In 2024, he accepted program management responsibilities for Jetstream2 and the Midwest Research Computing and Data Consortium where he will facilitate the success of the National Science Foundation-sponsored programs.As RDA-US Program Manager, he oversees the multiple projects within... Read More →
A Pervasive Technology Institute Center and division of University Information Technology Services, Indiana University
The UITS Research Technologies team provides software, training, and systems in support of leading-edge research. We deliver high-performance computing resources, large-capacity data storage, and advanced visualization tools.Read Impact Highlights from UITS Research Technologies here... Read More →
Exhibitors to include Platinum Sponsors: VEXXHOST and Rackspace; Gold Sponsor: Lightbits Labs; Reception Sponsors: IU Pervasive Technology Institute and Jetstream2
In 2024, he accepted program management responsibilities for Jetstream2 and the Midwest Research Computing and Data Consortium where he will facilitate the success of the National Science Foundation-sponsored programs.As RDA-US Program Manager, he oversees the multiple projects within... Read More →
A Pervasive Technology Institute Center and division of University Information Technology Services, Indiana University
The UITS Research Technologies team provides software, training, and systems in support of leading-edge research. We deliver high-performance computing resources, large-capacity data storage, and advanced visualization tools.Read Impact Highlights from UITS Research Technologies here... Read More →
About Pervasive Technology InstituteCyberinfrastructure is pervasive in the research, discovery, and creative processes. Information technology today pervades scholarly discovery in the humanities, research in all areas of the sciences, and the processes of artistic creation. The... Read More →
Open source communities are adapting, even thriving when facing today’s disruptive technology shifts. Why? Organization’s infrastructure needs are different due to global IT industry challenges from licensing changes, open hardware integration, and digital sovereignty to supporting AI workloads and increased security concerns. This is what open source communities are designed to do, and it’s not surprising that the demand for open source software exceeds $8.8 trillion USD. The OpenInfra community, composed of 110,000 individuals from hundreds of organizations and 187 different countries, is already evolving open source infrastructure technologies including OpenStack, Kata Containers, and StarlingX to manage these recent shifts. In this keynote, Jimmy McArthur will talk about how the OpenInfra community is applying our software formula for open development to drive worldwide innovation in the face of massive disruption. And how you can, too!
Director of Business Development, OpenInfra Foundation
Jimmy leads the collaboration with OpenInfra Members, including strategy development, goal alignment and new member recruitment. Outside of advocating for current open source trends and distributing his calendar link (which you can find here: https://calendly.com/jimmy-mcarthur... Read More →
The first Beowulf cluster was built in 1994 at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Thirty years later, most HPC shops still follow the same basic cluster paradigm (including the one at Goddard today). The intervening decades have witnessed many evolutions in computing: virtualization/cloud, software-defined networking, kubernetes, AI/ML; GitOps and Agile -- just to name some big ones. The traditional cluster paradigm, with its static network zones and security controls, make it all but impossible to “bolt” these new technologies onto an existing operational system. A new approach is needed essentially from the ground up – one that will increase interoperability between the on-premises solution and commercial clouds by enabling the reuse of code used to deploy infrastructure and services. This translates into faster time to science/discoveries for our end users. This is a User Story about one HPC organization’s journey to rapidly modernize in one giant leap. We will discuss the “Next Generation System” being built at Goddard now, which is designed from the start to leverage modern cloud-native methods and best practices to flexibly deploy baremetal, VMs, or containers from a single pool of resources. We will touch on network design, OpenStack & Ironic, Security considerations like DevSecOps, and cultural barriers to adoption.
This presentation delves into the complexities of cloud migration and the transformative potential of leveraging open-source technologies through the integration of Atmosphere and MigrateKit.
Atmosphere is a robust, open-source cloud management framework built on OpenStack. It offers a feature-rich platform that rivals proprietary cloud solutions. MigrateKit complements this by serving as the bridge for organizations migrating from VMware or similar environments to OpenStack, ensuring a streamlined and automated transition.
The presentation will explore how this powerful combination simplifies the technical aspects of migration and aligns with the strategic business goals of scalability, agility, and cost-efficiency. Attendees will gain insights into the automated, repeatable deployment workflows enabled by MigrateKit and how they seamlessly integrate with Atmosphere's core capabilities.
Mohammed Naser, CEO of VEXXHOST, has had the chance to work with customers ranging from growing small businesses to solutions for large Fortune 500 companies, based on OpenStack. He has been a contributor to the OpenStack project since 2011 and has contributed code to almost every... Read More →
Exhibitors to include Platinum Sponsors: VEXXHOST and Rackspace; Gold Sponsor: Lightbits Labs; Reception Sponsors: IU Pervasive Technology Institute and Jetstream2
We are building HPC operations at UAB around software development best-practices. To that end we are constructing a CI/CD infrastructure that supports development and testing of services in support of campus HPC operations. We instantiate HPC clusters on OpenStack cloud infrastructure to explore capabilities, develop features, and construct releases for the HPC cluster.
The OpenInfra Board has expressed a desire to improve the security postures of projects and ensure we never have a repeat of the Murano project incident. In this forum session, we will have an opportunity to discuss potential guidance, concerns, and see if a future direction can be charted.
