September Meetup: Conjure-up and Master to Metal with OpenStack Charms

Our September meetup features a double-header!

Topic #1: conjure-up OpenStack, a guided installation that will provide you with a full functioning private cloud utilizing Juju and pure LXD containers for compute instances all on a single machine.

Canonical will be discussing how conjure-up can be used to deploy OpenStack solutions that utilize the power of Juju for a clean and streamlined approach to having a fully functioning private cloud on a Single machine. I'll also go through the different stages of conjure-up and how it not only guides, but explains to you exactly what it is you are deploying. I will also be talking about post deployment actions such as importing Glance images, setting up Neutron networking and how that is translated into a series of easy to digest, guided questions to further your knowledge on what is required for a functioning private cloud.

Our speaker for this topic is Adam Stokes. Adam is currently a technical lead solutions engineer at Canonical Ltd. Adam's group focuses on research and development efforts to extend Ubuntu's position in the cloud space.

Topic #2: Master to Metal with OpenStack Charms - Deploying multi-node scalable OpenStack clouds from source to bare metal

How do specific OpenStack commit levels stack up in the metal rack? In this talk we will discuss the use of OpenStack Charms to deploy OpenStack from source to bare metal, and why that is useful. Developers and users alike can use the same set of OpenStack Charms to deploy and manage long-running production-grade clouds from stable (cloud-)archive packages as well as dev, test and staging clouds directly from upstream project source code.

Packaging can be tricky. Repackaging from master can be a significant hurdle for a dev or operator to overcome in order to deploy trunk/master onto metal. The OpenStack Charms enable devs and operators to leap that hurdle without having to repackage from trunk, as a valuable tool for evaluation and development.

Our speaker for this topic is Corey Bryant. Corey is currently an Ubuntu core developer and software engineer for the OpenStack Engineering team at Canonical. He is focused primarily on OpenStack packaging for Ubuntu and Juju OpenStack charm development. Prior to joining Canonical, Corey was a software engineer for the Linux Technology Center at IBM.

Food and drinks will be provided courtesy of Canonical. Thanks!