Head in the Clouds

Interested in building elastic, scalable and profitable open source clouds? Join Citrix for free day of learning, best practices and industry insights at the Build a Cloud Workshop in San Francisco, CA on May 10, 2012.  This free one-day workshop is held alongside with Citrix Synergy 2012 and includes a pass to the Synergy Keynote and Solutions Expo. This event offers a unique opportunity to learn about the cloud building as well as the challenges and successes of delivering cloud services.

• Learn how to build an open source cloud with solutions from Citrix CloudStack, Canonical, RightScale, Zenoss and Xen.org.
• Network with peers, industry experts and solution providers at the CloudStack Community Reception

The Build a Cloud Workshop is held at the Westin Market Street (Metropolitan Ballroom 1 and 2, 2nd Floor) located at 50 3rd St, San Francisco, CA 94103. Click here to learn more and register.

Build a Cloud Workshop Agenda

8:30 – 1:00 Optional            Free admission to the Synergy Keynote,Synergy Solutions Expo and lunch

1:00 – 2:00                           Introduction to Cloud Computing Mark Hinkle, Sr. Director Cloud Community

2:00 – 3:00                           Virtualization in the Cloud Lars Kurth, Xen.org Community Manager

Since we made the announcement of licensing and governance shift a few weeks back we've been inundated with requests for developer support from individuals and companies who want to develop, extend, integrate with or just hack on CloudStack. Lots of those requests were coming with requests to visit developers in person to get up to speed as rapidly as possible. After setting up several of those meetings in person, we realized it wasn't beginning to sate demand, so in reaction we decided to run a two day event decided to rapidly on-ramp folks, we put the agenda in the hands of two of CloudStack's lead developers/architects. What came out of that is the 'Developer On-ramp - two days of no-fluff CloudStack development and integration - lots of hands on work.. It's free to attend, you just need to register here.

Agenda:

Day 1: Everyone

9:30-12:00 - General CloudStack Architecture
12:00-13:00 - Lunch
13:00-14:00 - Storage deep dive
14:00-15:00 - Failure modes, H/A, maintenance planning
15:00-15:30 - Break 
15:30-17:00 - Networking deep dive
17:00-17:30 - Show and tell - see what others in the community are working on
17:30-18:30 - Beer

Day 2- Integrators

9:30-12:00 - CloudStack API deep dive.
12:00-13:00 - Lunch
13:00-14:00 - Development environment access 
14:00-17:00 - Building a sample app (bring your own ideas if you want)

Day 2 - Core developers

9:30-10:30 - Setup to contribute (git, IDE, patches, devel environment)
10:30-12:00 - Writing tests, simulator
12:00-13:00 - Lunch
13:00-14:00 - Hypervisor and bare metal management
14:00-15:00 - Scalability
15:00-15:30 - Break
15:30-17:00 - Freeform hands on hacking time - (bring your own ideas or squash bugs)

For those of you that are Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) users and are in Silicon Valley the CloudStack community team and some of our developers will be attending the Xen Hackathon at Oracle in Silicon Valley on March 6th-8th. If you want to help make Xen Cloud Platform a better hypervisor for your cloud come on in the XCP project lead Mike McClurg will be there as well for you to discuss where XCP is going. 

What is a Xen Hackathon?

The aim of Xen Hackathons is to give developers in the Xen community the opportunity to meet face to face to discuss development, coordinate, write code and collaborate with other Xen developers. It is a 3 day self-organizing event, where Xen developers work on concrete problems around the Xen codebase in small self-organizing groups.

Xen developers with the following expertise will be present: Xen Hypervisor developers, kernel developers (working on Xen components in the Linux kernel), XCP developers working on project Kronos and the Xen Cloud Platform. Xen on ARM as well is MIPS will also feature in the March 2012 Hackathon.

Xen Hackathons are also great opportunities for companies and open source projects, built on Xen, XCP or commercially based Xen products to test (and fix any issues in their products) against the latest open source baselines. You will have access and be able to work on concrete code problems with Xen developers at the Hackathon.

On February 28th and 29th we'll be holding a two day session focusing on the open source technologies you can use to build, manage and deploy an open source cloud compute environment as well as DevOps presentation on operational methodologies for managing "cloudy" infrastructure.  The program will feature speakers from CloudStack, Citrix, Xen.org, Red Hat, Gluster, PuppetLabs, Opscode, Zenoss and enStratus. 

Even if you can't attend all the sessions feel free to sign-up and we'll make our best effort to get you links to recordings and slide decks after the event.

Day 1 Agenda

Day 1 of Build an Open Source Cloud Day will focus on the infrastructure that compromises an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing environment. The speakers will outline options for virtualization, storage and orchestration that provide the foundation for an open source cloud compute environment.