Ansible and Openstack

Tech + Beers + Peers = RHUG fun times

Join us for presentations on Ansible and Openstack, both followed by hands on demos.

Session 1: Openstack in real world followed by hands on demo - Ken Savich, Red Hat

Duration: 45 mins

About Ken: Ken Savich started his early career as a software engineer in the early days of the Internet, for Chicago's largest ISP -- InterAccess. Before moving to Austin TX in 2003, Ken co-authored the book "Peter Norton's Complete Guide to Linux", which specifically highlighted Red Hat Linux.
After having worked as a developer for various local Austin companies, Ken finally landed at Rackspace in 2006. This would be the beginning of a nine-year journey that saw the creation of OpenStack and found Ken in positions as a developer, an architect and finally as an engineer leading the OpenStack Keystone/Cloud Identity team at Rackspace.
Ken currently works for Red Hat, as a Senior OpenStack Solution Architect, in what is a longtime dream to work for a truly open company

Session 2: Ansible in HPC environments followed by hands on demo - Walter Bentley, Rackspace

Duration: 45 mins

About Walter: I am a Rackspace Private Cloud Solutions Architect with a diverse background in Production Systems Administration and Solutions Architecture. I have over 15 years of experience across numerous industries such as Online Marketing, Financial, Insurance, Aviation, Food Industry, Education and now in the technology product space. In the past, I was typically the requestor, consumer and advisor to companies to use technologies such as OpenStack, now promoter of OpenStack technology and Cloud educator. With my current role, the focus is on helping customers build, design and deploy Private clouds built on OpenStack. My role also involves Professional Services engagements around operating the built OpenStack clouds and DevOps engagements creating playbooks/roles with Ansible.

Recently I was given the honor to present at the OpenStack Vancouver, Tokyo and Austin Summits. As well as, I was given the great opportunity to present at AnsibleFest events in London and New York this past year. Some of my other experiences involve performing webinars, blogging about OpenStack and speaking at various technology conferences. Another wonderful experience was me being allowed to take part in the technical review of the newly launched OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook, Third Edition, book. As well as, publishing my first book titled ‘OpenStack Administration with Ansible’ which includes outlines how to orchestrate and automate real life day-to-day OpenStack cloud administrative tasks with Ansible.