Open Source Summit Europe

Fast and Precise Retrieval of Forward and Back Porting Information for Linux Device Drivers

Fast and Precise Retrieval of Forward and Back Porting Information for Linux Device Drivers

December 27, 2019

Porting Linux device drivers to target more recent and older Linux kernel versions to compensate for changes in the kernel interface is a continual problem for Linux device driver developers. Acquirin …
Is Linux Kernel Development Good Enough to Make Your Life Depend on It? -- Progress on Procedures & Methods to Qualify the Linux Kernel Development Process

Is Linux Kernel Development Good Enough to Make Your Life Depend on It? -- Progress on Procedures & Methods to Qualify the Linux Kernel Development Process

December 27, 2019

The OSADL SIL2LinuxMP project has been considering if Linux is adequate for use as safety element in safety-related systems. Lukas Bulwahn presents the project's results of the last two years of work. …
Purpose-Driven Community Engagement

Purpose-Driven Community Engagement

December 27, 2019

As companies get increasingly dependent on open source projects, it is important to have an purpose-driven engagement and investment plan for critical projects. I will cover best practices for compani …
Taking Up the Slack: Building Real-Time Community at Autodesk

Taking Up the Slack: Building Real-Time Community at Autodesk

December 27, 2019

Building strong, collaborative communities continues to be a critical component to the success of open source. However, too often companies attempt to manufacture community (both internally and extern …
Cloud + Edge, an Approach Using Kubernetes

Cloud + Edge, an Approach Using Kubernetes

December 26, 2019

With IoT and mobile devices, more and more data are being created at the edge of the network, quite a lot of them should be processed at the edge instead of sending over the network to a central cloud …
Enterprise Grade Security and Compliance Using Apache Atlas and Apache Ranger

Enterprise Grade Security and Compliance Using Apache Atlas and Apache Ranger

December 26, 2019

With an ever increasing need to secure and limit access to sensitive data, enterprises today need an open source solution. Apache Atlas - which is the metadata and governance framework for Hadoop join …
How I Survived to a SoC with a Terrible Linux BSP

How I Survived to a SoC with a Terrible Linux BSP

December 26, 2019

System-on-Chip vendors typically provide a board support package (BSP) which should be a good starting point to develop the software for an embedded Linux system. However they often seem to misunderst …
How Not to be a Good Linux Kernel Maintainer

How Not to be a Good Linux Kernel Maintainer

December 26, 2019

Linux Kernel maintainers play an important role in the Linux Kernel ecosystem and are crucial for its success. With a constant growth of the number of Linux Kernel developers there is also a growing r …
Intro to Ceph, the Distributed Storage System

Intro to Ceph, the Distributed Storage System

December 26, 2019

Ceph is an open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability. With an advanced placement algorithm, active storage node …
Kubernetes with Mixed Linux and Windows Deployments

Kubernetes with Mixed Linux and Windows Deployments

December 26, 2019

Windows Server 2016 introduced support for Docker containers, so the next logical step was to have Kubernetes running on Windows! The #sig-windows team did a great job in overcoming portability and o …
Panel Discussion: If APIs are like Snowflakes, How Do You Make them More "Standardized" - or Do You? - Moderated by Jeff Borek, IBM

Panel Discussion: If APIs are like Snowflakes, How Do You Make them More "Standardized" - or Do You? - Moderated by Jeff Borek, IBM

December 26, 2019

APIs form the connecting glue between modern applications and are used to connect third-party data services, public/private data sources, and other applications. The Open API Initiative (OAI) came tog …
Pipeline as Code For Your Infrastructure as Code

Pipeline as Code For Your Infrastructure as Code

December 26, 2019

Infrastructure as Code has been a native open source innovation happening over the past decade, with languages such as Puppet and Chef growing fast ops folks have been adopting development practices t …
Protecting Your System from the Scum of the Universe - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

Protecting Your System from the Scum of the Universe - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

December 26, 2019

Linux based systems have a plethora of security related mechanisms: DM-Crypt, DM-Verity, Secure Boot, the new TEE sub-system, FScrypt and IMA are just a few examples. This talk will describe these the …
Selecting the Right Persistent Storage Option for Apps in Containers

Selecting the Right Persistent Storage Option for Apps in Containers

December 26, 2019

No matter where an application is running, it will most likely need some form of storage. When running application in container environment, persistent storage is needed. There are plenty of storage p …
Serverless - Is It For Your Organization?