Julia has been working in technology for a long time. She is presently a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. She also chairs the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors. She has even served as the Ironic project leader for seven development cycles.Talk to her about:Clouds... Read More →
Cluster API brings a unified, declarative, Kubernetes-style API to cluster creation, configuration, and management. It is infrastructure-agnostic, a great fit for automation. and can scale with your needs. In this hands-on session we will walk you through deploying Kubernetes clusters on OpenStack. You’ll learn enough to be dangerous, but you’ll also leave with a rough map to the land of pleasant productivity.
Building & supporting data-focused applications for researchersExosphere.app - a simple & powerful GUI for OpenStackNSF projects worked on: CyVerse, Jetstream, Jetstream2Researcher education: Data engineering, cloud computing, project managementCommunity: Research Bazaar Arizona... Read More →
Data that is used by applications and services. Secrets can include API keys, credentials, tokens, certificates, and passwords that grant access to various resources and systems. If these secrets are compromised, attackers can exploit them to cause damage, steal information, or disrupt operations. The challenges of secret management is how to securely store, distribute, and rotate secrets in a dynamic and distributed environment. Traditional methods of hard-coding secrets in configuration files or environment variables are not secure, scalable, or reliable. Moreover, secrets need to be updated frequently to comply with security policies and regulations to prevent unauthorized access. To address these challenges, several tools and frameworks have been developed to provide secret management solutions for DevOps. These tools can help DevOps teams to implement best practices for secret management.
Michel started his career as a medical officer in the Royal Dutch Airforce. After the air force, he continued in clinical pharmacology. While there, he transitioned to IT.As his career developed, his responsibility shifted from a deep technical perspective to a more visionary role... Read More →
OpenStack Plus: The Perfect Recipe for Enterprise-Grade Deployment
OpenStack is a powerful open-source cloud platform, but achieving an enterprise-grade deployment requires more than just a basic setup. This session explores the key components and best practices that transform OpenStack into a robust, secure, and high-performing solution for enterprises.
Critical enhancements include integrating advanced storage solutions like Ceph, implementing comprehensive security measures, leveraging orchestration tools, and ensuring high availability (HA) configurations. Efficient monitoring, logging systems, and seamless networking solutions are also essential.
Ajith Narayanan, based in Bangalore, India, has 20 years of experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Architect with a specialization in designing and building private cloud infrastructure.
Based on responses the OpenInfra Foundation business development team receives from member organizations attempting to contribute to OpenInfra projects, community managers are running a series of discussions intended to gather feedback and ideas, to improve communication, processes and contributor experience for both new and established contributors.
This forum-style session aims to:
1. discover ways we can better communicate successful contributor habits and patterns to prospective contributors who struggle to engage
2. brainstorm ways in which the established community members could adjust their approach to ease interactions for newcomers
3. improve the approachability of our communities for new contributors in order to increase diversity over time
Everyone is encouraged to attend, whether you're a long-time contributor looking to help the community grow, or a newcomer struggling to find ways to get your improvements added.
In this talk, the audience will learn about the patterns of collaboration the OpenInfra Foundation has fostered with universities to get students involved in Open Source before they graduate and begin hunting for jobs. The University Partnership Program (UPP) aims to alleviate the Open Source hiring vacuum that exists in the tech job market globally, the UPP's benefits to students, the universities, the open source projects and the larger ecosystem. This talk will explain the process of how a university can join this program with anecdotes and real examples of how its all implemented. This talk will have information for both students and professors but also industry professionals about how they can get involved as mentors or support the program through hiring students completing the program etc.
Exhibitors to include Platinum Sponsors: VEXXHOST and Rackspace; Gold Sponsor: Lightbits Labs; Reception Sponsors: IU Pervasive Technology Institute and Jetstream2
This talk dives into Rackspace's use of Ironic for baremetal provisioning, including, but not limited to, the use of Ironic and Ansible to manage fleet lifecycles.
