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Your Docker agenda for the month of October

From webinars to workshops, meetups to conference talks, check out our list of events that are coming up in October!

Online
Oct 13: Docker for Windows Server 2016 by Michael Friis
Oct 18: Docker Datacenter Demo by Moni Sallama and Chris Hines.
 
Official Docker Training Course
View the full schedule of instructor led training courses here!
Introduction to Docker: This is a two-day, on-site or classroom-based training course which introduces you to the Docker platform and takes you through installing, integrating, and running it in your working environment.
Oct 11-12: Introduction to Docker with Xebia – Paris, France
Oct 19-20: Introduction to Docker with Contino &8211; London, United Kingdom
Oct 24-25: Introduction to Docker with AKRA &8211; Krakow, Germany
 
Docker Administration and Operations: The Docker Administration and Operations course consists of both the Introduction to Docker course, followed by the Advanced Docker Topics course, held over four consecutive days.
Oct 3-6: Docker Administration and Operations with Azca &8211; Madrid, Spain
Oct 11-15: Docker Administration and Operations with TREEPTIK &8211; Paris, France
Oct 18-21: Docker Administration and Operations with Vizuri &8211; Raleigh, NC
Oct 18-22: Docker Administration and Operations with TREEPTIK &8211; Aix en Provence, France
Oct 24-27: Docker Administration and Operations with AKRA &8211; Krakow, Germany
Oct 31- Nov 3: Docker Administration and Operations by Luis Herrera, Docker Captain &8211; Lisboa, Portugal
 
Advanced Docker Operations: This two day course is designed to help new and experienced systems administrators learn to use Docker to control the Docker daemon, security, Docker Machine, Swarm, and Compose.
Oct 10-11 Advanced Docker Operations with Ben Wootton, Docker Captain &8211; London, UK
Oct 26-27: Advanced Docker Operations with AKRA &8211; Krakow, Poland
 
North America & Latin America
Oct 5th: DOCKER MEETUP AT MELTMEDIA &8211; Tempe, AZ
The speaker, @leodotcloud, will discuss the background, present ecosystem of the Container Network Interface (CNI) for containers.
Oct 6th: DOCKER MEETUP AT RACKSPACE &8211; Austin, TX
Jeff Lindsay will give a preview talk to container days where he will cover what the different components of a cluster manager are and what are things you should pay attention to if you really wanted to build your own cluster management solution.
Oct 11th: DOCKER MEETUP AT REPLICATED &8211; Los Angeles, CA
Marc Campbell will share some best practices of using Docker in production, starting with using Content Trust and signed images (including the internals of how Content Trust is built), and then discussing a Continuous Integration/Delivery workflow that can reliably and securely deliver and run Docker containers in any environment.
Oct 12th: DOCKER MEETUP IN BATON ROUGE &8211; Baton Rouge, LA
This Docker meetup will be hosted by Brandon Willmott of the local VMware User Group.
Oct 12th: DOCKER MEETUP AT TUNE &8211; Seattle, WA
Join this meetup to hear talks from Nick Thompson from TUNE, Avi Cavali from Shippable and DJ Enriquez from OpenMail. Also Wes McNamee, a winner of the Docker 1.12 Hackathon, will also be presenting his project Swarm-CI. This is not to be missed!
Oct 13th: DOCKER MEETUP AT CAPITAL ALE HOUSE &8211; Richmond, VA
Scott Cochran, Master Software Engineer at Capital One, will be talking about his journey in adopting docker containers to solve business problems and the things he learned along the way.
Oct 17th: DOCKER MEETUP AT BRAINTREE &8211; Chicago, IL
Tsvi Korren, director of technical services at Aqua, is going to present a talk entitled ‘Docker Container Application Security Deep Dive’ where he will discuss how to integrate compliance and security checks into your pipeline and how to produce a secure, verifiable image.
Oct 18th: DOCKER MEETUP AT THE INNEVATION CENTER &8211; Las Vegas, NV
Using the Docker volume plug-in with external container storage allows data to be persisted, allows per-container volume management and high-availability for stateful apps. Join this informative meetup with Gou Rao, CTO and co-founder of Portworx, where we’ll discuss: Best practices for managing stateful containerized applications.
Oct 18th: DOCKER MEETUP AT WILDBIT &8211; PHILADELPHIA, PA
Ben Grissinger, Solutions Engineer at Docker, will discuss Docker Swarm!  He will cover the requirements for using swarm mode and take a peak at what we can expect in the near future from Docker regarding swarm mode. Last but not he will be doing a demo using swarm mode and using a visualizer tool to display what is taking place in the swarm cluster during the demo of swarm mode in action.
Oct 18th: DOCKER MEETUP AT SANTANDER &8211; Sao Paulo, Brazil
Join Docker São Paulo for their 8th meetup. Get in touch if you would like to submit a talk.
Oct 29th: DOCKER MEETUP AT CI&T &8211; Campinas, Brazil
Save the date for the first Docker Campinas meetup. More details to follow soon.
 
