Virtualization in the Cloud was designed for cloud computing from the outset. Xen was initially a university research project that provided isolation between virtual machines (VMs) and has since become widely used in cloud computing. The Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) provides a complete virtualization stack and management API for server virtualization and private clouds. XCP packages Xen, the Xen API, and associated components into an open source virtual appliance that can now also be installed as packages on popular Linux distributions for increased flexibility and choice. XCP and the Xen API continue to be improved for security, reliability, scalability and integration with cloud orchestration platforms.
Deploying Apache CloudStack from API to UIJoe Brockmeier
For most organizations with a large computing footprint, it's not a matter of if you'll need a private cloud - it's when, and what kind. One of the most mature and widely deployed options is Apache CloudStack, a robust, turnkey cloud that includes everything you need to set up a private, public, or hybrid cloud. We'll cover Apache CloudStack from API to UI, and a little of everything in between.
Deploying Apache CloudStack from API to UIJoe Brockmeier
For most organizations with a large computing footprint, it's not a matter of if you'll need a private cloud - it's when, and what kind. One of the most mature and widely deployed options is Apache CloudStack, a robust, turnkey cloud that includes everything you need to set up a private, public, or hybrid cloud. We'll cover Apache CloudStack from API to UI, and a little of everything in between.
This presentation is the introduction to the monthly CloudStack.org demonstration. The presentation details the latest features in the CloudStack open source project as well as project news. To attend a future presentation, with live demo and Q&A visit:
http://www.slideshare.net/cloudstack/introduction-to-cloudstack-12590733
Build clouds the way some of the world’s biggest public and private clouds are built—using CloudStack. This 60-minute webinar with the Cloudstack team will help you gain a better understanding of the CloudStack architecture and feature set.
CloudStack, the world's leading open-source cloud infrastructure platform, was recently donated to the Apache Foundation, and is now an incubated Apache project. Ewan Mellor, Director of Engineering in the Citrix Cloud Platforms Group will describe the CloudStack project and explain why Xen is the pre-eminent hypervisor in public clouds today. He will describe the changes coming in CloudStack in the next 12 months, and how they are going to change the way that Xen is consumed in public and private clouds next year.
A quick intro to DevCloud the CloudStack sandbox, and how to use CloudMonkey to manage your cloud.
DevCloud is a virtualbox image that contains the CloudStack source code and that is setup to run the storage infrastructure needed by CloudStack plus the networking setup to build the guest network of the VMs. Tiny Linux instances can be started within the Devcloud VM making use of nested virtualization.
This is a perfect setup to discover cloudstack, give demos and test new codes. It is used to test new releases and verify basic functionality. You can run DevCloud on your laptop and then use the command line interface CloudMonkey to make API calls to your DevCloud instance.
This is the perfect complement to the talk on CloudMonkey and shows the basic functionality of a cloud. Instance creation, snapshots, networking, network offering and AWS EC2 compatibility.
Decisions behind hypervisor selection in CloudStack 4.3Tim Mackey
As presented at the 2014 CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Denver (CCCNA14), this deck covers the matrix of functions and features within each supported hypervisor in CloudStack 4.3. This deck forms an excellent reference document for those seeking to provide multi-hypervisor support within their Apache CloudStack based cloud, and for those seeking to determine which feature elements are supported by a given hypervisor.
CloudStack comes with a built-in SDN controller. One way of implementing SDN is to build overlay networks in the Data Center. This slideshow explains how CloudStack builds and maintains GRE tunnel overlays to provide scalable multi-tenant networking for cloud deployments
The Xen Hypervisor was built for the Cloud from the outset: when Xen was designed, we anticipated a world, which today is known as cloud computing. Today, Xen powers the largest clouds in production.
This talk explores success criteria, architecture, trade-offs and challenges for cloudy hypervisors. It is intended for users and developers and starts with a brief introduction to Xen and XCP, their architecture and on common challenges for KVM and Xen.
I will introduce the concept of domain disaggregation as an approach to increase security, robustness and scalability: all important factors for building clouds at scale and show how advanced security features suchas Xen Security Modules and SELinux can help secure your cloud further.
The talk will conclude with exciting developments in the Xen community, such as Xen for ARM servers, a new virtualization mode for Xen, running applications without OS in a Xen guest and point out their implications for building open source clouds.
Rackspace has years of experience with running Xen at scale, starting with Xen and migrating to XenServer. We will share why we use Xen/XenServer along with some of the issues that we've experienced. We will touch on our experience with migrating from Xen to XenServer and the challenges there. We will share information about Rackspace Cloud Servers architecture, and touch briefly on OpenStack when doing so. We will explain how we use Xen to quickly deploy new Openstack services with what we call Nova on Nova. And finally, we will discuss what additional features and improvements are needed and why.
