Open Source Summit North America

OpenStack vs. Ganeti

January 14, 2020

OpenStack has gained a lot of prominence in the cloud ecosystem, but it can be a difficult platform to setup and maintain. Ganeti is a lesser known FOSS virtualization platform created by Google that …

Tutorial: An Introduction to Stateful Applications on Kubernetes

January 14, 2020

(You can view the tutorial here). Saad and Chris will address how Kubernetes storage works in the context of supporting stateful applications. The talk will cover how Kubernetes storage is implemented …

Unikernels and Explorations

January 14, 2020

Unikernel is really beginning to attract peoples attention. Comparing to the traditional VM or the recent containers, Unikernels are smaller, more secure and efficient, making them ideal for cloud en …

Code Detective: How to Investigate Linux Performance Issues

January 13, 2020

What influences a program's performance? Some reasons are quite obvious, like the algorithm implemented and the number of execution cycles, but what about the order in which libraries were linked? Or …

Container Orchestration from Theory to Practice

January 13, 2020

Join Laura Frank and Stephen Day as they explain and examine technical concepts behind container orchestration systems, like distributed consensus, object models, and node topology. These concepts bui …

High Performance Computing: The Move from General Purpose Processors to Custom Hardware and the Implications for Linux

January 13, 2020

Ten years ago the operating system was processing data and was an efficient means of a general abstraction of computer hardware. These days accelerators bypass established kernel data paths in many wa …

So You Have a Code of Conduct... Now What?

January 13, 2020

All members of technical communities can help create a safe and inclusive community. This talk will cover both common and complex issues around practical Code of Conduct enforcement. Well cover ever …

Testing Software Performance and Scalability Using Containers

January 13, 2020

Software performance and scalability is critical to the success of an enterprise software and a great amount of effort and resources are spent in testing the performance and scalability for various us …

What You Should Know about Etcd v3

January 13, 2020

Description With Kubernetes 1.6, etcd v3 becomes the preferred storage backbone of every Kubernetes cluster. Do you know whats changed? How to recover from failures? This talk is a look at whats new …

A Casual Intro to Mobile App Development

January 12, 2020

Mobile devices are widely used in our every day lives and the apps that we download onto our phones play a large role as well, whether they're used for home automation, social media, or other purposes …

Containerization in Mesos, Embracing the Standards

January 12, 2020

Containers are now everywhere. Apache Mesos, as one of the most powerful container orchestrators, greatly simplifies the deploy, provision and execution of containerized workloads. In this talk, I wil …

Decoding Those Inscrutable RCU CPU Stall Warnings

January 12, 2020

You are minding your own business when suddenly one of your system splats out something like "INFO: rcu_bh_state detected stalls on CPUs/tasks: { 3 5 } (detected by 2, 2502 jiffies)". Whatever does th …

Deploying Cloud Foundry with BBL, BOSH 2.0 and CF-Deployment

January 12, 2020

Have you ever spent all day trying to deploy open source Cloud Foundry and thought there must be a better way? Want to deploy Cloud Foundry from scratch in no time as the core development teams do? Co …

How Many Eyeballs Does it Take to Change a Lightbulb?

January 12, 2020

How many eyeballs does it take to change a lightbulb? (Casey Schaufler, Intel) Linus' Law states that "given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow". In the open source community we often take comfort …

Making the Kernel's Networking Data Path Programmable with BPF and XDP

January 12, 2020

BPF in Linux is gaining widespread attention as a framework for making the Linux kernel programmable, most notably in tracing, networking and security subsystems. This talk highlights the networking s …

Modern CI/CD with Containers

January 12, 2020

Modern CI/CD with Containers- In this talk, Chloe Condon will talk about how to approach CI/CD in the new age of containers. New CI/CD requires us to be even more agile, and requires new capabilities …

OpenSDS: Storage Challenges in a Cloud Native Era

January 12, 2020

Cloud-native adoption is disrupting the traditional enterprise data center landscape forcing traditional hardware vendors to rethink their strategies in a software-defined era to better address the st …

The Many Approaches to Real-Time and Safety Critical Linux Systems

January 12, 2020

Linux and Real-Time have become a widespread combination that is deployed in many industrial solutions. Real-Time requirements are often combined with safety requirements, and satisfying both is only …

Building .NET Core Microservices with Steeltoe

January 11, 2020

The software world is moving to microservices. For all their benefits, microservice architectures expose many distributed computing problems that developers need to solve–problems like service discov …

Extending Custom Kubernetes Deployments with Operators

January 11, 2020

Kubernetes is a system used to manage compute and app workloads using clusters of nodes. Clusters are capable of handling various types of use cases, but there are certain resources which may be vital …

Fora, Q&A, Mailing Lists, Chat...Oh My!

January 11, 2020

The shear number of options available when building your online community can be daunting. Should you setup a forum or Q&A site? Or maybe both! Would users prefer Slack or IRC? Perhaps a mailing list …

Optimizing Application Locking Performance on Large Multi-core Systems

January 11, 2020

Developing large multi-threaded applications that scale well with increasing system size is challenging. Besides NUMA awareness, inter-process and inter-thread synchronization is a major reason for th …

Providing Services to Cloud Native Platforms with the Open Service Broker API

January 11, 2020

In a digital world, widely adopted and easy to use APIs are the cornerstone of collaboration and interoperability. As Cloud technologies mature and become commonplace, the absence of standards surface …

Trace Everything: When APM Meets SysAdmins

January 11, 2020

Transaction tracing is typically thought of something that only developers do when they need to troubleshoot a piece of their software. And lately, its also been used for tracing microservice-based t …

Apache ARIA - Open Source, Open Governance Multi-Cloud TOSCA Orchestration

January 10, 2020

Apache ARIA is an, open source, lightweight framework, which includes a library and CLI for implementing orchestration software using the TOSCA specification. ARIA is the core orchestration engine for …

Enabling Innovation through Cloud Composition

January 10, 2020

This session will describe the injection of cloud innovation into Mercedes-Benzs Silicon Valley Innovation Lab. As an Innovation Architect, Joe Leavers role is to be a startup scout for Mercedes-Ben …

Marketing Your Open Source Project

January 10, 2020

Building and nurturing an open source project can be challenging, with so many others competing for time, attention, and money. For your project to stand out and have its best chance of success, you ( …

Modular Overlay Networking Solutions with the Container Network Interface

January 10, 2020

The Container Network Interface (CNI) is becoming the de facto standard for implementing plugins for container runtimes, and is used by Mesos, Kubernetes, and Cloud Foundry. The same CNI standard make …