{"id":2784,"date":"2012-06-05T15:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T20:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=2784"},"modified":"2012-06-08T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T13:38:28","slug":"openstack-essex-deploy-day-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-essex-deploy-day-summary\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack Essex Deploy Day Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">On May 31st, more than 200 people from around the world \u00a0gathered to learn about how to automate OpenStack deployments with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/content.dell.com\/us\/en\/gen\/d\/cloud-computing\/crowbar-software-framework\">Dell Crowbar<\/a>\u00a0and Opscode Chef. This day-long, world-wide event brought \u00a0together developers, operators, users, ecosystem vendors and the open source cloud curious.\u00a0 The\u00a0<a title=\"Essex Deploy Day\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/dellcloudedge\/crowbar\/wiki\/OpenStack-Essex-Deploy-Day\">event was coordinated<\/a>\u00a0as meet-ups by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dell.com\/openstack\">Dell OpenStack<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/dell.com\/crowbar\">Crowbar<\/a>\u00a0team (my team) in four physical locations,\u00a0where more than 70 enthusiasts gathered for the event:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/OpenStack-Austin\">Austin Tech Ranch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/Openstack-Boston\">Harvard University, Cambridge<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/OpenStack-New-York-Meetup\/events\/65887462\/\">Dell Solution Center in New York<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.meetup.com\/openstack\/events\/66262632\/\">Silicon Valley Cloud Center, Sunnyvale, CA<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In addition, nearly 125 participants joined online on the live webcast and various online channels.<\/p>\n<p>We have validated our deployment against the Essex release and our objective with this Essex Deploy Day event was to test deployments of Open Stack in a variety of environments. \u00a0Accordingly, we reached out to the OpenStack and Crowbar communities for training, testing, deployment, and collaborative development of the OpenStack Essex release. \u00a0The response was amazing!<\/p>\n<p>The Deploy day offered two parallel tracks for OpenStack newcomers and experts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Introductory Track:\u00a0<\/strong>In this \u00a0track, we focused on basics of OpenStack, Crowbar, and DevOps and discussed their value and benefits. In five three-hour sessions that spanned \u00a0three time zones covering the East\/West coast and the Asia pacific regions, we demonstrated \u00a0LIVE (the recorded sessions are available here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/crowbarOSED\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/crowbarOSED<\/a>) ) how to automatically deploy OpenStack .<\/p>\n<p>Here are the slides used for this track:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/kamesh001\/essex-deployday\">http:\/\/www.slideshare.net\/kamesh001\/essex-deployday<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, this track featured presentations and demos from ecosystem partners including enStratus, InkTank, Suse, MorphLabs, and OpsCode who discussed how they are leveraging Essex and bringing unique value-add to the OpenStack community and customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Experts Track:\u00a0<\/strong>The expert track was intended for people that already had some familiarity with Crowbar, Chef, and DevOps, and wanted to take a deep dive into new features of OpenStack Essex and Crowbar and how Crowbar works under the hood.\u00a0The expert track had a separate screencast, and featured live and online collaboration with Crowbar developers and engineers.<\/p>\n<p>The expert track explored \u00a0several advanced topics such as upgrading OpenStack \u00a0and developing barclamps etc.<\/p>\n<h1>Success By the Numbers<\/h1>\n<p>The overwhelming response and the large number of attendees makes this the most successful deploy day by far. \u00a0The breadth of companies and individuals that participated makes this a truly collaborative and international event \u00a0and is an \u00a0impressive indication of the excitement that is building around OpenStack. Here is look at broad participation metrics:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>200 people participated from 9 different countries<\/li>\n<li>70 people attended in-person in the four locations: NY, Boston, Austin, Sunnyvale<\/li>\n<li>250 downloads of the software from zehicle.crowbar.com and the build server<\/li>\n<li>20+ companies represented world-wide<\/li>\n<li>Great participation from ecosystem vendors including enStratus, MorphLabs, Suse, InkTank, OpsCode<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>Here is a just a small sample of some of the companies that participated<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dell (sponsor), Opscode, Mirantis, Morphlabs, Enstratus, Yahoo, AT&amp;T, HP<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>OpenTV, cloudTP, Fidelity, Lucent-Alcatel, IBM Labs, Critical Media,\u00a0\u00a0AppFirst<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h3>We wish to thank everyone who participated in making this event a huge success!<\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On May 31st, more than 200 people from around the world \u00a0gathered to learn about how to automate OpenStack deployments with\u00a0Dell Crowbar\u00a0and Opscode Chef. This day-long, world-wide event brought \u00a0together developers, operators, users, ecosystem vendors and the open source cloud curious.\u00a0 The\u00a0event was coordinated\u00a0as meet-ups by the\u00a0Dell OpenStack\/Crowbar\u00a0team (my team) in four physical locations,\u00a0where more&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-essex-deploy-day-summary\/\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read OpenStack Essex Deploy Day Summary\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,9],"tags":[348,342,514,349,61,141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2784"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2784\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}