The Road to rolling upgrade of Intel IT private cloud

We started our production from OpenStack Havana while it’s time for Kilo. There will be a new OpenStack release with lots of bugfix and new features every 6 months. It’s really a challenge for Enterprise IT to define its upgrade strategy and perform a successful upgrade. In this session, we will introduce our upgrade strategy… Continue reading The Road to rolling upgrade of Intel IT private cloud

OpenStack Networking: It’s time to talk Performance

Now that Neutron has been established as the OpenStack Networking component and with the ongoing efforts in the Neutron community to make it a more stable, more efficient, and more scalable component, it is time to provide a broad analysis of the performance and scalability of Neutron. In this talk we discuss a methodology for… Continue reading OpenStack Networking: It’s time to talk Performance

Manila 101 & Use Cases

Manila provides an automated, on-demand, and scalable service for delivering shared and distributed file systems all via an open, standardized API developed within the OpenStack effort, but made available for usage independent of what cloud ecosystem is utilized. For the first time, cloud users can self-provision and manage shared file systems as first-class objects to… Continue reading Manila 101 & Use Cases

[Panel] All Together Now: OSS Cross-Collaboration For a Network-Enabled Cloud

Several key open source projects have emerged in the virtualization space in the past few years — OpenDaylight, OpenStack, Open vSwitch, OPNFV — and the communities have been working together to integrate their respective pieces. Panelists represent each of these projects and discuss how they collaborate to enable a network-based cloud. Colin Dixon, OpenDaylight; David… Continue reading [Panel] All Together Now: OSS Cross-Collaboration For a Network-Enabled Cloud

What Your Customers Don’t Know About OpenStack Might Hurt You

What Your Customers Don’t Know About OpenStack Might Hurt You OpenStack is complicated, and explaining it to app developers and other consumers of the services it delivers can be a tough, thankless and often counterproductive task. But if you don’t cover the basics, small misunderstandings can bloom into major headaches as you move to production.

Telecom Grade Performance for Telecom Cloud?

Since the transformation of networks towards a fully virtualized environment will take a time, mixed deployments will be a reality for the years to come. During Network Transformation service provider requirements with regard to overall network performance and NF characteristics with regard to e.g. latency or high availability (99.999%) have to be met. To ensure… Continue reading Telecom Grade Performance for Telecom Cloud?

Real World Experiences with Upgrading OpenStack at Time Warner Cable

How much work is it really to upgrade to newer versions of OpenStack? What problems might you run into and what should you tell your customers about it? We’ll talk about our experiences as an operator upgrading services individually and in bulk to both Kilo and Juno. Topics covered will include: * Our testing approach… Continue reading Real World Experiences with Upgrading OpenStack at Time Warner Cable

Security through community: How the security group is building security into each OpenStack release

The OpenStack Security Group exists to actively drive security features, best practice and guidance into OpenStack services. In the last year a number of projects have taken off and are now ready for wider adoption in OpenStack. In this talk we review the various projects that are currently running as part of the OSSG and… Continue reading Security through community: How the security group is building security into each OpenStack release