Oscon 2012 : From Datacenter to the Cloud - Featuring Xen and XCPThe Linux Foundation
Do you dream of being able to spin up ten or twenty (or a thousand) virtual machines in an instant? Discover and repair resource bottlenecks without moving a finger? Dodge the loss of an entire storage array with no-one noticing? Span across data centers with a fleet of virtual machines? This is no sales pitch; during this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to leverage truly FOSS tools to build a powerful, scalable cloud that easily competes with those proprietary solutions!
This deep-dive into Xen, Xen Cloud Platform, and other FOSS cloud tools and concepts is intended both for those ready to wholeheartedly embrace virtualization and for those already seasoned in general virtualization practices. You’ll leave with a collection of pre-made tools that you can use right out of the box or modify to your liking. You’ll also leave with immediately useful knowledge on best practices and common pitfalls, presented by actual FOSS practitioners like you.
We begin this tutorial by discussing Xen, Xen Cloud Platform (XCP), and XCP cloud concepts (pools, hosts, storage, networks, etc.). We then explore in detail the API that makes Xen so useful for building a cloud, explore provisioning of hosts and guests using PXE, and discuss templating and installing guest virtual machines. Critical to understanding potential bottlenecks, identifying tuning opportunities and planning for the future, we will discuss performance monitoring and methodologies. Next, we teach you how to make the most of your new FOSS cloud capabilities and discuss in detail high availability infrastructure for storage and networking, advanced networking capabilities like bonding/VLANs, and the cloud orchestration tools that save you time and money. All of this with a focus on XCP in enterprise environments. Tools discussed include DRBD, Pacemaker, Open vSwitch, Cloudstack, Openstack, and more.
We conclude by shedding light on exciting developments: Xen 4.2 has recently been released, with just over a year of development time and nearly 3,000 changesets. We will discuss many of the new features introduced in 4.2, as well as what changes we have in store for the 4.3 release as well as other exciting developments.
This presentation is the introduction to the monthly CloudStack.org demonstration. The presentation details the latest features in the CloudStack open source project as well as project news. To attend a future presentation, with live demo and Q&A visit:
http://www.slideshare.net/cloudstack/introduction-to-cloudstack-12590733
Build clouds the way some of the world’s biggest public and private clouds are built—using CloudStack. This 60-minute webinar with the Cloudstack team will help you gain a better understanding of the CloudStack architecture and feature set.
CloudStack, the world's leading open-source cloud infrastructure platform, was recently donated to the Apache Foundation, and is now an incubated Apache project. Ewan Mellor, Director of Engineering in the Citrix Cloud Platforms Group will describe the CloudStack project and explain why Xen is the pre-eminent hypervisor in public clouds today. He will describe the changes coming in CloudStack in the next 12 months, and how they are going to change the way that Xen is consumed in public and private clouds next year.
A quick intro to DevCloud the CloudStack sandbox, and how to use CloudMonkey to manage your cloud.
DevCloud is a virtualbox image that contains the CloudStack source code and that is setup to run the storage infrastructure needed by CloudStack plus the networking setup to build the guest network of the VMs. Tiny Linux instances can be started within the Devcloud VM making use of nested virtualization.
This is a perfect setup to discover cloudstack, give demos and test new codes. It is used to test new releases and verify basic functionality. You can run DevCloud on your laptop and then use the command line interface CloudMonkey to make API calls to your DevCloud instance.
This is the perfect complement to the talk on CloudMonkey and shows the basic functionality of a cloud. Instance creation, snapshots, networking, network offering and AWS EC2 compatibility.
Decisions behind hypervisor selection in CloudStack 4.3Tim Mackey
As presented at the 2014 CloudStack Collaboration Conference in Denver (CCCNA14), this deck covers the matrix of functions and features within each supported hypervisor in CloudStack 4.3. This deck forms an excellent reference document for those seeking to provide multi-hypervisor support within their Apache CloudStack based cloud, and for those seeking to determine which feature elements are supported by a given hypervisor.
CloudStack comes with a built-in SDN controller. One way of implementing SDN is to build overlay networks in the Data Center. This slideshow explains how CloudStack builds and maintains GRE tunnel overlays to provide scalable multi-tenant networking for cloud deployments
The Xen Hypervisor was built for the Cloud from the outset: when Xen was designed, we anticipated a world, which today is known as cloud computing. Today, Xen powers the largest clouds in production.
This talk explores success criteria, architecture, trade-offs and challenges for cloudy hypervisors. It is intended for users and developers and starts with a brief introduction to Xen and XCP, their architecture and on common challenges for KVM and Xen.
I will introduce the concept of domain disaggregation as an approach to increase security, robustness and scalability: all important factors for building clouds at scale and show how advanced security features suchas Xen Security Modules and SELinux can help secure your cloud further.
The talk will conclude with exciting developments in the Xen community, such as Xen for ARM servers, a new virtualization mode for Xen, running applications without OS in a Xen guest and point out their implications for building open source clouds.
