June OpenStack Meetup - Flexible, simple deployments with OpenStack-Ansible

Hey everyone, our June session is brought to us by Rackspace! Come on out and Meetup on OpenStack - NOTE the NEW Monday date!

OpenStack clouds give users to power to deploy complex servers and networks in seconds, but they can be challenging to deploy, maintain, and upgrade. The OpenStack-Ansible project allows deployers to overcome these challenges using tools that they already know. The project is packed full of well-tested, opinionated defaults that can be reconfigured easily. It's the backbone of Rackspace's Private Cloud product and it's the deployment mechanism for the OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC) Cluster.

In this talk, Major Hayden will lead the audience through an overview of OpenStack-Ansible and how to use it for small and large OpenStack clouds. The audience will learn how to perform an all-in-one deployment for testing and how to prepare multiple physical servers for an OpenStack-Ansible deployment.

Major Hayden builds OpenStack clouds as a Principal Architect at Rackspace. His primary focus is on the OpenStack-Ansible project, but he also works on information security improvements for OpenStack deployments. He is a Red Hat Certified Architect and he has contributed to several open source projects, including dracut, systemd, and Ansible. Within the Fedora Linux community, Major serves on the Fedora Security Team and Fedora Server Working Group. Major enjoys writing on his personal blog, major.io, and he talks about technical topics on Twitter as @majorhayden.

Reminders: • LOCATION - Rackspace Austin - 9001 North IH35 (east side frontage road) #150, Austin, TX 78753

• NOTE: Rackspace security requires you provide a government issued ID in order to gain access to the facility. we recommend you arrive ~ 6:00 - 6:15pm.

• There will be a light dinner and soft drinks provided courtesy of Rackspace @6:15pm - with networking time till about 6:45pm - we will kick off the speaking sessions ~ 6:45pm.