Europe
Oct 4th: LINUXCON EUROPE / CONTAINERCON EU  &8211; Berlin, Germany
We had such a great time attending and speaking at LinuxCon and ContainerCon North America, that we are doing it again next week in Berlin – only bigger and better this time! Make sure to come visit us at booth #D38 and check out the awesome Docker sessions we have lined up.
Oct 4th: THE INCREDIBLE AUTOMATION DAY (TIAD) PARIS &8211; Paris, France
Roberto Hashioka from Docker will share how to build a powerful real-time data processing pipeline & visualization solution using Docker Machine and Compose, Kafka, Cassandra and Spark in 5 steps.
Oct 4th: DOCKER MEETUP IN COPENHAGEN &8211; Copenhagen, Denmark
Learn to be a DevOps &8211; workshop for beginners.
Oct 5th: WEERT SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MEETUP &8211; Weert, Netherlands
Kabisa will host a Docker workshop. The workshop is intended for people who are interested in Docker. Last year you have heard and read a lot about Docker. “Our workshop is a next step for you to gain some hands-on experience.”
Oct 6th: DOCKER MEETUP AT ZANOX &8211; Berlin, Germany
Patrick Chanezon: What&8217;s new with Docker, covering Docker announcements from the past 6 months, with a demo of the latest and greatest Docker products for dev and ops.
Oct 6th: TECH UNPLUGGED &8211; Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Docker Captain Nigel Poulton is presenting on container security at @techunplugged in Amsterdam.
Oct 11th: DOCKER MEETUP AT MONDAY CONSULTING GMBH &8211; Hamburg, Germany
Tom Hutter prepared some material about: aliases and bash-completion, Dockerfile, docker-compose, bind mount: access folders outside build root, supervisord, firewalls (iptables), housekeeping.
Oct 11th: London Dev Community Meetup &8211; London, United Kingdom
Building Microservices with Docker.
Oct 12th: GOTO &8211; LONDON &8211; London, United Kingdom
GOTO London will give you the opportunity to talk with people across all different disciplines of software development! Join Docker captain Adrian Mouat talk about Docker.
Oct 13th: DOCKER MEETUP AT YNOV BORDEAUX &8211; Bordeaux, France
David Gageot from Docker will be presenting.
Oct 15th: DOCKER MEETUP AT BKM &8211; Istanbul, Turkey
Event will be handled by Derya SEZEN and Huseyin BABAL and there will be cool topics about Docker with real life best practices and also we have some challenges for you. Do not forget to bring your laptops with you.
Oct 15th: DOCKER MEETUP AT BUCHAREST TECH HUB &8211; Bucharest, Romania
Welcome to the second workshop of the free Docker 101 Workshop Meetups!
This is going to be a 5h+ Workshop, so be prepared! This workshop is an introduction in the world of Docker containers. It provides an overview about what exactly is Docker and how can it benefit both developers looking to build applications quickly and  IT team looking to manage the IT environment.
Oct 17th: OSCON LONDON &8211; London, UK
Hear the latest about the Docker project from Patrick Chanezon.
Oct 18th: DOCKER MEETUP AT TRADESHIFT &8211; Denmark, Copenhagen
We are going to talk about Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment. Why is that important, why should you care? CI/CD as it is abbreviated is not only about the technical, it is also about how you can improve your team with new tools that help you deliver features faster with fewer errors.
Oct 18th: DOCKER MEETUP AT HORTONWORKS BUDAPEST &8211; Budapest, Hungary
This Meetup will focus on the new features of Docker 1.12.
Oct 26th: DOCKER MEETUP AT DIE MOBILIAR &8211; Zürich, Switzerland
We are happy to announce the 11th Docker Switzerland meetup. Talks include an introduction into swarmkit by Michael Müller from Container Solutions.
Oct 26th: DOCKER MEETUP AT BENTOXBOX &8211; Verona, Italy
Join us for our first meetup! Docker Captain Lorenzo Fontana, DevOps Expert at Kiratech, will be joining us!
 
