Ragnar Hongset

Ragnar Hongset has been acting as an consultant, advisor and architect for some large Norwegian companies like : Telenor, Nextgentel, Conax, UiO, HelseNord, Nets, Evry, DNB.

RagHon Consulting started as a Solaris/Sun competence consulting company, but has since changed focus to the open source world, with RedHat/Ubuntu, VMware, Cloud Computing, but still providing services for former SUN customers, who still has some Solaris infrastructure.

I have one huge flaw : I dislike manual rutines

My solution is usually scripting with the best tool available.

This days I prefer Docker, perl, python or vRealize Orchestrator.

I did even create my own package manager for distributing packages to any UNIX/Linux platform.

(Used by some large companies like **ask me** for distributing backup clients, and other small agents).

The reason they choose to use this package manager and not a puppet/chef/cfengine solution using native packages is simple: some customers will not or cannot install a config management agent on all serves. So they use my small script which is just a self extracting zip archive, which know the customers environment and configure the correct interface against the correct backup/monitor/xx server on that network.

Main competence :

- OS: RedHat / Ubuntu /Vmware and Solaris

- Programming: Perl/Python/bash/ksh/javascript/vRealize Orchestrator (vco),docker

- Clustering: Sun Cluster, and scripted clusters

- Security: RBAC, TSOL, SELINUX,

- Databases: MySQL, Postgresql, Oracle, Sybase

- Applications: Apache, Nginx, and many more

- Cloud API: vmware vcac, softlayer,docker