Using OpenStack Orchestration (Heat) for Big Data

In this talk, Hart will walk through the OpenStack Orchestration project (Heat), demonstrating how it can be used to manage cloud deployments. This will include giving you an understanding of what Heat is, an overview of how to use it, key terminology, template language concepts, and finally a demo of the latest Big Data reference architecture from the OpenStack Enterprise working group.

Sahdev Zala from IBM will talk bridfly about Heat and TOSCA.

About the speaker:

Hart Hoover is an OpenStack User Advocate at Cisco. Before joining the Metacloud product group at Cisco, Hoover started his career at Rackspace in 2007 as a Linux Systems Administrator, moving to the cloud to help create their Managed Cloud offering in 2009. He has been an advocate for the open source community, contributing to multiple open source projects. He is also the founder of the San Antonio DevOps meetup and loves tacos and coffee. You can follow him on Twitter at @hhoover.