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Thursday, April 04, 2024

Introducing OpenStack Caracal 2024.1

Join us to learn about OpenStack's 29th release from the community leaders who helped build it!

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Deep Dive Into the OpenDev Collaboratory

On this episode of OpenInfra Live, we'll take a deep dive into the OpenDev Collaboratory. Learn about what OpenDev is, how it's operated and how users, like you, can get involved!

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Thursday, October 03, 2024 @ 14:00 UTC (9AM CT)

Introducing OpenStack Dalmatian 2024.2

Join us to learn about OpenStack's 30th release from the community leaders who helped build it!

FeaturingGoutham Pacha Ravi (Technical Committee), Riccardo Pittau (Ironic), Carlos Silva (Manila), Sylvain Bauza (Nova), Jon Bernard (Cinder)

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Thursday, April 4, 2024

Introducing OpenStack Caracal 2024.1

Join us to learn about OpenStack's 29th release from the community leaders who helped build it!

FeaturingSylvain Bauza (Nova), Ghanshyam Mann (Technical Committee), Riccardo Pittau (Ironic), Rajat Dhasmana (Cinder)

Thursday, January 18, 2024

Deep Dive Into the OpenDev Collaboratory

On this episode of OpenInfra Live, we'll take a deep dive into the OpenDev Collaboratory. Learn about what OpenDev is, how it's operated and how users, like you, can get involved!

FeaturingJim Blair, Clark Boylan, Jeremy Stanley, Tony Breeds, Allison Price

Thursday, December 14, 2023

Large Scale Ops Deep Dive: Samsung SDS

In the "Large Scale Ops Deep Dive" series, a panel of OpenStack operators invites special guests to talk about their deployment and discuss their operations. For this episode, our guest will be Dan Paik from Samsung SDS.

FeaturingDan Paik, Arnaud Morin, Felix Huettner, Thierry Carrez, Kristin Barrientos

Thursday, December 7, 2023

PTG Recap

Join us for a Project Teams Gathering (PTG) recap! Project leaders from Ironic, Technical Committee, Nova, Sunbeam, Manila, StarlingX, Neutron and Cinder will provide recaps from discussions held during the PTG.

FeaturingKendall Nelson, Jay Faulkner, Sylvain Bauza, James Page, Carlos Eduardo, Steve Geary, Brian Haley, Rajat Dhasmana

Thursday, November 30, 2023

NVIDIA’s Journey with Kata Containers and Confidential Computing

Join us as Zvonko Kaiser from NVIDIA will be sharing insights on "Confidential Containers." He will discuss the security challenges in containerization and how sandboxed environments have evolved with the use of Kata Containers. Plus, he'll do a live demo showcasing traditional containers, Kata Containers and Confidential Containers with GPUs.

FeaturingZvonko Kaiser, Treva Williams

Thursday, November 2, 2023

Meet the Computing Force Network Working Group

China Mobile and other 10+ organizations are driving the effort of Computing Force Network in open source. In July of 2022, organizations like, China Mobile launched the Computing Force Network (CFN) Working Group within the OpenInfra Foundation. You may be wondering, What is Computing Force Network? What open source software is CFN working group going to deliver and how are CFN and related technology going to help the infrastructure? Join us to find out.

FeaturingQihui Zhao, Jie Niu, Xiaoqiao Geng, Changjin Wang, Jintao Wang, Lei Huang, Ildiko Vancsa

Thursday, October 5, 2023

OpenStack 2023.2: Bobcat

The OpenStack community released Bobcat the 28th version of the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software, this week. Join us to learn about the latest from community leaders about what was delivered in Bobcat and what we can expect in Caracal, OpenStack's 29th release, targeting early April 2024.

FeaturingCarlos SIlva, Rajat Dhasmana, Sylvain Bauza, Jay Faulkner, Rodolfo Alonso Hernandez, Kendall Nelson

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Large Scale Ops Deep Dive: NIPA Cloud

In the "Large Scale Ops Deep Dive" series, a panel of OpenStack operators invites special guests to talk about their deployment and discuss their operations. For this episode, our guests will be Dr. Abhisak Chulya and Charnsilp Chinprasert from NIPA Cloud, Thailand's number-one OpenStack public cloud provider.

