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

CSUC, which stands for Consorci de Serveis Universitaris de Catalunya (Catalan Consortium for University Services), shares academic, scientific, library, transfer of knowledge and management services to associated entities to improve effectiveness and efficiency by enhancing synergies and economies of scale. It’s integrated by the Generalitat de Catalunya and ten Catalan universities (UB, UAB, UPC, UPF, UdL, UdG, URV, UOC, URL and UVic-UCC).

Location

The TechDay will be held at

CSUC
Gran Capità street, no number
CSUC Building
Barcelona, Spain

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.

09:45 – 13:00: Workshop

09:45 – 10:30: OpenNebula, new features and a focus on vCenter

Jaime Melis, OpenNebula Systems
OpenNebula provides a seamless integration with vCenter. In this session we will discuss how to add a Cloud-layer on top of your vCenter infrastructure. We will also discuss vOneCloud, a product based on OpenNebula to quickly deploy a Cloud in vCenter. Finally we will talk about what the future awaits for OpenNebula and VMware, things like Network and Storage managemente, StorageDRS, Linked clones, very fast monitoring and operation, and many many more things.

10:30 – 11:00: Hybrid Clouds: Dancing with Virtual Machines

Jordi Guijarro, CSUC

Today, the model of hybrid cloud comes under the eyes of a lot of organizations. The idea of combining resources of public cloud providers with private depending on the terms of execution, the need of more resources, an extra protection of the data, more or less security in services with sensitive information, etc. are some of the capabilities that this model has to answer. The case of CSUC, acting as cloud provider and at the same time as user of external IaaS and PaaS services, is analyzed sharing its first experiences in the way to archive a real multicloud architecture to provide services for catalan universities and research institutions.

11:00 – 11:30: Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00: OpenNebula Oneflow: give me the flow!

Jose A. Alcantara, XRQTC
What is OneFlow? In this session we will discuss what is OneFlow and how to adapt it to our specific needs.

12:00 – 12:30: TBD: FlyTech

12:30 – 13:00: Civil War: LXD vs Docker

Xavier Peralta, CSUC
A review about the scenarios with most expectations always from an OpenNebula’s
integration point of view. What can we expect nowadays of both technologies and
what should they improve in the future.

13:00-14:00: Lunch

14:00-17:00: Hands-on Tutorial

Jaime Melis, OpenNebula SystemsThis 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.

17:00 – 17:30: 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.