OpenNebula Techday Netherlands 2017 – The OpenNebula TechDays are full day events to learn about OpenNebula with a hands-on cloud installation and operation workshop, and presentations from community members and users. These events are targeted at cloud architects, data center admins, systems admins, systems integrators, DevOps architects, and solutions architect. The emphasis is to find local speakers and users to come together and talk about things that they care about most, and to share stories from their experiences using OpenNebula.

Local Organizer

BIT is an internet service provider and datacenter in The Netherlands. BIT offers internet access, email, hosting and colocating services for governments, organisations and businesses. The focus of the company is on superb quality and customisation with innovation as the motivation. In their datacenters and on their network they run services for the Dutch (.nl) registry, for several international payment companies, insurance companies, among others. BIT has always had a strong relation with the open source community and hosts for example the official Dutch and IPv6 mirror of the Ubuntu repositories. BIT is using OpenNebula to manage its (private) cloud offerings.

Location

The TechDay will be held at

BIT-MeetMe
Galileïlaan 17
6716BP, Ede
The Netherlands

Contact: opennebula@bit.nl

Call for Speakers

Send us an email at events@opennebula.org if you are interested in speaking at this TechDay and:

• Sharing cloud use cases and deployment experiences
• Introducing new integrations and ecosystem developments
• Describing other related cloud open-source projects and tools

Registration

Register for this Event

The number of seats is limited  to ensure there is plenty of opportunity for everyone to interact. We encourage everyone to register as early as possible.

Agenda and Speakers

Agenda will include a hands-on cloud installation and operation tutorial, and presentations from OpenNebula community members and users. Send us an email at events@opennebula.org if you are interested in speaking at this TechDay.

9:00-13:00: Hands-on Tutorial

Jaime Melis, OpenNebula Systems This hands-on tutorial will give an overview of how OpenNebula is used to build and operate private clouds. The attendees will build, configure and operate their own OpenNebula cloud.

Contents

• An introduction to cloud computing with OpenNebula
• The architecture of the cloud
• Planning and installing OpenNebula
• Configuration and basic usage

Audience

The target audience is devops and system administrators interested in deploying a private cloud solution, or in the integration of OpenNebula with other platform.

Skills Gained

• Describe the features and benefits of using virtualization and clouds
• Describe different architectures for a cloud that can be deployed with OpenNebula
• Deployment and basic configuration OpenNebula
• Basic operation of an OpenNebula cloud instance

Prerequisites

No prior OpenNebula skills are required, but participants should have working knowledge of virtualization, networking and Unix/Linux systems.

Material

The workshop includes hands-on exercises to be performed using attendee’s wifi-enabled laptops with VirtualBox installed. The attendees will build, configure and operate their own OpenNebula cloud.

13:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00 – 17:00: Workshop

14:00 – 14:30:OpenNebula out in the Open

Ander Astudillo, SURFsara Where OpenNebula is typically used by system administrators to manage data centers, SURFsara’s HPC Cloud exposes OpenNebula’s web interface crudely to end users. SURFsara’s end users are researchers. They all have diverse needs and most of them are no system experts. It turns out that OpenNebula’s interface is easy enough to use, enabling researchers to build complex compute infrastructures for their analysis workflows. This presentation discusses the features our researchers and we appreciate in OpenNebula, it pictures a selection of succesful projects and it also explains caveats we have come across while keeping the service in the air. OpenNebula out in the Open, Ander Astudillo, SURFsara from OpenNebula Project

14:30 – 15:00: Handling scientific workloads using OpenNebula

Roland der Hollander, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Handling scientific workloads using opennebula, Roland den Hollander, VU from OpenNebula Project

15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:00: Ceph as OpenNebula data storage solution

Stefan Kooman, Bit.nl Ceph is at the heart of many a cloud based infrastructure, and for a reason! We will show you how to use Ceph in OpenNebula and show off some new Ceph functionaltity ONE 5.4 has brought. Expect some action. Ceph as OpenNebula data storage solution

16:00 – 16:30: New features in OpenNebula in 5.4

Jaime Melis, OpenNebula Systems Brief summary of new features added in the latest OpenNebula version. New features in OpenNebula 5.4, Jaime Melis from OpenNebula Project

16:30 – 17:00: Open Space

This is a session for attendees to gather and discuss passionate questions, burning ideas, features, integrations or any topic of their choice, in an informal and tech-friendly environment, with other passionate and interested people. There is no preplanned list of topics, only time slots and a space in one of the meeting rooms where interested participants propose topics and pick time slots.