Lessons Learned from Adopting Open Source at Hyperscale

Time is money, so if cost is zero, do you have infinite time? The lure of open-source is often its attractive price tag, but are you getting yourself into a boondoggle that will have your CxO questioning what all your resources are doing and when your project will be production ready? There’s a broad spectrum… Continue reading Lessons Learned from Adopting Open Source at Hyperscale

Don’t just Consume; Participate: Operations and the Community

Many operators of Open Source software, including OpenStack, believe they’re simply consumers of upstream development. I think there’s a better way. In my presentation, I’ll show how the unique perspective of operators can help in the design and development process and make for a more well rounded community. We’ll talk about strategies to help operators… Continue reading Don’t just Consume; Participate: Operations and the Community

Subnet Pools and Pluggable External IP Management in OpenStack Kilo

In Juno and before, the End User needed to know the specific subnet CIDR at the time of allocation. This made it difficult to automate the allocation of subnets – especially for external or other routable subnets. In OpenStack’s Kilo, Neutron adds Subnet Pools, allowing the Operator to define a network space from which tenants… Continue reading Subnet Pools and Pluggable External IP Management in OpenStack Kilo

OpenStack Infrastructure Management with ManageIQ

NEW – Deployment and Infrastructure Management for OpenStack “The visibility you have of an OpenStack platform will determine what management functions can drive your use cases of the platform” Successful Deployment & Management of OpenStack infrastrucutre makes light work of management functions such as Capacity Management, Compute Allocation, Platform Scaling, Resource Optimisation & ChargeBack. These… Continue reading OpenStack Infrastructure Management with ManageIQ

Building the Enterprise Cloud with Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, and CoreOS

Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, and CoreOS can provide a foundation for infrastructure provisioning and application deployment in the enterprise. Openstack as a private cloud IaaS solution, is successfully driving infrastructure automation, and maximizing the utilization of compute, network and storage systems. Enterprises are also starting to use containers to manage their application lifecycle. Containers make applications… Continue reading Building the Enterprise Cloud with Openstack, Docker, Kubernetes, and CoreOS

Repeatable benchmarking of OpenStack architectures

As you plan for and execute your OpenStack installation it’s important to make sure you pick components that meet your needs for your workloads. In this session we’ll go over how to benchmark components in any permetation of OpenStack install in order to best select which component works for your hardware with your planned workloads.… Continue reading Repeatable benchmarking of OpenStack architectures

Public or Private Cloud, Amazon Web Services or OpenStack

Amazon Web Services (AWS) provides an easy on-ramp, simple swipe a credit card and you can start building clouds and cloud applications. OpenStack appears more complex: download, install, configure, manage, upgrade. So which do you use and when? In this session you will learn: What’s the difference between public, private, managed and hybrid clouds? Do… Continue reading Public or Private Cloud, Amazon Web Services or OpenStack

Fully Managed OpenStack: The Fastest Path to Production, and the Easiest Way to Evaluate SDNs

Canonical’s “BootStack” offering has set the pace for fully managed OpenStack – we will build and manage an OpenStack on your premises for a low, fixed cost per server. Along the way we have learned a few things about hardware selection, management, openstack operations, and how to evaluate SDN and storage options quickly. We’re here… Continue reading Fully Managed OpenStack: The Fastest Path to Production, and the Easiest Way to Evaluate SDNs