Barcelona, Spain
October 25-28, 2016

Event Details

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Cisco: Containerization of OpenStack Services at Cisco and SAP to Gain Operational Advantage

Companies moving to provide cloud services for their lines of business are faced with a growing number of technology choices ranging from the choice of cloud computing platforms to application deployment based on virtual machines or containers and microservices. The speed at which the industry is advancing makes it difficult to distinguish between the hype and the reality of many of the new technology choices, which may often appear to be at odds with each other.

Fortunately, the OpenStack community is where we can explore new models and share our experiences of what works and what does not. Based on the work being done at Cisco and SAP, this talk will address how containerization of OpenStack services using Docker, Ansible, Kolla, and Kubernetes makes it easier for a small team to bring consistency and management to OpenStack services for both service providers and enterprise data centers.

Thursday, October 27, 1:50pm-2:30pm (11:50am - 12:30pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Co-Founder and CEO
Steve has been involved in open source for the entirety of his career. Steve served as an elected member of the board of directions of the OpenStack foundation, invented OpenStack Kolla, invented OpenStack Heat, designed and co-led OpenStack Magnum, invented the Corosync cluster engine, and served as a working group leader within the Istio community. Steve is now leading the next generation of... FULL PROFILE
Software Architect
Michael is a software engineer at SAP in Berlin, Germany working on large-scale enterprise cloud systems. He has a keen interest in tools and technology that allow to release faster and more often. His expectation is that each commit automatically goes to production and it shouldn't be surprising that he is excited about containers, automation, orchestration and the cloud. Michael holds a... FULL PROFILE