Marc Skinner

Principal Solutions Architect :: mskinner@redhat.com :: cell 952.454.7811

Published blog posts :: Red Hat, Opensource.com , Enable Sysadmin

LinkedIn :: Marc Skinner

Red Hat Enterprise Twin Cities, MN Users Group

Q4::2024

Agenda
Sponsorship - Keith Resar from DataStax :: Graph-Powered Chatbots with LangChain
Marc Skinner from Red Hat:: Hardening RHEL, in the real world!
Mike Savage from Red Hat:: Red Hat ISAM (Red Hat Infrastructure Standard Adoption Model)
Dean Peterson from Red Hat:: Red Hat AI

Q3::2024

Agenda
Gregg Scott from Red Hat :: Defend Yourself with Red Hat Security
Sponsorship - JC Lopez from IBM:: Climb to New Heights with IBM Storage Fusion
Andrew Sullivan and Jonny Rickard from Red Hat:: Ask Me Anything OpenShift Admin (AMA Archive)
Josh Reeder from Mayo Clinic:: Fox-worthy Engineering: ad hoc solutions that taught me to rtfm
Examples:
alert.html
date-validation.html
hmc-report.html
ipa_hosts.html
permutate.html
port-check.html
reboot_required.html
tv.html
unscramble.html

Q2::2024

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Red Hat Identity Management (IDM)
Dean Peterson from Red Hat:: Red Hat Trusted Software Supply Chain for a Developer-First Experience
Sponsorship - Tom Lapp from Portworx:: Enabling the Modern Application Platform: Containers and Virtualization
Ryan Etten from Red Hat:: Red Hat Zero Trust

Q1::2024

Agenda
Aaron Brendel from Red Hat :: Event Driven Ansible (EDA)
Dean Peterson from Red Hat:: OpenShift Trusted Application Pipeline
Pat Spinler from Mayo Clinic:: Using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform for rapid and widespread monitoring agent deployments
Ryan Nix from Red Hat:: Containers on RHEL with Podman and Podman Desktop

Q4::2023

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Red Hat Authentication with Active Directory
Mark Hooper from Red Hat:: OpenShift Day Two Operations
Anthony Herr and Chris Henderson from Red Hat:: Red Hat Architectures and Patterns
Sponsorship - CockRoach Labs :: Rise of Distributed SQL

Q3::2023

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Deep Dive into OpenSCAP
Jason Delaune from Red Hat:: SAP Automation with Ansible
Rael Rodning from Xcel Energy:: Embedding Automation in Every Team
Sponsorship - AWS :: Red Hat and AWS

Q2::2023

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Red Hat Enterprise 9 Security Tips
Josh Gavant from Red Hat:: Build an Internal Platform with OpenShift
Shawn Houston from IBM:: Where did Red Hat Storage go?
Sponsorship - AHEAD :: AHEAD & Red Hat Enterprise Automation

Q1::2023

Agenda
Sponsorship - Intel :: Autonomous Continuous Workload Optimization :: Solution Brief :: Granulate on Red Hat OpenShift :: Granulate a Red Hat Partner
Chris Anderley and Scott Hughes from Great River Energy :: Clusters as Code
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Red Hat LEAPP Migration from 7 to 8
Josh Swanson from Red Hat:: Red Hat's Device Edge Story

Q4::2022

Agenda
David White from Red Hat :: Red Hat Edge Solutions
Ben Schmaus from Red Hat :: To the Edge with OC Mirror
Ryan Etten from Red Hat :: OpenShift GitOps/ArgoCD at the Edge
Sponsorship - Perficient:: Managing OpenShift and Applications on the Edge at Scale

Q2::2022

Agenda
Josh Swanson from Red Hat :: Building, publishing and delivering Ansible content
Zach Peterson from Red Hat :: Multi-vendor network automation with Ansible Automation Platform
Anthony Herr from Red Hat :: Red Hat Validated Patterns
Marc Skinner from Red Hat:: Ansible Automation Platform with external HA PostgreSQL Cluster