FeaturingDr. Abhisak Chulya, Charnsilp Chinprasert, Arnaud Morin, Felix Huettner, Thierry Carrez, Kristin Barrientos

Thursday, September 7, 2023

Zuul Deep Dive: Volvo

In this episode, a panel of Zuul operators invites special guests to talk about their deployment and discuss their operations. For this episode, our guests will be Johannes Foufas and Moiz Ahmed, from Volvo.

FeaturingJohannes Foufas, Moiz Ahmed, Jim Blair, Clark Boylan, Jeremy Stanley, Kristin Barrientos

Thursday, August 24, 2023

Cyber Resilience Act: What Now?

On this episode of OpenInfra Live, we will discuss the EU Cyber Resilience Act's impact on open source software. The OpenInfra Foundation and many other open source organizations have expressed concerns about the proposed text, urging the European lawmakers to take into account the specificity of open source open collaboration in the legislation. Join and engage live with our expert panelists as they discuss the current state of the proposal, its potential consequences, what we can still do about it, and what other pieces of upcoming legislation we should watch for.

FeaturingThierry Carrez, Allison Randal, Mike Milinkovich, Ciarán O'Riordan

Thursday, August 10, 2023

Exploring the Intersection of AI and Open Source

If you stand at the intersection of AI and open source you’ll find a very active discussion around how each concept can apply to the other but you’ll find few definitive answers. This panel of open source community leaders will discuss the current state of AI & open source the collaborative efforts underway to improve global understanding of this emerging use case and how open source community members can participate in solving today’s unanswered questions.

FeaturingMark Collier, Pamela Chestek, Stefano Maffulli, Armstrong Foundjem, Stephen O'Grady

Thursday, May 4, 2023

May the OpenInfra Force Be With You: Preview of the OpenInfra Summit!

Join us for an insightful and informative discussion as we give you the inside scoop on what’s in store at the OpenInfra Summit, Vancouver, CA, happening June 13-15! Don’t miss your chance to learn how you can get involved!

FeaturingWes Wilson, Allison Price, Kendall Nelson, Jimmy McArthur

Thursday, April 6, 2023

Large Scale Ops Deep Dive: Société Générale

In the "Large Scale Ops Deep Dive" series, a panel of OpenStack operators invites special guests to talk about their deployment and discuss their operations. For this episode, our guest will be Guillaume Allard from Société Générale, one of France’s largest banks.

FeaturingGuillaume Allard, Arnaud Morin, Belmiro Moreira, Mohammed Naser, Thierry Carrez, Kristin Barrientos

Thursday, March 23, 2023

OpenStack Antelope: A New Era

The OpenStack community released Antelope, the 27th version of the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software, this week. Join us to learn about the latest from community leaders about what was delivered in Antelope and what we can expect in Bobcat, OpenStack's 28th release targeting October 2023.

FeaturingCarlos Silva, Rajat Dhasmana, Sylvain Bauza, Jay Faulkner and Kendall Nelson

Thursday, March 9, 2023

Examination of Cost Differences Between Private Cloud and Hyperscalers

Todd Robinson, president of OpenMetal, will discuss the examination of cost differences between private cloud and hyperscalers.

FeaturingTodd Robinson, Jimmy McArthur

Thursday, February 16, 2023

VGPU Management by OpenStack Nova and Cyborg

Members of the OpenStack community will introduce how Cyborg, an OpenStack project, aims to provide a general-purpose management framework for acceleration resources such as GPU, FPGA, NVMe SSDs, SmartNIC and so on.

FeaturingAlex Song, Brin Zhang, Dmitriy Rabotyagov, Jimmy McArthur

Thursday, January 26, 2023

Large Scale Ops Deep Dive: Ubisoft

In the "Large Scale Ops Deep Dive" series, a panel of OpenStack operators invites special guests to talk about their deployment and discuss their operations. For this episode, our guests will be Benjamin Fuhrmann and Stanislav Dmitriev from Ubisoft, the famous video game publisher.

