openSUSE Conference 2016

AppArmor Crash Course slides (PDF)

A week ago, the openSUSE Conference 2016 ended, so it's time to finally upload my AppArmor Crash Course slides ;-)

I enjoyed lots of good talks. There were too many to mention a favorite one, but I'll try nevertheless:

• Georgi's "MySQL firewall" - basically you could describe it as "AppArmor for MySQL", so it isn't surprising that I like it ;-)
• AJ's "Infrastructure at OpenStack" included several interesting ideas (watched on video because it happened at the same time as "MySQL Firewall")
• Reproducible Builds (both from Holger and Bernhard) - it was good to see that we have some progress on it, even if the current target is "build-compare says it's equal" and not "it's bit-for-bit equal"
• Markus' "What's that distribution" quiz with funny quotes
• Thorsten's "Btrfs, snapshots and rollbacks" with quite some btrfs insight and details
• the keysigning party - a literally hot party ;-)  (back home, I found out that perl-GnuPG-Interface which is needed for caff is incompatible with the GPG version in Tumbleweed, so I'll need to setup a Leap VM to do the keysigning)
• the LinuxTag-style Hacking Content - I applied quite some evil hacks, but it also turned out playing with the PAM config can make the login hard ;-)
• Sarah's "Stress Tests and Performance Monitoring" - I already started to play with Munin which looks like a good candidate to replace some custom perl scripts I'm currently using
• the SUSE Band :-)
• Richard's "Distribute or die", even if I don't really agree that we should discourage using additional repos. Maybe I should just quote Richard himself:

I am not a Dictator, I can think of no example where I've ordered anyone to do anything. And I would expect people to stare at me funny and tell me 'no', if I tried.

I also had lots of interesting discussions on the hallway track and learned something about Nürnberg in the city tour and the cellar tour.

After the official part of oSC16 ended, we had a promising disussion about the (technical) future of the openSUSE wiki. If everything works out as planned, we'll get some shiny new hardware hosted in Provo that is only used for openSUSE - and the most important thing is that we'll have SSH access to it and can do whatever is needed without having to wait for the Provo admins.

PS: You might have noticed that I didn't mention the openSUSE Jeopardy in this post - I'll do that in a separate post next week ;-)