Rackspace has years of experience with running Xen at scale, starting with Xen and migrating to XenServer. We will share why we use Xen/XenServer along with some of the issues that we've experienced. We will touch on our experience with migrating from Xen to XenServer and the challenges there. We will share information about Rackspace Cloud Servers architecture, and touch briefly on OpenStack when doing so. We will explain how we use Xen to quickly deploy new Openstack services with what we call Nova on Nova. And finally, we will discuss what additional features and improvements are needed and why.
Oscon 2012 : From Datacenter to the Cloud - Featuring Xen and XCPThe Linux Foundation
Do you dream of being able to spin up ten or twenty (or a thousand) virtual machines in an instant? Discover and repair resource bottlenecks without moving a finger? Dodge the loss of an entire storage array with no-one noticing? Span across data centers with a fleet of virtual machines? This is no sales pitch; during this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to leverage truly FOSS tools to build a powerful, scalable cloud that easily competes with those proprietary solutions!
This deep-dive into Xen, Xen Cloud Platform, and other FOSS cloud tools and concepts is intended both for those ready to wholeheartedly embrace virtualization and for those already seasoned in general virtualization practices. You’ll leave with a collection of pre-made tools that you can use right out of the box or modify to your liking. You’ll also leave with immediately useful knowledge on best practices and common pitfalls, presented by actual FOSS practitioners like you.
We begin this tutorial by discussing Xen, Xen Cloud Platform (XCP), and XCP cloud concepts (pools, hosts, storage, networks, etc.). We then explore in detail the API that makes Xen so useful for building a cloud, explore provisioning of hosts and guests using PXE, and discuss templating and installing guest virtual machines. Critical to understanding potential bottlenecks, identifying tuning opportunities and planning for the future, we will discuss performance monitoring and methodologies. Next, we teach you how to make the most of your new FOSS cloud capabilities and discuss in detail high availability infrastructure for storage and networking, advanced networking capabilities like bonding/VLANs, and the cloud orchestration tools that save you time and money. All of this with a focus on XCP in enterprise environments. Tools discussed include DRBD, Pacemaker, Open vSwitch, Cloudstack, Openstack, and more.
We conclude by shedding light on exciting developments: Xen 4.2 has recently been released, with just over a year of development time and nearly 3,000 changesets. We will discuss many of the new features introduced in 4.2, as well as what changes we have in store for the 4.3 release as well as other exciting developments.
"Xen Cloud Platform”, Mike McClurg, Senior Engineer, Xen.org Engineering
The Xen Cloud Platform is an open-source, enterprise-ready server virtualization platform. It is based on the Xen hypervisor, and represents the common code base for Citrix's XenServer product line. This presentation gives an introduction to XCP, and how it relates to both the Xen hypervisor and to Citrix's XenServer. It covers XCP's XenAPI and how it can be used by two of the most popular cloud orchestration frameworks, CloudStack and OpenStack. Finally, it discusses the XCP "roadmap," and the plans for the future of XCP.
"Deploying Private PaaS with ActiveState Stackato”, Diane Mueller, Director Cloud Evangelism, ActiveState
This presentation covers building and deploying a Private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) on CloudStack. Diane Mueller, ActiveState's Cloud Evangelist shows how to deploy ActiveState's Stackato, an enterprise-ready multi-lingual Private PaaS that runs on any cloud and supports deploying and managing web & mobile applications in any language including Java, .Net, Python, Perl, PHP Ruby, Node.js, Clojure, Scala and Erlang - to name a few. Using the CloudStack UI, Diane demonstrates how to configure and deploy the PaaS and then shows how easy it is to push a live application in under an hour.
David Linthicum (@davidlinthicum) from Cloud Technology Partners (@cloudtp) and Bart Copeland (@bart_copeland) from ActiveState (@activestate) will include private and public PaaS perspectives on six competitive areas where the key PaaS players strive to gain an advantage in the PaaS marketplace.
Application development
Application infrastructure
Database management
Application deployment
Business intelligence
Application security
Linuxcon EU : Virtualization in the Cloud featuring Xen and XCPThe Linux Foundation
The Xen Hypervisor was built for the Cloud from the outset: when Xen was designed, we anticipated a world, which today is known as cloud computing. Today, Xen powers the largest clouds in production. This talk explores success criteria, architecture, trade-offs and challenges for cloudy hypervisors.
It is intended for users and developers and starts with a brief introduction to Xen and XCP, their architecture, shine some light on common challenges for KVM and Xen, such as the NUMA performance tax and securing the cloud. It will introduce the concept of domain disaggregation as an approach to increase security, robustness and scalability: all important factors for building clouds at scale. The talk will conclude with an update on Xen support in Linux, Xen for ARM servers and other exciting developments in the Xen community and their implications for building open source clouds.
