OpenStack & Kubernetes on Stacki

Our first live meetup is finally set! StackIQ's Joe Kaiser will go over the basics of Stacki for the newbies followed by a live demo installation of OpenStack and Kubernetes on bare metal using Stacki. He will also touch on some new features in Stacki (Ubuntu, UEFI, etc.). And of course, food and drinks will be served.:)

A big thanks to Rackspace for letting us host our meetup at their office.

Stacki (http://www.stacki.com/) is the fastest open source CentOS/RHEL bare metal provisioning tool that can take your servers from bare hardware (or virtual hardware) to working Linux, ready to install applications.

OpenStack (https://www.openstack.org/software/) is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.

Kubernetes (http://kubernetes.io/docs/whatisk8s/) is an open-source platform for automating deployment, scaling, and operations of application containers across clusters of hosts, providing container-centric infrastructure.

Joe Kaiser is Systems Engineer at StackIQ. Though Joe looks younger and taller than he appears, he is neither. He's been doing this a looooong time. With ill-fated gigs in several family businesses and a less ill-fated stint at Fermilab, he has built, managed and installed lots of Linux and automated the fuck out of it wherever he was. He was a big fanboy of Rocks and is the First Fan Boy of Stacki. He knows how to make it bleed. If he can't install something with Stacki - it's not worth installing. As the founder of Total Pajama Management, (TPJ tm) he suffers from the belief anyone should be able to install an entire data center from anywhere in the world - without pants on.