Kris Buytaert is a long time Linux and Open Source Consultant. He's one of instigators of the devops movement, currently working for Inuits

Kris is the Co-Author of Virtualization with Xen ,used to be the maintainer of the openMosix HOWTO and author of different technical publications. He is frequently speaking at, or organizing different international conferences

He spends most of his time working on Linux Clustering (both High Availability, Scalability and HPC), Virtualisation and Large Infrastructure Management projects hence trying to build infrastructures that can survive the 10th floor test, better known today as the cloud while actively promoting the devops idea !

His blog titled "Everything is a Freaking DNS Problem" can be found at http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/

Articles & Papers & Books

Over the past decade I've been writing articles for diffrent offline and online publications such as : Open Magazine, O'Reilly GMT, O'Reilly Network, and Virtualization.com

• Open Magazine,Issue 2.3 March 2001, Cyber-glue for authentication, Local Copy
• Open Magazine,Issue 2.4 April 2001, WAP Is Dead Long Live XML!
• Open Magazine, Issue 2.5 May 2001, Beyond Saying "Look Out," How to you treat a Virus ?
• E-Open, Issue 13, January 2002, Email Architecture, A Roundup of MTAs and IMAP alternatives (Local Copy)
• Open, Vol 39, September 2002, Fighting Spam (Local Copy)
• Open, Vol 47, December 2002 , Wiki Wiki (Local Copy )
• April 2003 Increasing openMosix performance with FireWire
• Augustus 2003, MySQL Benchmarks
• October 2003 , Linuxkongress Saarbrucken, Germany , migShm Experiences
• O'Reilly Network, February 2004 , Introducing openMosix
• June 2004, LinuxTag Karlsruhe, Germany, openMosix: Past Present and Future
• October 2004, Sane, Amsterdam , The Netherlands: openMosix: Past Present and Future
• April 2005, Linux.conf.au ,Canberra, Australia , openMosix, Past Present and Future, a peek at 2.6
• Aug 2005, UKUUG Linux Technical Conference ,Swansea , UK, openMosix, Past Present and Future, a peek at 2.6 (updated)
• October 2005, Linux-Kongress,Hamburg, Germany : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
• January 2006, LinuxDays,LuxemBourg : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
• O'Reilly Network, January 2006 , Linux Virtualisation with Xen
• O'Reilly Network, February 2006 , Building a High-Available MySQL Cluster
• March 2006, UKUUG LISA Conference 2006 Durham, UK : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment (UPDATED)
• O'Reilly Network, February 2007 , An Introduction to openQRM
• NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie on Virtualisation, May 2007, Using openQRM as a Virtual Machine Manager
• Syngress Media, June 2007 , CoAuthor of Virtualization with Xen
• Syngress Media, Fall 2007 , CoAuthor of The Best Damn Server Virtualization Book Period: Including Vmware, Xen, and Microsoft Virtual Server
• O'Reilly Network, February 2008 , Using Xen for High Availability Clusters
• Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008, Open Source Monitoring Tool Shootout

I've also acted as a technical reviewer for different books including "High Performance Linux Clusters with OSCAR, Rocks, OpenMosix, and MPI" the "MySQL Cluster Study Guide" and "Zabbix 1.8 Network Monitoring"

• 25 april 2012,Open Source Datacenter Conference, Nurbemberg, Germany 7 Tools for your devops stack
• 24 april 2012, Techforum.mail.ru, Moscow, Russia, MySQL-HA with Pacemaker
• 24 april 2012, Techforum.mail.ru, Moscow, Russia, 7 Tools for your devops stack
• 31 march 2012, Loadays 2012, Antwerp, Belgium 7 Tools for your devops stack
• 23 march 2012, Puppetcamp Edinburgh, UK How I hack on Puppetmodules
• 21 march 2012, FlossUK, Edinburgh, UK 7 Tools for your devops stack
• 3 february 2012, Build an Open Source Cloud Day , Antwerp , Belgium Devops, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet
• 25 january 2012, OWASP BE Chapter, Diegem, Belgium, devops,secop,opsec,devsec,*ops,*.* ?

