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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Why and How to Build CloudStack API Plug-ins (with a Real-World Example) – Mike Tutkowski

February 22, 2017
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Why and How to Build CloudStack API Plug-ins (with a Real-World Example) – Mike Tutkowski

 
Apache CloudStack is a highly customizable cloud management platform. It enables developers to write plug-ins for a wide range of areas including, but not limited to, storage, networking, VM distribution across hosts, and API.

I would like to explain why it can be beneficial to extend CloudStack’s standard API with your own API commands and how to do this.

I walk the audience through a real-world example that demonstrates a business case for extending CloudStack’s API. During this process, you learn how to cleanly separate the API, business, and DB layers. At the end, you have transparently extended CloudStack’s API so that clients do not have to know which API commands they invoke on CloudStack are standard and which are custom added.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Cloud: Zero to Sixty – Will Stevens

February 21, 2017
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Cloud: Zero to Sixty – Will Stevens

IaaS Cloud Orchestration does not have to be hard. Apache CloudStack can get you operational in a matter of days. I will take you through the design and install process to start taking advantage of the extensive features of Apache CloudStack. Orchestration of hypervisors, storage, networking and more are all handled by this production grade Apache project. This session will explain why Apache CloudStack is the fastest, most reliable, and cost effective way to build a cloud platform for modern application development, DevOps, CI/CD, and cloud native workloads such as Kubernetes and Docker.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Building a Container Solution on Top of Apache CloudStack- Steve Roles

February 20, 2017
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Building a Container Solution on Top of Apache CloudStack- Steve Roles

Cloud native applications running in containerised environments look set to create a paradigm shift in the way compute resources are consumed. However, this presents challenges (both technical and business) to Cloud Service providers who have already invested heavily in Infrastructure as a Service offerings based on the virtual machine model. Paul will discuss these challenges, look at the services that end-users will demand in a containerised world and how major public cloud providers have overcome these challenges. He will then showcase an exciting new project that gives a simple method for operators to deploy Containers as a Service to their end-users, based on Apache CloudStack.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Why Apache CloudStack – Gabriel Beims Bräscher

February 19, 2017
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Why Apache CloudStack – Gabriel Beims Bräscher

Apache CloudStack is one of the most competitive and affordable alternatives to create and manage a cloud computing environment. Although CloudStack has proven to be a solid choice when compared to its competitors, it holds but a small fraction of the cloud computing orchestration market share. The reasons why Apache CloudStack is sometimes forgotten will be highlighted and discussed in this presentation, alongside the strong points of picking Apache CloudStack as your cloud computing orchestration tool.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Cloudstack – Apache’s Best Kept Secret – Giles Sirett

February 18, 2017
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Cloudstack – Apache’s Best Kept Secret – Giles Sirett

CloudStack is one of the most successful Apache projects – but awareness of it remains poor. It is used to underpin the IaaS offerings of many of the worlds largest service providers and as an infrastructure automation platform to underpin the development and operations of 1000’s of organisations globally.

Giles will give an overview of the technology and explain his view on why CloudStack remains to “secret man” of Apache projects. He will talk through the history of the technology. He will discuss its use-cases (particularly as the foundation of CI/CD and dev environments) and the advantages of it being an Apache project.

He will be open and frank in his views on what he would like to see change in order that CloudStack gets the attention it deserves

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – CI and CD at Scale: Scaling Jenkins with Docker and Apache Mesos – Carlos Sanchez

February 17, 2017
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CI and CD at Scale: Scaling Jenkins with Docker and Apache Mesos – Carlos Sanchez

As Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery usage grows, the underlying infrastructure needs to grow too, scaling horizontally across multiple hosts and dynamically provisioned as needed.

Docker is revolutionizing the way people think about applications and deployments. Apache Mesos enables fault-tolerant distributed systems and allows managing a cluster of Linux servers as a single system, running Docker containers across multiple hosts, offering elasticity and machine abstractions.

By using Apache Mesos and Marathon, an Apache Mesos framework for long-running applications, the Jenkins Continuous Integration environment can be run at scale, dynamically.

Jenkins masters can be run on Docker containers distributed on Marathon, while the Jenkins Mesos and Docker plugins allow slaves and jobs to run in containers distributed across the multiple hosts, and isolating job execution.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Exploring and Integrating UX in Open Source Software Development – Victoria Bondarchuk

February 17, 2017
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Exploring and Integrating UX in Open Source Software Development – Victoria Bondarchuk

The importance of introducing usability activities into free open source software development has been acknowledged in the research and by the community, yet FOSS products have been criticized for having little or no emphasis on usability. The decentralized and engineering-driven approach of open source projects can conflict with usability methodologies. We will review existing cases of UX design contribution to open source projects, discuss how designers can become part of the community and what engineers can do to improve usability of the software they build.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Introduction of a Web API Execution Environment Based on a Server-less Architecture Using Apache Camel – Tsunayoshi Egawa

February 17, 2017
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Introduction of a Web API Execution Environment Based on a Server-less Architecture Using Apache Camel – Tsunayoshi Egawa

The presentation will be an introduction of a Web API execution environment based on a server-less architecture using Apache Camel.

Although Yahoo! JAPAN has a lot of Web APIs, instead of focusing on service development, the engineers had to spend considerable man-hours in the disclosure and maintenance (setting up of servers, vulnerability response, etc.).

To solve this issue, a system was created that specializes in the Web API execution environment (UTOPIA).

Web API development in UTOPIA can be done by XML DSL and through a simple setting of information.

UTOPIA uses Apache Camel as a routine engine to develop the business logic.

Although the system is a closed internal system, this presentation will show what Yahoo! JAPAN has learnt from running the system, issues found in production use, and comparison between existing similar systems and mechanism such as OSGi and PaaS.

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Apache Tika – What’s New with 2.0? – Nick Burch

February 17, 2017
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Apache Tika – What’s New with 2.0? – Nick Burch

Apache Tika detects and extracts metadata and text from a huge range of file formats and types. From Search to Big Data, single file to internet scale, if you’ve got files, Tika can help you get out useful information!

Apache Tika has been around for nearly 10 years now, and with the passage of all that time, plus the new 2.0 release, a lot has changed. Not only has there been a huge increase in the number of supported formats, but the ways of using Tika have expanded, and some of the philosophies on the best way to handle things have altered with experience. Tika has gained support for a wide range of programming languages to, and more recently, Big-Data scale support.

Whether you’re an old-hand with Tika looking to know what’s hot or different with 2.0, or someone new looking to learn more about the power of Tika, this talk will have something in it for you!

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ApacheCon Seville 2016 – Distributing Configuration with Apache Tamaya – Anatole Tresch

February 17, 2017
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Distributing Configuration with Apache Tamaya – Anatole Tresch

In this talk we will show how Tamaya can be used to configure a distributed system based on Docker containers. Hereby we will use Consul or etcd as a backend for reading configuration common to all components and combine it with environment specific entries for each instance. Also we will update the configuration during runtime and trigger corresponding configuration change events to adopt our code based on the changes implied. As a result we will have a good overview about the API and SPI of Tamaya and why it should be an important component in every project nowadays.

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