Come learn about OpenStack Operations from Platform9

Hello OpenStack Opers!

We are happy to present out next OpenStack Ops meeting on Sept 21st at 6 PM!

We will follow our same format with the doors opening at 6 PM with a short reception with food. Our talks will be starting around 6:30 and will go till about 8 PM at which time we will break out in to smaller groups to meet other members and dive in to the discussions.

Our featured speakers come to us from Platform9 (http://platform9.com/):

Topic 1:
7 OpenStack Best Practices for a Successful Deployment

Presented by Madhura Maskasky, Co-Founder and VP of Product, Platform9. Are you deploying OpenStack and looking for a cheat sheet to use it with confidence? This talk by Madhura Maskasky has you covered!

The talk features 7 best practices from experts running OpenStack in production:

• Monitor OpenStack health

• Configure high availability for OpenStack controller services

• Have a backup/restore plan and test it!

• Know your plan for upgrades

• Use host aggregates and storage QoS for workload tiering

• Test for network latencies and connection loss

• Practice your troubleshooting & debugging techniques

Topic 2:
Lessons from the Trenches: Monitoring your OpenStack Cloud

Presented by Harrison Page, Software Engineer, Platform9

One of the most important tasks that a cloud operator needs to focus on, after deployment, is effective monitoring. But what are the best tools to use and what metrics should be tracked to ensure a healthy OpenStack cloud?

In this talk, Harrison Page, from Platform9's engineering team talks about how Platform9 monitors its customers’ clouds and the lessons learned from being in the trenches of deploying OpenStack in production. Focus areas covered during this talk:

• State of the union on OpenStack monitoring

• Tools we use for monitoring: Server Density, Slack, VictorOps, SignalFx and PaperTrail

• Lessons learned on how and what to monitor

Speaker BIOs:

Madhura Maskasky, Co-Founder and VP of Product, Platform9

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Madhura leads Product Management at Platform9. Before co-founding Platform9, Madhura spent 7 years at VMware Engineering, where she grew to be technical lead for several key products including vCloud Director, Update Manager and ConfigControl.
Madhura helped spearhead vSphere's transformation into a policy driven product suite, working broadly across groups to pull together the vision. Madhura holds a M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University, specializing in databases and distributed systems.
When she isn't sweating the details on product, Madhura can be found rock-climbing, swing dancing and exploring San Francisco.

Harrison Page, Software Engineer, Platform9:

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Harrison Page is a software engineer at Platform9. He is a San Francisco native who grew up on the Atari 2600 and Apple. He has worked on server-side development for Netscape, Walt Disney Internet Group, Soylent Communications and Gazillion Entertainment. A typical day for Harrison 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.

About Platform9:

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Platform9 is the simplest way for enterprises to implement an OpenStack based private cloud, with intelligent, self-service provisioning of workloads onto their computing infrastructure. Platform9 Managed OpenStack enables the use of existing and new virtualized servers to power private clouds in minutes, while interoperating seamlessly with existing processes and management products. Platform9 brings single pane of glass management across KVM, VMware vSphere and Docker to enterprises.
Based in Sunnyvale California in the heart of Silicon Valley, Platform9 was founded by VMware veterans with deep domain knowledge and decade of experience building enterprise management software.
For more information, please visit http://www.platform9.com and follow us on Twitter @platform9sys