Sydney Puppet Users Group does Openstack

This is a combined Puppet & Openstack meetup so we can all meet, listen to an awesome talk, and discuss some of the best use cases.

This is cross posted to the Australian Open Stack User Group, please RSVP only to one of the events, so we can cater appropriately.

https://www.meetup.com/Australian-OpenStack-User-Group/events/203209412/

Agenda

6pm doors open for drinks and introductions.

6:30pm Michael Chapman - How to build your own OpenStack distro using community Puppet Modules

Michael will demonstrate how to build an OpenStack distro from scratch using the community OpenStack Puppet modules. In an interactive session with the audience, we’re going to pick a Linux distro, use the roles + profiles pattern, use Hiera to populate data, and build up a complete OpenStack cluster inside VMs running the OpenStack Identity, Image, Compute and Networking services. Although there are vendor tools available that can assist with this process, such as Fuel, Cisco OpenStack Installer and Aptira's own Stacktira, understanding how the modules fit together will allow an operator to easily add their own customisations to the any of these systems.

Michael has been working in the cloud computing space, both in a research and enterprise context for several years, with OpenStack production experience stretching all the way back to the third release, 'Cactus'. He leads the Aptira software engineering team in developing deployment and operations tools for OpenStack. Michael is a maintainer of and a driving force behind the most widely used OpenStack deployment tool set, Puppet-OpenStack. He holds a Bachelor of Software Engineering with Honours from Australian National University and is regularly invited back to his alma mater to guest lecture.

Finding your way in:

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As always, we invite and need member participation. These Meetups are a great place to take your first step at public speaking. Fantastic from a personal development perspective, and also helpful to get your name on the map ;) What do they say...9->5 to survive, after 5 to thrive!

Let us know what topics are of interest, and then come and join us!