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
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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
On-demand Disaster Recovery (DR) service enablement
The traditional Disaster Recovery service providers take days to setup and bring up the environment for their customers. Is that the level of service acceptable if you plan to quickly perform routine exercise of testing or bring up the service when the real disaster strikes? In this session, we would like to share our experiences… Continue reading On-demand Disaster Recovery (DR) service enablement
Ahead of the NFV Curve through truly scale-out Network Function Cloudification
Promising to increase service agility and scalability, NFV is developing at an unprecedented pace. Virtualized network function vendors are scrambling to move their software from running on special purpose appliances to running on virtual machines. But by simply porting the code, the VNFs still can’t take full advantages of the cloud infrastructure to achieve scale-out… Continue reading Ahead of the NFV Curve through truly scale-out Network Function Cloudification
Platform as a Service (Kubernetes/Mesos + Openstack)
Openstack provides a really good and robust infrastructure as a service however doing Platform as a Service is the next challenge on the cloud architecture. Apache Mesos is a highly available resource management software for datacenters which can run on top of any cloud, physical server or container. Google Kubernetes is a cluster containter management… Continue reading Platform as a Service (Kubernetes/Mesos + Openstack)
Codership by Galleria Cluster: Do More with Galera Cluster in Your OpenStrack Cloud
Galera Cluster is already the way to achieve activeHA for OpenStack back-end databases. Yet, it is possible to do a great deal more: Galera can provide cloud user with a fully redundant database cluster in place of the traditional single-node MySQL or legacy replication or Amazon RDS. With the new geo-distribution features, it is also… Continue reading Codership by Galleria Cluster: Do More with Galera Cluster in Your OpenStrack Cloud
Understanding where value is created in your business with OpenStack
For a long time big Enterprises have spent big buck on Enterprise software to support their enterprise activities. Smart organizations are starting to realize that their resources should be focused where business value is created – the areas where they can create a secret sauce that will give them an advantage over competitors.
Trusted Docker Containers and VMs
Technologies like h/w rooted Trusted Boot and Trusted Pools have been mainstream. These assure that VMs/workloads are launching on servers with demonstrated boot time integrity. However, for Docker containers, following security questions remain open: can Docker platform be trusted, can Docker images be trusted? This presentation introduces Intel’s work to enable the transparent and trusted… Continue reading Trusted Docker Containers and VMs