FeaturingBenjamin Fuhrmann, Stanislav Dmitriev, Mohammed Naser, Arnaud Morin, Felix Huettner, Thierry Carrez, Kristin Barrientos

Thursday, January 19, 2023

OpenInfra Live: Distributing OpenStack Architecture with BGP and Kubernetes Integration

This episode will discuss the shortcomings of layer-2 networks and how layer-3 network protocols help address those. We will take a in depth look at Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17 and its integration with FRRouting (FRR) to implement dynamic routing using BGP protocol as well as use of BFD (Bidirectional Forwarding Detection) protocol which is used for detecting network failures. We will also take a look at how ECMP is used to provide both high availability and load balancing in OpenStack control and dataplane networks.

FeaturingEmilien Macchi, Chris Janiszewski, Maciej Lecki, Luis Bolivar, Allison Price

Thursday, October 6, 2022

OpenStack Zed: The End of the Alphabet, The Beginning of a New Era

The OpenStack community released Zed, the 26th version of the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software, this week. Join us to learn about the latest from community leaders about what was delivered in Zed and what we can expect in Antelope, OpenStack's 27th release targeting early 2023.

FeaturingKendall Nelson, Carlos Silva, Jay Faulkner, Sylvain Bauza, Lajos Katona, Wu Wenxiang, Martin Kopec, Liye Pang

Thursday, September 29, 2022

Large Scale Ops Deep Dive: Schwarz Group

In the "Large Scale Ops Deep Dive" series, a panel of OpenStack operators invites special guests to talk about their deployment and discuss their operations. For this episode, our guests will be Felix Hüttner and Ihtisham ul Haq from Schwarz Group, the largest European retailer with well-known brands like Lidl or Kaufland.

FeaturingFelix Hüttner, Ihtisham ul Haq, Belmiro Moreira, Mohammed Naser, Arnaud Morin, Thierry Carrez

Thursday, September 22, 2022

Around the World with OpenInfra Events

The best opportunities for collaboration in the OpenInfra community are at events like the OpenInfra Summit. But the Summit only happens once a year. So what other options are there for you? Meet the volunteers from Mexico, South Korea, Thailand, Texas, and Turkey who volunteer their time to provided localized opportunities to collaborate through user group meetups and OpenInfra Days. Learn about what they have planned for 2022 and how you can get involved!

FeaturingAlvaro Soto, Seongsoo Cho, Dr. Abhisak Chulya, Helena Spease, Dr. Huseyin Cotuk

Thursday, August 25, 2022

Making VDI a first-class citizen in the OpenStack world

Learn the importance of having a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) with OpenStack. Get to know the VDI use cases. Discover which relevant features are already integrated and which are still missing. You’ll also have the opportunity to meet Bumblebee and enjoy the cute flying insect during a live demo!

FeaturingManuel Bentele, Andy Botting, Radosław Piliszek

Thursday, July 21, 2022

OpenInfra Live Ep. 43: 12 Years of OpenStack

25 releases, 25 million cores, and 12 years later, the #OpenStack community is thriving. Join this week’s OpenInfra Live episode to meet community members from France, South Korea, and the UK as they discuss the growth of OpenStack in their region over the past 12 years. In addition, come learn about how the OpenStack release naming process will continue following the Zed release!

FeaturingKendall Nelson, Danny Abukalam, Soumaya Msallem, Seongsoo Cho

Thursday, May 12, 2022

Creating a Sustainable Future for Data Centers with OpenStack and Kubernetes

Join this week’s OpenInfra Live episode to meet Firmus, a LOKI user by way of Charmed OpenStack and Charmed Kubernetes. Together with Canonical, they are searching for a way to more responsibly and efficiently run data centers. Learn more about their journey with OpenStack, Kubernetes and Canonical as they position this industry for a more sustainable future.

FeaturingThierry Carrez, Tytus Kurek, Tim Rosenfield, Jon Thor Kristinsson

Thursday, April 28, 2022

Composable Infrastructure and the Future of Data Centers

The advent of composable hardware introduces complexity and choice that heretofore hasn’t existed in the data center. How does today’s open infrastructure software adapt and what does the future of the data center look like in this new world? Join us to talk about the intersection of software defined DPUs, IPUs, GPUs, SmartNICs and all of the open infrastructure software that sits on top.

