Deep dive on ManageIQ by Red hat & “I Can Haz Moar Networks?” by Midokura

Title: A Deep Dive on ManageIQ - Open source Cloud Management for OpenStack and Virtualization

Abstract:

As more and more enterprises build out Openstack clouds in addition to their existing virtualization & public cloud investments, the need of the hour is to provide integrated management capabilities across these public,private and hybrid clouds. ManageIQ is the leading open source cloud management technology that delivers the insight, control, and workflow automation enterprises need to address the challenges of managing complex cloud and virtual environments. In this technical deepdive & demo, we will explain the underpinnings of the architecture, the APIs and capabilities of this widely used project. In addition, we will discuss and demo how it can be used to manage OpenStack clouds.

Speaker: Vamsi Chemitiganti, Chief Architect at Red Hat

Bio:

As a Chief Architect, Vamsi Chemitiganti is responsible for helping Red Hat customers achieve their key business transformation initiatives through open source architectures and technologies. He regularly advises a range of Fortune 100 companies in financial services, healthcare, retail and transportation verticals on such topics as cloud computing, big data, high performance computing and enterprise middleware. Trusted advisor to the top 20 banks, Chemitiganti has deep knowledge and experience in financial services IT, with specialties in capital markets, core banking, wealth management and IT operations. He is also a regular contributor to Wall Street & Technology. An expert in healthcare IT, Chemitiganti was previously software architect for Siemens Healthcare in Malvern, PA, leading teams that developed enterprise software for hospital systems, and holds three healthcare IT patents. Chemitiganti holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering and an MBA from the University of Maryland, College Park, and is a regular speaker at industry events.

Title: “I Can Haz Moar Networks?”

Abstract:

So you want to build a cloud? Or maybe you have a cloud already, and you want it to work. Well great, you got the first step out of the way, your users can create all the virtual machines they could possibly want. So everything should be unicorns and rainbows right? What happens when your users want to connect their machines to something else?

How your users connect their virtual machines to the outside (and each other) is just as important, if not more, than the virtual machines themselves. For most of us, the cloud model we follow is the same one used at Amazon, Digital Ocean, Google Compute Engine, and all the others. Machines get an “internal” address and, if they want to connect to the outside, an “external” address. That’s it, chocolate or vanilla. So what happens if a user is writing a program that uses a clustered database? Can the databases be placed on their own network so they can be regulated? Do they need to go out to the external network and back in to communicate with the non-database components?

If you’re going to virtualize your machines, why not virtualize the networks that connect them together? In this talk we’ll go over a new model for tenant-controllable networking that lets cloud operators give their users the ability to customize and control their networks, in the same way they do for compute power, storage, etc. We’ll also go over some use cases directly applicable to different cloud infrastructure. Finally, we’ll do a live demo of how networks can change on a programmatic time scale to accommodate even the most absurd needs. Plug your ears, we’re going to blow your mind.

Speaker: Tim Fall, Engineer at Midokura