SSL Cert Management and Network Virtualization at BayLISA

Welcome to BayLISA for March, 2013.

We will be hosted this month by Yahoo! at their Sunnyvale main campus. Dinner will not be catered this month, so please eat before you get here. We're working on beverages though.

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Current talks scheduled:

Heather Stern, "SSL part two: managing your certificates" This month, instead of a day in the life of an HTTPS transaction, we shall have more the week in the life of the sysadmin who set things up to make sure one can happen - the back end of having certificates, and setting them up.

Heather Stern has spent over 15 years as an open source consultant in the Silicon Valley under the name Starshine Technical Services. Starshine is not looking for clients as she is presently in Production Operations at a big name company and enjoying every crazy minute.

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Adam Johnson, "Overlay-based Virtual Networking for IaaS Clouds" Adam will be talking about the requirements for selecting the right networking model for your IaaS public or private cloud. He will present MidoNet, an overlay-based approach to network virtualization platform which provides fully fault-tolerant, decentralized networking for OpenStack and CloudStack.

Adam Johnson is a founding member and General Manager at Midokura. He has worked for Midokura since its inception in 2010, where they are virtualizing the network for leading Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platforms such OpenStack, and Cloudstack. His background is in computer science and mathematics, and has been working with startups in the US and Japan for the last 7 years. You can find him on twitter (@adjohn (http://twitter.com/adjohn)) and linkedin ( http://linkedin.com/adjohn ).

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Roy Rapoport, "Howler Monkey and Certificate Expiration" "I'll talk about SSL certificate management and Howler Monkey, a tool we wrote that helped us completely eliminate production emergencies due to SSL certificate expirations."

Roy Rapoport ( rrapoport@netflix.com , @royrapoport (https://twitter.com/royrapoport)) doesn't always have fun, but when he does, it's in production. He currently manages Monitoring Engineering at Netflix.

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More details coming...

Watch for upcoming meetings featuring Ansible configuration management (April 18) and recent innovations in Hadoop (May 16). Our Short-but-cool meeting is June 20.