Head in the Clouds

For those of you who have attended a past Build an Open Source Cloud Day (BACD) you know we draw some of the most knowledgable speakers on open source technologies related to systems management and cloud computing. Here are some of the recent presentations from our Build a Cloud Day series please stay tuned to our Events pages to see a BACD event coming to a location near you.

• Crash Course on Open Source Cloud Computing, Mark Hinkle, CloudStack.org
• Xen Cloud Platform, Lars Kurth, Xen.org
• Introduction to CloudStack, David Nalley, CloudStack.org 
• Cloud Monitoring with Zenoss Core, David Nalley, Zenoss Master 
• Rapid Scaling in the Cloud with Puppet, Carl Caum, PuppetLabs
• Devops, the future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet, Kris Buytaert, Inuits
• Introduction to Chef, Matt Ray, Opscode 

At last week's USENIX LISA  we had the opportunity to teach users how to build and manage open source cloud computing environments using open source software at Build a Cloud Day Boston.  Our program featured presentations from Chef, CloudStack, Gluster, Puppet and Zenoss.  Our next Build an Open Source Cloud Day will be at the Southern California Linux Expo on January 20th, 2011 in Los Angeles. Here are the slides from some of the presentations.

CloudStack Community Manager, David Nalley gave an introduction to CloudStack for delivering infrastructure-as-a-service.

Opscode Technical Evangelist, Sean OMeara gave an introduction to Chef for Server Provisioning and Automation

Zenoss engineer and monitoring ninja, Simon Jakesch, discussed how to use Zenoss Core to manage "cloud infrastructure".