"I keep coming back for the technical content and the personal networking opportunities. I attend for career development."
LISA '13 Attendee
"I use LISA to benchmark the SA activities in my company."
LISA '13 Attendee
"LISA is the place where industry best practices and cutting-edge research come together to advance system administration."
Nicole Forsgren Velasquez, Utah State University
"LISA is the conference that I send my system administrators to so they can bring the latest tools and techniques back to the rest of the team. Much of our current environment can be traced directly back to LISA."
Cory Lueninghoener, Deputy Group Leader of Production High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
"LISA is where professionals share what's hot in designing, building, and maintaining critical systems."
Tom Limoncelli, author, speaker, and system administrator
"LISA is where professionals share what's hot in designing, building, and maintaining critical systems."
Tom Limoncelli, author, speaker, and system administrator
"LISA is where I find direction for evolving the my core professional skills."
LISA '13 Attendee
"LISA is the conference that I send my system administrators to so they can bring the latest tools and techniques back to the rest of the team. Much of our current environment can be traced directly back to LISA."
Cory Lueninghoener, Deputy Group Leader of Production High Performance Computing at Los Alamos National Laboratory
"Information from LISA helps us push the envelope on automation and scaling, allowing a team of four to manage over 3000 Firefox build and test systems running 15 different operating systems."
Amy Rich, Manager of Release Engineering Operations at Mozilla
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.
This session is designed to give you an understanding of the architecture of OpenStack, how the pieces fit together, and how you can make use of it in your environment. The session provides an understanding of the OpenStack architecture and how to use it. It also includes a hands-on lab during which students will be able to provision and use resources from an existing OpenStack cluster. Students need to bring an internet-capable laptop with a modern browser.
Who should attend:
This tutorial will be best suited for those who are either curious about or considering OpenStack, but don't have a deep understanding of how it works. This can include users from companies who are considering private or public cloud, or who are already virtualized in some capacity, such as using vCenter, or who are simply interested in increasing capacity and speed-to-market.
Take back to work:
Attendees will go back to work with an understanding of how OpenStack fits into a business environment, and a good grounding in how it works and how it can be applied in their own situations.
Topics include:
OpenStack architecture and components
How requests flow through an OpenStack cluster
Virtual machine provisioning and workload scheduling