- How Rackspace is leveraging Ironic over legacy in-house Baremetal provisioning tools. Not just for OpenStack-related workloads, but for general data center server provisioning. - How Rackspace is adopting the use of Virtual Media boot over PXE/DHCP to simplify network requirements in leaf/spine architectures - How Rackspace is (re)contributing to the Ironic project based on these new efforts
I hope viewers can take away the following: - Ironic does not require a full OpenStack ‘stack’, but can benefit from Neutron and other integrations, and can benefit from customizations (ie. ML2 plugin) that might be more suited for your use-case - In addition to servicing baremetal workloads in a virtual world, Ironic is extremely useful as a general server deployment tool for all kinds of workloads (OpenStack, VMware, etc)
James Denton is a Principal Network Architect for Rackspace, and has been involved with OpenStack on the Rackspace Private Cloud team since 2012. He is the author of "Learning OpenStack Networking (Neutron)" released in 2014, and is currently working on a second edition of the same... Read More →
If you have ever wondered what it takes to develop OpenStack, look no further. This workshop is designed for attendees with any level of OpenStack experience. In this workshop, we will provide attendees a walkthrough of making a code change into OpenStack. Attendees will understand how developers identify bugs/features to work on, create contributor accounts, develop the code change, test it against an OpenStack deployment and submit it for community code review. As seasoned core maintainers of OpenStack, we can share strategies we have learned to engage with the community and get these code changes merged. We hope this session will serve as a quickstart to in-person audiences who get to follow along hands-on. **Target Audience:** - Developers, engineers, and users with varying levels of experience with OpenStack - Professionals interested in open-source contributions **Prerequisites:** - Basic Linux command-line knowledge - Laptop with internet access **Workshop Overview:** This 80-minute workshop is an accelerated introduction to contributing to OpenStack, designed for participants of all experience levels. By the end of the session, participants will have made a small code change to OpenStack, tested it using DevStack, and submitted it for review. This provides a fast-track path to becoming active contributors in the OpenStack community. **Objectives:** Participants will: 1. Set up a basic development environment for OpenStack. 2. Navigate the OpenStack codebase. 3. Make, test, and validate a simple code change using DevStack. 4. Submit the change for review using Gerrit. **Workshop Agenda:** 1. **Introduction to OpenStack and Contribution Basics (10 minutes)** - Brief overview of OpenStack and its components - The importance of open-source contributions 2. **Setting Up the Development Environment (15 minutes)** - Quick installation and configuration of Git and Gerrit - Overview of DevStack for local development and testing 3. **Navigating the OpenStack Codebase (10 minutes)** - Overview of the directory structure - Identifying a simple task for contribution 4. **Making and Testing Your First Code Change (25 minutes)** - Hands-on coding: making a small change (e.g., a bug fix) - Running the change on DevStack to ensure it works as expected 5. **Submitting Your Patch (10 minutes)** - Introduction to Gerrit and the submission process - Walkthrough of submitting the patch and handling initial feedback 6. **Q&A and Next Steps (10 minutes)** - Answering questions and providing resources for continued contribution - Guidance on engaging with the OpenStack community **Why Attend?** - Gain hands-on experience with OpenStack development and testing using DevStack in a short time - Make a real contribution to a major open-source project - Receive support from experienced OpenStack contributors
Whenever it comes to a small-scale private cloud infrastructure project roll-out, organizations usually face a serious dilemma. Fortunately, there are now ways to easily address the challenges of costs and operational knowledge.
In this session, we will showcase how you can use project Sunbeam (the latest upstream project for OpenStack) to seamlessly deploy a small-scale private cloud with no need for experience or costly consulting. The project now lowers the barrier to entry, enabling a production-grade OpenStack cluster to be installed in a few simple steps. Other typical cloud functions, such as K8s-on-demand, are also natively available with almost a single click.
I'm a Philosophy major with a technology career. I work on OpenStack, and, besides technology, I have a strong interest in marketing, product management, service design, and everything else that goes into delivering a high-quality experience for OpenStack users. I have over a decade... Read More →
Jason is a young professional in the HPC industry passionate about developing the next generation of lean, mean, open source supercomputing machines. By day, he works at Canonical as their resident HPC engineer making Ubuntu better for supercomputing, and by night he leads the Ubuntu... Read More →
In order to successfully develop software through open community collaboration, tools and workflows are carefully chosen with regard to transparency and visibility of activities. This makes it easier for people to see what’s going on within the project and get involved, but safety-critical activities like security vulnerability management require temporary secrecy, a fundamental conflict presenting unique challenges.
This presentation will cover the workflows and tooling choices OpenStack’s vulnerability managers have employed and refined for more than a decade, with specific goals of keeping secrets only when necessary and making sure the record of our activities becomes fully public as soon as possible. Our processes are openly documented, with templating and automation that streamlines these sensitive workflows, serving as a model for many other communities as well as forming the basis of popular industry specifications and standard practices over the years. Learn how it’s done, get involved in our community, or apply these principles within your own projects.
In recent years, in particular with the rise of AI, the diversity of workloads that need to be supported by research infrastructures has exploded. Many of these workloads take advantage of new technologies, such as Kubernetes, that need to be run alongside the traditional workhorse of the large batch cluster. Some require access to specialist hardware, such as GPUs or network accelerators. Others, such as Trusted Research Environments, have to be executed in a secure sandbox. Here, we show how a flexible and dynamic research computing cloud infrastructure can be achieved, without sacrificing performance, using OpenStack. By having OpenStack manage the hardware, we get access to APIs for reconfiguring that hardware, allowing the deployment of platforms to be automated with full control over the levels of isolation. Optimisations like CPU-pinning, PCI passthrough and SR-IOV allow us to take advantage of the efficiency gains from virtualisation without sacrificing performance where it matters.
The HPC+AI Cloud becomes even more powerful when combined with Azimuth, an open-source self-service portal for HPC and AI workloads. Using the Azimuth interface, users can self-service from a curated set of optimised platforms from web desktops through to Kubernetes apps such as Jupyter notebooks. Those applications are accessed securely, with SSO, via the open-source Zenith application proxy. Self-service platforms provisioned via Azimuth can co-exist with large bare-metal batch clusters on the same OpenStack cloud, allowing users to pick the environments and tools that best suit their workflow.
Stig has a background in R&D working for various prominent technology companies, particularly in HPC and software-defined networking. Stig is now CTO for StackHPC, a consultancy specialising in the convergence of cloud, HPC and big data. Stig is also co-chair of the OpenStack Scientific... Read More →
Exhibitors to include Platinum Sponsors: VEXXHOST and Rackspace; Gold Sponsor: Lightbits Labs; Reception Sponsors: IU Pervasive Technology Institute and Jetstream2
The Great Escape: From VMware to VMwhat now?: Kevin Jackson Tired of being VMworn out? Feel like your virtual infrastructure is a bit of a hostage situation? It's time to break free and join the Open revolution! Join us for a stratospheric flight of how to migrate from the virtual world of VMware to the open spaces of OpenStack, the containerized cosmos of Kubernetes and the nebulous approach of running with KubeVirt. We'll steer you through the often foggy migration process with the help of Trilio, your trusty backup plan. I cannot promise that cloud puns will not be harmed during this talk.