APAC
Oct 18th: DOCKER MEETUP AT DIMENSION DATA &8211; Sydney, Australia
“Docker inside out, reverse engineering Docker” By Anthony Shaw, “Group Director, Innovation and Technical Development” at Dimension Data. Summary: In this talk Anthony will be explaining how Docker works by reverse engineering the core concepts and illustrating the technology by building a Docker clone live during the talk.
Oct 18th: DOCKER MEETUP IN MELBOURNE &8211; Melbourne, Australia
Continuous Integration & Deployment for Docker Workloads on Azure Container Services. Presenter: Ken Thompson (OSS TSP, Microsoft).
Oct 18th: DOCKER MEETUP IN SINGAPORE &8211; Singapore, Singapore
Docker for AWS (Vincent de Smet) with a demo on using docker machine with a remote host by Sergey Shishkin.
Oct 22nd: DOCKER CLUSTERING WITH TECH NEXT MEETUP &8211; Pune, India
Dockerize a multi-container data crunching app.
 
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Your Guide to LinuxCon and ContainerCon Europe

Hey Dockers! We had such a great time attending and speaking at #LinuxCon and #ContainerCon North America, that we are doing it again next week in Berlin – only bigger and better this time! Make sure to come visit us at booth #D38 and check out the awesome Docker sessions we have lined up:
Keynote!
Solomon Hykes, Docker’s Founder and CTO, will kick off LinuxCon with the first keynote at 9:25. If you aren’t joining us in Berlin, you can live stream his and the other keynotes by registering here.
Sessions
Tuesday October 4th:
11:15 &8211; 12:05 Docker Captain Adrian Mouat will deliver a comparison of orchestration tools including Docker Swarm, Mesos/Marathon and Kubernetes.
 
12:15 &8211; 1:05 Patrick Chanezon and David Chung from Docker’s technical team along with Docker Captain and maintainer Phil Estes will demonstrate how to build distributed systems without Docker, using Docker plumbing projects, including RunC, containerd, swarmkit, hyperkit, vpnkit, datakit.
 
2:30 &8211; 3:20 Docker’s Mike Goelzer will introduce the audience to Docker Services in Getting Started with Docker Services, explain what they are and how to use them to deploy multi-tier applications. Mike will also cover load balancing, service discovery, scaling, security, deployment models, and common network topologies.
 
3:30 &8211; 4:20 Stephen Day, Docker Technical Staff, will introduce SwarmKit: Docker’s Simplified Model for Complex Orchestration. Stephen will dive into the model driven design and demonstrate how the components fit together to build a user-friendly orchestration system designed  to handle modern applications.
 
3:30 &8211; 4:20 Docker’s Paul Novarese will dive into User namespace and Seccomp support in Docker Engine, covering new features that respectively allow users to run Containers without elevated privileges and provide different containment methods.  
 
3:30 &8211; 4:20 Docker Captain Laura Frank will show how to use Docker Engine, Registry and Compose to quickly and efficiently test software in her session: Building Efficient Parallel Testing Platforms with Docker.
 
Wednesday October 5th:
2:30 &8211; 3:20 Docker Captain Phil Estes goes into details on why companies are choosing to use containers because of their security &8211; not in spite of it. In How Secure is your Container? A Docker Engine Security Update, Phil will demonstrate recent additions to the Docker engine in 2016 such as user namespaces and seccomp and how they continue to enable better container security and isolation.
 
3:40 &8211; 4:30 Aaron Lehmann, Docker Technical Staff, will cover Docker Orchestration: Beyond the Basics and discuss best practices for running a cluster using Docker Engine&8217;s orchestration features &8211; from getting started to keeping a cluster perfomant, secure, and reliable.
 
4:40 &8211; 5:30 Docker’s Riyaz Faizullabhoy and Lily Guo will deliver When The Going Gets Tough, Get TUF Going! The Update Framework (TUF) helps developers secure new or existing software update systems. In this session, you will learn the attacks that TUF protects against and how it actually does so in a usable manner.
 
