AppFormix: Control Application Performance from the Infrastructure

Controlling the performance of your applications in real-time and maximizing the efficiency of virtual infrastructure within OpenStack and Docker Environments is the key to boosting IT ROI. In this demo, we will show how application performance and maximizing infrastructure utilization can exist in perfect harmony.…Full session details here:

Orchestration across multiple cloud platforms using HEAT

Heat allows the user to set up HOT templates that describe the dependencies and the flow of the infrastructure resources that should be deployed to meet specific use case requirements. The Heat engine understands the order it needs to orchestrate the execution of the flow defined in the template. Apart from Orchestrating the template execution… Continue reading Orchestration across multiple cloud platforms using HEAT

Creating custom elements for Diskimage-builder

Diskimage-builder (DIB) is an awesome method for creating guest images for both metal and vm use. DIB is generally considered part of TripleO, but it can be used for any style cloud that would benefit from automated, repeatable, formula driven guest images. In this presentation, I would like to demonstrate some of the basics of… Continue reading Creating custom elements for Diskimage-builder

Resilient fast data store for Docker Containers with EMC XtremIO

EMC XtremIO all flash array is known for it’s high throughput and fast IOPS. ClusterHQ Flocker integrates EMC XtremIO with Docker persistence storage and brings all the goodies of flash with resiliency. The video demo demonstrates the details of how this can be achieved by using a plugin developed by EMC and ClusterHQ.

Docker Networking in OpenStack: What you need to know now.

Docker had a breakout year in 2014 with more than 100M downloads and its momentum continues into this year. While virtualization technology abstracts away the hardware, Docker instead abstracts away the OS. While this seems like an incremental improvement, this design paradigm of bringing virtualization one layer closer has potentially tremendous ramifications. But what new… Continue reading Docker Networking in OpenStack: What you need to know now.

Managing logging in your OpenStack environment

Given an OpenStack deployment where services are varied and distributed across many hosts, creating an efficient and usable logging solution can present quite a few challenges. From an Operators perspective, not having useful or easily accessible logs can massively hamper issue resolution and health checking efficiency, but what can we do to ensure the logs… Continue reading Managing logging in your OpenStack environment

Big Data Analytics and Docker: The Thrilla in Manila

Docker containers are an ideal platform for the Big Data analytics use case because of their unique security and performance advantages. Big Data work loads typically use distributed file systems to provide shared access to both input and output data sets. OpenStack Manila is an excellent way to manage distributed file systems in the Cloud… Continue reading Big Data Analytics and Docker: The Thrilla in Manila