OpenStack Summit November 2014 Paris

The goal of this workshop is to give the audiences a hands-on experience in deploying multi-tier environments in OpenStack using the Orchestration service (Heat). We will also use the Telemetry service (Ceilometer) to automate the failovers and provide better availability for the applications running on top of OpenStack.

 
This is a hands-on workshop, and the audience is expected to participate. I will provide the remote environments for the exercise, you will need to have the following:

• Laptop with Wi-Fi to connect to the Internet
  
  




• Firefox or Chrome web-browser to connect to the dashboard
  
  

The number of environments is finite, so make sure not to be late.

Users will get access to a live OpenStack + Neutron setup and be able to walk through key neutron deployment use cases, with members of the Neutron core development team available to provide guidence and answer questions. At the past three OpenStack conferences we presented a similar Neutron hands on lab led by several members of the Neutron core team and it was standing room only (also one of the most popular summit videos). We'd like to run another session this time, incorporating lessons learned from the previous sessions and also including new Neutron capabilities introduced in the Juno release. Demonstrated features will include: private L2 networks using tunnels rather than vlans. Including support for overlapping IPs. L3 + NAT via neutron logical routers, Firewall as a Service, VPN as a Service, Loadbalancer as a Service, IPv6 and more!

Automation of OpenStack deployment is rapidly maturing, with many approaches now available. However the matter of ensuring that automated deployments are highly available remains to some extent the white elephant in the room - everyone wants reliable infrastructure, but setting it up often still requires complex manual work.

In this practical hands-on session, we briefly touch upon architectural considerations, and walk through usage of an implementation which automates deployment of Pacemaker / DRBD / HAProxy via Chef cookbooks, orchestrated by Crowbar in order to provide the cloud operator with a relatively simple and pain-free experience.

Unlike the similarly-named session given in Atlanta, this session will have less slideware in order to allow more time to focus on the failover process, and will be based on the Icehouse release.

Please note! Attendees wishing to follow along with the practical content presented in the workshop should bring their laptops with the latest releases of VirtualBox and Vagrant pre-installed, and visit the SUSE booth prior to the session in order to obtain prerequisite files.

Security is at, or near, the top of everyone's list of "stuff that's important," yet the management of security artifacts (such as keys and certificates) has been lacking a cohesive solution.  This is where Barbican comes into the picture.  Barbican is a ReST API plus python command line client that provides secure storage and provisioning of secrets, including keys and certificates.




This tutorial is a tour through the magical world of Barbican, led by members of the Barbican project.   




You will interact directly with a live instance of Barbican to store and retrieve secrets, orders, and containers. You will also be shown examples and use cases of how Barbican can help you on your quest to secure your secrets.




You are not expected to have any previous experience with Barbican.  A basic understanding of security components (such as keys and certificates) and a basic understanding of ReST is helpful, but not required.




By the end of the class you will know:

1)   Importance of secret storage

2)   How to store & retrieve secrets with Barbican

3)   How to submit an order with Barbican

4)   How to create a container

5)   Use cases for Barbican / Examples

6)   The future of Barbican --Ordering SSL Certs

After short introduction into machine data/log analysis each participant will receive VirtualBox VM with broken OpenStack installation. Your goal is to:

• plug your installation into troubleshooting platform




• understand/insight your installation




• diagnose existing problems




• detect which tenants/users are affected




• mitigate forthcomming issues

ZeroVM is one of the most awesome things to happen to OpenStack Swift since the project's inception. That is, ZeroVM, through the ZeroCloud Middleware, allows you to run compute intensive workloads as close to your data as possible.

In this 90 minute workshop users will learn how to work with ZeroVM on OpenStack Swift. Specifically, we will provide an introduction to ZeroVM, some of it's use cases. From there we will show how to integrate ZeroVM with Swift and run some sample workloads.