Donnerstag, 23. Mai 2013

Beyond open source configuration management - Rapidly building any cloud at scale

by Tom Hatch (SaltStack)

Thursday, 23.05.2013, London I, 16:45-17:30 Uhr

Open source tools for configuration management have been available for years. But a new breed of tools is expanding the realm of what is possible. These new tools are built for the speed and scale of any cloud and now provide remote execution, orchestration and deployment of heterogeneous clouds and computing platforms, real-time infrastructure data, workflow automation, and efficient, fast communications in addition to configuration management. Thomas Hatch, creator of Salt, will detail the availability and usage of various open source management tools like Salt, ZeroMQ, Cobbler, Nova, Rundeck and Jenkins, all built for the requirements of cloud at scale and help automate data center management. Configuration management is the beginnings of what is possible with open source software for infrastructure management. Attend this presentation to learn what the bleeding edge of open source holds for data center automation.

About the author Tom Hatch:

Tom Hatch, SaltStack CTO and founder - Tom is the creator and principal architect of Salt Stack. His years of experience as principle cloud architect for Beyond Oblivion, software engineer for Applied Signal Technology, and systems admin for Backcountry.com provided real-world insights into requirements of the modern data center not met by existing tools. Tom’s knowledge and hands-on experience with dozens of new and old infrastructure management technologies helped to established the vision for Salt. Today, Tom is one of the most active contributors in the open-source community, and is widely regarded as rising star. For his work on Salt, in 2012 Tom received the Black Duck “Rookie of the Year” award and was named to the GitHub Octoverse Top 10 list for the project with the highest number of unique contributors, rubbing shoulders with projects like Ruby on Rails and OpenStack.