FeaturingJonathan Bryce (Host), Pradeep Sindhu (Fungible), Dan Daly (Intel), Dmitrii Shcherbakov (Canonical), George Tchaparian (Open Compute Project Foundation)

Thursday, April 14, 2022

Large Scale Ops Deep Dive: Yahoo

In this new format of the “Large Scale OpenStack” show, a panel of operators invites a special guest to talk about their deployment and discuss their operations. For this episode, our guests will be Brendan Conlan and Adam Harwell from Yahoo, one of the founding members of the OpenStack Million Cores Club.

FeaturingAdam Harwell (Yahoo), Arnaud Morin (OVHCloud), Belmiro Moreira (CERN), Brendan Conlan (Yahoo), Mohammed Naser (Vexxhost)

Thursday, April 7, 2022

What to Expect at the OpenInfra Summit Berlin - Hybrid & Private Cloud Track

Organizations have turned to the cloud to increase operational efficiency while decreasing costs. Recent studies have shown that these same organizations are turning to hybrid cloud infrastructure powered by a mixture of open source technologies for additional flexibility around workload repatriation. Within production hybrid clouds, OpenInfra technologies provide container security, edge nodes, CI/CD, secure private clouds and the largest footprint of public cloud data centers in the world. Tune into this episode and learn about what private & hybrid cloud sessions will be featured at the OpenInfra Summit Berlin, Germany on June 7-9, 2022!

FeaturingScott Solkhon (G-Research), Ross Martyn (G-Research), Tyler Stachecki (Bloomberg LP), Reedip Banerjee (LINE Corp), Yushiro Furukawa(LINE Corp)

Thursday, March 31, 2022

OpenStack Yoga: New Features Straight from the Contributors

OpenStack continues to be one of the most active open source projects in the world. Come learn more about OpenStack Yoga, the 25th release of the open source cloud computing project. Hundreds of developers from over 60 organizations delivered OpenStack Yoga and this episode of OpenInfra Live will highlight some of the key features, what use cases are impacted and what operators can expect.

FeaturingHost: Ghanshyam Mann, Chair of the OpenStack TC for the Yoga cycle Participants: Brian Rosmaita (Cinder), Mark Goddard (Kolla), Maysa Macedo (Kuryr), Lajos Katona (Neutron), Iury Gregory (Ironic), Goutham Pacha Ravi (Manila), Gregory Thiemonge (Octavia), Sylvain Bauza (Nova)

Thursday, March 17, 2022

What to Expect at the OpenInfra Summit Berlin: 5G / Edge Computing / NFV

The OpenInfra Summit is a global event for open source IT infrastructure professionals to collaborate on software development, share best practices about designing and running infrastructure in production, and make partnership and purchase decisions. This year, we are bringing the OpenInfra Summit back and headed to Berlin, Germany on June 7-9, 2022! Tune into this episode and learn about the 5G / Edge Computing / NFV sessions that you shouldn't miss and what to expect at the first in-person Summit since 2019.

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Thursday, March 3, 2022

How OpenStack is Used in Academia

Open source cloud computing has gained a lot of adoption momentum due to the advantages low cost, flexibility, scalability, and more. Since the early days of OpenStack with NASA’s direct involvement, OpenStack has been deployed in various notable academic institutions all over the world for their infrastructure needs. For this episode, we have invited experts from Oregon State University, Monash University and more to talk about how they use OpenStack in academia.

FeaturingLance Albertson (Oregon State University) Steve Quenette (Monash University)

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Linux OpenStack Kubernetes Infrastructure: The OpenInfra Standard

Organizations like AT&T, CERN, China Mobile, China Telecom, Verizon, Vodafone, and Yahoo have adopted the OpenInfra Standard and run it in production today. Similar to how LAMP stack became the standard for deploying web applications, LOKI helps operators identify successful patterns and combinations of technologies to build production infrastructure. This OpenInfra Live episode will discuss this emerging standard and why organizations have adopted these open source technologies together.

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Thursday, February 3, 2022

Large Scale Ops Deep Dive: OVHCloud

In this new format of the “Large Scale OpenStack” show, a panel of operators invites a special guest to talk about their deployment and discuss their operations. For this episode, our guest will be Arnaud Morin from OVHCloud, a large OpenStack public cloud currently deployed on 36 different regions across the world.

