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ApacheCon North America 2017

ApacheCon North America will be held at the Intercontinetal Miami in Miami, Florida. Register now for the event taking place May 16-18, 2017.

9:30am EDT

BarCampApache

BarCampApache is a BarCamp being facilitated by a group of people involved in the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). All topics are still welcome however! As the ASF is helping to organize, there will be a lot of people around who know a lot about Apache projects / communities / technologies, so there are normally quite a few sessions proposed on those areas. It's not exclusively Apache though, so everyone should come, and talk about fun new ideas, projects and technologiesBarCampApache will be a dynamic get together open to the public. Like other unconferences, the schedule will be determined by the participants, both Apache and non! We strongly encourage lots of people to come along and share their knowledge and ideas. We want it to be a great day of sharing for everyone, not just those at the event. Everyone coming in for the conference is encouraged to come early, as it will be a great day for all.

Please note: While BarCamp Apache is free to attend, you will need to register for ApacheCon if you want to attend the rest of the conference sessions.

Monday May 15, 2017 9:30am - 3:00pm EDT
Rafael

11:05am EDT

CloudStack Hackathon

Tuesday May 16, 2017 11:05am - 5:30pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

10:15am EDT

Evolution of ACS Deployment Design: An Operators Perspective - David Mabry, Education Networks of America

ENA has been using CloudStack for 7 years, starting back in the cloud.com days. As we've grown, we have significantly changed our architecture to improve scale and stability.
We'll be detailing some of things we learnt the hard way and some tips to save you time when deploying advanced zone networking on KVM with Ceph and VXLAN.

Speakers

David Mabry

Manager of Systems Engineering, Education Networks of America

David joined ENA in 2010 as a senior systems engineer, and he has a wealth of experience in designing, deploying, and maintaining complex server systems in a 24×7 production environment. Before joining the ENA team, David worked for Bridgestone, where he implemented and maintained... Read More →

Wednesday May 17, 2017 10:15am - 11:05am EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Any

11:15am EDT

Using KVM in Apache CloudStack - Dag Sonstebo, ShapeBlue

This talk will give an overview of the pro’s and con’s of working with the KVM hypervisor in an Apache CloudStack environment, as well as diving deeper into the technical side of installation, configuration, networking and storage options.

Speakers

Dag Sonstebo

Cloud Architect, ShapeBlue

Dag Sonstebo is a Cloud Architect at ShapeBlue and committer in the Apache CloudStack project. Dag has 18 years experience from the service provider, financial and manufacturing industries and has a great interest in everything cloud, virtualisation and automation. He’s been working... Read More →

Wednesday May 17, 2017 11:15am - 12:05pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Intermediate

12:15pm EDT

Monitoring CloudStack and Components - Alexander Stock, Bit.Group GmbH

Monitoring is an important point while maintaining a cloud environment. In the first part of this talk Alexander Stock will show how Cloudstack and the components it depends on can be monitored . In the second part Alexander Stock will show how its possible to build a central monitoring system which can be used by the customers too.

Speakers

Alexander Stock

BIT.Group GmbH

- Employer: Bit.Group GmbH - Projects: - Cloud automation with Ansible - Buildup and maintain Monitoring for our Cloudenvironment - speaking experience: one talk at German Ansible Meetup

Wednesday May 17, 2017 12:15pm - 1:05pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Intermediate

2:30pm EDT

CloudStack - Top 5 Technical Issues and Troubleshooting - Abhinandan Prateek, ShapeBlue

Cloudstack Top 5 technical issues and troubleshooting - Cloudstack is a mature product in use by companies world-wide. While being associated with cloudstack development for over 5 years, Abhi has come across some technical issues that once in a while affect the cloudstack deployment. This presentation is an effort to put together top 5 such issues, analyze their symptoms, see them from cloudstack architecture perspective and from the distributed nature of cloud orchestration, then look at ways to avoid them and finally be able to troubleshoot if they occur.

Speakers

Abhinandan Prateek

Software Architect, Shapeblue Ltd

I have been involved with cloudstack since early days. Started as an individual contributor at cloud.com moved on to Cirtix after its acquisition. Right now with Shapeblue who are the leading cloudstack technology company. I have presented the bits on "Writing Cloudstack Plugins... Read More →

top5support areas pdf

Wednesday May 17, 2017 2:30pm - 3:20pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Intermediate

3:30pm EDT

Taking Advantage of CloudStack Database - Sergey Levitskiy, Autodesk

Database is the foundation of CloudStack. It keeps all details that drive deployment of new cloud resources and configuration of existing ones. Although very complex it can be used to drive infrastructure transformation that are not easily available though CloudStack APIs. Sergey Levitskiy will deep dive into certain areas of CloudStack database design and share examples of how simple SQL scripts can be used to manipulate your cloud.

