July 16-20, 2012
Portland, Oregon

Sponsored Tutorials

In these half-day tutorials happening Tuesday, July 17, OSCON sponsors will provide an in-depth look at their core technologies and projects. These tutorials are open to all attendees with a badge, even Expo Hall Only attendees. Special prizes and give-aways provide an extra incentive to participate.

9:00am Tuesday, 07/17/2012

GlusterFS Tutorial - Part 1: Gluster Overview

Location: E148

Anand Babu (Gluster), John Mark Walker (Gluster)

Average rating:

(3.67, 3 ratings)

GlusterFS is a community produced, open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes(actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. The morning tutorial will provide attendees with a broad and deep overview of GlusterFS, from history and roadmap to the latest release, v 3.3. Read more.

9:00am Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Build your Own Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), Just like Red Hat's (Sponsored Tutorial)

Location: E142

Mark Atwood (HP Cloud Services), Krishna Raman (Red Hat)

Average rating:

(4.17, 6 ratings)

Here's your chance to learn how to build your own Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Come check out this session with Krishna and Mark from the OpenShift team and learn how to install, configure and deploy OpenShift Origin - the open source project that powers the OpenShift service - on your laptop. Read more.

9:00am Tuesday, 07/17/2012

From Datacenter to the Cloud - Featuring Xen and XCP (Sponsored Tutorial)

Location: E141

George Dunlap (Citrix Systems, UK), Steven Maresca (Zentific LLC), Josh West (One.com), Patrick F. Wilbur (PFW Research LLC)

Average rating:

(3.00, 5 ratings)

Do you dream of spinning up ten, twenty, or a thousand virtual machines in an instant? Discover and repair bottlenecks without moving a finger? Dodge the loss of an entire storage array with no-one noticing? This is no sales pitch; during this tutorial, we'll demonstrate how to leverage truly FOSS tools to build a powerful, scalable cloud that easily competes with those proprietary solutions! Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Gluster FS Tutorial - Part 2: Gluster and Big Data; Gluster for Devs and Sys Admins

Location: E148

Dustin Black (Red Hat), Anand Avati (Red Hat)

Average rating:

(3.33, 3 ratings)

GlusterFS is a community produced, open source, distributed file system capable of scaling to several petabytes(actually, 72 brontobytes!) and handling thousands of clients. The afternoon session of the GlusterFS tutorial will focus on Gluster implementation as a big data solution, development platform and tool for systems administrators. Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Service Orchestration with Ubuntu in the Cloud (Sponsored Tutorial)

Location: E142

Jorge Castro (Canonical Ltd. / Ubuntu)

Average rating:

(4.50, 4 ratings)

Deploying things at scale can get hard and complicated, wouldn't it be nice if deploying services was as easy as using apt-get? With Ubuntu and juju you can deploy over 80 services to AWS, HP Cloud, OpenStack, or bare metal with really simple commands. This talk will show you what juju is, how it works, and how it can save you time by showing you how to write juju charms. Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/17/2012

Hacking on Apache CloudStack (Sponsored Tutorial)

Location: E141

Chiradeep Vittal (Citrix Systems)

Average rating:

(3.50, 2 ratings)

Apache CloudStack is an infrastructure-as-a-service platform used to deploy Amazon-style cloud computing environments, in this session developers will learn abou the architecture, plugin framework, and how to get involved in the Apache CloudStack project. Read more.

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