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Learning MCollective now available in Early Release
Learning MCollective is now available in Early Release.
This has pretty much every chapter and subchapter we expect to have in the final book, but my editor and I are still polishing some rough edges. As O’Reilly says on their website:
You’ll receive updates when content is added, as well as the completed ebooks. You get free lifetime access, multiple file formats, and free updates.
When did my business become the product RSA was selling?
My first blog post for Taos was just published: http://www.taos.com/2014/02/27/choose-security-partners-carefully/
This post covers the reality of security products: you can’t buy trust. Or as seems to have occurred this time, someone might be paying more than you to ensure your crypto is weak. You have to acquire the talent to ensure what you are using meets your needs.
I suspect that readers of this blog might point out that my summary has always been true: nobody should ever have trusted RSA blindly. My target audience for that post is people who may not have realized this before.