Serverless - Is It For Your Organization?

December 26, 2019

This talk will examine the Serverless phenomenon, popularized by AWS Lambda but now proposed by many public cloud providers such as Google and Microsoft. Well look at what Serverless is, what advant …
The Rise of Open Source in the Manufacturing Industry

The Rise of Open Source in the Manufacturing Industry

December 26, 2019

In the past 20 years, software has become increasingly important for industrial manufacturers. This trend is expected to continue in the future. At the same time, the share of open source technologies …
Tutorial: An Introduction to Stateful Applications on #K8s

Tutorial: An Introduction to Stateful Applications on #K8s

December 26, 2019

Steve and Kenny will address how Kubernetes storage works in the context of supporting stateful applications. The talk will cover how Kubernetes storage is implemented now, and what's next for storage …
Containerized Full-Stack Rust for IoT

Containerized Full-Stack Rust for IoT

December 25, 2019

Rust's ability to work on many different platforms across the full stack is great, but how easy is it to use our favorite language from data collection to storage? Can a compiled Rust application work …
Jmake: Dependable Compilation for Kernel Janitors

Jmake: Dependable Compilation for Kernel Janitors

December 25, 2019

The Linux kernel is the canonical example of highly configurable infrastructure software. In principle, any line of code can be included or excluded from the compiled kernel based on complex configura …
Leveraging Open Source Projects for Open Source Management

Leveraging Open Source Projects for Open Source Management

December 25, 2019

Correct handling of Open Source in a commercial context is a challenge. Every company needs to build up and maintain their own IP process to face this challenge. A sophisticated tooling seems to be in …
Making Trusted Boot Practical on Linux

Making Trusted Boot Practical on Linux

December 25, 2019

TPMs can be used to record the state of the boot process, and that information can in turn be used to restrict access to secrets (such as disk encryption keys) in order to protect them against a compr …
Rebuilding Trust Through Blockchains and Open Source

Rebuilding Trust Through Blockchains and Open Source

December 25, 2019

Global confidence in institutions is in steep decline worldwide, from politics to business to schools and non-profits. Technology lets us down too, from AWS outages to surveillance teddy bears. Trust …
The Linux Cryptographic API for Fun and Profit - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

The Linux Cryptographic API for Fun and Profit - Gilad Ben-Yossef, Arm Holdings

December 25, 2019

The Linux kernel has a rich cryptographic API which provides access to a modular implementation of symmetric and asymmetric block ciphers, hashes and digests which are either software implemented, use …
Training Machines to be Open Source Contributors

Training Machines to be Open Source Contributors

December 25, 2019

In the Cockpit project weve done something amazing: Weve built robot contributors to an Open Source project. Cockpituous, our projects #5 contributor, is actually our automated team members. B …
Using BPF in Kubernetes

Using BPF in Kubernetes

December 25, 2019

In this talk, I will present different use cases for using BPF in a Kubernetes cluster. BPF is a Linux in-kernel virtual machine and there are different kinds of BPF programs for different subsystems …
Managing Casual Contributors

Managing Casual Contributors

December 24, 2019

Increasingly, people want to contribute to projects casually. A number of factors have driven this change, among them distributed revision control, social coding platforms, and the general trend towar …
Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Management by Infrakit

Multi-Cloud Infrastructure Management by Infrakit

December 24, 2019

Due to the generalization of the cloud, some people today try to use multi-region and multi-cloud environment more and more. These systems have three merits: 1. to improve availability 2. to avoid clo …
Open Source Cloud Ecosystem for Next-Gen Disaggregated Datacenters

Open Source Cloud Ecosystem for Next-Gen Disaggregated Datacenters

December 24, 2019

Modern computer systems have been for long designed as monolithic blocks built around the boundaries of the motherboard. This talk looks at novel architectures for low-power and high-utilization disag …