OpenStack Austin - Flexible, Simple Deployments with OpenStack-Ansible

Talk given at Rackspace Austin at the OpenStack Austin's 20160620 meetup. Details at http://www.meetup.com/OpenStack-Austin/events/231086464/

"OpenStack clouds give users to power to deploy complex servers and networks in seconds, but they can be challenging to deploy, maintain, and upgrade. The OpenStack-Ansible project allows deployers to overcome these challenges using tools that they already know. The project is packed full of well-tested, opinionated defaults that can be reconfigured easily. It's the backbone of Rackspace's Private Cloud product and it's the deployment mechanism for the OpenStack Innovation Center (OSIC) Cluster.

In this talk, Major Hayden will lead the audience through an overview of OpenStack-Ansible and how to use it for small and large OpenStack clouds. The audience will learn how to perform an all-in-one deployment for testing and how to prepare multiple physical servers for an OpenStack-Ansible deployment.

Major Hayden builds OpenStack clouds as a Principal Architect at Rackspace. His primary focus is on the OpenStack-Ansible project, but he also works on information security improvements for OpenStack deployments. He is a Red Hat Certified Architect and he has contributed to several open source projects, including dracut, systemd, and Ansible. Within the Fedora Linux community, Major serves on the Fedora Security Team and Fedora Server Working Group. Major enjoys writing on his personal blog, major.io, and he talks about technical topics on Twitter as @majorhayden."