Q1::2022

[Recordings]

Agenda
Eric Hendricks from Red Hat :: What's New in Image Builder
Gregg Scott from Red Hat :: What's New in Red Hat Virtualization
Ben Schmaus from Red Hat :: OpenShift Virtualization
Marc Skinner from Red Hat:: RHEL 9 Update

Q3/Q4::2021

[Recordings]

Agenda
Michael Ford from Red Hat :: AnsibleFest Updates
Dean Peterson from Red Hat :: Red Hat SSO - KeyCloak
Shawn Houston from Red Hat :: Red Hat Storage and ODF update
Marc Skinner from Red Hat:: Water cooling and sensor panels

Q2::2021

[Recordings]

Agenda
Laine Minor from Red Hat :: Quay Deep Dive
Mike Dahlgren from Red Hat :: Red Hat Summit 2021 Highlights
Dave Sirrine from Red Hat :: DevSecOps
Marc Skinner from Red Hat:: Podifing Your Docker Container

Q1::2021

[Recordings]

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: CentOS project Annoucement
Josh Swanson from Red Hat :: Infrastructure as Code
Scott Englad-Sullivan from Red Hat :: Red Hat Industrial Edge
Ben Schmaus from Red Hat:: OpenShift Baremetal IPI

Q4::2020

[Recording] [Audio Only]

Agenda
Mike McRill from Red Hat :: CodeReady Workspaces
Jon McDonald from Red Hat :: Event Based Computing: The Next Frontier
Camry Fedei from Red Hat :: Simplified Subscription Experience
Josh Swanson and Peter Scurek from Red Hat:: Provisioning In An Enterprise Setting

Q3::2020

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 vs 7 vs 8
Peter Beniaris from Red Hat :: Identity Management - Red Hat Enterprise Linux Solutions
Cady Stauss from Red Hat :: Red Hat Process Automation - Cloud-native business application development
Dean Peterson from Red Hat:: Introduction to Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management

Q2::2020

Agenda
Scott England-Sullivan from Red Hat :: What's New from Summit 2020
Chris Henderson from Red Hat :: Red Hat Product Security - Annual Security Risk Report
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Advanced Networking with NetworkManager in RHEL8 for Servers
Josh Swanson from Red Hat:: Security Compliance: A Tale of Two Techniques

Q1::2020

Agenda
Shawn Houston from Red Hat :: Red Hat Ceph Storage 4 | The Story Continues
Jon Brassow from Red Hat :: Virtual Storage at Red Hat
Josh Swanson from Red Hat :: Some Assembly Required: Smart/Cloud Management
Matt Broberg from Red Hat:: Twitter, Reddit, or StackOverflow?

Q4::2019

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Satellite 6.6 Update, then Hammer Time!
Sponsorship - Perficient :: Azure Red Hat Openshift: a .NET Developer’s Experience
Dean Peterson from Red Hat :: CQRS and Event Sourcing with Openshift 4
Keith Resar from Red Hat:: Automating Satellite with.. Ansible!

Q3::2019

Agenda
Anthony Herr from Red Hat :: RHEL HA Update and Feedback
Sponsorship - Keyva :: Integrating ServiceNow with Ansible
Chris Henderson from Red Hat :: Red Hat Product Security - Bringing Value to Customer Subscriptions
Keith Resar from Red Hat:: YAML - A Series of Unfortunate Indents
Mike Dahlgren from Red Hat :: Ansible Tips and Tricks

Q2::2019

Agenda
Mohit Goyal from Red Hat :: Cloud Management Services for RHEL
Josh Swanson from a large manufacturing company :: Satellite 6 Journey and Best Practices
Sponsorship - Brad Barnes from Redis Labs :: Running Geo-distributed Applications with Redis Enterprise on Red Hat Openshift
Greg Scott from Red Hat :: Open our Security Practices

