Openstack, Containers, and the Private Cloud

We have three talks this month:

Designing an Automated Configuration Workflow for OpenStack

Join the Platform9 engineering team to learn about how they deploy OpenStack as part of their service. Learn about the first version of this engine that was based on RDO and Packstack / Puppet, limitations encountered, and learnings from that experience. The team will then discuss design goals for the configuration workflow, and discuss how it was achieved using Ansible.

Speaker: Paavan Shanbhag, Software Engineer, Platform9 and Harrison Page, Software Engineer, Platform9
Containers and Virtual Machines: Inside, Alongside, or Blindside?

Containers are the most exciting infrastructure technology of this decade, as evidenced by rising interest in Docker. However, there is an elephant in the room: how should users use this technology, given the widespread deployment of Virtualization in the datacenter? Should Containers be run inside Virtual Machines? Should they be run directly on bare metal as an alternative for Virtual Machines? Or, is Virtualization dead with the advent of Containers?

Speaker: Sirish Raghuram, Co-Founder & CEO, Platform9

Running Platform9 on Platform9

Can we have our cake and eat it too? After months of development from conception to full production use, that is a question we've been asking ourselves of our own private instance of Platform9 Managed OpenStack. We affectionately call it "dogfood" and use it to run our continuous integration testing workloads, which were previously running on Amazon Web Services.

Speaker: Roopak Parikh, Co-Founder & VP of Engineering, Platform9

Speaker bios:

Paavan Shanbhag:
Paavan works as a software engineer building some of the key cloud services at Platform9. He holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Stony Brook University. Prior to Platform9, he spent close to 6 years working at VMware, where he has contributed to various cloud management products working across the VMware stack, from ESXi to VirtualCenter.
Outside of work, he likes listening to classic music and following sports. Of late, he has been enjoying his time in the kitchen.

Harrison Page:

Harrison Page is a software engineer at Platform9. He is a San Francisco native who grew up on the Atari 2600 and Apple //e. He has worked on server-side development for Netscape, Walt Disney Internet Group, Soylent Communications and Gazillion Entertainment. A typical day at Platform9 might include wrestling with production servers, debugging Python scripts, automating deployments and worrying about security. He lives in the Bay Area with two fat cats.

Sirish Raghuram:

As CEO, Sirish quarterbacks the team at Platform9 in realizing our vision. On a given day, this can range from strategy and roadmap, to shipping code and running tests. Before co-founding Platform9, Sirish was an early engineer at VMware, where he held technical and management leadership roles and helped ship multiple vSphere products.
Sirish's work was reflected in several patents, VMworld talks and internal product innovations within VMware Engineering. Sirish has a B.E. in Computer Science from the University of Pune, India.

Roopak Parikh:
Roopak envisioned the technology powering Platform9, and now leads our Engineering wizards in the quest to realize this vision. Before co-founding Platform9, Roopak was a technical lead at VMware, where he helped architect and ship major vSphere products: Update Manager and vCloud Director.
Before VMware, Roopak was a founding engineer at an early stage Mobile computing startup. Roopak's dream would be to combine his long-standing love for functional programming with his affection for container technologies.
Outside of work, Roopak enjoys reading up on new technology, catching up on sports and movies, and keeping up with his son on the Soccer field.

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