Seamless Migration: Transitioning VMs from VMware to OpenStack with Open Source Tools: Maciej Lecki Exploring the process of migrating virtual machines (VMs) from VMware environments to OpenStack using open source tools. As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-native and open-source technologies, the need to seamlessly transition from traditional virtualization platforms like VMware to modern cloud infrastructures such as OpenStack has become crucial. We will discuss the challenges and strategies involved in this migration, including the selection of appropriate tools, preparation of the source and target environments, and the actual migration process. Key open source tools such as virt-v2v will be highlighted, demonstrating their roles in converting VM formats, adapting configurations, and ensuring compatibility. The session will cover best practices for minimizing downtime and ensuring data integrity during the migration, along with a live demonstration of the migration process. Attendees will gain practical insights into managing this transition efficiently and learn how to leverage open source solutions to achieve a successful VMware to OpenStack migration.
How to simplify and accelerate VMware Exit: DJ Dongjoon Min DJ Min introduces ZIA technology, a cloud-agnostic migration solution that eliminates heterogeneous migration issues. By leveraging ZIA technology, OpenInfra community members can inspire enterprises and organizations to simplify and accelerate their VMware Exit journey to OpenStack, in collaboration with the OpenInfra community and ZConverter.
Open-Source Migration with Migratekit: Transitioning from VMware to OpenStack: Mohammed Naser In today's cloud computing landscape, many organizations are transitioning from traditional infrastructures like VMware to more modern, open-source environments. As OpenStack continues to rise as a leading open-source cloud platform, effective migration strategies are essential. This talk will introduce Migratekit, an open-source tool developed as part of the broader open-source ecosystem by VEXXHOST. Migratekit is designed to simplify and accelerate the migration of virtual machines from VMware to OpenStack environments. While it works with any OpenStack deployment, it has been extensively tested and validated against Atmosphere, our open-source cloud infrastructure platform. Attendees will learn about the key phases of migration with Migratekit, including how it minimizes service disruption by transferring data while virtual machines remain operational. We will also cover best practices for a successful migration and share real-world case studies showcasing the benefits of adopting OpenStack through this streamlined, open-source approach. By the end of the session, participants will be equipped with the knowledge and tools needed to confidently modernize their cloud infrastructure using Migratekit and OpenStack.
Director of Business Development, OpenInfra Foundation
Jimmy leads the collaboration with OpenInfra Members, including strategy development, goal alignment and new member recruitment. Outside of advocating for current open source trends and distributing his calendar link (which you can find here: https://calendly.com/jimmy-mcarthur... Read More →
Mohammed Naser, CEO of VEXXHOST, has had the chance to work with customers ranging from growing small businesses to solutions for large Fortune 500 companies, based on OpenStack. He has been a contributor to the OpenStack project since 2011 and has contributed code to almost every... Read More →
DJ Min is the founder and managing director of ZConverter which is the automated cloud migration software company.Before having founded ZConverter, he was working for IBM and LG as the SME & Principal of Virtualization and High Performance Cluster for 10 years. Now, he is leading... Read More →
We describe the construction, deployment, and ongoing use and development of Project Pythia’s persistent BinderHub (https://binder.projectpythia.org) platform on Jetstream2, using a community-tested OpenStack / Kubernetes workflow developed by Dr. Andrea Zonca at the San Diego Supercomputer Center and operated and maintained by Kevin Tyle of University at Albany-SUNY on behalf of Project Pythia. Project Pythia (https://projectpythia.org) is an open access educational initiative established with funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Its mission is to help students and scientists enhance their skills and adopt best practices using the tools and technologies of open science. As part of the Pangeo community, Project Pythia primarily focuses on the Pangeo stack, which includes cloud computing, Jupyter technologies, GitHub, and various software packages in the Scientific Python ecosystem, centered around Xarray. Project Pythia offers a wide range of open access content, such as datasets, software, tutorials, and annotated real-world workflows presented in the form of Jupyter Books. Following the presenters’ initial development efforts on Jetstream2 during summer 2022, in May 2023, Project Pythia was awarded a Discover ACCESS allocation that deployed a persistent and performant BinderHub instance to support our community educational Pythia Cookbook (https://cookbooks.projectpythia.org) initiative. This ongoing service ensures continuous open access to high quality, tested, and reproducible tutorial and training material for geoscientific workflows, while growing our user-contributor community. The BinderHub has also powered the following workshops and tutorials: Pythia Cookoff, June 2023, Boulder AMS Open Radar Short Course, August 2023, Minneapolis Scientific data workshop with Python and R - AtmosCol 2023, October 2023, Colombia AGU Python Visualization Workshop, Dec. 2023, San Francisco AMS Python Visualization Short Course, January 2024, Baltimore ARM Open Science Summer School, May 2024, Cleveland Pythia Cookoff, June 2024, Boulder At each event, our BinderHub seamlessly served all attendees, which typically ranged between 30 and 70.
