OpenStack & the Growth of the Container Ecosystem - MAR '17 OpenStack LA Meetup

Sorry about the last minute cancellation of the February meetup, everyone. But now, it's time to set our eyes on March.

In addition to a great talk (see details below), you'll have a chance to meet the new co-organizer for our group, Chet Burgess. Chet was one of the original members of the Metacloud team and will be helping me out, as needed, when I'm on the road. He has also been involved in OpenStack for a LONG time and will be helping me find great presenters for our future meetups.

For March, I'm thrilled to welcome a first-time presenter (and member of our group), Amit Tank from AT&T! I also want to thank Amit for being able to reschedule his talk from February to March for us!

AT&T will also be sponsoring our March meetup.

I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible at the March OpenStack L.A. Meetup!

Presentation Abstract:

OpenStack and the Growth of the Container Ecosystem: How One Affects the Other

Have you and your organization been closely evaluating OpenStack to help solve your business use-cases and application needs?

Somewhere along the way Docker and Kubernetes popped up on your horizon, and that got you pondering if you should be leveraging all or some of those options to deliver your apps effectively.

Meetups such as this, play an important role as a forum allowing you to exchange, share, and learn about user stories. Stories that you a glimpse into how other adopters are thinking about these strategic topics.

We will discuss:

• Leveraging Docker to containerize the OpenStack Control plane

• The hybrid approach - Virtualized decoupled OpenStack services

• Kubernetes governed Dockerized OpenStack services

• Beyond the technology design aspects, what other factors are worth considering

Speaker Bio:

Amit Tank/Sr. Principal Cloud Engineer at AT&T

Amit Tank is a Sr. Principal Cloud Architect and Sr. Manager with AT&T. He spends his time designing and building large scale cloud infrastructure, and leading projects and teams of technologists working towards putting OpenStack in production - while contributing the learnings back to the community. He enjoys helping enterprises, businesses and customers become fluent with OpenStack, Open Source, and Cloud skills and technologies within their organizations. Prior professional associations include several startups, DirecTV, Cisco, EMC, Hitachi, and Schindler among others.

Agenda:

7:00P – 7:40P: Eating, drinking, mingling, networking

7:40P – 7:45P: Group announcements and speaker introduction

7:45P – 8:45P: Presentation/Q&A

8:45 – 10:00P: More eating, drinking, mingling, networking