As Rackspace has grown the footprint of it’s Public Cloud from a few hundred nodes in 3 regions to 10’s of thousands (and growing) running in 6 global locations, we’ve had to make choices along the way. Some of them were, even by our own assessment, pretty crazy! In this talk, we’ll dive into a… Continue reading A Few Bat@#$% Crazy Things We Did to Scale OpenStack
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Tacker: Virtual Network Function Life-cycle Management for OpenStack
NFV (Network Function Virtualization) represents a strong use case for OpenStack in the telco space. Up to this point, however, the NFV MANO (management and orchestration) working group has penciled in OpenStack as only a single component: the VIM (virtual infrastructure manager). In this talk, we will discuss OpenStack Tacker, a network service lifecycle management… Continue reading Tacker: Virtual Network Function Life-cycle Management for OpenStack
OpenStack Network Protocol Technical Contrast
OpenStack Network Protocols Technical Contrast The session will provide a comprehensive understanding of the various types of networking protocols available in OpenStack today. Each protocol will be discussed in detail related to its technical composition, use, potential impact to performance and scale as well as other benefits and limitations inherent within the protocol. There will… Continue reading OpenStack Network Protocol Technical Contrast
OpenStack: Group Based Policy Hands-on Lab
Group Based Policy (GBP) provides declarative abstractions for achieving scalable intent-based infrastructure automation within OpenStack. In this session, users will access a GBP + Neutron setup and have a tour through the most common use cases, including but not limited to policy-driven application life cycle management and advanced service chain deployment. Users will learn how… Continue reading OpenStack: Group Based Policy Hands-on Lab
The anatomy of an action: mining the event storm
A key feature when monitoring and debugging any Cloud infrastructure is to provide the ability to trace, track, and collate all the individual, discrete steps that compose an event. A typical resource action in OpenStack is often a combination of smaller tasks — which given the distributed nature of OpenStack — can fail at unpredictable… Continue reading The anatomy of an action: mining the event storm
Avni: Software Defined Cloud
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Free OpenStack Deployment Software: AQORN Thunder
AQORN will share a short promo video and talk about our new product Thunder which allows enterprises to install and manage OpenStack clouds and standalone Swift platforms.
Moving an AWS Workload to OpenStack
You’ve decided to make the switch to OpenStack. Great! Now what do you do with all of those apps already running on Amazon Web Services? Fortunately, you can move them. That’s not to say it’s simple or straightforward. OpenStack’s functionality doesn’t always match that of AWS, and custom kernels on AWS machines make it impossible… Continue reading Moving an AWS Workload to OpenStack