Speakers

Sergey Levitskiy

Autodesk

Sergey Levitskiy is IaaS Manager at Autodesk. He is responsible for design, implementation and ongoing operations of the next generation infrastructure services that provide foundation for Autodesk Enterprise Cloud Services (ECS). Prior to joining Autodesk in 2011 he engineered and... Read More →

Wednesday May 17, 2017 3:30pm - 4:20pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Advanced

9:00am EDT

NFV and Telco/Carrier Clouds Opportunities for Apache CloudStack - Paul Angus, ShapeBlue

NFV is emerging as big use case of IAAS clouds. Telco are building purpose built private cloud to run network service workloads. Even the enterprises are looking for NFV solutions to bring service agility. Apache CloudStack having established as proven platform for private clouds has significant opportunity in establishing as preferred VIM (virtual infrastructure manager) for NFV solution. This talk will cover state of networking in CloudStack how it can evolve to support NFV workloads and possible collaboration opportunities with leading open source projects in NFV.

Speakers

Paul Angus

VP Technology, ShapeBlue Ltd

Paul is VP Technology / Cloud Architect for ShapeBlue and an Apache CloudStack Project Management Committee member . He consults to a number of large service providers and enterprises. In is responsible for ShapeBlue's technical strategy. Paul has spoken at every CloudStack Collaboration... Read More →

Thursday May 18, 2017 9:00am - 9:50am EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Advanced

10:00am EDT

Reliable Host Fencing in CloudStack - Rohit Yadav, ShapeBlue

In this presentation, Rohit and Abhinandan will review issues with current CloudStack fencing mechanisms and high availability feature. They will discuss new features developed for CloudStack, namely OOBM (out-of-band management) that allows for power management of the hosts and Host-HA that provides reliable mechanisms for investigation, recovery and fencing of a host. In the presentation, the speakers (also authors of the features) will demonstrate the features, discuss their design and implementation, and how they allow for reliable recovery/fencing of the host and host power management.

Speakers

Rohit Yadav

Software Architect, ShapeBlue

Rohit Yadav is a committer and PMC member of Apache CloudStack project, and works for ShapeBlue as a software architect.

Thursday May 18, 2017 10:00am - 10:50am EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Intermediate

11:20am EDT

Baremetal Provisioning in Cloudstack with MaaS for High Performance Applications - Syed Ahmed, CloudOps

Baremetal provisioning has been gaining popularity recently and, especially with the advances in AI and deep learning, more and more people want to have an infrastructure that can leverage powerful hardware for doing compute operations. In this talk we will look at how CloudStack can use MaaS to provision baremetal hosts to various customers and also link them to virtual machines giving a very flexible architecture for running deep learning workloads.

Speakers

Syed Ahmed

CloudOps

Since 2005, CloudOps has enabled hundreds of enterprises and web-based companies to build their businesses in the cloud. We provide private, public and hybrid cloud solutions for businesses seeking scalability, and for enterprises making their move to the cloud. Our best-in-class... Read More →

Thursday May 18, 2017 11:20am - 12:10pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Beginner

12:20pm EDT

A Multi-Cloud Portal for IaaS and Shared IT Service Providers - Marc Vaillancourt, CloudOps

Walkthrough of the design and implementation of a platform featuring a deep integration with Apache CloudStack and other open source projects to deliver n-tier, multi-tenant cloud services for service providers and IT shared services teams.

Speakers

Marc Vaillancourt

Director Software Development, CloudOps

Thursday May 18, 2017 12:20pm - 1:10pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Beginner

2:40pm EDT

Apache CloudStack Upgrade Best Practices - Dag Sonstebo, ShapeBlue

Upgrading your Apache CloudStack infrastructure can sometimes be a little daunting. This talk covers some best practices learnt and developed through many successful upgrades, and aims to make this process as low risk and with as high chance of success as possible. The talk will cover some different strategies for the overall upgrade process, recommended preparation and testing steps, approach to the upgrade itself as well as some guidelines for rollback scenarios.

