Individual Member Profile

I run a professional services organization. Consulting and training on the OpenStack platform is a core part of our business. As such we we want to contribute to the development of OpenStack as a platform for cloud computing and data center consolidation.

I run the Professional Services & Education BU at City Network, and help people learn to use, understand, and deploy OpenStack. I've worked exclusively with open source software since about 2002, and have been involved in OpenStack since early 2012. I co-founded hastexo, a professional services company specializing in OpenStack, Ceph, and Open edX. There I served as CEO and Principal Consultant until our acquisition by City Network in October 2017. I have presented at several OpenStack Summits and numerous other conferences and meetups.

• hastexo Professional Services GmbH - From 2011-09-06 To 2017-10-08

• import openstack: A gentle introduction to the Python OpenStack SDK

• I Don’t Think This Means What You Think It Means: Red Herrings in OpenStack

• The Little Bag O'Tricks: 10 things you might not know you can do with OpenStack

• RSVP REQUIRED: From Day 1 to Day 2 to Day 1000: Practical OpenStack Deployment and Operations with OpenStack-Ansible
• Practical Kubernetes with OpenStack Magnum

• Blueprint for a Successful OpenStack
• Practical Kubernetes with Magnum and OpenStack-Ansible
• The Dos and Don'ts for Ceph and OpenStack

• Heat and Its Alternatives: Application Deployment in OpenStack
• Building an Advanced Heat Template from the Ground Up

• RSVP Required: Heat, Cloud-init & Cloud-config: OpenStack Orchestration Deep Dive, Hands-On Lab

• Automated Deployment of a Highly Available OpenStack Cloud
• OpenStack High Availability: Are We There Yet?

• Kickstack: Rapid OpenStack Deployment with Puppet
• High Availability Update: Havana and Icehouse
• Practical Lessons from Building a Highly Available OpenStack Private Cloud

• Automation, Orchestration, Confusion? Taking the Discussion Up the Stack
• Automated Deployment of a Highly Available OpenStack Cloud - IMPORTANT UPDATE - PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION

• More Reliable, More Resilient, More Redundant: High Availability Update for Grizzly and Beyond

• High Availability Update: OpenStack's progress in infrastructure based HA