• 15 december 2011, BeJug, Gent , Belgium Devops, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet (with Patrick Debois)
• 9 december 2011, Usenix, Lisa 2011, Boston , USA , Panel discussion titled What will be Hot next year ?
• 8 december 2011, Usenix, Lisa 2011, Boston , USA, Vagrant BOF (slides by Patrick Debois)
• 7 december 2011, Usenix, Lisa 2011, Boston , USA, Devops, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet
• 6 december 2011, Usenix, Lisa 2011, Boston , USA , Devops BOF
• 6 november 2011, T-Dose 2011, Eindhoven, The Netherlands , Automating Complex infrastructures with Puppet
• 21 august 2011, Froscon, Sankt Augustin, Germany, Automating Complex infrastructures with Puppet
• 21 august 2011, Froscon, Sankt Augustin, Germany, Devops, Devops Devops
• 18 june 2011, Devopsdays US, Mountainview , USA, Moderated the Software Packaging Panel
• 8 may 2011, opendbcamp Europe, Pula, Sardinia, Italy, MySQL-HA with Pacemaker
• 27 april 2011, PuppetCamp Europe, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Beyond Puppet
• 16 april 2011, Linux Open Administration Days (Load) 2011, Antwerp, Belgium, Using Pacemaker
• 24 march 2011, UKUUG Spring Conference, Leeds, UK, Using Pacemaker
• 23 march 2011, UKUUG Spring Conference, Leeds, UK, Automating Complex Setups with Puppet
• 5 february 2011, Drupal Developers Days Brussels 2011, Belgium , Devops for Drupal (with Dries Vanlerberghe)
• 29 january 2011, Startup Weekend Brussels 2011, Belgium, Devops, Devops, Devops

• 17 november 2010, Devoxx 2010, Antwerpen, Belgium , From Dev/Ops to DevOps. Amazing the difference one character can make. (with Patrick Debois)
• 7 november 2010, T-Dose 2010 ,Eindhoven , The Netherlands, Building (Virtual) Appliances , (with Patrick Debois)
• 6 november 2010, T-Dose 2010, Eindhoven , The Netherlands, From Dev/Ops to DevOps. Amazing the difference one character can make.
• 20 october 2010, CloudCamp Ghent , Gent , Belgium , Your cloud needs a Devops Team
• 18 june 2010, Zarafa Summercamp 2010 ,Brussels , Belgium , Building (Virtual) Appliances
• 26 may 2010, Sizing Servers , Advanced Virtualization & Hybrid Clouds , Kortrijk , Belgium , Building (Virtual) Appliances
• 6 may 2010, NLUUG Voorjaarsconferentie 2010, Ede , The Netherlands , Devops, the start of a new Movement
• 11 april 2010, Loadays 2010 ,Antwerpen , Belgium, MySQL HA, with Pacemaker
• 10 april 2010, Loadays 2010 ,Antwerpen , Belgium, Devops, the start of a new Movement
• 25 march 2010, UKUUG 2010 , Manchester, United Kingdom, MySQL HA, with Pacemaker
• 7 february 2010, Fosdem 2010, Brussels, Belgium MySQL HA , An overview

• 19 december 2009, Barcamp Gent 2009 , Gent , Belgium Devops, the start of a new Movement
• 4 october 2009, T-Dose 2009 , Eindhoven , The Netherlands VirtSec, and the Open Source Impact, or the Lack thereof
• May 2009, KULAK , Kortrijk, Belgium KULAK Post Academic Course on Virtualization
• 26 march 2009, UKUUG 2009 , London United Kingdom, Open Source Virtualization, an overview
• 13 march 2009, L-Sec , Brussels ,Belgium, VirtSec, and the Open Source Impact, or the Lack thereof
• 8 february 2009, Fosdem 2009, Brussels ,Belgium, Monitoring MySQL, The Open Source Way

