TechDay Toronto, ON Canada, 19 April 2016
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.
Location
The TechDay will be held at
75 Horner Avenue,
Unit 14,
Toronto ON M8Z 4X5
Contact:
Commuting Instructions
The facility is at 75 Horner, Unit 14 (C151 on the window) at the corner of Judson and Horner.
Parking is available in front and back of the building. If the front is full, head North on Horner and take the first driveway (behind BlackOak) where you should find spots are available on your left (North most side of the property.)
Transit Friendly! – The Islington 110A bus drops off on that corner; walking distance from Kipling and Evans (Left on Evans, South on Horner). We are also a 20 minute walk from Mimico GO station (due West on Judson).
Canada151 Data Centers provides carrier neutral, highly redundant Colocation and Disaster Recovery services from our West Toronto facility. Our cost effective, client focused services provide a flexible alternative in a market dominated by big Telco. C151 is designed as a hybrid ready data center. Ask us what we mean!
Call for Speakers
Send us an email at events@opennebula.org and rad@wayzinfratek.com 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
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 includes a hands-on cloud installation and operation workshop, and presentations from OpenNebula community members and users.
9:00-9:20: Registration and Networking
Come early to register in, enjoy complementary coffee and network with your peers. Canada151 is a secure data center facility and signing in is a requirement.
Throughout the day, our hosts Canada151 will be conducting tours of the data center for interested parties and available to chat about their partnership programs. |
9:20-9:40: An Introduction to OpenNebula
9:40-13:00: Hands-on Workshop
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
14:00-14:20: OpenNebula in Fuze (formerly ThinkingPhones)
Khoder Shamy, Sr Infrastructure Architect at Fuze (formerly ThinkingPhones) We will be sharing an overview on how we leverage OpenNebula open-source project in the rapidly growing global private infrastructure at Fuze. Particularly, we will highlight the self-serve and multi-tenant use-cases within our private cloud in addition to the use of cloud orchestration workflows for instances and services (OneFlow/OneGate) |
14:20 – 14:40: Customizing Virtual Machine Images
14:40 – 15:00: Canada151 Data Centers Partner Presentation
15:00 – 15:30: Coffee Break
15:30 – 15:50: Docker Machine and Swarm on OpenNebula
15:50 – 16:10: Hyperconvergence and Opennebula
16:10 – 16:30: The Consumption Cloud Revolution
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. |
Throughout the day, our hosts Canada151 will be conducting tours of the data center for interested parties and available to chat about their partnership programs.