Q1::2019

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: RHEL 8 Beta Update
James McShane from HealthPartners :: Managing our OpenShift Infrastructure
Sponsorship - Dmitriy Sandler from SysDig :: SysDig - Empowering OpenShift and Prometheus
Kieth Resar from Red Hat :: From Metrics to Insight, Prometheus by Example

Q4::2018

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: RHEL 7.6 Highlights
Kieth Resar from Red Hat :: Ansible Operator SDK for Kubernetes
Scott McCarty from Red Hat :: Next generation container tooling
Sponsorship - Steve Clatterbuck from WWT :: Automation for everyone: Ansible for more than just Linux sysadmins
Scott England-Sullivan from Red Hat :: OCP 3.11 and beyond

Q3::2018

Agenda
Terry Bowling from Red Hat :: Future of package management!
Sponsorship - Jose Alonso from CROSSVALE :: OpenShift CloudBalancer
James McShane from HealthPartners :: Continuous Delivery with OpenShift at HealthPartners
Ashley Nelson from General Mills and Mike Dahlgren from Red Hat :: Ansible at General Mills

Q2::2018

Agenda
Ryan Hennessy from Red Hat :: Red Hat Software Collections
Kieth Resar from Red Hat :: SystemD Tips and Tricks
Sponsorship - Dillan Turnbull from F5 :: Leveraging F5 load balancing in a multi-cloud deployment of OpenShift, automated by Ansible
Shawn Houston from Red Hat :: CEPH Object: Emerging use cases for modern Enterprises

Q1::2018

Agenda
Greg Scott from Red Hat :: Spectre/Meltdown Update
Ben Schmause, Anthony Herr and Chris Fields from Red Hat :: OpenStack Update
Dave Sirrine from Red Hat :: Identity Management (IDM)
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: New RHEL7.5 features: VDO, USBGuard, NBDE, and AIDE

Q4::2017

Agenda
Sean Shore from Best Buy :: Security policy validation and enforcement at Best Buy using Puppet and Ansible.
Terry Bowling from Red Hat :: RHEL7.4 System Roles
Eric Sandeen from Red Hat :: Red Hat File systems and beyond

Q3::2017

Agenda
Ashley Nelson from General Mills :: Building workflows and deploying to the cloud with Ansible Tower
Anurag Saran from Red Hat :: Talk Talk - Chat Chat
Sam Yangsao and Greg Scott from Red Hat :: RHV 4.x and Ansible, RHV 4.x demo slides
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Red Hat Hyper-converged Infrastructure

Q2::2017

Agenda
Dave Federlein from Red Hat :: Moving from Ansible CLI to Tower
Will Nix from Red Hat :: Insights generated Ansible automation
Tom Hudak from Best Buy :: Ansible at Best Buy
Jon Jozwiak from Red Hat :: Ansible 101

Q1::2017

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Tips and Tricks
Keith Resar from Red Hat :: Container Storage Best Practices in 2017
Shawn Houston from Red Hat :: Storage for OpenShift Containers featuring Red Hat Gluster Storage
Greg Hoelzer from Red Hat :: OpenShift Hyper-Converged Infrastructure Bare Metal Deployment with Containerized Gluster

Q3::2016

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Kpatch to the rescue
Greg Hoelzer from Red Hat :: Secure Data Service and API Management
Will Nix from Red Hat :: Security and Proactive Response with Insights
Marc Skinner and Mike Dahlgren from Red Hat :: OpenSCAP Scanning in Satellite 6 and CloudForms

Q2::2016

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Hidden Performance Tooling
Jonathan Sulman from General Mills :: Performance Monitoring at General Mills
D. John Shakshober from Red Hat :: Performance Analysis and Tuning Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Q1::2016

Agenda
Sherry Yu from Red Hat :: SAP Clustering
David Federlein from Red Hat :: Ansible 2.0
Ian Pilcher from Red Hat :: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 Roadmap
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: DM-Cache
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Red Hat Linux in Azure