The Xen Hypervisor was built for the Cloud from the outset: when Xen was designed, we anticipated a world, which today is known as cloud computing. Today, 10 years after the project started, Xen powers the largest clouds in production.
This talk explores success criteria, architecture, trade-offs and challenges for cloudy hypervisors. It is intended for users and developers and starts with a brief introduction to Xen and XCP, their architecture, common challenges for KVM and Xen and securing the cloud. It will introduce concepts such as the virtualization spectrum, the concept of domain disaggregation and the Xen Security Modules as techniques to increase security, robustness and scalability. All important factors for building clouds at scale.
The talk will conclude with exciting developments in the Xen community, such as Xen support for ARM servers, Mirage appliances that can be run on any Xen based cloud, etc. and explore their implications for building open source clouds.
Scale11x : Virtualization with Xen and XCPLars Kurth
The Xen Hypervisor was built for the Cloud from the outset: when Xen was designed, we anticipated a world, which today is known as cloud computing. Today, Xen powers the largest clouds in production.
This talk explores success criteria, architecture, trade-offs and challenges for cloudy hypervisors. It is intended for users and developers and starts with a brief introduction to Xen and XCP, their architecture and on common challenges for KVM and Xen.
I will introduce the concept of domain disaggregation as an approach to increase security, robustness and scalability: all important factors for building clouds at scale and show how advanced security features suchas Xen Security Modules and SELinux can help secure your cloud further.
The talk will conclude with exciting developments in the Xen community, such as Xen for ARM servers, a new virtualization mode for Xen, running applications without OS in a Xen guest and point out their implications for building open source clouds.
Kernel Recipes 2014 - Xen as a foundation for cloud infrastructureAnne Nicolas
It is no accident that Xen software powers some of the largest Clouds in existence. From its outset, the Xen Project was intended to enable what we now call Cloud Computing.
This session will explore how the Xen Architecture addresses the needs of the Cloud in ways which facilitate security, throughput, and agility. It will also cover some of the hot new developments of the Xen Project.
Julien Grall, Citrix
In a traditional Xen configuration domain 0 is used for a large number of different functions including running the toolstack(s), backends for network and disk I/O, running the QEMU device model instances, driving the physical devices in the system, handling guest console/framebuffer I/O and miscellaneous monitoring and management functions. Having all these functions in one domain produces a complex environment which is susceptible to shared fate on the failure of any one function, has complex interactions between functions (including resource contention) which makes it difficult to predict performance, and has limited flexibility (such as requiring the same kernel for all device drivers).
""Domain 0 disaggregation"" has been discussed for some time as a way to break out domain 0's functions into separate domains. Doing this enables each domain to be tailored to its function such as using a different kernel or operating system to drive different physical devices. Splitting functions into separate domains removes some of the unintentional interactions such as in-domain resource contention and reduces the system impact of the failure of a single function such as a device driver crash.
Although domain 0 disaggregation is not new it is seldom used in practise and much of its use is focussed on providing enhanced security. Citrix XenServer will be moving towards a disaggregated domain 0 in order to provide better security, scalability, performance, reliability, supportability and flexibility. This talk will describe XenServer's “Windsor” architecture and explain how it will provide the above benefits to customers and users. We will present an overview of the architecture and some early experimental measurements showing the benefits.
“Apache Hadoop, Now and Beyond”, Jim Walker, Director of Product Marketing, Hortonworks
Hadoop is an open source project that allows you to gain insight from massive amounts of structured and unstructured data quickly and without significant investment. It is shifting the way many traditional organizations think of analytics and business models. While it is deigned to take advantage of cheap commodity hardware, it is also perfect for the cloud as it is built to scale up or down without system interruption. In this presentation, Jim Walker will provide an overview of Apache Hadoop and its current state of adoption in and out of the cloud.
"Scaling Storage with Ceph", Ross Turk, VP of Community, Inktank
Ceph is an open source distributed object store, network block device, and file system designed for reliability, performance, and scalability. It runs on commodity hardware, has no single point of failure, and is supported by the Linux kernel. This talk will describe the Ceph architecture, share its design principles, and discuss how it can be part of a cost-effective, reliable cloud stack.
Introduction to Open Source Cloud Computing", Mark Hinkle, Senior Director Cloud Computing Community, Citrix
Very few trends in IT have generated as much buzz as cloud computing. This session will cut through the hype and clarify what cloud computing is, what the use cases are, and what open source software exists to build and manage clouds. The discussion will appeal to systems administrators, IT generalists, and developers...anybody who wants to create a cloud computing environment on their own hardware in their own data centers and deploy applications to this cloud.
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.
GlusterFS is an open source scale-out NAS solution. The software is a powerful and flexible solution that simplifies the task of managing unstructured file data whether you have a few terabytes of storage or multiple petabytes. It’s no secret that unstructured data is growing like crazy, Gluster provides a solutions that scales capacity and performance as you need it and is an ideal fit for an IT environment that is increasingly virtualized and moving to the cloud.