FeaturingArnaud Morin, Xavier Nicolle, Belmiro Moreira, Mohammed Naser, Gene Kuo

Thursday, January 20, 2022

Berlin Summit 2022 CFP 101

As we approach the launch of the CFP (call for papers) for the upcoming OpenInfra Summit in Berlin (June 7-9), join members of the 2022 Programming Committee as they share their top tips and tricks for writing a winning submission and answer your questions on what they look for in talks.

FeaturingAmy Marrich (Getting Started), Arne Wiebalck (Private and Hybrid Cloud), Arkady Kanevsky (Hardware Enablement), Armstrong Foundjem (AI, Machine Learning & HPC)

Thursday, January 6, 2022

A Year in Review: OpenInfra Highlights from 2021

It's been one year since the formation of the OpenInfra Foundation and the global community has produced more software, more production use cases, more collaboration than ever before. Join us as we look back at 2021, the software milestones, production growth, and momentum across the OpenInfra landscape.

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Thursday, December 16, 2021

#BestOf OpenInfra Live

Launched by the OpenInfra Foundation in April of this year, OpenInfra Live has assembled the global community weekly to hear the latest trends and updates straight from the community itself. Join us as we go through our OpenInfra Live highlights reel.

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Thursday, December 9, 2021

Large Scale OpenStack: Operators’ Tricks and Tools

This new episode of the “Large Scale OpenStack” show will discuss operators' tricks and tools. In a live and direct discussion, our guests will reveal tricks and homegrown tools that they use in the trenches to keep their OpenStack clusters ticking like clockwork.

FeaturingBelmiro Moreira(CERN), Arnaud Morin(OVHCloud), Gene Kuo (LINE), Shatadru Bandyopadhyay (Workday), Axel Jacquet (Infomaniak), Thomas Goirand (Infomaniak)

Thursday, November 11, 2021

OpenStack Is Alive: Explosive Growth Among Production Deployments

The 2021 User Survey shows that the footprint of OpenStack clouds grew by 66% over the last year, totaling over 25 million cores in production. This increase has been contributed by organizations of all sizes around the world. During this episode of OpenInfra Live, we are going to talk to operators from Kakao, LINE, Schwarz IT, NeCTAR and T-Systems about what’s causing this OpenStack growth at their organization.

FeaturingPaul Coddington (ARDC Nectar) Reedip Banerjee (LINE) Yushiro Furukawa (LINE) Andrew Kong (Kakao) Nils Magnus (T-Systems) Adrian Seiffert (Schwarz) Marvin Titus (Schwarz) Carmel Walsh (ARDC Nectar)

Thursday, November 4, 2021

OpenInfra in Production: Hybrid Cloud

The hybrid cloud marketing is expected to reach $145 billion USD by 2026 and organizations worldwide are deploying a combination of open source and proprietary tools in production for this use case. Join us on OpenInfra Live as we kick off a series of episodes to talk about the organizations deploying hybrid cloud environments, the technologies they’re working with and the vendors who are supporting the production use cases. #OpenInfraLive

FeaturingDr. Abhisak Chulya (CEO, Nipa) Kob Kanokorn (Nipa) Muhammad Gill (VP of Industry Solutions, Wind River) Joshua Cornutt (CTO, ORock)

Thursday, October 28, 2021

Tackling Sustainability with Eco-friendly, Green Hardware

Join us as we discuss how chipmakers, hardware vendors, and data center architects are all working in concert to solve this problem.

FeaturingPeter Pouliot (Ampere), Laurent Bernou-Mazars (Exaion), Zac Smith (Equinix), and John Miranda (Intel)

Thursday, October 14, 2021

Large Scale OpenStack: Neutron scaling best practices

Networking is complex, and Neutron is one of the most difficult parts of OpenStack to scale. In this episode of the Large Scale OpenStack show, we will explore early architectural choices you can make, recommended drivers, features to avoid if your ultimate goal is to scale to a very large deployment. Join OpenStack developers and operators as they share their Neutron scaling best practices.