Q4::2015

Agenda
Ashley Nelson from General Mills :: CloudForms at General Mills
Mike Dahlgren from Red Hat :: Ansible and CloudForms
Bob Nix from Mayo Clinic :: Discussed Red Hat Insights use at Mayo Clinic during demo of product
Red Hat provided document of screenshots of Red Hat Insights :: Red Hat Insights Screenshots
Red Hat provided presentation to explain Red Hat Insights :: Red Hat Insights
Steve Bonneville from Red Hat :: Red Hat training and certifications update
OpenStack team from Target :: Datadog monitoring on OpenStack at Target
Jon Jozwiak from Red Hat :: Red Hat OpenStack Director

Q3::2015

Agenda
Thomas Cameron from Red Hat :: SeLinux for mere mortals
Greg Hoelzer from Red Hat :: JBoss Mobile Application Platform in Action
Jeff Einhorn from Target :: Innovation in the large enterprise
Will Boege from Target :: Ceph/SSD Optimizations

Q2::2015

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Puppet 101
Mike Heldebrant from Red Hat :: Puppet and Satellite 6
Tim Klemz :: Puppet Modules, Lessons Learned
Greg Hoelzer from Red Hat :: OpenShift V3

Q1::2015

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Satellite 6
James Rankin from Red Hat :: Red Hat Storage Update
Mike Heldebrant from Red Hat :: Containers at Scale

Q3::2014

Agenda
Marc Skinner and Mike Heldebrant from Red Hat :: Cloud-Init
Ryan O'Hara from Red Hat :: HA Proxy
James Rankin from Red Hat :: Red Hat CEPH

Q2::2014

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: New tech in RHEL7
Guil Barros from Red Hat :: Red Hat Support Tools
Scott McCarty from Red Hat :: Docker
Ryan Hennessy from Red Hat :: Software Collections
Mike Barrett from Red Hat :: On-premise platform as a service (PaaS)

Q1::2014

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: FSTrim
Ben Breard from Red Hat :: SystemD
Patrick Mooney from General Mills :: Integrating RHEL and LDAP/AD
Mike Heldebrant from Red Hat :: Single sign-on with Apache

Q4::2013

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: RHEL Performance
Scott England-Sullivan from Red Hat :: Fuse 6.1 [presentor was absent due to illness]
Scott McCarty from Red Hat :: Core Builds in the Age of Cloud
Thomas Cameron from Red Hat :: Openstack Installation and Setup

Q3::2013

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: RHEV in the weeds - special sauce!
Tim Klemz from Lifetouch :: Custom RPM's and Satellite
     Supporting documents :: OracleDB Prep Spec file
Neil Hudson from Red Hat :: BRMS and Drools
Dave Sullivan from Red Hat :: SSD and AD authentication
     Supporting documents :: AD Integration options for Linux Systems
     Supporting documents :: Red Hat Reference Architecture Document: RHEL6 and AD

Q2::2013

Agenda
Thomas Cameron from Red Hat :: [Presentation Not available due to NDA] Satellite Roadmap
James Rankin from Red Hat :: Red Hat OpenStack Today and Beyond
Chris Henderson from Red Hat :: Supporting RHEL Best Practices
Brent Sordyl from Red Hat :: PaaS Market Trends

Q1::2013

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: Satellite OpenSCAP Primer
Eric Sandeen from Red Hat :: Enterprise Filesystems
Roderick Moore from Red Hat :: ManageIQ
Emily Brand from Red Hat :: CAKE
Dan Henley from Red Hat :: Opensource in the Cloud

Q4::2012

Agenda
Marc Skinner from Red Hat :: CGroups with an EAP example
Patrick Mooney from General Mills :: Puppet
Arthur Enright from Red Hat :: RHEV 3.1
Arthur Enright from Red Hat :: Red Hat OpenStack
Bill Meyer from Red Hat :: JBoss Performance Tuning