Beyond the Horizon: Innovating and Customizing Horizon using AngularJS

Are you looking to customize more than just the logo for your dashboard? Possibly adding content from a new API? Adding status icons to the table? Adding more contextual help text for your users? Improving the slow data load for large tables? This session is for you! Today, Horizon is a Django-based project that provides… Continue reading Beyond the Horizon: Innovating and Customizing Horizon using AngularJS

Pacemaker: OpenStack’s PID 1

My name is David Vossel. I’m a core developer of the Pacemaker project and author of Pacemaker Remote. I want to share our success with scaling the Pacemaker cluster resource manager to meet the requirements necessary automate recovery of OpenStack controller and compute nodes. OpenStack’s architecture consists of a set of distributed components capable of… Continue reading Pacemaker: OpenStack’s PID 1

Moving Enterprise Apps to OpenStack-based Clouds

Complex multi-tier enterprise applications assume reliable hardware and typically have dependencies on underlying operating systems, hardware configurations, and network topologies. The boundary between one application or service and another is often unclear. These traits make many enterprise applications difficult to move entirely to a public cloud.

Deploying Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 on NetApp Storage

Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® OpenStack Platform and NetApp clustered Data ONTAP provide the foundation for a modern, supportable, integrated, and scalable hybrid cloud deployment. NetApp storage systems have been pre-integrated, pre-tested, and certified to work with the Red Hat OpenStack Platform to ensure an enterprise-grade hybrid cloud solution based on the OpenStack Juno platform.

Developing the next generation of Containerized applications with libcontainer

One of the great Container advances in 2014 was the advent of Docker. However, many people still don’t realise that Docker itself is really a Container application i.e. a consumer of containers technology rather than a provider of it (the containers currently used by Docker are provided by the Linux Kernel). This confusion comes about… Continue reading Developing the next generation of Containerized applications with libcontainer

The Next Step of OpenStack Evolution for NFV Deployments

NFV is now a well-known concept and in an early deployment stage, leveraging and adapting OpenStack and other Open Source Software systems. In the OPNFV project, a large group of industry peers is building a carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform for the NFV community. The telco industry has successfully adopted Open Source Software for… Continue reading The Next Step of OpenStack Evolution for NFV Deployments

A DevOps State of Mind

A DevOps State of Mind Rapid innovation, changing business landscapes, and new IT demands force businesses to make changes quickly. The DevOps approach is a way to increase business agility through collaboration, communication, and integration across different teams in the IT organization.