TechDay Cambridge, MA, USA, 22 April 2016

Research Computing was established in 2007 as part of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences (FAS) Division of Science in Harvard University, with the founding principle of facilitating the advancement of complex research by providing leading edge computing services. Research Computing staff maintain expertise in constantly changing computing technologies, while “speaking the language” of FAS researchers, to help them use computing more effectively.

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

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 includes a hands-on cloud installation and operation workshop, and presentations from OpenNebula community members and users.

9:00-9:30: An Introduction to OpenNebula

Constantino Vazquez Blanco, VP of Engineering at OpenNebula Systems We’re moving into a world of open cloud — where each organization can find the right cloud for its unique needs. A single cloud management platform can not be all things to all people, there will be a cloud space with several offerings focused on different environments and/or industries. The OpenNebula commitment to the open cloud flows directly out of its mission — to become the simplest cloud enabling platform — and its purpose — to bring simplicity to the private and hybrid enterprise cloud. OpenNebula exists to help companies build simple, cost‐effective, reliable, open enterprise clouds on existing IT infrastructure. The OpenNebula project is really vendor‐agnostic and completely driven by users needs with features that meet real demands. The session will introduce the OpenNebula project from different perspectives, ranging from its historical milestones and main contributors to its most relevant users and the size of their cloud deployments. TechDay – April – Introduction to OpenNebula from OpenNebula Project

9:30-13:00: Hands-on Workshop

Jaime Melis, Senior Infrastructure Architect at 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. TechDay – April – Tutorial from OpenNebula Project

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: Presentations

14:00 – 14:30: OpenNebula in Research Computing

John Noss, Research Computing Associate at Harvard TechDay – Cambridge 2016 – OpenNebula at Harvard Univerity from OpenNebula Project

14:30 – 15:00: Corona Project

Dan Kelleher, Scientific Systems Administrator at Harvard TechDay – Cambridge 2016 – OpenNebula Corona from OpenNebula Project

15:00 – 15:30: OpenNebula: The Integrator’s Story

Roy Keene OpenNebula’s simple design allows for it to be easily integrated into larger systems. It is likely that most people think of OpenNebula as a finished product that sits on top of a stack of other software and hardware to provide a management layer, API, scheduling and other fundamental cloud pieces. However, treating it as an upstream component allows for integration into a complete system which provides a unified experience for the entire system. The flexibility of OpenNebula’s design plays a large part in making that integration successful not only with a specific version but also as the parts change over time. We have developed a self-managing and self-assembling system that uses OpenNebula heavily, modifying it appropriately along the way to integrate into the whole product. We were able to do this due to the extensible and simple design of OpenNebula where our initial efforts with other products (such as OpenStack) were less successful and more burdensome. TechDay – Cambridge 2016 – OpenNebula at Knight Point Systems from OpenNebula Project

15:30 – 16:00: Coffee Break

16:00 – 16:20: Docker Machine and Swarm on OpenNebula

Jaime Melis, Senior Infrastructure Architect at OpenNebula Systems Introduction to OpenNebula’s integration with Docker Machine, or how to run dockers and swarms in your Cloud without breaking a sweat. Open discussion about what the future awaits for Docker in OpenNebula. TechDay – April – OpenNebula and Docker from OpenNebula Project

16:20 – 16:40: Customizing Virtual Machine Images

Javier Fontán, Advanced Solutions Engineer at OpenNebula Systems During this session Javier will give us some tips on how to automate the customization of VM images for your needs. Also some methods on how to optimize your images will be discussed. The tools used will be qemu-img and libguestfs. TechDay – April – Customizing VM Images from OpenNebula Project

16:40 – 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.