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A Seamlessly Federated Multi-Cloud

Current multi-cloud architectures don't integrate beyond the identity layer. They may allow a user to access multiple clouds with a single set of credentials, but that's where the integration ends.

Is it possible for multiple clouds to behave like a single cloud?  Can a VM  seamlessly attach a volume from another cloud? Can that same VM boot from an image stored in yet another cloud? What about VMs in different clouds on the same private network without the overhead of VPN?

Join us as we explore scalability, security and edge computing use cases, and present the solution we have developed (mixmatch) and the challanges we have encountered on our quest for a seamlessly federated multi-cloud.


What can I expect to learn?

Architectures for federated clouds. Identity federation and our solution to resource federation. Use cases for scalability, security, performance, and edge computing.

Thursday, November 15, 2:30pm-2:40pm (1:30pm - 1:40pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Boston University, Senior Software Engineer
Kristi Nikolla is a Sr. Software Engineer at the Mass Open Cloud and New England Research Cloud, working out of Boston University. He has been an active contributor of OpenStack since 2016, and is currently a maintainer of the Keystone project and a former PTL, as well as a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee. FULL PROFILE
Principal Software Engineer, Red Hat
Morgan is a Principal Engineer focused on CI/CD for Red Hat and former Project Team Lead (PTL) of the OpenStack Identity Project, Keystone,. As of 2013, he has been focused on improving Identity Management, Single Sign On, and access management in Open Source projects. He has over a decade of experience as a technical leader in engineering for large-scale platforms for Web Hosting, Social... FULL PROFILE