• 26 october 2008, T-Dose 2008, Eindhoven ,The Netherlands, Open Source Virtualization
• 25 october 2008, T-Dose 2008, Eindhoven ,The Netherlands, Drupal and MySQL Cluster Experiences
• 3 october 2008, Open Source Days 2008, Copenhagen, Denmark Open Source Virtualization
• 14 september 2008, OpenExpo Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland Open Source Virtualization
• 13 september 2008, OpenExpo Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland openQRM, the Lightning Edition
• 25 july 2008, Ottawa Linux Symposium 2008, Ottawa, Canada Monitoring Tool Shootout (with Tom De Cooman)
• 22 july 2008, OLS Virtualization Mini Summit,Ottawa, Canada openQRM is NOT dead
• 29 march 2008, Barcamp Ghent, Gent, What The Web 2.0 Should Look Like
• 20 march 2008, LinuxWorldExpo Brussels, Using openQRM to manage a Virtual Environment
• 13 march 2008, OSBC.nl , Eindhoven, The Netherlands, A Xen Case Study
• 24 february 2008, Fosdem 2008, DrupalRoom , Brussels, Drupal and MySQL Cluster Experiences
• 19 february 2008, LinuxDays.lu 2008, Luxembourg,MySQL HA
• 22 january 2008,Profoss on Virtualisation,Brussels, A Xen Case Study

• 20 juni 2007 , IT Works virtualisation, Brussels,A Xen Case Study
• 10 may 2007, NLUUG Voorjaarsconference on Virtualisation, Ede,Using openQRM to manage a Virtual Environment
• 5 may 2007, Barcamp Brussels , Scaling MySQL with MySQL Cluster

• 12 October 2006, LinuxWorldExpo , Utrecht, Large Scale Xen Deployments
• 20 June 2006, HP Linux Roadshow, Brussels, An introduction to Xen
• 4 april 2006 , TMAB Open Source , Brussels, Contributing to Open Source
• 23 march 2006, UKUUG Lisa 2006, Durham , UK , Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
• 9 February 2006, Novell On Tour, Brussels, An introduction to Xen
• 27 January 2006, LinuxDays.lu 2006, Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment

• 14 december 2005, L2U , Leuven, Large Scale System Deployment with System Imager Suite
• 16 november 2005, L2U , Leuven, An introduction to Xen
• 13 october 2005, Linux-Kongress,Hamburg, Germany : Automating Xen Virtual Machine Deployment
• 6 augustus 2005, UKUUG Linux Technical Conference, Swansea ,UK openMosix, Past Present and Future a peek at 2.6
• 16 June 2005, Linux on the Desktop and Opensquare, Brussels , Infrastructure Requirements for Linux on the Desktop
• 22 April 2005, Linux.conf.au ,Canberra, Australia , openMosix, Past Present and Future, a peek at 2.6

• 1 Oct 2004, Sane , Amsterdam, the Netherlands , openMosix, Past Present and Future
• 25 June 2004, LinuxTag , Karlsurhe, Germany , openMosix, Past Present and Future
• February 2004, Fosdem, Brussels, Belgium, An introduction to openMosix

• 16 October 2003, Linuxkongress , Saarbrucken, Germany , migShm Experiences
• 3 March 2003, L2U Leuven , An introduction to openMosix

• openMosix HOWTO
• Linux Netstation mini-HOWTO
• Linux NCD mini-HOWTO
• NeoLinux HOWTO Collection (DRAFT)
• INN and Suck Mini Howto (DRAFT)
• Notes Troubleshooting Faq on Linux
• FireWire DV Camera HOWTO (DRAFT)
• Proximus GPRS Howto (DRAFT)
• Linux and the SonyEricsson K700i (DRAFT)

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