Cloud Computing

Puppet is an enterprise systems management platform that standardizes the way you deploy and manage infrastructure in the enterprise and the cloud. By the end of the tutorial we’ll produce a simple Puppet architecture that can manage a few services and applications as well as discuss best practices and common design patterns. Read more.

Chef is a powerful open source system integration framework, built to bring the benefits of configuration management to the entire infrastructure. This tutorial will cover key concepts and how to get started using Chef to manage systems and integrate them together to build fully automated infrastructure. Read more.

Google App Engine is an application development and cloud-hosting platform that lets users create apps to run Google's datacenters. In this 3-part tutorial, we'll give a 1-hour intro talk on cloud computing and App Engine, a 90-100 minute introductory codelab to get your feet wet with App Engine development, and finally conclude with about a half-hour intro to some of App Engine's newest features! Read more.

Cloud is the biggest user of Open Source, but also a threat - people are building their apps on Cloud Platforms that are closed. Stratos is an Apache Licensed project for a Cloud Platform-as-a-Service. We will take a deep dive into this multi-tenant, elastic, metered cloud runtime that includes Tomcat, ESB, Registry and more. This will be a detailed session aimed at developers and infra experts. Read more.

The OpenStack project was launched last summer during OSCON by Rackspace, NASA, and a number of other cloud technology leaders in an effort to build a fully-open cloud computing platform. It is a collection of scalable, secure, standards-based projects consisting of compute, storage, images, and more. This session will introduce the projects, the principles behind it, and how to get started. Read more.

A behind the scenes view as to why and how Facebook implemented the Open Compute Project, an open community focused on data center design, and the resulting radical reduction in data center power consumption the project offers. Read more.

OpenStack is an effort to build a completely open, community driven, enterprise-level cloud computing and storage platform. Not only is the technology open, but the APIs are as well. This session will show how to leverage the power of the current compute and storage APIs, as well as look down the road to future releases. Read more.

Cloud computing scared the crap out of me - the quirks and nightmares of provisioning cloud computing, dns, storage, etc on AWS, Terremark, Rackspace, etc - until I took the bull by the horns. Come see me demonstrate tools and examples that will allow you to skip the headaches and cut straight to the cloud. Read more.

An approach to building freedom-respecting online services and a presentation of Libravatar, a federated clone of the Gravatar profile image hosting service. Read more.

Launched in December 2008, BrowserMob set out to change the way load testing is done - all using the cloud and open source. Learn from the founder how he built a high performance testing product, and how the operational support the cloud provided and speed to market of open source enabled the company to not only profit from day one, but to be acquired within a year and a half of it's launch. Read more.

This session will demonstrate an example scenario from Janrain and discuss the implications, benefits, and pitfalls of moving to a utility cloud computing architecture from a traditional co-located hosting environment. Read more.

There are many challenges to being able to move virtual machines to and from your datacenter and public cloud hosting service providers (in other words to obtain hybrid cloud mobility). In this session, members of the OpenStack and Xen.org communities discuss the open source and open standards approach that they are taking and include some of the challenges they face. Read more.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. This is part survey, part critique of the various Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability models available from various modern databases and data stores used in modern Web and Cloud environments. Read more.

Real clouds look fluffy but mass up to a million tonnes. Virtual clouds look cheap but consume the output of 10 nuclear power stations. Real life factors can seriously influence your data center requirements. How can Linux help you? Read more.

Is your application distributed ? How have you chosen to deal with the implications of this distribution? In this session we will introduce and explore zookeeper. Originally developed at Yahoo and used by hbase, zookeeper is a wonderful tool. Zookeeper is straightforward and provides an interface allowing for easy configuration and use. Read more.

Tropo's platform for voice, SMS, and IM is a hosted cloud service, and we've opened the source of the core platform. Hear the lessons learned from running a cloud service and a parallel open source project. We did a lot wrong, and we got many things right. We'll discuss what we've learned about product management, release management, marketing, and third party licensing. Read more.