Elizabeth K. Joseph
Elizabeth K. Joseph spent four years as a Systems Administrator working on the OpenStack Infrastructure project.
In her role on this team, she supported OpenStack developers as they made contributions to the project and was active on OpenStack development mailing lists, and has worked on test engineering for the OpenStack on OpenStack (TripleO) project. She has given tutorials on the basics of OpenStack for San Francisco Bay Area organizations and regularly attends the bi-annual OpenStack Design Summits. A regular speaker on Open Source topics at conferences world-wide, her work beyond OpenStack includes contributions to the Ubuntu project and serving on the board of a non-profit that puts Linux-based computers in public schools.
Elizabeth’s OpenStack presentations and articles highlights:
- February 23, 2017: Panel Discussion: DC/OS, K8s, OpenStack at the DC/OS Meetup
- December 7, 2016: “The OpenStack Project Continuous Integration System” at OpenStack Days Mountain West (slides)
- November 14, 2016: Linux Luddites Episode #91, interviewed about OpenStack
- October 26, 2016: Keynote: “Demoing the World’s Largest Multi-Cloud CI Application“ at OpenStack Summit – Barcelona 2016 (video)
- October 8, 2016: “A Tour of OpenStack Deployment Scenarios” at Ohio LinuxFest (slides)
- August 20, 2016: “A Tour of OpenStack Deployment Scenarios” at Fosscon (slides)
- August 4, 2016: Introduction to OpenStack (Tutorial) at SANOG 28 (slides)
- July 26, 2016: OpenStack SuperUser: Why infrastructure is the key to OpenStack’s Big Tent
- June 29, 2016: “Building an Open Source Cloud” at CodeConf LA (slides)
- April 25, 2016: OpenStack Infrastructure for Beginners at OpenStack Summit – Austin 2016 (slides)
- May 7, 2015: Panel: Silicon Valley OpenStack Meetup
- March 11, 2015: “elastic-Recheck Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: How Elasticsearch Helps OpenStack QA” at Elastic{ON} (slides)
- November 3, 2014: “Automated failure aggregation & detection with elastic-recheck” lightning talk at OpenStack Summit – Paris 2014 (slides)
- June 18, 2014: Keynote: “OpenStack’s Continuous Integration Infrastructure” at DORS/Croatian Linux Users Convention 2014 (slides)
- September 22, 2013: CodeChix OpenStack Workshop
She writes about life and technology on her blog at http://princessleia.com/journal/
Matt Fischer
Matt Fischer has worked as a software developer for over 15 years in roles ranging from UNIX kernel to mobile phone development to devops. Matt currently works on a team deploying and running OpenStack and has been using Puppet to deploy OpenStack since 2013. When not solving automation problems, Matt enjoys hiking, camping, skiing, craft beer, and spending time with his family in Fort Collins, Colorado.
Matt’s development blog has a number of articles on OpenStack and is available here: http://www.mattfischer.com/blog/
Matt’s OpenStack Talks & Presentations
- OpenStack Live – Sunnyvale – April 2015
- Deploying an OpenStack Cloud at Scale at Time Warner Cable (no video, slides only)
- OpenStack Summit – Vancouver – April 2015
- Building Clouds with OpenStack Puppet Modules – good overview of the OpenStack puppet modules and how they will mix with your code to build running cloud.
- Getting DNSaaS to Production with Designate – the process we went through to get Designate into production and how we wrote a Designate sink handler.
- A CI/CD Alternative to Push & Pray for OpenStack – great overview of a full CI/CD process for OpenStack deployments, using Ansible, puppet, gerrit, and Jenkins. This contains updated information from the OpenStack Live talk above.
- Real World Experiences with Upgrading OpenStack at Time Warner Cable – an overview of our upgrade process and pitfalls in going from the Juno to Kilo release.
- PuppetConf – Portland – September 2015
- Practical CI/CD with Puppet Code and Configuration – a deep dive into our CI/CD process with a puppet focus. If you use Puppet code this applies generally, if you use Puppet & OpenStack watch this and the talk from Vancouver.
- OpenStack Summit – Tokyo – October 2015
- Proud to be a Noob: How to Make the Most of Your First OpenStack Summit – a panel discussion on how to get the most out of your first OpenStack summit, watch before Austin!
- Duct-tape, Bubblegum, and Bailing Wire: 12 Steps in Operating OpenStack – A humorous look at the trials and tribulations of running OpenStack as an operator.
- OpenStack Summit – Austin – April 2016
- Get Ready for Fernet Tokens – Fernet is coming. Are you prepared? Come to this talk to understand how they work and how to operate them.
- Moving a Running OpenStack Cloud to a New Data Center – Our data center is out of space, but we need more capacity. What to do? Move the cloud of course! But don’t upset customers in the process, it has to stay running! Come hear about how we did it.
- Experiences and Priorities for Private Cloud Keystone and Public Cloud Keystone – a panel discussion with other operators about Keystone’s present, priorities, and futures.