A report from a research project that shows that it is possible to operate a digitally sovereign cloud with the help of OpenStack and other open source components. The question is briefly explored and shown what digital sovereignty actually means - and what it does not. The focus of this short presentation is on the infrastructure, knowing full well that this is not an all-encompassing solution for digital sovereignty because other components (e.g. front ends) are missing. The project team plans and implements the construction and operation of a sovereign, private cloud that serves as an edge cloud and in which the workloads in research and teaching are processed. The project team has been operating a private cloud under OpenStack since 2016. Since container workloads are and will be increasingly in demand, the decision was made to set up an additional instance of the reference implementation of the Sovereign Cloud Stack (SCS) in parallel to the existing OpenStack installation. The workloads are then transferred from the OpenStack installation to the Sovereign Cloud Stack.
Hot hors d'oeuvres: Pumpkin Risotto Arancini (contains gluten and dairy) Corn cake with pulled bbq pork GF/DF
Carving station: Roast breast of duck, pomegranate reduction and petite brioche rolls (gluten-free rolls available)
Desserts: Sugar cream pie (contains gluten and dairy) Apple tart (contains gluten and dairy) Mini bread pudding (contains gluten and dairy) Chocolate brownies (contains gluten and dairy) Chocolate dipped strawberries (GF/DF)
Entertainment: A jazz trio from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music (SoM). For nearly a century, the SoM has been known for excellence in performance, artistry, and collaboration—but most of all, for the belief in the inherent value of a creative life. The IU SoM has helped launch the careers of countless performers, scholars, and music educators who have become leaders around the globe with more than 1,500 students come from all 50 states and as many as 55 countries. Each one benefits from the intensity and focus of a world-class conservatory combined with the broad academic offerings of a major university. Jacobs has one of the first and foremost jazz studies programs in the world—and all of the students benefit from the wildly creative and collaborative atmosphere cultivated at IU. https://music.indiana.edu/index.html
Indiana State Museum Galleries are not open to OpenInfra guests during the reception, however if you're coming early or staying late in Indianapolis we encourage you to visit the museum on your own.
The Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites is a statewide museum network with 12 locations across Indiana. You'll find an incredible collection of artifacts (everything from mastodon bones to T.C. Steele paintings) and our state’s most culturally significant sites to tell larger stories around bigger themes. Whether you’re interested in art, architecture, history or science, we’ve got you covered. Come out and enjoy wide open spaces, explore three floors of fun at our downtown Indianapolis museum, and discover engaging online activities. Welcome to the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites. https://www.indianamuseum.org/visit/
Jetstream2, led by the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University, adds cloud-based, on-demand computing and data analysis resources to the national cyberinfrastructure. It expands this cyberinfrastructure to communities who have not had previous HPC experience or an easy route to harness the massive compute power research now demands.With a focus... Read More →
About Pervasive Technology InstituteCyberinfrastructure is pervasive in the research, discovery, and creative processes. Information technology today pervades scholarly discovery in the humanities, research in all areas of the sciences, and the processes of artistic creation. The... Read More →
Exhibitors to include Platinum Sponsors: VEXXHOST and Rackspace; Gold Sponsor: Lightbits Labs; Reception Sponsors: IU Pervasive Technology Institute and Jetstream2
In 2024, he accepted program management responsibilities for Jetstream2 and the Midwest Research Computing and Data Consortium where he will facilitate the success of the National Science Foundation-sponsored programs.As RDA-US Program Manager, he oversees the multiple projects within... Read More →
A Pervasive Technology Institute Center and division of University Information Technology Services, Indiana University
The UITS Research Technologies team provides software, training, and systems in support of leading-edge research. We deliver high-performance computing resources, large-capacity data storage, and advanced visualization tools.Read Impact Highlights from UITS Research Technologies here... Read More →
This session discusses the essentialls of monitoring an on-prem Cloud enviorment. It explains the indusrty standards in observability and monitoring, the best practices and the common pain points. It guides the audience on how to move from an ad-hoc monitoring/observability practices to a more standardized approach
The talk will also point to the differences of monitoring between different use-cases for the Cloud and where they intersect. The talk will end with a short demo of using Zabbix to monitor an on-prem Openstack environment.
Mohamed Elsakhawy received his B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Alexandria University, Egypt. He received his M.E.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Western Ontario, Canada. He is an industry expert in Cloud computing with expertise in large-scale multi-site Clouds. He served as the Operational Lead of Compute Canada’s Cloud National... Read More →
Starting in 2017, the Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) built and operated a high-performance private cloud platform named "Stratus". As we embark on the design and build-out of a successor platform, this presentation covers some of the motivations and use cases which drove the development of the project, with a comprehensive analysis of what worked well and what fell short. We also discuss researcher experiences with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) capabilities, how these needs have changed over time, and how our next OpenStack cluster aims to address these challenges. By sharing our experiences at MSI, we aim to foster discussions on enhancing research computing ecosystems and better supporting researchers in this era of data-driven research.
We live in interesting times: new ideas and technological opportunities emerge at ever increasing rates in AI, edge computing and IoT, and programmable networking to name just a few. These innovations require a platform where they can be deployed and investigated -- and where new solutions -- that those disruptive ideas enable -- can be developed, tested, and shared. To support a breadth of experimentation such a platform has to provide access to a diversity of hardware, support deployments at scale, as well as deep reconfigurability so that a wide range of experiments can be supported. It also has to provide mechanisms for easy and direct sharing of repeatable digital artifacts so that new experiments and results can be easily replicated and help enable further innovation. Most importantly -- since science does not stand still – these types of instruments require the capability for constant adaptation to support an ever increasing range of experiments driven by emergent ideas and opportunities.
