Events

The OpenNebula Cloud TechDays are day-long educational and networking events to learn about OpenNebula. Join our technical experts from OpenNebula by OpenNebula Systems for a one-day, hands-on workshop on cloud installation and operation. You’ll get a comprehensive overview of OpenNebula and will be equipped with the skills to take this back to your company and implement right away.

The number of seats is limited to ensure there is plenty of opportunity for everyone to interact. We encourage everyone to register as early as possible.

We are looking forward to your registration!

Agenda and Speakers

Agenda includes a hands-on cloud installation and operation tutorial, and presentations from OpenNebula community members and users.

9:00-9:15: Registration

9:15-9:30: Welcome Talk

Tino Vázquez, OpenNebula Systems TBC

9:30-12:30: Hands-on Tutorial

Sergio Semedi, OpenNebula SystemsThis hands-on tutorial will give an overview of how OpenNebula is used to build and operate private clouds. The attendees will build, configure and operate their own OpenNebula cloud.

Contents

• Configuration and basic usage
• An introduction to cloud computing with OpenNebula
• The architecture of the cloud
• Planning and installing OpenNebula
• Virtualization hosts management
• Basic datastore configuration
• Basic virtual network creation
• VM Template creation & instantiation

Methodology

This is an interactive course, where the attendees operate on their own labs with a 3-node OpenNebula cloud, which are provided during the course. OpenNebula provides an abstraction layer on top of the infrastructure and technologies deployed in the datacenter. In order for the attendees to get the best understanding possible of OpenNebula as a whole, the labs used during the course make use of the most common open-source technologies that can be used to deploy an OpenNebula cloud. For example, the hypervisor technology used during the course will be KVM, shared file-system for storage, and regular linux bridges and linux firewall for networking. Other technologies supported by OpenNebula will be addressed and discussed as well.

Audience

The target audience is devops and system administrators interested in deploying a private cloud solution, or in the integration of OpenNebula with other platform.

Skills Gained

• Describe the features and benefits of using virtualization and clouds
• Describe different architectures for a cloud that can be deployed with OpenNebula
• Deployment and basic configuration OpenNebula
• Basic operation of an OpenNebula cloud instance

Prerequisites

No prior OpenNebula skills are required, but participants should have working knowledge of virtualization, networking and Unix/Linux systems.

Material

The instructor will rely on a set of PDF documents that will be explained throughout the course. These documents will be made available to the attendees right at the very beginning of the course. Attendees need a laptop to connect to their hands-on labs.

12:30-13:30: Lunch

13:30-16:00: Workshop

13:30 – 14:30: LINSTOR – Resilient and performant open source SDS for OpenNebula

Phil Reisner, LINBIT, CEOThe Linux kernel has a large set of very powerful storage functionalities such as LVM, thin provisioning, RAID, SSD as HDD caches, deduplication, targets/ initiators, and DRBD. They are all compatible on the data plane, but each brings its own control mechanism. LINSTOR makes use of all of these tools to build and manage block storage volumes (replicated either synchronously or asynchronously) as part of a larger storage cluster. It comes with connectors for OpenNebula and OpenStack/Cinder and Kubernetes and can be used on dedicated storage nodes or in a hyperconverged way with Linux-based OpenNebula hypervisor nodes. This approach can be really powerful for IO-intensive workloads such as databases and works well both on hyper-converged infrastructure or on dedicated storage nodes.

14:30 – 15:00: Considerations on Smart Cloud Implementations

Arne Heitmann, Mellanox, EMEA Staff System Engineer Cloud deployments that rely on SW defined components, such as SW defined Storage, depend on a proper and efficient network implementation. This presentation discusses some aspects that help building a reliable and performing architecture. We will have a look at how HW offloads free up resources, i.e. with VXLAN and OVS offloading and RoCE, in an end system and how the networking devices support an efficient communication.

15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:00: Migration as a path to Hybrid Cloud

Jev Vainsteins, Canonical, BD Manager Certified Public Cloud EMEA & APAC TBD.

16:00-16:30: Open Space

This is a session for attendees to gather and discuss passionate questions, burning ideas, features, integrations or any topic of their choice, in an informal and tech-friendly environment, with other passionate and interested people.There is no preplanned list of topics, only time slots and a space in one of the meeting rooms where interested participants propose topics and pick time slots.

The inaugural 2018 Open Compute Project (OCP) Regional Summit will be held October 1-2 at the RAI Exhibition and Convention Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands. The annual regional Summit brings together key decision makers, executives, engineers, developers and suppliers in developing regions where OCP is experiencing significant demand and adoption.

• Keynote presentations will focus on key issues specific to the European region
• Engineering Workshops will feature in-depth discoveries from the project groups
• Expo Hall will be packed with the latest OCP hardware and software offerings

Join the Nordic OpenStack community in Stockholm

OpenStack Days Nordic – Stockholm 2018 is a two-day event with a mission to increase Awareness, Utilization and Competence surrounding OpenStack. The event consists of presentations and educational opportunities over two days and the topics span everything from cloud strategy and business case development to operational best practices and technical deep dives.

The event is a platform for collaboration and discussion between existing and potential community members. Here you will find the majority of OpenStack experts, potential partners, customers and vendors in the nordic region. Apart from getting to know one of the largest open source communities in the world, you get insights from the core of the OpenStack project, success stories, technical briefs, training sessions and future development plans by users of the platform.

Open Source Summit Europe is the leading conference for developers, architects and other technologists – as well as open source community and industry leaders – to collaborate, share information, learn about the latest technologies and gain a competitive advantage by using innovative open solutions.

Open Source Summit connects the open source ecosystem under one roof. It covers the cornerstone open source technologies with sub-conferences LinuxCon, ContainerCon and CloudOpen; helps ecosystem leaders to navigate open source transformation with the Community Leadership Conference, Diversity Empowerment Summit and tracks on business and compliance; and delves into the newest technologies and latest trends touching open source, including networking, serverless, edge computing, AI and much more. It is an extraordinary opportunity for cross-pollination between the developers, sysadmins, devops professionals and IT architects driving the future of technology.

OpenNebula is the open-source platform of choice in the converged data centre, providing a simple, albeit flexible and powerful, cloud manager that supports traditional IT features and the dynamic provisioning of modern enterprise cloud. With thousands of deployments, OpenNebula has a very wide user base that includes leading companies in banking, technology, telecom and hosting, and research.

OpenNebula Conferences are education events that serve as a meeting point of cloud users, developers, administrators, integrators and researchers, featuring talks with experiences and use cases. They also include tutorials, lightning talks, and hacking sessions that provide an opportunity to discuss burning ideas, and meet face to face to discuss development. Previous speakers include Santander Bank, CentOS, European Space Agency, Akamai, FermiLab, Puppet, Red Hat, BlackBerry, Telefonica, Akamai, Runtastic, Unity, Citrix, Trivago …