Stacki, Ansible, & OpenStack with Flex

A big thanks to Flex for organizing this meetup and hosting us!

Agenda:

6:30pm-7:00pm Food, drinks, and conversation

7:00pm-7:45pm Overview of Stacki- Greg Bruno (https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-bruno-46558584?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=tG17&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A300017741%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1472057831628%2Ctas%3Agreg%20brun), VP Engineering, StackIQ

7:45-9:00pm Deploying an OpenStack cluster with Stacki & Ansible - Rob Neff (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robneff?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=mgCM&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A14667925%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-2-2%2CtarId%3A1472057931281%2Ctas%3Arob%20neff), Cloud Solutions Architect, Flex Ciii & Hugh Ma (https://www.linkedin.com/in/hugh-ma-72408158?authType=NAME_SEARCH&authToken=cNQT&locale=en_US&trk=tyah&trkInfo=clickedVertical%3Amynetwork%2CclickedEntityId%3A203215564%2CauthType%3ANAME_SEARCH%2Cidx%3A1-1-1%2CtarId%3A1472057980394%2Ctas%3Ahugh%20ma), Cloud Validation Developer, Flex Ciii

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.

Ansible (https://www.ansible.com/)is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

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.

Flex (https://www.flextronics.com/) is a leading sketch-to-scale™ solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world. Flex Ciii (https://www.flextronics.com/who-we-are/customer-innovation/milpitas-california)is a business within Flex, which develops servers and integrated rack scale solutions.