FeaturingThierry Carrez (OpenInfra Foundation) David Comay (Bloomberg; Operator) Ibrahim Derraz (Exaion; Operator) Slawek Kaplonski (Red Hat; ex-Neutron PTL) Lajos Katona (Ericsson; Neutron PTL) Mohammed Naser (CEO at VEXXHOST) Michal Nasiadka (StackHPC; Kolla-Ansible PTL)

Thursday, October 7, 2021

OpenStack Xena: Open Source Integration and Hardware Diversity

Come learn more about OpenStack Xena, the 24th release of the open source cloud computing project. Hundreds of developers from over 60 organizations delivered OpenStack Xena and this episode of OpenInfra Live will highlight some of the key features, what use cases are impacted and what operators can expect.

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Thursday, September 30, 2021

OpenStack and Ceph

Ceph is a highly scalable distributed-storage open source solution offering object, block, and file storage. Join us as various Community members discuss the basics, ongoing development and integration of OpenStack with Ceph.

FeaturingTom Barron (Red Hat), John Fulton (Red Hat), Francesco Pantano (Red Hat), Loan Harrouin (Societe Generale), Mohammed Naser (VEXXHOST), Kendall Nelson (OpenInfra Foundation) and Pawel Sadowski (OVH).

Thursday, September 23, 2021

OpenInfra Days 2021 Recap

Join the volunteer organizers of OpenInfra Days to hear about the happenings at their latest local events, what they're looking forward to in the future, and learn what's happening with OpenInfra all over the world.

FeaturingMark Collier (OpenInfra Foundation), Akihiro Hasegawa (Cloud Operator Days Tokyo Organizer), Rico Lin (OpenInfra Days Asia Organizer), Sartika Lestari (OpenInfra Days Indonesia Organizer)

Thursday, September 16, 2021

Superusers: Where are they Now

Since the Paris Summit in 2014, the OpenInfra Foundation has hosted our annual Superuser Awards to recognize organizations that have used open infrastructure to meaningfully improve their business while contributing back to the community. Past winners will join us for this episode to discuss where they are now, what is next, and tips for organizations applying for this year's awards.

FeaturingJared Baker (The Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR)) Belmiro Moreira (CERN) Mohammed Naser (VEXXHOST) Xiaoguang, Zhang and Zhiqiang Yu (China Mobile)

Thursday, September 9, 2021

Open Source Job Openings (and how to land them) Round Two

Are you looking for a job in open source? Curious about what companies might be right for you? Join us as we spotlight companies with open infrastructure job openings, hear straight from current employees about their day-to-day community involvement and hear what their organizations are looking for in candidates.

FeaturingTytus Kurek (Canonical), Suresh Srinivas (Intel), Ken Savich (Red Hat), Hind Naser (Vexxhost)

Thursday, September 2, 2021

Open Source Training Opportunities

Interested in learning more or improving your open source development skills? Looking to learn more about OpenStack and Kubernetes administration and prep for the Certified OpenStack Administrator or Certified Kubernetes Administrator exams? Join us as OpenInfra organizations discuss their training programs and how they can accelerate your open source career.

FeaturingHuang Chenhao (99 Cloud), Florian Haas (City Network), Erno Erdelyi (Component Soft), Paul Quigley (Mirantis), John Walter (Red Hat)

Thursday, August 26, 2021

Large Scale OpenStack: Discussing Software-Defined Supercomputers

When we talk about Large Scale, it usually refers to scaling out to hundreds of thousands of commodity nodes. But there is another dimension to Large Scale OpenStack: using OpenStack to build supercomputers to use in research and HPC. In this episode, operators of OpenStack supercomputers and HPC centers will discuss the unique challenges this use case brings.

FeaturingStig Telfer (StackHPC), Sadaf Alam (Swiss National Supercomputer Centre), Happy Sithole (Center for High Performance Computing South Africa), Steve Quenette (Monash e-Research Centre), and Jonathan Mills (NASA Goddard)

Thursday, August 19, 2021

OpenStack Basics

For the uninitiated, OpenStack's role in programmable infrastructure can be a little hard to understand unless you know its capabilities and how it works. Furthermore, to some people, OpenStack looks very similar to virtualization or simply like existing public cloud offerings. To fully understand this cloud platform, we will start at the origins of cloud technology and end at how today's OpenStack works.