In this talk, I will describe the goals, the design strategy, and the capabilities of two NSF-funded scientific research platforms -- Chameleon and FLOTO – as well as some of the research and education projects our users are working on.
First, I will describe Chameleon which provides a large diversity of edge to cloud resources including Fugaku nodes, a range of accelerators, and disaggregated hardware (Liqid, GigaIO) with reconfigurability at bare metal level. Chameleon is currently distributed over two core sites at the University of Chicago and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) connected by 100 Gbps network. To date, the testbed has supported 10,000+ users and 1,100+ projects in research, education, and emergent applications.
FLOTO deploys 1,000 Raspberry PIs nationwide for broadband research. The FLOTO infrastructure implements “zero touch” installation for the devices such that they can be managed without physical access. Users can answer research different questions by deploying the devices in different configurations; running different applications (i.e., in this case, different types of broadband tests); or processing the data returned by the devices in different ways. Increasingly, users are also using FLOTO to answer different questions by customizing the infrastructure itself by e.g., combining it with new IoT sensors.
Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory and Senior fellow at the computation institutes at the University of Chicago, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago
Exhibitors to include Platinum Sponsors: VEXXHOST and Rackspace; Gold Sponsor: Lightbits Labs; Reception Sponsors: IU Pervasive Technology Institute and Jetstream2
Join the members of the OpenInfra Foundations Diversity and Inclusion WG to learn about their efforts within the OpenInfra Projects and how you can get involved. We will also look for feedback on how to get more responses on the Foundation's Diversity Survey and other ways you can help grow the group and their efforts.
Amy Marrich is an Open Source Evangelist at Red Hat. She currently serves as the Chair of the CentOS Project and on the Open Infrastructure Foundation Board of Directors and the CHAOSS Projects Governing Board. In addition she serves on the OpenStack Technical Committee, as chair... Read More →
Our private cloud team at Workday has been using Zuul to build our own OpenStack distribution for close to four years. Up till now we’ve been using a hand-crafted VM hosting solution, but we decided to move to a Kubernetes hosted form of Zuul. We’ll briefly explain the self-hosting options we considered, the reasons why zuul-operator was selected, and what it requires. Then we’ll give you examples of how we use and operate it. This covers updating, configuration management, common tasks like holding jobs, and how to handle multiple tenants. Finally we’ll talk a bit about the internals of the operator and our adventures in getting CI up and running for it.
As cloud infrastructures grow in scale and complexity, the need for reliable, highly available distributed storage becomes more pressing. The OpenStack and Ceph communities have collaboratively developed an innovative solution: a highly available CephFS NFS service tailored specifically for OpenStack Manila. This novel approach ensures that OpenStack environments can benefit from the scalability and performance of CephFS, enabling the familiarity of Network File Systems (NFS) while maintaining the reliability and continuous availability that enterprise environments demand. In this talk, we will explore the technical underpinnings of this groundbreaking service, designed to meet the unique needs of OpenStack Manila consumers. Attendees will gain insights into the architecture, deployment strategies, and best practices for implementing this solution in their own OpenStack environments. We intend to dive into strategies employed to ensure high availability and resilience. and provide you with configuration best practices tailored to different use cases, from small-scale to large-scale enterprise deployments.
Julia has been working in technology for a long time. She is presently a Senior Principal Software Engineer at Red Hat. She also chairs the OpenInfra Foundation Board of Directors. She has even served as the Ironic project leader for seven development cycles.Talk to her about:Clouds... Read More →
Kubernetes has become the de facto standard today for cloud-native development. The history of Kubernetes was always one of a stateless life. However, like most things, it is constantly evolving. Join this session and discover the journey for cloud-native success and the best way to innovate with multi-cloud, microservices, Kubernetes and agile methodologies as we move into the brave new world of Edge and the Cloud Native Continuum!
We will explore the process of migrating virtual machines (VMs) from VMware environments to OpenStack using open source tools. As organizations increasingly adopt cloud-native and open-source technologies, the need to seamlessly transition from traditional virtualization platforms like VMware to modern cloud infrastructures such as OpenStack has become crucial. We will discuss the challenges and strategies involved in this migration, including the selection of appropriate tools, preparation of the source and target environments, and the actual migration process. Key open source tools such as virt-v2v will be highlighted, demonstrating their roles in converting VM formats, adapting configurations, and ensuring compatibility. The session will cover best practices for minimizing downtime and ensuring data integrity during the migration, along with a live demonstration of the migration process. Attendees will gain practical insights into managing this transition efficiently and learn how to leverage open source solutions to achieve a successful VMware to OpenStack migration.
This talk will explore the challenges and solutions for companies grappling with the need for upgrades and more efficient operations within their OpenStack environments. We will focus on how businesses can navigate the complexities of migrating from legacy OpenStack setups to contemporary, agile infrastructures, ensuring that their infrastructure is not only up-to-date but also adaptable to future innovations. Additionally, the presentation will examine migration strategies from other distributions to OpenStack, offering insights into how VEXXHOST’s Atmosphere can be seamlessly integrated into an organization's long-term cloud strategy to ensure scalability, flexibility, and security.