There are two key ways that GlusterFS is beneficial for cloud builders:
1. Storage layer for VMs. If you're deploying Xen or KVM VMs on a private cloud, storing them on GlusterFS gives you the ability to migrate to different hypervisors, suspend and resume quickly - even on another hypervisor, scale out far beyond what other filesystems will allow, and utilize N-way replication for DR and HA
2. Unified storage layer for applications. With GlusterFS 3.3, you will be able to access your application data stores from an object (S3, Swift-style) interface, as well as a traditional POSIX-compatible NAS interface. This unified approach gives developers and admins the ability to access the same data store using a variety of different methods.
In this session, attendees will learn steps for deployment and some common use cases.
Speaker Bio
John Mark is an experienced veteran of all things open source and a self-described agitprop, agitator and advocate for those who volunteer countless, unpaid hours for a particular project or community. He first fell down the slippery slope of open source as a web developer at VA Linux Systems and eventually switched to the community team, beginning a career that has now lasted over ten years. Along the way, John Mark made stops at young, up-and-coming startups, such as Groundwork, Hyperic and then Gluster (later acquired by Red Hat). In between, there was a brief interlude at IDG World Expo, where he was the conference director for LinuxWorld, GridWorld and OSBC. His advice for companies who want to "do community" is to trust your community and give them the space to "just try s***." John Mark loves to perform community karaoke, and is available for weddings, funerals and Bar/Bat Mitzvahs
Very few trends in IT have generated as much buzz as cloud computing. This talk will cut through the hype and quickly clarify the ontology for cloud computing. The bulk of the conversation will focus on the open source software that can be used to build compute clouds (infrastructure-as-a-service) and the complimentary open source management tools that can be combined to automate the management of cloud computing environments. The discussion will appeal to anyone who has a good grasp of traditional data center infrastructure but is struggling with the benefits and migration path to a cloud computing environment. Systems administrators and IT generalists will leave the discussion with a general overview of the options at their disposal to effectively build and manage their own cloud computing environments using free and open source software.
[Presented as part of the Open Source Build a Cloud program on 2/28/2012 - http://cloudstack.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events.html?categoryid=6]
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
[Presented as part of the Open Source Build a Cloud program on 2/29/2012 - http://cloudstack.org/about-cloudstack/cloudstack-events.html?categoryid=6]
Cloudstack is an open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) software platform available under the GPLv3 license, which enables users to build, manage and deploy compute cloud environments. The community edition is based on the latest, leading edge features and bits that the Cloud.com team of engineers are working on and is supported by our open source community.
Using CloudStack a free and open source cloud computing software to build a private cloud. During the training attendees will be instructed on how to install Cloudstack to manage virtual infrastructure in a private cloud computing configuration. At the conclusion of the Build a Private Cloud section users will have the knowledge needed to create a simple private cloud computing environment.
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The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
But—if the “Reject” button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
"Impact of front-end architecture on development cost", Viktor TurskyiFwdays
I have heard many times that architecture is not important for the front-end. Also, many times I have seen how developers implement features on the front-end just following the standard rules for a framework and think that this is enough to successfully launch the project, and then the project fails. How to prevent this and what approach to choose? I have launched dozens of complex projects and during the talk we will analyze which approaches have worked for me and which have not.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
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In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
Designing Great Products: The Power of Design and Leadership by Chief Designe...
Virtualization in the cloud
1. Virtualization in the Cloud
Lars Kurth
Xen Community Manager
lars.kurth@xen.org
@lars_kurth
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2. A Brief History of Xen in the Cloud
Late 90s
XenoServer Project
(Cambridge Univ.)
