Python: the secret weapon of Fedora - FLISoL 2015
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The presentation by Bruno R. Zanuzzo discusses the significance of Python within the Fedora project, emphasizing its role in quality assurance, package management, and system utilities. It highlights Python's key features, such as being high-level and readable, making it accessible for a wide range of users including scientists and developers. The talk encourages involvement in the Fedora community and showcases various practical applications of Python in infrastructure and development.
Python: the secret weapon of Fedora - FLISoL 2015
- 1. The secret weapon of Fedora Bruno R. Zanuzzo Presented by Fedora Ambassador, QA member xmrbrz@fedoraproject.org CC-BY-SA - Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike Python
- 2. whoami 1. Today: Fedora Tester - Quality and Assurance Fedora Ambassador OeSC-Livre/XAP-Hackerspace member 2. Near future: Fedora Packager
- 3. As a engineer/developer you should: Be agnostic, put the problem and solution before technology; Be polyglot: There is no silver bullet; This presentation is my research and view as a Fedora contributor. Before we start…
- 4. Today's Topics 1. Fedora news 2. Fedora context 3. Python context / key-features 4. Python cases and demos
- 5. Workstation, Server, Cloud; Virt-manager supports ARM emulation; DNF, SystemD, Wayland; Vagrant / Atomic Host; Cockpit server management; and… way beyond that; Fedora 22 is on beta now (6 months cycle); Fedora news
- 7. Fedora Infrastructure is huge, there are DC's in multiple continents supporting many services Fedora Context
- 8. FedMsg (hook all services infrastructure) fedmsg-tail –really-pretty (example) Lets take a look closer
- 10. Infrastructure software, as we have seen; Powering *.fedoraproject.org Turbo Gears, Django, Flask Like, Koji, bodhi, pkgdb Python in Fedora...
- 11. Koji - Summary
- 12. Koji – Package details
- 13. Bodhi – some tech details
- 14. Bodhi – Updates
- 15. Anaconda Installer Fedup was also written in Python
- 16. Configuration / Management packs Many utilities in the distribution itself (general- purpose language, simple hacks that may turn in something else long-term) also, could be one-off scripts;
- 17. sudo dnf group install virtualization dnf/yum (install pkg) = python Bodhi (distribute pkg) = python Koji (build pkg to each architectures) = python Mock (generate buildroots) = python Pkgdb (meta database) = python Virt-manager = python Dependencies Other tools And.. this is just the beginning Other practical example
- 20. Scientists and Engineers (even kids) love it, because they have focus on problem solving, not software/technology; Language is high-level, highly-readable, cross- platform, has a very active community and diverse ecosystem; There is a huge theoretical and practical reference. Batteries included and third party (PyPI); github.com/vinta/awesome-python Python key-features
- 21. Language really Expressive (you can do a lot in a few lines of code); Some examples: Simple Clock (by Luciano Ramalho); Gmail Email Client; Polymorphic card games (by Luciano Ramalho); Minecraft 500 lines python; Frets on Fire; Python is fun
- 22. "Python is fast enough for our site and allows us to produce maintainable features in record times, with a minimum of developers," said Cuong Do, Software Architect, YouTube.com. "Python is one of the five most important languages that every programmer should know" Bjarne Stroustrup (C++ Creator) “Python is the most effective (programming language) for translating pure thought into action.” Eric Raymond What “they” say about Python
- 23. Bruce Eckel author best-seller Thinking java: “Life is better without keys”; “Life is short, you need python” "Python poised to become the de facto engine for modern science" Joshua Bloom, Berkeley Astronomy Department, at SciPy2012 What “they” say about Python
- 25. Computational fluid dynamics A computer simulation of high velocity air flow around the Space Shuttle during re-entry. A simulation of the Hyper-X scramjet vehicle in operation at Mach-7 Font: wikipedia CFD
- 26. Presented by Ryan Kelly (Mozilla Software Engineer) at PyCon 2015; PyPy.js is an experiment in building a fast and compliant python environment for the web. Using llvm to compile PyPy (JIT) into javascript; it can run in the browser (with asm.js) Which runs faster than CPython pypyjs.org PyCon 2015 – PyPy.JS
- 27. Github vs FedoraHosted; Virt-manager; yum/dnf; Anaconda; fedup; System-config-kickstart; Fedora-python; Where is the code?
- 28. Because we’re Pythonistas, too “The Fedora project can use your Python skills as a contribution to a global, free software movement.” “If you want to be a good writer, you need first be a good reader” Same applies to software. "A single idea shared in the open can change everything." Red Hat "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." Leonardo da Vinci Get yourself involved
- 29. Questions? CC-BY-SA - Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike xmrbrz@fedoraproject.org Contact: Slides will be available at: http://xmrbrz.fedorapeople.org/presentations/FLISoL2015