Speakers

Dag Sonstebo

Cloud Architect, ShapeBlue

Dag Sonstebo is a Cloud Architect at ShapeBlue and committer in the Apache CloudStack project. Dag has 18 years experience from the service provider, financial and manufacturing industries and has a great interest in everything cloud, virtualisation and automation. He’s been working... Read More →

Thursday May 18, 2017 2:40pm - 3:05pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Intermediate

3:10pm EDT

Billing for Apache CloudStack - Pierre Vacherand, APALIA

This session will cover all Billing challenges for a Cloud Service Providers (CSP) using Apache CloudStack.
Tenants on-boarding workflows, storefront, subscription management, rating, billing, payment and white label reseller management in a CloudStack context will be addressed.
Several CSPs case studies and demonstrations of Amysta Billing will be part of this session

Speakers

Pierre Vacherand

CTO, APALIA

Pierre Vacherand is the CTO of Apalia, a System integrator specialized in Open Cloud . Pierre is a Cloud IaaS specialist and has been involved with CloudStack since 2010.He led the design of Amysta, a Cloud Management Platform running with CloudStack. Pierre has been speaking at “Build... Read More →

Thursday May 18, 2017 3:10pm - 3:35pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Intermediate

3:40pm EDT

Apache CloudStack User Data: Alternatives to the Virtual Router - Kris Sterckx, Nuage Networks

CloudStack’s User Data service by default is provided by the Virtual Router (VR). This architecture is fine when deploying a VR is fine. For some deployments this may be problematic though, as of computational or IP address resources or as of VPC tier limitations. Especially for SDN enriched cloud deployments, there is wide interest to scrap the deployment of VR’s.

The presentation captures two alternative approaches for the Virtual Router, which Nuage Networks implemented and which both are being worked at for upstream inclusion. A first approach is based on Config Drive, made available for Isolated Networks and VPC. A second approach is one in which CloudStack no longer is the User Data provider but in which the location of an external User Data service is provided to the guest VM through user-defined (“extra”) DHCP options.

The presentation outlines both approaches in detail.

Speakers

Kris Sterckx

Software Development Lead, Nuage Networks / NOKIA

Working and living in Antwerp, Belgium.

Thursday May 18, 2017 3:40pm - 4:05pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Intermediate

4:10pm EDT

IPv6 in CloudStack Basic Networking - Wido den Hollander, PCextreme B.V.

CloudStack 4.10 has support for IPv6 in Basic networking on KVM including the use of Security Grouping. As IPv4 keeps running out more and more organizations want to implement IPv6.

How does the integration work in CloudStack 4.10 and how to use it on the KVM hypervisor?

Speakers

Wido Den Hollander

CTO, PCextreme B.V.

Wido den Hollander (1986) is co-founder and CTO at PCextreme B.V., a Dutch Hosting provider founded in 2004. He is a experienced Linux user and since 2010 he's involved in the Ceph storage project. In 2012 he developed the Ceph integration for CloudStack and is maintaining it ever... Read More →

Thursday May 18, 2017 4:10pm - 4:35pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Intermediate

4:40pm EDT

Effective SDN for Apache CloudStack - Necessities and Implementation Approaches - Srinivas Gandikota, Accelerite

Networking is a core piece of Infrastructure Clouds. Apache Cloudstack Networking has evolved over the years. But there are considerable gaps in managing and extending the Cloudstack network infrastructure. With increasing adoption of Baremetal services and Container based solutions, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has a bigger role to play in reducing the complexity of the deployments.

There is a need for -
Distributed Network Services to improve performance;
Intent-driven and Policy based frameworks to enable Network Automation;
Network Visibility and in turn for Network Analytics for efficient network infrastructure planning.

This talk elaborates the applicability of SDN solutions to improve network performance/management/planning for the users, reviews various open source approaches to SDN in Cloudstack and finally paves the path for in-depth dialogue in the community.

Speakers

Srinivas Gandikota

Chief Product Engineer, Accelerite

Overall 16 years of experience in Networking, Virtualization, Cloud Infrastructure, VoIP Technologies. Worked on architecture and implementation of Distributed Network Services for cloud based SDN solution. Currently working as Chief Product Engineer at Accelerite, on Apache Clou... Read More →

Thursday May 18, 2017 4:40pm - 5:05pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference

Experience Level Intermediate

5:10pm EDT

Storage-as-a-service for On-Premise Clouds - Ashok Rajagopalan, Datera

Storage-as-a-service for On-Premise Clouds

Talk Description: Clouds support a wide range of applications, requiring multiple service tiers of storage. Cloud operators are under pressure to deliver an optimized solution for each of these tiers. The right storage tier for the appropriate application, not just performance optimized, but also price optimized. Datera provides a unique elastic block storage-as-a-service platform supporting hybrid and all-flash nodes in a single cluster with the ability to create multiple storage service tiers. With seamless integration with CloudStack, all the advanced features of Datera can be leveraged by the CloudStack operators.

Speakers

Ashok Rajagopalan

Ashok is Head of Products responsible for product direction and strategy at Datera. Prior to joining Datera, Ashok was a key part of the product team that brought Cisco UCS to market and ran the UCS applications and cloud product teams that conceptualized FlexPod and Cisco Analytics... Read More →

Thursday May 18, 2017 5:10pm - 5:35pm EDT
Rafael

CloudStack Collaboration Conference