OpenStack delivers a massively scalable cloud management framework for use by any organization running on standard hardware. Joshua McKenty, one of OpenStack’s founders at NASA and a driving force behind its continued success, will discuss how OpenStack got its start, how it’s changing the cloud computing landscape, and the future of OpenStack in this new era of cloud computing.
In particular, Joshua will describe the major components of OpenStack — the virtual machines, virtual hard-drives, object storage, virtual networks, image registry, and the dashboard — as well as the associated sub-projects and the OpenStack services that combine to provide an incredibly flexible self-service infrastructure platform. He’ll also talk about some of the diverse use cases for OpenStack and the exciting ways in which companies are extending the capabilities and accessibility of OpenStack through partnerships and technology development.
Modern web and mobile applications demand a highly-available,
distributed object storage system that supports highly-concurrent
workloads. OpenStack Swift solves these problems at large services
providers, top web properties and large enterprises.
This talk will also provide an overview of Swift’s architecture where
you will learn about the components of Swift. This talk will also
cover use cases including high-volume websites, mobile application
development, custom file-sharing applications, data analytics and
providing private/public storage infrastructure-as-a-service.
This talk is also for those who want to understand the design goals of
Swift and how to best make use of this component of OpenStack. It’s a
great introduction for those interested in using or learning more
about Swift.
A presentation to introduce new members of the OpenStack Community to Nova. This will include a brief history of the project, an overview of the supporting projects (Glance, Keystone, Horizon, etc), API examples, and Nova architecture. The intended audience would be both new members of the community and more business-focused attendees as well as technical attendees who would like a good overview (or refresher) on Nova.
Let me tell you a dirty little secret. While OpenStack is a great project, it is extremely complicated for and indivdual with an engineering/operations focus vs a programming focus to get to their first code contribution.
My name is Colin, I am and engineer. Although I initially got involved with OpenStack in the context of operations, I quickly was drawn into actually contributing code to the project. What I found is that many of the tools and workflows used to contribute to OpenStack are completely foreign to those (like me) with an operations focus.
In this session I will go over the biggest challenges that I faced as an engineer contributing. And review the tools and techniques to that I used to get past them. This information will be presented with the goal of arming engineers just getting involved with the knowledge tools necessary to get to their first successful contribution and beyond.
Learning objectives
1. The importance of community - Leveraging the power of the meeting
2. Talking your employeer into supporting OpenStack and the CLA
3. Setting up your dev environments - getting beyond Devstack
4. Getting git, using the git repository for those that don't code for a living
5. Testing your code - what do you mean it doesn't build?
6. How to give back, and get other people involved in the community.
Limitations of hardware-dependent networks are preventing enterprises from realizing the full potential of cloud computing, and therefore vastly limiting the return on their investment. Traditional networks don't scale in the same way storage and compute resources can scale and the only option generally is to scale up (purchasing bigger networking devices). There are several cons to this approach, such as; it’s not linearly scalable, it is expensive and this approach can cause service interruptions. The solution: virtualize the network.
In this session, Ben Cherian will educate the audience on what network virtualization is and the potential for this modern approach.
Hear about how to get started deploying OpenStack and XenServer, including a demo of a new tool to help move your exisiting images into a XenServer based OpenStack cloud. Also come along to hear more about how Rackspace deploy XenServer in their public cloud.
The talk will hopefully include guest speakers: Mate Lakat (Citrix) and Chris Behrens (Rackspace)
In this session we will explain our vision of how OpenStack will gain relevance in the datacenter to become the cornerstone from which all the services required for operation, existing or new, are going to be managed. This vision is the result of the feedback StackOps gets from users and customers worldwide. There are already service providers basing all their operations in OpenStack, many new OpenStack services being launched in different parts of the world and large companies betting on OpenStack as the main revenue generator for the future.
This change will be a process that will occur at different paces in the many different regions, sectors and businesses, due to factors of economic, legal, cultural and technological nature. In all cases, the result will be a total abstraction of most of the current datacenter procedures through automation, with the consequent gain in efficiency.
This process has a common denominator in all cases: it needs to be non-disruptive from the business perspective. This will be achieved by balancing out:
simplicity, not only on the deployment phase but most important on the daily operation
a high level of customization to match the specifics of each business
integrability with existing applications and or services
For all three elements, the OpenStack ecosystem has the challenge to find the right balance for each customer and evolve to fill in the existing gaps.
