Friday, May 24, 2013

TripleO: OpenStack on OpenStack

by Monty Taylor (HP)

Friday, 24.05.2013, London II, 14:00-14:45 Uhr

Typical cloud deployments - be it Openstack, Eucalyptus etc - have a separate control layer installed and upgraded using separate tools (which might be hand-configured PXE + preseeding, Cobbler, Orchestra/MAAS, FAI etc). As a result you have two distinct provisioning systems in play, which allows for more user error and increased special cases in automation.

Using Openstack’s bare-metal hypervisor, my team are building a fully self contained cloud, where the control layer for the cloud is itself deployed and upgraded via the same cloud API.

Come hear me talk about the challenges involved in bootstrapping and operating such an environment, the benefits it can bring and what you can do with it!

About the author Monty Taylor:

Monty works full-time on OpenStack for HP, leading the team that runs the Developer Infrastructure and CI systems for the project, as well as a team working on OpenStack on OpenStack Bare Metal installations. Previously, he was a core developer on Drizzle and was a Senior Consultant for MySQL, Inc. He's been a Python hacker by choice since 2000, and is currently a member of the Python Software Foundation.

Monty has a degree in Theatre Directing and went to grad school at CalArts in lighting design. The intersection of fields has led him to start more than one business around developing technology for and related to live performance. He lives in New York and continues to work in the theatre having lit shows over the past year in New York, Seattle, San Francisco and Austin.