Ankit has been working in the OpenStack world for the past four years and glad to be involved with initiatives that have been instrumental in driving the community's and company's growth. With a deep understanding of cloud technologies and a strategic approach to business development... Read More →
Orchestration engines, like Kubernetes, route network traffic between individual nodes over a virtual overlay network. The overlay network is opaque to existing network security and management tools. The ingress methodology is implemented strictly using the kubernetes API framework. It can’t be applied to all cases needed to integrate with external access points. Service Meshes standardize these needs within a central flexible methodology that relies more on “declarative" than on “imperative” application programming. Service Meshes also provide entry points for outside probes to be used for network management and telemetry gathering purposes under strict security control. Service Meshes can incorporate node labels within policies that can pin workloads to specific nodes, allowing for isolated deployments. There are currently many proxied Service Mesh options to choose from. The presentation will go through the various options and provide the pros and cons of each,
Bruce has been a Senior Solutions Architect in the computer industry for forty-three years, working at multiple technology companies including Mirantis, HP, Sun and Symbolics. Bruce has been involved with the Open Source community since 2000. Bruce was a member of Hewlett-Packard’s... Read More →
Cluster API (CAPI) is an open-source project that aims to simplify the provisioning and management of multiple Kubernetes clusters by providing declarative APIs and supporting tools. It has become a fundamental component within the systems of leading technology companies, including AWS, VMware, Azure, and Google.
However, it is currently limited in supporting automatic upgrades for the Kubernetes clusters it manages. Given the criticality of keeping Kubernetes clusters up-to-date with the latest features and improvements, and maintaining security, stability, performance, community support, and compatibility, this is a significant gap.
In this presentation, we will address the following topics:
1. Management of Kubernetes Clusters via Cluster API: We will explore the methodologies for managing Kubernetes clusters using Cluster API.
2. Integration of Automatic Upgrade Strategies: We will discuss integrating automatic upgrade strategies such as RollingUpgrade and BlueGreenUpgrade with CAPI for our customers. These strategies are crucial in ensuring high availability and stability and rollback solutions for Kubernetes clusters managed by Cluster API.
3. Management of Provider-Specific Component Upgrades: We will explain how to manage upgrades of provider-specific components and provide recommendations to users to minimize disruptions during the upgrade process.
Hoang Nguyen Dinh works as a Cloud Solution Engineer at Viettel Group, where he is responsible for developing solutions for cloud platform services (Viettel Kubernetes Engine, Internal Developer Platform) on Viettel Public Cloud.
Overview: We will explore the integration of Masakari, an OpenStack service for high availability of instances, with Consul, a widely adopted service mesh solution. This presentation will highlight the synergy between these two technologies, focusing on how they can be leveraged to enhance fault tolerance and service discovery in cloud environments.
Key Points: 1. Introduction to Masakari and Consul: · Masakari: We'll start with an overview of Masakari, its role in ensuring high availability for virtual machine instances within OpenStack, and its core components such as instance monitoring, automated recovery, and notifications. · Consul: We'll introduce Consul as a service mesh that provides service discovery, health checking, load balancing, and a key-value store. We'll discuss its popularity in managing microservices architectures.
2. Integration of Masakari with Consul: · Brief Overview: We’ll briefly discuss why integrating Masakari with Consul is a powerful combination for managing highly available cloud environments. · Detailed Explanation: We'll delve into the technical details of how Masakari can trigger Consul’s health checks and update service registries during failover events. We'll also cover how Consul can enhance Masakari’s failover process by providing real-time service discovery and more intelligent load balancing across recovered instances.
3. Use Cases and Benefits: · Scenarios: We'll present real-world scenarios where combining these two technologies can significantly improve system resilience and reduce downtime. · Benefits: Attendees will learn about the operational benefits, including improved fault tolerance, streamlined service discovery, and automated recovery processes.
4. Source Code and Contributions: · Where is the code: Provide links and discuss about upstream source code for the project
· Recent Updates and Community Involvement: Give an overview of the latest updates and how we need more contributions from community members to expand the capability of Masakari including bug tracking.
Takeaways: By the end of this session, participants will have a clear understanding of how to integrate Masakari with Consul to build a more resilient cloud infrastructure. They will gain insights into the practical benefits of this integration and the technical steps required to mplement it in their environments. Attendees will walk away with actionable knowledge that they can apply to enhance the high availability and service management capabilities of their own cloud deployments.
Exhibitors to include Platinum Sponsors: VEXXHOST and Rackspace; Gold Sponsor: Lightbits Labs; Reception Sponsors: IU Pervasive Technology Institute and Jetstream2
In this talk, Joshua will share his insights and experiences with OpenTelemetry, an open-source project that offers protocols, APIs, and SDKs for collecting metrics, traces, and logs from applications and services. He will cover the comprehensive toolkit provided by the OpenTelemetry community, including language SDKs, the Collector, and the OTLP formats for metrics, traces, and logs. He will demonstrate how to instrument and monitor a microservices application running on a Kubernetes cluster, utilizing the full potential of OpenTelemetry. Attendees will learn how to use powerful open-source tools like Jaeger and Prometheus to effectively analyze telemetry signals from their applications. By the end of this session, attendees will have a solid understanding of how to implement OpenTelemetry in their projects, enhancing their debugging and observability practices. Join us as we delve into the world of OpenTelemetry, unlocking the capabilities of this powerful technology for your development needs.