Global Public Computing
The XenoServer project is building
public infrastructure for wide-area “This dissertation proposes a new distributed computing
distributed computing. paradigm, termed global public computing, which allows
any user to run any code anywhere. Such platforms price
We envisage a world in which XenoServer
computing resources, and ultimately charge users for
execution platforms will be scattered across
resources consumed.“
the globe and available for any member of
the public to submit code for execution. Evangelos Kotsovinos, PhD dissertation, 2004
3. A Brief History of Xen in the Cloud
Late 90s Oct ‘03 ‘06 ‘08 ‘09 ‘11 ‘12
XenoServer Project Amazon EC2 XCP 1.x
(Cambridge Univ.) and Slicehost Cloud Mgmt
launched
Xen Presented Rackspace
at SOSP Cloud XCP packages
in Linux
XCP
Announced
5. Xen.org
• Guardian of Xen Hypervisor and related OSS Projects
• Xen project Governance similar to Linux Kernel
• Projects
– Xen Hypervisor (led by Citrix)
– Xen Cloud Platform aka XCP (led by Citrix)
– Xen ARM : Xen for mobile devices (led by Samsung)
– PVOPS : Xen components and support in Linux Kernel (led by Oracle)
• 10+ vendors contributing more than 1% to the project
(AMD, Citrix, Fujitsu, Huawei, Intel, Novell, Oracle, Samsung, Suse, …)
7. Basic Xen Concepts
Control Domain aka Dom0
Console • Dom0 kernel with drivers
• Xen Management Toolstack
VMn • Trusted Computing Base
Control domain VM1
(dom0) Guest Domains
One or more VM0
Toolstack driver, stub or • Your apps
Dom0 Kernel
service domains Guest OS
and Apps
• E.g. your cloud management stack
Driver/Stub/Service Domain(s)
Scheduler, MMU Xen Hypervisor
• A “driver, device model or control
Host HW service in a box”
I/O Memory CPUs
• De-privileged and isolated
• Lifetime: start, stop, kill
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8. Xen Variants for Server & Cloud
Xen Hypervisor XCP
Toolstack / Console Default / XL (XM) Libvirt / VIRSH XAPI / XE
Increased level of functionality and integration with other components
Get Binaries from … Linux Distros Linux Distros Debian & Ubuntu
XCP from Xen.org
Products Oracle VM Huawei UVP Citrix XenServer
Many
Used by …
Others
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10. PV Domains & Driver Domains
Control domain Guest VMn Driver Domain
Linux PV guests have limitations:
(dom0) e.g. • limited set of virtual hardware
Apps • Disk
• Network Advantages
PV Back Ends PV Front Ends PV Back End • Fast
• Works on any system
HW Drivers HW Driver
(even without virt extensions)
Guest OS Dom0 Kernel*
Driver Domains
Xen Hypervisor
• Security
• Isolation
I/O Memory CPUs
Host HW • Reliability and Robustness
*) Can be MiniOS
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11. HVM & Stub Domains
Dom0 Guest VMn Stubdomn Guest VMn
Disadvantages
• Slower than PV due to Emulation
(mainly I/O devices)
IO Emulation IO Emulation
Device Model Device Model Advantages
• Install the same way as native Linux
IO Event
Stub Domains
IO Event VMEXIT Mini OS VMEXIT
• Security
Xen Hypervisor • Isolation
• Reliability and Robustness
Host HW
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12. PV on HVM
• A mixture of PV and HVM
• Linux enables as many PV interfaces HVM PV on PV
as possible HVM
Boot Sequence Emulated Emulated PV
• This has advantages
Memory HW HW PV
– install the same way as native
Interrupts, Emulated PV* PV
– PC-like hardware Timers &
– access to fast PV devices Spinlocks
– exploit nested paging Disk & Network Emulated PV PV
– Good performance trade-offs Privileged HW HW PV
Operations
• Drivers in Linux 3.x
*) Emulated for Windows
14. Xen and the Linux Kernel
Xen was initially a University research project
Invasive changes to the kernel to run Linux as
a PV guest and Dom0
15. Current State
PVOPS Project
Xen support in Linux 3.0+
(it is functional but not yet fully optimized)
On-going optimization work in Linux 3.4 +
16. What does this mean?
• Xen Hypervisor is not in the Linux kernel
• BUT: everything Xen needs to run is!
• Xen packages are (or will be) in Linux distros
– Install Dom0 Linux distro
– Install Xen package(s) or meta package
– Reboot
– Config stuff: set up disks, peripherals, etc.
18. Security and the Next Wave of Virtualization
• Security is a key requirement for Cloud
• Security is the primary goal of virtualization on the Client
– Desktop, Laptops, Tablets & Smart Phones
• Maintaining isolation between VMs is critical
19. Xen Security & Robustness Advantages
• Even without Advanced Security Features
– Well-defined trusted computing base (much smaller than on type-2 HV)
– No extra services in hypervisor layer
• More Robustness: Mature, Tried & Tested, Architecture
• Xen Security Modules (or XSM)
– Developed and contributed to Xen by NSA
– Generalized Security Framework for Xen
• Can also run with SELinux
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20. Advanced Security: Disaggregation
• Split Control Domain into Driver, Stub and Service Domains
– Each contains a specific set of control logic
– See: ”Breaking up is hard to do” @ Xen Papers
• Unique benefit of the Xen architecture
– Security: Minimum privilege; Narrow interfaces
– Robustness: ability to safely restart parts of the system
– Performance: lightweight, e.g. Mini OS directly on hypervisor
– Scalability: more distributed system (less reliable on Dom0)
• Used by Qubes OS and Citrix XenClient XT
21. Advanced XenClient Architecture
Per host/device Per guest
Service VMs Service VMs
VPN Isolation
Control Domain
Management
VPN Isolation
User VM User VM
Emulate
Emulation
Device
Network
Isolation
Domain
(dom0)
Device
Policy Granularity Policy Granularity
Xen Hypervisor
Xen Security Modules
I/O Memory CPUs Host HW
22. Example: Network Driver Domain for HA
• Detect failure e.g.
