OpenStack Certified Administrator Exam and Ansible Automation with Rackspace

Hey Stackers,

We have two top Rackspace trainers and speakers coming to Israel, and they will be presenting on two interesting OpenStack topics.

Don't miss the giveaway of a few books written by Walter Bentley called "OpenStack Administration with Ansible"!

Presentations:
Talk #1: Preparing for the Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam

This session will cover the objectives required to pass the OpenStack Foundation's Certified OpenStack Administrator exam. Increase employer and customer confidence by proving you have the skills required to administrate real-world OpenStack clouds via the Horizon dashboard, command line interface, and API!

Speaker: Matt Dorn

Matt Dorn is a Cloud Technology Instructor and an OpenStack code contributor with Rackspace focused on helping IT teams around the world build private clouds with OpenStack. He understands that many feel a great deal of intimidation when approaching open source projects and is fanatical about providing an easy to understand learning path that makes OpenStack accessible and fun. His experience includes being apart of a 4-person hosting startup in Philadelphia to a leadership position for Dell’s Cloud Services team. Matt blogs about OpenStack at madorn.com.

Talk #2: Operating Your OpenStack Cloud using Ansible

Ansible has become a market leader in the Open Source orchestration and automation space. With it too being built using Python, similar to OpenStack, it makes for an easy marriage. The ability to leverage existing and/or new OpenStack modules will allow you to quickly move along your playbook creation. During this talk we will be presented with 3-4 real life examples of how they can automate daily administrative tasks with Ansible. This includes making decision around how to best to handle the automation steps and of course tips/tricks.

Speaker: Walter Bentley

Walter Bentley is a Rackspace Private Cloud Technical Marketing Engineer and author with a diverse background in production systems administration and solutions architecture. He has more than 15 years of experience in sectors such as online marketing, financial, insurance, aviation, the food industry, education and now in technology. In the past, he was typically the requestor, consumer and advisor to companies tin the use of technologies such as OpenStack. Today he’s an OpenStack promoter and cloud educator. In his current role, Walter helps customers build, design and deploy private clouds built on OpenStack. That includes professional services engagements around operating OpenStack clouds and DevOps engagements creating playbooks/roles with Ansible. He presents and speaks regularly at OpenStack Summits, AnsibleFest and other technology conferences, plus webinars, blog posts and technical reviews. His first book, ‘OpenStack Administration with Ansible’ was released in 2016.

Agenda:
19:00 - Opening with refreshments thanks to our hosts at Klarna
19:15 - Matt's talk
20:00 - Pizza break thanks to Rackspace
20:15 - 21:00 Walter’s talk
21:00 - 21:15 Q&A and Raffle