Joshua is a seasoned software developer with over a decade of experience, specializing in a broad range of topics including operations, observability, agile methodologies, and accessibility. Currently, Joshua serves as a Developer Advocate for Altinity, where he creates educational... Read More →
Application timeouts can be a critical bottleneck in OpenStack environments, leading to frustrated end users, lost productivity, and blown SLAs. In this session, we'll illustrate how SDS transforms the performance and reliability of OpenStack environments by eliminating these timeouts. Discover how high-performance software-defined block storage engineered with intelligent data management and dynamic load balancing ensures your applications run smoothly, even for the most demanding workloads at scale.
Lightbits Labs, the inventors of NVMe over TCP storage protocol, is a company that specializes in providing high-performance, software-defined storage solutions optimized for modern data centers. With Lightbits providing storage to OpenStack clouds, application owners can be confident... Read More →
Stig has a background in R&D working for various prominent technology companies, particularly in HPC and software-defined networking. Stig is now CTO for StackHPC, a consultancy specialising in the convergence of cloud, HPC and big data. Stig is also co-chair of the OpenStack Scientific... Read More →
Traditional network observability methods rely heavily on analytics and dashboards, requiring users to manually sift through extensive data to extract actionable insights. This approach proves challenging in large-scale clusters, where rapid decision-making is crucial. AI/ML offer a solution by automating the decision-making process, leveraging pre-existing human intelligence from historical and real-time data. This presentation examines the core aspects of network observability within virtual infrastructure deployments and explores the applicability of AI/ML on anomaly detection and troubleshooting, showcasing how AI/ML can enhance efficiency and responsiveness in network management.
Experienced Product Manager renowned for driving innovation in network and cloud technologies. Expertise in strategic planning, competitive analysis, and product development. Skilled leader fostering customer success and shaping transformative strategies for progressive organizations... Read More →
Jamie Parker is a Product Manager at Red Hat who specializes in Observability, particularly in the Logging and OpenStack areas. At Red Hat, Jamie works with organizations and customers to learn about their needs within the ever changing Observability landscape, and based on their... Read More →
Michal Nasiadka is a Senior Technical Lead at StackHPC. He currently serves as Kolla PTL. In addition to that he contributes to multiple OpenStack projects including Magnum, Ironic and Neutron, as well as non-OpenStack ones (Rocky Linux, Ceph, etc).
Exhibitors to include Platinum Sponsors: VEXXHOST and Rackspace; Gold Sponsor: Lightbits Labs; Reception Sponsors: IU Pervasive Technology Institute and Jetstream2
This talk explores how Mexico's regulatory framework is strategically designed to foster the adoption and growth of open source, driving digital transformation, democratization, and inclusion across the nation. We'll explore the concrete policies and initiatives that demonstrate the government's commitment to open source. From legislation mandating the use of open-source software in the public sector to the importance of institutions like Mexico’s National Research and Innovation Center for ICT (INFOTEC), dedicated to research, development, and implementation of open-source solutions in Mexico. Mexico is paving the way for a more open, accessible, and innovative digital ecosystem. Learn about real-world examples of open-source initiatives that are transforming various sectors. We believe that open technology has the potential to play a significant role in promoting our country’s digital transformation and digital inclusion in Mexico.
Mexico’s National Research and Innovation Center for ICT (INFOTEC)
Federico González Waite is a true hands-on innovator and cyber enthusiast with a keen eye for the use of technology as a tool for social inclusion and development. He has extensive experience in a range of roles within the Mexican and New Zealand governments, the private sector... Read More →
In the rapidly advancing technological landscape, transforming traditional data centers into sustainable green clouds is imperative. This session explores how AI and OpenStack are pivotal in this transformation. We will discuss how AI’s advanced analytics and predictive capabilities can optimize resource management, reduce energy consumption, and integrate renewable energy sources effectively. Concurrently, OpenStack’s open-source, modular architecture enables businesses to deploy scalable, efficient cloud infrastructure that supports sustainable practices. Key topics include: Leveraging AI for Enhanced Resource Management and Energy Efficiency: Discover how AI technologies can improve the management of IT resources and drive significant energy savings. Integrating Renewable Energy Sources: Learn how AI solutions can effectively incorporate renewable energy into cloud infrastructures. Utilizing OpenStack’s Modular Architecture: Understand how OpenStack’s flexible design helps build scalable and sustainable cloud environments. Benefits of Dynamic Resource Allocation and Reduced Carbon Footprints: Explore the advantages of adaptive resource management and its impact on reducing environmental footprints. Strategies for Combining AI and OpenStack: Gain insights into how the synergy between AI and OpenStack can create a greener, more resilient IT infrastructure. Real-World Examples: Review case studies of organizations successfully implementing AI and OpenStack to achieve sustainability goals.
Rupal Shirpurkar, Business Head (Cloud BU), Click2Cloud Inc., Click2Cloud Inc.
As Click2Cloud's Business Head for Product & Strategy, Rupal cultivates global relationships with Microsoft, Alibaba, Huawei, T-Systems, & SoftBank, driving Go-To-Market initiatives for enterprises. Passionate about strategy & Open Source community, she leads Outreach Committee at... Read More →
