OpenStack Summit November 2014 Paris

OpenStack is an open source project to enable enterprise and service provider building their own IaaS infrastructure, and it is fundamentally changing the landscape of enterprise IT.  Software defined infrastructure embraces the wave of software enabling technologies that fundamentally change the economics of compute, storage and networking. These visions are clear and widely adopted, and executions are happening.

This talk will introduce Intel s SDI initiatives that provide the enabling ingredients to cloud computing and software defined infrastructure; Huawei s deployment Ops initiatives that automate provision of distributed system, such as OpenStack infrastructure, on bare-metal resources; and Canonical s Juju initiatives that provide the application automation on cloud. Audience will get a reference design for thinking toward their own software defined infrastructure roadmap, from choosing hardware components all the way to the application management, with the great flexibility that cloud and SDI initiatives promised.

(Intel, Canonical, Huawei)

Planning, engineering, and getting to done on an OpenStack private cloud project isn t simple, cheap, or risk-free. But this group presentation will help make your contemplated OpenStack adventure as simple as possible -- breaking down best-practice into manageable steps and meaningful decisions for executives, project managers, and technology architects.

 
Working from best-practice recipes developed and tested in dozens of real-world, production-scale OpenStack deployments, we ll explain just what you need to know to:

• Lead OpenStack projects: getting them budgeted and launched with appropriate executive oversight and expectations
  
  




• Manage OpenStack projects, end-to-end, with agility and efficiency (plus flexibility when the unexpected happens).
  
  




• Architect OpenStack clouds (or collaborate effectively with architects): What to think about when designing a business-ready, robust cloud, and how to arbitrate design vs. bottom line conflicts.
  
  

We ll also tackle the problem of OpenStack complexity from the exec, PM and technologist viewpoints --  talk about how it affects each discipline s decision-making, and offer prescriptions for avoiding communications fails and enable good synch from project start to finish.
 

You ll leave this presentation with a tried-and-true organizational recipe for successful OpenStack cloud building, along with many practical tips for ensuring project success.

In July, 2014 The OpenStack Foundation brought twelve members of the OpenStack community together at VMware HQ in Palo Alto, California to produce the OpenStack Design Guide in just 5 days.  This panel brings many of these authors together for an open discussion about how to architecture an OpenStack cloud.

Bring your real-world questions and be prepared to talk OpenStack architecture with a panel of experts from across multiple disciplines and companies. We'll be drawing on real architecture and design problems taken from real-world experiences working with, and developing solutions, built on OpenStack. Following a brief introduction, panelists are ready to field questions from both the moderator and audience members and provide ongoing discussion the design process for architecting cloud solutions based on OpenStack.

High availability in OpenStack can be achieved in many ways.  In this session we will describe how Docker can be used to provide an active-active highly available OpenStack environment. We will focus the real world work that we have done to "Dockerize" OpenStack services, detail the advantages to this type of deployment (rapid deployment, rapid scale out, versioning, etc.), and walk through our design - from requirements, limitations, obstacles, and especially our decisions.

We will use our experiences as examples to provide real world best practices, as well as showing a demonstration of the environment in action.

Last summit I had the pleasure to present a talk which encountered some success Are enterprise ready for the OpenStack transformation? .   This talk is a follow up on what are the best practices that are successful in operating the transformation.  We will first focus on identifying the right use cases for a generic enterprise, then define a roadmap with an organizational and a technical track, to finish with the definition what would be our success criterias for our group.   This will happen as a workshop summary based on the multiple engagement eNovance has been delivering over the past 2 years.

Ladies and gentlemen boys and girls dyin time s here.  

No, not really. But in this session, five highly opinionated Stackers will lock horns over the best way to bring about global dominance of OpenStack as the default cloud-building platform. 

Jesse Proudman of Blue Box, Randy Bias of Cloudscaling, Alex Freedland of Mirantis, Chris Kemp of Nebula, and Christopher MacGown of Piston will each argue their cases for the roles that distros, appliances, managed services, PCaaS, public cloud, consulting/training/DIY and the Foundation have to play in leveraging OpenStack s meteoric rise to prominence into the dominant cloud-building platform it seems destined to become.

Keeping all these opinions in check and guiding the table-pounding and voice-raising to something constructive will be Caroline McCrory of GigaOm Research. Bring your opinions but check your assumptions at the door, and enter the room with an open mind. This crew is ready to inform, challenge and surprise the audience with tweet-worthy observations and actionable ideas that we can use to propel OpenStack to world domination.

Five champions enter