Category: Summit

OpenStack Juno Summit Day 2 – Summary

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Doing this sort of thing from the sidelines is much much more difficult than I’d imagined. There is so much happening at the actual event and the social streams only touch the surface of it. Again, the #vBrownBags are live streaming all week, which does help Stream: http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/vbrownbags-live/ Schedule: http://openstack.prov12n.com/vbrownbag-techtalks-schedule-atlanta/ The keynotes from today have
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OpenStack Juno Summit Day 1 – Summary

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I’m not at the summit this go around, and that is unfortunate as there are lots and lots of really excellent things going on. Here are some links I’ve collected from the twitters and some commentary on what’s been live-streamed. Live Streaming: Keynotes: http://www.openstack.org/ Tech Talks: http://professionalvmware.com/brownbags/vbrownbags-live/ Schedule: http://openstack.prov12n.com/vbrownbag-techtalks-schedule-atlanta/ Security: Security got called out in
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20% off OpenStack Cookbook

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If you're at the OpenStack summit, and missed your chance to pick up a copy of the OpenStack Cookbook from the Rackspace booth, all is not lost. You can still pick up a copy directly from Packt pub, and for the duration of the Summit, get an additional 20% off: Go here: http://www.packtpub.com/openstack-cloud-computing-cookbook-second-edition/book At checkout,
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OpenStack Summit LiveBlog – R&D DevOps on OpenStack

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Note: This is a liveblog, no edits. @Aethylred: R&D infrastructure highly variable and generates data at unpredictable rates. DevOps and #OpenStack allows researchers to control scaling. The DevOps session, Redmine for bugs, Chef/puppet, OpenLdap, svn & git, its a good OSS stack. Single portal, elastic cloud I think, for single pane for engineering, flexibility w/o
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OpenStack LiveBlog – TaskFlow and OpenStack

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Note: This is a live blog, I've not spent time editing, formatting, etc TaskFlow answers the “Statemanagement” issue. Workflows w/o state makes recovery an issue. Also reliablility can be an issue. Race conditions Manager <-> API Boundary undefined states Why does state matter? Reliability, consistency Upgrades, or recovering from the upgrades Easy to understand workflows
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OpenStack HongKong Summit – Day 1 Wrap-up

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If this rambles, I apologize. What follows next, are my impressions, thoughts, and notes from Day 1 of the November 2013 Design Summit in Hong Kong. Keynotes: The user storys this time around focused on Media, both big and small, along with Concur, the Expense reporting / management company. While not as huge as some
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OpenStack Summit LiveBlog – Bridging the Gap: Explaining OpenStack to VMware Admins

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Note: This is a live blog. It lacks formatting, editing, or any of the usual quality control that goes into these things. Bridging the Gap: Explaining OpenStack to the VMware Admin Speaking: Kenneth Hui – Open Cloud Architect, Rackspace Scott Lowe – Engineering Architect, VMware Architecture Different origins. vSphere to emulate infrastructure; OpenStack to provide
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OpenStack Summit – Summary pt 2

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This post here is a quick wrap of the sessions I presented as well as relevant links to the hands on bits: Hands on with OpenStack Cinder & OpenStack Networking Slides Do it yourself https://github.com/bunchc/summit_hands_on If you find an error, have any questions, etc. Drop me a line. PCI-DSS and Practical OpenStack Hardening Slides

OpenStack Summit – Summary part 1

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Tell you what. I am still so tired after the summit I can barely person properly three days later. So instead of trying to put together all my thoughts, I’ll leave you with some from folks who were thinking clearly: http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/04/03/devops-upgrade-cube/ http://robhirschfeld.com/2013/04/10/openstack-interop/ http://swiftstack.com/blog/2013/04/15/openstack-summit-extending-swift-acls-and-metadata/ http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5594/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-4 http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5567/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-3 http://www.enovance.com/fr/blog/5550/openstack-havana-design-summit-in-portland-day-2 http://blog.hendrikvolkmer.de/2013/04/12/there-will-be-no-reliable-cloud-part-3/ (This was pre-summit iirc) If you have any
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OpenStack Summit 13.04 Day 1: Cloud Foundry – Your PaaS on OpenStack

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This session is being led by Ferran Rodenas of VMware and Dekel Tankel of Cloud Foundry They’ll be working us through a deep dive into CF and CF-Bosh on OpenStack as well as the integration work they’ve done for CF and OpenStack. Cloud Foundry has moved to Pivotal, a joint effort outside VMware & EMC
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OpenStack Summit – Day 3

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Talk about a breakneck week. The sessions are not just packed with people, but also with information. Rather than give you a long bullet list of the keynotes, the folks on the OpenStack blog did a pretty good job summarizing that here. Also, you really need to watch the Troy Toman keynote: I also managed
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OpenStack Summit – Day 2

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In short, I didn’t get to much other than the Keynote(s) today. Was doing some last minute prep for a 4:30p session today (Wednesday). Keynote Summary: Live streaming is available on openstack.org This is the largest summit yet, 1400 folks in attendance. Quite a few last minute, so, logistics on day 1 were a bit
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OpenStack Summit – Day 1

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Quick Summary of Monday at the OpenStack Summit. First, the important things: The conference bag was quite nice, and quite thoughtful. A carry on sized duffel bag. Mostly, this will be filled with t-shirts and non computer things for the trip back home. I got in late, so didn’t get to as many sessions as
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