This group is for system administrators using CFEngine (any version). The purpose of this group is to provide a social forum for CFEngine users, to provide mutual support, and to help in upgrading to version 3 of CFEngine; as well as to help new users get started with using CFEngine.

This is a group for anyone interested in talking about using Chef as part of building and maintaining an automated infrastructure. Get together with like-minded sysadmins, systems engineers, configuration management and devops spirited type folks to share experiences, tips, tricks and to talk about real life strategies for deploying and maintaining your Chef infrastructure.

Computer Security Warriors is a group that is dedicated to educating our community in computer safety.  The advent of the Internet and our new found ability to tap the entire world for practically any information has also brought with it profound invisible risk.  The potential of exposing our most personal information is only a few keyboard and mouse clicks away. The enemy is truly at the gate, or actually lurking behind every firewall/router connected to the Internet waiting for an opportunity …

Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions. Target Audience: Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting, solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation. *Our first topic for this meetup is on "Job Scheduling and Monitoring". * Please let me know if …

The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA ®) is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It provides educational forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill and professional growth of its members. The primary goal of ISSA is to promote management practices that will ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of information resources.

Whether building a web, VOIP, or gaming backend, Operations is using development tools to make it work. We're interested in the built-in facilities in Linux and the BSDs to programmatically seed and deploy.  We're building traditional UNIX infrastructure with lighttpd/Nginx/Apache, Syslog, NFS, LDAP, MySQL/Postgres and BIND/PowerDNS, but doing it with modern scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Perl...) and revision-control.  Debconf in Debian and Ubuntu. Kickstart in Redhat and CentOS.  pc-sysins …

I have a couple of extra computers and some networking stuff. I am going to study for A+ then Net+, Security+ and ccna/ccnp. We will be using a variety of learning tools. Video's to ebooks and live demo's to flash cards to whatever you can bring. I invite anyone who wants to get certified to join me and add some accountability. If you already have some of these certifications and would like to help out some noobs that's good too. Member's need to be serious about getting certified.

Pac IT Pros is an independent, non-profit user group for IT professionals. We hold our meetings the fourth Tuesday of every month with technical speakers presenting engaging and relevant information. At each meeting we share our experiences and ideas as well as discussing new products and software, troubleshooting techniques, and business strategies. Our meetings are open to all business professionals with an interest in technology and we strive to provide a community for business networking and …

This group gets together every quarter to discuss latest trends within the local market. Everything from who's hiring and firing to the latest projects and technology. If you’re interested in networking within the greater Los Angeles area Linux market, come join us!

This group is a collaboration between eHarmony, Edmunds, and Riot Games to discuss and promote the role of DevOps in the operations of large scale online operations. Developers, Operations engineers, and people who straddle the fence will find value in learning how others solve our common problems.

A group for Los Angeles Linux users to get together and learn about a common interest. If you're interested in joining other Linux mailing lists please visit http://lula.org/mailman/listinfo/lula_lula.org