About a month ago, LA had its third OpenStack™ Meetup, “This Calls for Essex-y Party”. The atmosphere was electric and the air was thick with love – love for OpenStack and burritos.
It could have been that many of us were still flying high from the OpenStack Summit/Conference that occurred the week before. It could have been that we were excited for the Essex release that dropped in early April. Or perhaps it was our anticipation for the future of OpenStack – code-named Folsom. Whatever the reason, we were all on cloud nine.
With our bellies full of big fat burritos and a couple of Mexican beers, we kicked off the fiesta with a presentation from Sean Roberts, who is in charge of Infrastructure Strategy atYahoo!. DreamHost’s Cloud Architect, Carl Perry, anchored the Meetup with the second presentation. For your eyeball and earball pleasure, I’ve included the videos below with a brief description of what was covered.
Sean presented on the recently released Essex version of OpenStack, and talked about the future of Folsom. He also touched upon the newly formed OpenStack Foundation. (I experimented with a wireless mic and failed at capturing almost half of the Q/A. Lesson learned.)
Carl discussed how to deploy OpenStack as the basis for a public IaaS product. He shared his tips and tricks to overcome the common challenges including networking, storage, monitoring, and automation. Stick around to the end for a great in-depth technical Q&A.
DreamHost was generous enough to facilitate, host and sponsor last month’s OpenStack LA event. It was well attended with over 50 Stackers present. Tonight, we look forward to our fourth OpenStack Meetup that will be hosted by AT&T, and co-sponsored by AT&T and Inktank. “The Return of the Ceph Lords” will feature the legendary Josh Durgin, and the inimitable Christopher MacGown.
Written by: Brent Scotten
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