The Open Compute Project (OCP -- opencompute.org) is working towards the open source equivalent of data center hardware including racks, servers, switches, and storage. Specifically, they have created and published free-to-use hardware designs and an ecosystem of hardware partners that product the reference designs. OCP designs have been heavily optimized to reduce purchase (removing redundant components) and operating prices (e.g., all DC internal power, simplified FRU structure) and deployed in production at scale by many companies including Facebook.
Bringing Open Compute hardware together with OpenStack software is a natural fit, forming a combination that is open from top to bottom.
Attendees will learn about the details of an "Open Pod" architecture -- an OpenStack Pod on OCP Infrastructure.
Additionally speakers will share their experience deploying OpenStack at a range of scales - from half-rack setups to multi-rack deployments in production data centers.