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Dive into Zuul – Gated commit system

Zuul is a software developed by the OpenStack community. It was developed as an efficient gated commit system, allowing projects to merge patches only after they pass a series of tests. It reduces the probability of breaking the master branch, for instance when unit tests or functional tests no longer pass on the tip of master.

Announcing eDeploy: Linux systems provisionning and updating made easy

eDeploy is a new generation tool to manage baremetal deployments and upgrades of Linux based systems. Upgrades have been the main focus with the possibility to rollback upgrades if needed.

Pylogsparser : visualizing ssh attacks in video

  • Wallix Development team's blog; By Matthieu Huin (Posted by fredl on Feb 29, 2012 3:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
In this article we will show another possible application for the pylogsparser library. We will also discover a simple way to draw and use world maps with python. You should read the previous article in this series if you haven’t done so, since we will use what we have done there as a starting point.

Automatic installation of Debian Squeeze from a USB flash drive

  • Wallix Development team's blog; By Fabien Boucher (Posted by fredl on Nov 2, 2011 5:41 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Debian
In this post you are going to learn how to build a USB Flash Drive that contains a fully automated Debian installation system. At Wallix this installation system is used in addition to our traditional PXE/preseed system to deploy our products Wallix LogBox and Wallix AdminBastion.

Restricting remote commands over ssh

  • Wallix Development team's blog (Posted by fredl on Oct 18, 2011 10:29 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
In this post you will see how to restrict commands executed on a remote server accessed via ssh for a particular user. You can have multiple reasons to do this..

PyLogsParser: how to write a normalizer

  • Wallix Development team's blog ; By Matthieu Huin (Posted by fredl on Oct 4, 2011 12:38 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
How to write a log normalizer for fail2ban logs using the PyLogsParser library.

Pylogsparser : a use case, analysing ssh attacks

  • Wallix Development team's blog ; By Matthieu Huin (Posted by fredl on Sep 27, 2011 12:49 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Learn how to use the PyLogsParser python library to analyse ssh attacks from your log files.

How to use Linux containers (lxc) under Debian Squeeze

  • Wallix Development team's blog ; By Wallix Development team (Posted by fredl on Sep 20, 2011 9:59 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial; Groups: Debian
Tutorial about lxc (Linux containers) under Debian Squeeze

Getting started with Twisted

  • Wallix Development team's blog ; By Fabien Boucher (Posted by fredl on Aug 31, 2011 1:52 AM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Tutorial about network programming in python using the Twisted framework.

Deskolo project: modeling power consumption

  • Wallix dev team's blog; By Frederic Suard (Posted by fredl on Aug 2, 2011 4:18 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Editorial
One part of the Deskolo project is to estimate the electricity consumption by considering only activity indicators of a computer. The solution proposed by CEA-LIST consists in using some Machine Learning techniques which are able to construct a predictive model from a dataset of examples.

How to use RobotFramework with the Selenium Library

  • Wallix dev team's blog (Posted by fredl on Jul 27, 2011 8:45 PM EDT)
  • Story Type: Tutorial
Tutorial to learn how to test web interfaces using RobotFramework with Selenium. At Wallix we use RobotFramework to test our products AdminBastion and LogBox in a black box way mainly for exercising the web interface. In this blog post we’ll explain one way of using RobotFramework to test web interfaces either for web site testing or for web application testing.

Hardware4Linux Launches

http://hardware4linux.info/ is a new web site about hardware for Linux. The site allows to browse systems and components to find the ones that work or don't work with Linux. It works in a collaborative way: users install an LSB package to collect their hardware and system configuration, upload the collected data to the site and then rate the compatibility of their hardware components on the site.