FeaturingBen Silverman, Ildiko Vancsa

Thursday, August 12, 2021

Bare Metal: Ironic In Production

Join us as members from the Bare Metal SIG join us to discuss how Ironic works to simplify many of the hardships physical bare metal operators deal with on a daily basis, including an overview of the project, project roadmap, and use cases of Ironic in production.

FeaturingJulia Kreger (Red Hat), Mohammed Naser (Vexxhost), Mark Goddard (StackHPC), and Chris Krelle (NVIDIA)

Thursday, July 29, 2021

Kubernetes and OpenStack Working Together

The Kubernetes steering committee and OpenStack technical committee meet regularly to talk about cross-community learnings and collaboration opportunities. Join members of both governance bodies to ask questions about integration, cross-project support and how you can stay updated on the latest developments.

FeaturingChristoph Blecker, Jay Bryant, Ghanshyam Mann, Davanum Srinivas, Kendall Nelson

Thursday, July 22, 2021

Kata Containers Use Cases

The #KataContainers community is going to host community members from AMD, Ant Group, Apple, IBM, and Huawei to share how they’re running Kata. Kata Containers Architecture Committee members and upstream contributors will provide an update on community development and the project roadmap.

FeaturingSamuel Ortiz (Apple), Eric Ernst (Apple), Brent Hollingsworth (AMD), Hubertus Franke (IBM), Peng Tao (Ant Group), and Shaobao Feng (Huawei).

Thursday, July 15, 2021

How OpenStack Large Clouds Manage their Spare Capacity

One of the reasons workloads moved to virtualization and clouds was to avoid having underutilized resources. But as demand for resources goes up and down, the cloud itself can now have a lot of spare capacity. How do OpenStack-based large scale clouds manage their spare capacity? Join this live discussion between operators of private and public clouds with InMotion Hosting, CERN, NECTAR research cloud, Verizon Media, City Network and Open Telekom Cloud.

FeaturingBelmiro Moreira (CERN), Chris Bermudez (InMotion Hosting), Sam Morrison(NECTAR), Brendan Conlan (Verizon Media), Erik Johansson (CityNetwork), Viktor Molnar (T-Systems)

Thursday, July 8, 2021

The Role of Open Source in Digital Sovereignty

Johan Christenson, CEO of CityNetwork, hosts a discussion around the role of open source in digital sovereignty between Pierre Gronlier, CTO of Gaia-X, Kurt Garloff, CTO at Sovereign Cloud Stack, and Linda Siwe, Chief Commercial Officer at Binero.

FeaturingJohan Christenson, Pierre Gronlier, Kurt Garloff, Linda Siwe

Thursday, July 1, 2021

Building the Intelligent Edge with Open Source Technologies

Ildiko Vancsa will host Mark Collier, OpenInfra Foundation COO and Paul Miller, Wind River CTO, to learn about the results of the edge computing survey conducted by Wind River and provide insight into how upstream communities are making progress for this emerging use case.

FeaturingPaul Miller, Mark Collier, Ildiko Vancsa

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Open Source Job Openings (and how to land them)

Are you looking for a job in open source? Curious about what companies might be right for you? Join us as we spotlight companies with open infrastructure job openings, learn about their company cultures, and hear what they are looking for in candidates.

FeaturingCanonical, OVH, T-Systems, Whitestack

Thursday, June 17, 2021

How to Start Contributing Upstream to OpenInfra

Victoria Martinez de la Cruz, an OpenStack contributor who joined the community through the Outreachy internship program, will be joined by Kendall Nelson, OpenInfra Upstream Developer Advocate, and contributors who are just getting started. The group will discuss internships, mentoring, and how you can get started contributing upstream to open source projects like OpenStack, Airship, Kata, StarlingX and Zuul.

FeaturingVictoria Martinez de la Cruz, Kendall Kelson, Archana Kumari

Thursday, June 10, 2021

Upgrades in Large Scale OpenStack infrastructure: The Discussion

Keeping up with new OpenStack releases can be a challenge. In this continuation of the May 20 OpenInfra Live episode, a panel of large scale OpenStack infrastructure operators from Blizzard Entertainment, OVHcloud, Workday, Vexxhost and CERN, join us again to further discuss upgrades.