350
– Illegal access
300
– Timeout 250
• Kill domain, restart 200
150
– E.g. Just 275ms outage from
100
failed Ethernet driver
50
• Auto-restarts to 0
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40
enhance security time (s)
23. BUT…
• Today, XCP and commercial Xen based Server products
– Do not yet make use of XSM
– Do not yet make use of Advanced Security Features (Disaggregation)
• In XCP, work has started to add these features
– Various articles of how this may be done on the xen wiki
– More information soon (likely at XenSummit)
– Commitment on improving docs for Security, Reliability & Tuning
25. XCP
Complete vertical stack for
server virtualization
Distributed as a closed appliance
(ISO) with CentOS 5.5 Dom0,
misc DomU’s, network & storage
support and Xen API
Open source distribution of Citrix
XenServer
26. XCP Overview
• Open source version of Citrix XenServer
wiki.xen.org/wiki/XCP/XenServer_Feature_Matrix
• Enterprise-ready server virtualization and cloud platform
Extends Xen beyond one physical machine and other functionality
Lots of other additional functionality compared to Xen
• Datacenter and cloud-ready management API
XenAPI (XAPI) is fully open source
CloudStack and OpenStack integration
27. Major XCP Features
• VM lifecycle: live snapshots, checkpoint, migration
• Resource pools: flexible storage and networking
• Event tracking: progress, notification
• Upgrade and patching capabilities
• Real-time performance monitoring and alerting
• Built-in support and templates for Windows and Linux guests
• Open vSwitch support built-in
28. XCP 1.5 (in beta)
• Architectural Improvements: Xen 4.1, GPT, smaller Dom0
• GPU pass through: for VMs serving high end graphics
• Performance and Scalability:
– 1 TB mem/host
– 16 VCPUs/VM, 128 GB/VM
• Networking: Open vSwitch (default), Active-Backup NIC Bonding
• Virtual Appliance: multi-VM and boot sequenced, OVF support
• More guest OS templates
29. XAPI: What is it?
• XAPI is the backbone of XCP
– Provides the glue between all components
– Is the backend for all management applications
– Also called XenAPI
• It's a XML-RPC style API, served via HTTPS
– Provided by a service on every XCP dom0 host
– Designed to by highly programmable
– API bindings for many languages: .NET, Java, C, Powershell, Python
• XAPI is Extensible via plugins
– E.g. used by OpenStack
30. XCP-XAPI Packages in Linux
• Make the XAPI toolstack independent of CentOS 5.5
• Extend the delivery model
– Deliver Xen, XAPI and everything in between (storage manager, network
support, OCaml libs, etc.) via your favorite Linux distro
“apt-get install xcp-xapi” or “yum install xcp-xapi”
• Debian 7.0 “Wheezy"
• Ubuntu 12.04 LTS
• Next: Fedora & CentOS
31. XAPI Management Options
• XAPI frontend command line tool: XE (tab-completable)
• Desktop GUIs
o Citrix XenCenter (Windows-only)
o OpenXenManager (open source cross-platform XenCenter clone)
• Web interfaces
o Xen VNC Proxy (XVP)
o XenWebManager (web-basedclone of OpenXenManager)
• XCP Ecosystem:
o xen.org/community/vendors/XCPProjectsPage.html
o xen.org/community/vendors/XCPProductsPage.html
34. • Designed for the Cloud : many advantages for cloud use!
– Resilience, Robustness & Scalability
– Security: Small surface of attack, Isolation & Advanced Security
Features
• Widely used by Cloud Providers and Vendors
• XCP & XAPI
– Ready for use with cloud orchestration stacks
– XCP-XAPI packages in Linux distros: flexibility and choice
– Lots of additional improvements for cloud coming in 2012
• Open Source with a large community and eco-system
35. • IRC: ##xen @ FREENODE
• Mailing List: xen-users & xen-api
• Wiki: wiki.xen.org
– Beginners & User Categories
– XCP Category
• Excellent XCP Tutorials
– A day worth of material @
xen.org/community/xenday11
• Ecosystem pages
Questions …
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Editor's Notes
XenoServer : enablers as well the concept
Note: 10th birthday of the project is coming up
Hold this thought! We will come back to this later….!
