The eighth InstallFest conference took place over the weekend. We were there, giving talks and making coffee.
Once again, we attended the annual InstallFest conference at Strahov, bringing several talks and a coffee machine with its accessories. Kofárna supplied well-roasted beans (yes, the people from LinuxDays), and COFFEEANDTEA lent us the machine.
About 280 people attended on Saturday and around 200 on Sunday, so quite a few hundred cups of coffee were made. Along with refreshments and raspberry soda from Active 24, our coffee created a lovely atmosphere in the foyer.
The talks and workshops were the main point, of course. Thanks to the Silicon Hill Audiovisual Center, everything was recorded in 4K, and you can watch all the talks. Have a look at our photo gallery too. Several of our members spoke again, and we certainly recommend their talks.
Pavel Šnajdr and Jakub Skokan talked about HaveAPI, the basis of our vpsAdmin. They explained how it works and demonstrated its versatility by controlling a relay.
Richard Marko and Ľubomír Rintel discussed building Fedora for ARMv6 on an interesting cluster of PINE 64 single-board computers.
Petr Krčmář talked about Let's Encrypt and the benefits of automated certificate generation. He also demonstrated deploying HTTPS on one of his websites at vpsFree.cz.
Věroš Kaplan talked about automated log processing with Logstash, Elasticsearch and Kibana.
Michal Halenka introduced the very simple but capable Caddy web server, including its integration with the Let's Encrypt certificate authority.
David Karban discussed automation and how easy it is to build a highly available application with Ansible and Amazon AWS.