You have your cloud running. Now it’s time to upgrade. How to do this with minimal customer impact? At Symantec, we are upgrading our platform every 6 months in order to keep up with OpenStack release schedule. During our last upgrade, we went from Havana to Icehouse with zero downtime on the data plane and… Continue reading 10 Minutes OpenStack Upgrades? Done!
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Deliver Cloud-ready Applications to End-users Using the Glance Artifact Repository
Deliver Cloud-ready Applications to End-users Using the Glance Artifact Repository As an application developer targeting the Openstack ecosystem you often face challenges delivering your software. Large clouds spanning multiple data centers, multi-tenant environments, and complex distribution scenarios – it is easy to get lost there, and hard to ensure that your application finds its way… Continue reading Deliver Cloud-ready Applications to End-users Using the Glance Artifact Repository
The Jenkings OpenStack plugin for Smooth DevOps Orchestration
The DevOps methodology is revolutionizing how enterprises approach rapid development, deployment, continuous integration and continuous delivery. It represents a fundamental change in the way businesses manage their operating environments. In this session we will discuss the tools and technologies from SUSE and the open-source community that can help you automate and streamline moving code from… Continue reading The Jenkings OpenStack plugin for Smooth DevOps Orchestration
A Few Bat@#$% Crazy Things We Did to Scale OpenStack
As Rackspace has grown the footprint of it’s Public Cloud from a few hundred nodes in 3 regions to 10’s of thousands (and growing) running in 6 global locations, we’ve had to make choices along the way. Some of them were, even by our own assessment, pretty crazy! In this talk, we’ll dive into a… Continue reading A Few Bat@#$% Crazy Things We Did to Scale OpenStack
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