FeaturingBelmiro Moreira (CERN), Arnaud Morin (OVH). Mohammed Naser (Vexxhost), Imtiaz Chowdhury (Workday), and Joshua Slater (Blizzard)

Thursday, June 3, 2021

OpenInfra AMA (Ask Me Anything)

Are the hyperscale public clouds killing open source? Is open source actually secure? How does open source impact software supply chains? Join us as Jonathan Bryce (Executive Director, OpenInfra Foundation), Mark Collier (COO, OpenInfra Foundation) and Allison Randal (Board Chair, OpenInfra Foundation) answer all of your toughest questions live on Thursday, June 3rd 14:00 UTC. Share your questions with us in advance in the comments section of our social media channels like Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn.

FeaturingJonathan Bryce, Mark Collier, Allison Randal

Thursday, May 27, 2021

Large Scale Open Source CI Featuring Zuul

Don’t merge broken code. Infrastructure at scale relies on quality software that is tested before it’s deployed. Operators rely on open source CI systems like Zuul for gating, scaling across organizations and cross-project dependencies.

FeaturingJim Blair, Mohammed Naser, and Jimmy McArthur

Thursday, May 20, 2021

Upgrades in Large Scale OpenStack infrastructure

Keeping up with new #OpenStack releases can be a challenge. At a very large scale, it can be daunting. In this episode of OpenInfra.Live, operators from some of the largest OpenStack deployments at Blizzard Entertainment, OVH, Bloomberg, Workday, Vexxhost or CERN will explain their upgrades methodology, share their experience, and answer the questions of our live audience.

FeaturingBelmiro Moreira (CERN), Arnaud Morin (OVH). Mohammed Naser (Vexxhost), Imtiaz Chowdhury (Workday), Chris Morgan (Bloomberg), and Joshua Slater (Blizzard)

Thursday, May 13, 2021

Open Edge Infrastructure Conundrums and Solution

As edge computing use cases demand the cloud to break out of large data centers, they also put new challenges on infrastructure as the scale and geographical distribution is going through a yet unprecedented growth.

FeaturingIldiko Vancsa, Gergely Csatari, Greg Waines, Matt Peters, and Mingyuan Qi

Thursday, May 6, 2021

The Future of the Network Depends on Open Infrastructure

How different would your daily life be without constant, reliable high speed access to the Internet? While network access and 4G speeds have continued to improve, the speed of those networks is expected to decline for 3.3 billion people. Bridging this digital divide and improving global connectivity are critical to human progress. What are the possibilities, where will commercial success be found and what needs to change to improve connectivity around the world?

FeaturingMartin Casado, Bruce Davie, Amar Padmanabhan, Jonathan Bryce, and Mark Collier

Thursday, April 29, 2021

OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering Recap

Join for a Project Teams Gathering (PTG) recap! Project leaders from OpenStack, Kata Containers, StarlingX, OpenStack Ironic, the Edge Computing Group, Scientific SIG, and Multi-Arch SIG provide recaps from discussions held at the PTG.

FeaturingKendall Waters, Fabiano Fidencio, Rico Lin, Greg Waines, Ildiko Vancsa, Julia Kreger, and Stig Telfer

Thursday, April 22, 2021

Behind the scenes of the OpenStack TC

The OpenStack Technical Committee is the governing body of the OpenStack open source project. It is an elected group that represents the contributors to the project, and has oversight on all technical matters. This includes developers, operators and end users of the software.

FeaturingAshlee Ferguson, Ghanshyam Mann, Jay Bryant, Julia Krieger, Thierry Carrez, Dan Smith, Mohammed Naser, Radosław Piliszek, and Belmiro Moreira

Thursday, April 15, 2021

Wallaby Release Community Meeting

Wallaby, the 23rd release of OpenStack, makes improvements to role-based access control (RBAC) and integration with other open source projects including Ceph, Kubernetes and Prometheus to strengthen open infrastructure for cloud native applications.

FeaturingErin Disney, Ghanshyam Mann, Kendall Nelson, Brian Rosmaita, Slawek Kaplonski, Julia Kreger, Balazs Gibizer, Xin-Ran Wang, Radosław Piliszek, and Goutham Pacha Ravi

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