PVOPS is the Kernel Infrastructure to run a PV Hypervisor on top of Linux
Dom 0:In a typical Xen set-up Dom0 contains a smorgasboard of functionality:System bootDevice emulation & multiplexingAdministrative toolstackDrivers (e.g. Storage & Network)Etc.LARGE TCB – BUT, Smaller as in a Type 2 hypervisorDriver/Stub/Service Domains: also known as Disaggregation
PVOPS is the Kernel Infrastructure to run a PV Hypervisor on top of Linux
Device Model emulated in QEMUModels for newer devices are much faster, but for now PV is even faster
Automatic PerformancePV on HVM guests are very close to PV guests in benchmarks that favour PV MMUsPV on HVM guests are far ahead of PV guests in benchmarks that favour nested paging
PVOPS is the Kernel Infrastructure to run a PV Hypervisor on top of Linux
Where are we?1) Linux 3 contains everything needed to run Xen on a Vanilla Kernel, both as Dom0 and DomU2) That’s of course a little bit of an old hat now3) But it is worth mentioning that it only took 5 years to upstream that PVOPS into the kernel
Just one example of a survey, many morehttp://www.colt.net/cio-research/z2-cloud-2.htmlAccording to many surveys, security is actually the main reason which makes or breaks cloud adoptionBetter security means more adoptionConcerns about security means slowed adoption
So for a hypervisor, as Xen which is powering 80% of the public cloud – rackspace, AWS and many other VPS providers use Xen and with cloud computing becoming mainstream, furthering security is really importantOne of the key things there is isolation between VMs, but also simplicity as I pointed out earlierBut there are also a number of advanced features in Xen, which are not that widely know. So I wanted to give you a short overview of two of them
Ask some questions
Example: XOARSelf-destructing VMs (destroyed after initialization): PCIBack = virtualize access to PCI Bus configRestartable VMs (periodic restarts): NetBack (Physical network driver exposed to guest) = restarted on timerBuilder (instantiate other VMs) = Restarted on each request
What about domain 0 itself?Once we've disaggregated domain 0, what will be left? The answer is: very little! We'll still have the logic for booting the host, for starting and stopping VMs, and for deciding which VM should control which piece of hardware... but that's about it. At this point domain 0 could be considered as a small "embedded" system, like a home NAT box or router.
VM lifecycle (start, stop, resume) ... automation is the key pointLive snapshots: Takes a snapshot of a live VM (e.g. for disaster recovery or migration)Resource pools (multiple physical machines): XS & XCP onlylive migration: VM is backed up while running, onto shared storage (e.g. NFS) in a pool and when completed restarted elsewhere in that pool. disaster recovery: you can find lots of information on how this works at http://support.citrix.com/servlet/KbServlet/download/17141-102-19301/XenServer_Pool_Replication_-_Disaster_Recovery.pdf (the key point is that I can back up the metadata for the entire VM)Flexible storage: XAPI does hide details for storage and networkingI.e. I apply generic commands (NFS, NETAPP, iSCSI ... once its created they all appear the same) from XAPI. I only need to know the storage type when I create storage and network objects (OOL)Upgrading a host to a later version of XCP (all my configs and VMs stay the same) …and patching (broken now - bug, can apply security patches to XCP/XS or Dom0 but not DomU)
* Host Architectural Improvements. XCP 1.5 now runs on the Xen 4.1 hypervisor, provides GPT (new partition table type) support and a smaller, more scalable Dom0. * GPU Pass-Through. Enables a physical GPU to be assigned to a VM providing high-end graphics. * Increased Performance and Scale. Supported limits have been increased to 1 TB memory for XCP hosts, and up to16 virtual processors and 128 GB virtual memory for VMs. Improved XCP Tools with smaller footprint. * Networking Improvements. Open vSwitch is now the default networking stack in XCP 1.5 and now provides formal support for Active-Backup NIC bonding. * Enhanced Guest OS Support. Support for Ubuntu 10.04 (32/64-bit).Updated support for Debian Squeeze 6.0 64-bit, Oracle Enterprise Linux6.0 (32/64-bit) and SLES 10 SP4 (32/64-bit). Experimental VM templates for CentOS 6.0 (32/64-bit), Ubuntu 10.10 (32/64-bit) and Solaris 10. * Virtual Appliance Support (vApp). Ability to create multi-VM and boot sequenced virtual appliances (vApps) that integrate with Integrated Site Recovery and High Availability. vApps can be easily imported and exported using the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) standard.
Note: not exactly 1:1 with XEComparisons to other APIs in the virtualization space (source: Steven Maresca)Generally speaking XAPI is well-designed and well-executedXAPI makes it pleasantly easy to achieve quick productivityXAPI is set up to work with frameworkssuch as CloudStack and OpenStack. Some SOAPy lovers of big XML envelopes and WSDLs scoff at XML-RPC, but it certainly gets the job done with few complaintsExample codehttp://bazaar.launchpad.net/~nova-core/nova/github/files/head:/plugins/xenserver/xenapi/etc/xapi.d/plugins/ https://github.com/xen-org/xen-api/blob/master/scripts/examples/python/XenAPIPlugin.py
Hold this thought! We will come back to this later….!
Performance : similar to other hypervisorsMaturity: Tried & Tested, Most Problems that are Problems are well knownOpen source: Good body of Knowledge, Tools