Sydney
November 6-8, 2017

Event Details

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Don't Repeat Our Mistakes! Lessons Learned from Running Go Daddy's Private Cloud

After years of running one of the largest OpenStack clouds, we've learned a thing or two.  Early architectural decisions about networking, storage, and scaling have real and lasting consequences.  We'll walk through some of these early decisions, some which turned out to be good, but many turned out to be bad.  Also included are some strategies for thinking through the long term impacts, to help you avoid similar pitfalls for your cloud.


What can I expect to learn?

Details on Go Daddy's cloud architecture (the good and the bad) and the reasoning behind those decisions.  Tips and strategies for avoiding architecture decisions that might have long lasting harmful consequences for your cloud.

Tuesday, November 7, 3:20pm-4:00pm (4:20am - 5:00am UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Principal DevOps Engineer
Mike is a DevOps Engineer in technical operations at Twilio SendGrid and a 15-year veteran in the service provider & SaaS industry.  With a focus on platforms, site reliability, automation and mentoring, he strives to be a "boat lifter" by helping others learn and grow to the benefit of all. His team at SendGrid supports the platform that delivers over 45 billion email messages each... FULL PROFILE
Go Daddy
Kris Lindgren is an operator of Go Daddy's public and private cloud.  He has been using openstack in a production capactiy since Havana.  He loves enabling others to work faster and better by using the cloud and other self-service portals.  He is also a core dev on the anvil project ( https://github.com/stackforge/anvil ), which allows deployers to package upstream openstack... FULL PROFILE