Author: OpenStack

OpenStack: Massively Distributed OpenStack — Thinking outside the Data Center

OpenStack Sydney: Taking OpenStack out of the data center to create massively distributed clouds was the talk of the Boston Summit. OpenStack is starting to be used for use cases that were never imagined; think about the possibility of a global swarm of hundreds, thousands or even millions of nodes. Massively distributed OpenStack architectures require… Continue reading OpenStack: Massively Distributed OpenStack — Thinking outside the Data Center

OpenStack: OpenStack images that fit your imagination – deep dive into container images in Kolla

OpenStack Sydney: Deploying OpenStack using docker containers provides a lot of benefits; it’s quick, upgradable, easy to maintain, and is very easy to reproduce the golden state. The OpenStack Kolla project provides a model, definition and the infrastructure to build these images, but building OpenStack images is still a time consuming, complicated task and the… Continue reading OpenStack: OpenStack images that fit your imagination – deep dive into container images in Kolla

OpenStack: Five ways with hypervisor network performance

OpenStack Sydney: In network-intensive virtualised compute, the battle for performance is won or lost in the hypervisor. How can OpenStack architects make the right choice for a hypervisor networking strategy? This talk will explore some of the common ways that hypervisors can be configured for OpenStack networking, how they each perform and the associated overheads.… Continue reading OpenStack: Five ways with hypervisor network performance

OpenStack: Communication through Code How to get work done upstream

OpenStack Sydney: One of OpenStack’s core strengths is its open review system, where anyone can assess and improve code submissions to help reduce problems before they become bugs and maintainability nightmares. This makes our code stronger but it also turns code review into a game of “find something wrong with it”, which can be daunting… Continue reading OpenStack: Communication through Code How to get work done upstream

OpenStack: Ambassador Community Report

OpenStack Sydney: Meet with the ambassadors on this session where they will introduce the improvements of the last half year and share their feelings and experience about the community. If you are a user group organizer you must be there, and feel free to share your thoughts and feelings with us! OpenStack Ambassadors connect the… Continue reading OpenStack: Ambassador Community Report

OpenStack: Trove Project Update

OpenStack Sydney: The Trove project is going through a significant transition and the presentation provides an update on the challenges the project faced and the proposed new course. Recently there have been a significant number of new contributors to the project, many of them from countries in Asia, and New Zealand. The talk (in Sydney)… Continue reading OpenStack: Trove Project Update