[PLUG-ANNOUNCE] ANNOUNCEMENT: February PLUG Meeting

[Michael Dexter]

                         MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

                     The Portland Linux/Unix Group
                               will meet
                       7 PM Thursday Feb 2, 2012
                                  at
                       Portland State University
                                in the
                            Fariborz Maseeh
           College of Engineering & Computer Science Building
                              Room FAB 86-01
                        (This is in the basement.)
        The building is on SW 4th across from SW College Street.
     See location H-10 on map at http://pdxLinux.org/campus_map.jpg

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                  Intro to Salt / Salt Stack (saltstack.org)
                                      by
                                Daniel Hedlund
                             <daniel at digitree.org>

Salt is a distributed configuration management and remote execution
platform built on top of ZeroMQ and Python. Simple, fast, powerful and
extensible.

Daniel will give a presentation on the architecture of Salt and how it
leverages ZeroMQ to provide a simple but highly scalable and parallel
method of software deployment.

"Salt is a distributed remote execution system used to execute
commands and query data. It was developed in order to bring the best
solutions found in the world of remote execution together and make
them better, faster and more malleable. Salt accomplishes this via its
ability to handle larger loads of information, and not just dozens,
but hundreds or even thousands of individual servers, handle them
quickly and through a simple and manageable interface."