HA for OpenStack and OpenStack 101!

PLEASE NOTE: We will meet in "the Commons" which is on the 10th & 11th floor of the NERD center. Take elevator to the 11th floor and walk down the stairs to the Commons area

Hey folks - we have been able to re-schedule our January topic "HA for OpenStack - Connecting the dots" with RackSpace is our sponsor for the Feb session. And, as an added special bonus this month we are also excited to have Beth Cohen delivering her very popular OpenStack 101 Redux presentation. (if you are new to OpenStack, this is a great session for you)

Thanks to Rackspace for sponsoring this month's #OSBOS meetup, here are the details....

HA for OpenStack - Connecting the dots.

The primary requirements for OpenStack based clouds (public, private or hybrid) is that they must be massively scalable and highly available. There are a number of interrelated concepts which make the understanding and implementation of HA complex. The potential for not implementing HA correctly would be disastrous.

In our lead session, brought to us by Rackspace, we have a discussion on the interrelated concepts as a basis for implementing HA. The session will have several demos and walk through some examples of HA for MySQL, Rabbit MQ and the OpenStack APIs primarily using Keepalived, VRRP and HAProxy which will reinforce the concepts and show how to connect the dots. Although, we will use OpenStack as an example, the concepts will be applicable on a more general basis.

This session will be led by Raghavan "Rags" Srinivas (@ragss) who works as a OpenStack advocate and solutions architect at Rackspace where he finds himself constantly challenged from low level networking to high level application issues. His general focus area is in distributed systems, with a specialization in Cloud Computing and Big Data. He worked on Hadoop, HBase and NoSQL during its early stages. He has spoken on a variety of technical topics at conferences around the world, conducted and organized Hands-on Labs and taught graduate classes in the evening.

2nd Session: OpenStack 101 Redux
Do you think that Nova, Cinder, Heat, Ceilometer, and Neutron are all references to global warming and looming apocalypse? For all those who come to the OpenStack Meetups and wonder what all the fuss is about, this quick introduction will answer your many questions. It includes a short history of the largest Open Source project in history and will touch on
the basic OpenStack components, so you will be prepared the next time someone mentions Keystone, Nova and Swift in the same sentence.

This session will be facilited by Beth Cohen. Beth works for Verizon developing cool Cloud based products that she can't talk about without a strict NDA. She is a technical leader with over 25 years of experience architecting leading-edge system infrastructures and managing complex projects in the telecom, manufacturing, financial services, government, and technology industries. She has been involved in building some of the world's largest OpenStack architectures and has way too much fun at OpenStack Summits!

Reminders:

• A lite dinner and soft drinks will be provided ~ 6:30pm courtesy of Rackspace , and we will kick off the sessions ~ 7:00pm.

• We have speaking slots available for April, May and onward. If your organization is interested in sponsoring an upcoming meetup, reply to us via this site.

• DON'T FORGET - for security reasons, the NERD center requires atendees to show a government issued photo ID in order to gain access into the building.