Event Details

Build a Cloud Day 2 will focus on the tools you can use to manage and deploy cloud computing infrastructure. Find out how to rapidly provision and configure infrastructure using tools that automate your management tasks then learn about methodologies for deploying

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• 10:00 a.m.- 11:30 a.m. - Introduction to Puppet, Configuration Management and IT Automation Software, Luke Kanies, Founder PuppetLabs
• 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Automating your Cloud Deployments with Opscode Chef, Matt Ray, Senior Technical Evangelist, Opscode
• 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. - Monitoring the Cloud with Zenoss Core, Simon Jakesch, Principal Engineer Zenoss
• 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.  - DevOps Your Competitive Advantage in the Cloud, John M. Willis, enStratus

Introduction to Puppet, Configuration Management and IT Automation Software Luke Kanies, Founder Puppet Labs

The shift to cloud-based services has dramatically altered the IT landscape as we know it. Enterprise infrastructure borders have expanded beyond the firewall and now include hosted applications and infrastructure hosted in public and private clouds. Puppet helps DevOps teams meet their common objectives, creating a seamless IT infrastructure across departments, reducing cost and increasing productivity.
This training section will cover deploying cloud infrastructure automatically using Puppet, an open source configuration management and automation tool.The session will cover the following topics:

        Configuring Puppet and Puppetmaster
        Resource Types and the Resource Abstration Layer
        Virtual Resources, Exported Resources and Stored Configs

Speaker Bio

Luke founded Puppet and Puppet Labs in 2005 out of fear and desperation, with the goal of producing better operations tools and changing how we manage systems. He has been publishing and speaking on his work in system administration since 1997, focusing on development since 2001. He has developed and published multiple simple sysadmin tools and contributed to established products like Cfengine, and has presented on Puppet and other tools around the world, including at OSCON, LISA, Linux.Conf.au, and FOSS.in. His work with Puppet has been an important part of DevOps and delivering on the promise of cloud computing.

Introduction to Opscode Chef and Live Demo, Matt Ray, Senior Technical Evangelist, Opscode

The shift to cloud computing means that organizations are undergoing a major shift as they develop scale-out infrastructure that can respond to apace of business change faster than ever before.  Opscode Chef® is an open-source systems integration framework build specifically for
automating the cloud by making it easy to deploy and scale servers and applications throughout your infrastructure.    Join us for this session
containing an introduction to Chef including:

An Overview of Chef
The Chef Architecture
Cookbook Components
System Integration
Live demo launching a Java Stack on Amazon EC2, Rackspace, Ubuntu, and
CentOS

Speaker Bio

Matt Ray is a Senior Technical Evangelist for Opscode and the Chef open source systems integration framework. He was previously the
Community Manager for Zenoss Core and has been active in a wide variety of open source projects for well over a decade. He blogs at
LeastResistance.net and is @mattray on Twitter, IRC and GitHub.

Monitoring the Cloud with Zenoss Core, Simon Jakesch,  Principal Engineer, Zenoss

Simon  from the Zenoss Core project will provide training on how to monitor a cloud computing environment. The presentation will give an overview of the Zenoss Core management platform. Attendees will also learn how to install Zenoss Core, add devices and send alerts based on conditions within your cloud computing infrastructure.
Zenoss Core is an open source IT monitoring product that delivers the functionality to effectively manage the configuration, health, performance of networks, servers and applications through a single, integrated software
package.

Speaker Bio

As a Principal Engineer at Zenoss, Simon Jakesch has been instrumental with Zenoss' adoption in some of the largest datacenters and cloud providers. He now continues this work as a Community Manager to further make Zenoss one of the most widely used and powerful monitoring platforms worldwide.

DevOps Your Competitive Advantage in the Cloud, John M. Willis, VP of  Client Services and Enablement, Enstratus

As IT goes through a tectonic shift from cost center to profit center, the importance of IT operations is also being redefined. If you are primarily worried about uptime and server-to-admin ratios, you are already behind the times. Today's top performing operations professionals are obsessed with how they can enable the business to innovate quicker, react quicker to market and competitive demands, and scale up for the win. With a heathy doses of DevOps, Lean thinking, infrastructure as code, and open source tools like RunDeck, Puppet and Chef, these top performers are turning their operations from a necessary cost center into a strategic weapon.

Speaker Bio

John Willis has worked in the IT management industry for more than 30 years. Prior to joining enStratus, Willis was the VP of Solutions for DTO Solutions where he led the transition to a new suite of automated infrastructure and DevOps solutions. Prior to DTO Solutions. Willis was the VP of Training & Services at Opscode where he formalized the training, evangelism, and professional services functions at the firm. Willis also founded Gulf Breeze Software, an award winning IBM business partner, which specializes in deploying Tivoli technology for the enterprise. Willis has authored six IBM Redbooks for IBM on enterprise systems management and was the founder and chief architect at Chain Bridge Systems.