LCE-EU 2015

What exactly happens when you click Launch Instance in OpenStack’s Dashboard?

The basics are pretty well understood, but how about if we look a level deeper than the simple, abstract narrative? What are the technologies involved below OpenStack? How does OpenStack coordinate those technologies to get you a running VM that you can SSH into?

In this session, Mark will cover as much of much of the high-level and low-level details of the story of your “Launch Instance” request right up until the time that you get a shell on your VM. By the end of the session, even the most seasoned expert will hopefully have learned some surprising facts and be eager to learn more about some obscure detail of how this crazy cloud thing works!

Software containers are becoming a popular solution and Docker is the leading platform to do so. Machinery is an open source system management toolkit that focuses on system analysis, automation and tool integration. Combining them together provides an easy way to migrate from traditional systems to a dockerized environment through better understanding of what's under the hood of your infrastructure.