Open Source Summit North America 2018

What the heck is a hypervisor? Why are there so many of them? What is a container and all the related bits and pieces? Why would we want to use them? And what is Metal-as-a-Service, Infrastructure-as-a-service, Platform-as-a-Service, or Storage-a-a-S, or all the other *aaS? How about OPNFV and Cloud Foundry? What do I need to know and how does this all fit together? This presentation will answer these questions.

Important Note: This session has limited seating and is available to the first 50 attendees. 

The Xen Project supports some of the biggest clouds in production today and is moving into new industries, like security and automotive. Usually, you will use Xen indirectly as part of a commercial product, a distro, a hosting or cloud service and only indirectly use Xen. By following this session you will learn how Xen and virtualization work under the hood exploring high-level topics like architecture concepts related to virtualization to more technical attributes of the hypervisor like memory management (ballooning), virtual CPUs, scheduling, pinning, saving/restoring and migrating VMs.

Important Note: This session has limited seating and is available to the first 50 attendees. 

This will be an introduction to KVM, libvirtd, and virsh.

Important Note: This session has limited seating and is available to the first 50 attendees. 

Want a simple, easy to deploy way to run just about any standard Linux distribution on any system without any overhead? Have you considered system containers?

System containers run an entire Linux distribution, providing an experience that's extremely similar to a virtual machine, minus the virtualization aspect.
This makes for no-overhead systems that are very easy to manage and monitor.

In this session, we'll cover what system containers are, when they may make sense for you and then go through how to setup LXD, a system container manager on a number of common Linux distributions, discuss storage and network setup and get some containers running!

Access to a modern Linux system that can be used to run LXD would be beneficial for hands on experience, but isn't strictly required to follow along.

Important Note: This session has limited seating and is available to the first 50 attendees. 

An introduction to Docker container technology, including hands-on instruction for writing Dockerfiles, create images, and work with images on DockerHub and other container registries. This instructional talk and lab session will give you the details you need to use and understand Docker container technology.

Important Note: This session has limited seating and is available to the first 50 attendees. 

An introduction to Kubernetes, kubectl and controlling containers in a cluster.

Important Note: This session is only open to the 50 people who have registered for this track. You can find out more information about the track here. 

This is an introduction to virtualizing your networking infrastructure.

Important Note: This session has limited seating and is available to the first 50 attendees. 

Getting started with Cloud Foundry.

Important Note: This session has limited seating and is available to the first 50 attendees.