Training Spotlight 1: Understanding Configuration Management
LISA (and the other USENIX conferences) are well known for the quality of their training/tutorial sessions. Highly practical and timely, they are a good place to pick up the info you need to be on top of the latest tech to do your job. The classes are taught by some of the top people in our field (who often are around during the rest of the conference for side questions and conversations).
Dan Klein, the training program coordinator, does his best to make sure that each conference brings with it new and exciting classes. This year’s LISA is no exception so I though I would highlight some of the new classes that caught my eye in this blog entry and the next few entries.
This year I noticed that Mark Burgess (the only full professor of network and system administration I know of), is teaching a new intro class in configuration management (Understanding Configuration Management). This is like offering a beginning animation class with Will Eisner (RIP) or Hayao Miyazaki. Burgess is the author of cfengine and has been an active researcher at the forefront of the configuration management for many years. It’s a heck of an opportunity if you are interested in configuration management at all.
More info on the training class here. Register for the conference and this class here.