Networking in the Cloud Age

LISA: Where systems engineering and operations professionals share real-world knowledge about designing, building, and maintaining the critical systems of our interconnected world.

The LISA conference has long served as the annual vendor-neutral meeting place for the wider system administration community. The LISA14 program recognized the overlap and differences between traditional and modern IT operations and engineering, and developed a highly-curated program around 5 key topics: Systems Engineering, Security, Culture, DevOps, and Monitoring/Metrics. The program included 22 half- and full-day training sessions; 10 workshops; and a conference program consisting of 50 invited talks, panels, refereed paper presentations, and mini-tutorials.

Mini Tutorial
Thursday, November 13, 2014 - 11:00am-12:30pm

David Nalley, Apache CloudStack

BibTeX
@conference {209056,
author = {David Nalley},
title = {Networking in the Cloud Age},
year = {2014},
address = {Seattle, WA},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
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Description: 

Networking has been relatively static for decades, and while we've seen increases in speed, most traditional topologies are inherently limited, and innovative networks are quite different. When you look at public services like AWS, or large private cloud deployments, their networking topology looks contrary to everything that's been "standard" for years. In this half-day class we'll reexamine what the limitations of traditional networks are, and what innovative options exist to remove those limitations.

Who should attend: 

Advanced system or network admins with a deep understanding of L2/L3 networking wishing to learn about the networking technologies that are making an appearance and enabling scaling networks.

Take back to work: 

The knowledge of what emerging networking standards are, and where they are best used.

Topics include: 
  • Learn how massive public and private clouds build their networks to ensure scalability.
  • The scale limitations of current networking models
  • What are software defined networks (SDNs) - how do they work
  • Which technologies are worth looking at today: VXLAN, NVGRE, GRE, STT