Thursday October 6th:
10:50 &8211; 11:40 Docker Technical Staff Drew Erny will explain the mechanisms used in the core Docker Engine orchestration platform to tolerate failures of services and machines, from cluster state replication and leader-election to container re-scheduling logic when a host goes down in his session Orchestrating Linux Containers while Tolerating Failures.
11:50 &8211; 12:40 Docker’s Amir Chaudhry will explain Unikernels: When you Should and When you Shouldn’t to help you weigh the pros and cons of using unikernels and help you decide when when it may be appropriate to consider a library OS for your next project.
18:45: Docker Berlin meetup: Patrick Chanezon: What&8217;s new with Docker, covering Docker announcements from the past 6 months, with a demo of the latest and greatest Docker products for dev and ops.
Friday October 7th:
9:00am – 12:00 pm Docker Captain Neependra Khare will lead a Tutorial on Comparing Container Orchestration Tools.
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm In this 3 hour tutorial, Jerome Petazzoni will teach attendees how to Orchestrate Containers in Production at Scale with Docker Swarm.
 
In addition to our Docker talks, we have an amazing Docker Berlin meetup lined up just for you on Thursday October 6th. The meetup kicks off with Patrick Chanezon, a member of technical staff at Docker, will cover Docker announcements from the past 6 months and demo the latest and greatest Docker products for dev and ops. Then,  Paul J. Adams,  Engineering Manager at Crate.io, will demonstrate how easy it is to setup and manage a Crate database cluster using Docker Engine and Swarm Mode.
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OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest September 24-30

Candidate Proposals for TC are now open

Candidate proposals for the Technical committee (9 positions) are open and will remain open until 2016-10-01, 23:45 UTC.
Candidacies must submit a text file to the openstack/election repository [1].
Candidates for the Technical Committee can be any foundation individual member, except the seven TC members who were elected for a one year seat in April [2].
The election will be held from October 3rd through to 23:45 October 8th.
The electorate are foundation individual members that are committers to one of the official programs projects [3] over the Mitaka-Newton timeframe (September 5, 2015 00:00 UTC to September 4, 2016 23:59 UTC).
Current accepted candidates [4]
Full thread

Release countdown for week R-0, 3-7 October

Focus: Final release week. Most project teams should be preparing for the summit in Barcelona.
General notes:

Release management team will tag the final Newton release on October 6th.

Project teams don’t have to do anything. The release management team will re-tag the commit used in the most recent release candidate listed in openstack/releases.

Projects not following the milestone model will not be re-tagged.
Cycle-trailing projects will be skipped until the trailing deadline.

Release actions

Projects not follow the milestone-based release model who want stable/newton branches created should talk to the release team about their needs. Unbranched projects include:

cloudkitty
fuel
monasca
openstackansible
senlin
solum
tripleo

Important dates:

Newton final release: October 6th
Newton cycle-trailing deadline: October 20th
Ocata Design Summit: October 24-28

Full thread

Removal of Security and OpenStackSalt Project Teams From the Big Tent (cont.)

The change to remove Astara from the big tent was approval by the TC [4].
The TC has appointed Piet Kruithof as PTL of the UX team [5].
Based on the thread discussion [6] and engagements of the team, the Security project team will be kept as is and Rob Clark continuing as PTL [7].
The OpenStackSalt team did not produce any deliverable within the Newton cycle. The removal was approved by the current Salt team PTL and the TC [8].
Full thread

 
[1] – http://governance.openstack.org/election/#how-to-submit-your-candidacy
[2] &8211; https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/TC_Elections_April_2016##Results
[3] &8211; http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/governance/tree/reference/projects.yaml?id=sept-2016-elections
[4] &8211; https://review.openstack.org/#/c/376609/
[5] &8211; http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2016/tc.2016-09-27-20.01.html
[6] &8211; http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2016-September/thread.html##104170
[7] &8211; http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/tc/2016/tc.2016-09-27-20.01.html
[8] &8211; https://review.openstack.org/#/c/377906/
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Collaboration is king at Cloud Foundry Summit EU

When businesses collaborate on open technology projects, everyone wins. That was the prevailing message throughout the Cloud Foundry Summit in Frankfurt, Germany.
Operators, developers, users and cloud providers gathered to share best practices and reflect on the state of this growing community. In the two years since the Cloud Foundry Foundation was launched, the community has grown tremendously, as these highlights show:

More than 31,000 code commits
2,400-plus code contributors
More than 130 core contributors
65 member companies
17 new member companies in 2016
195 user groups
53,050 individuals
Contributors from 132 cities

Cloud Foundry Foundation CEO Sam Ramji called open source collaboration “a positive-sum game,” meaning that just by participating, members inherently benefit. “The more people who play, the more we win,” he said. “The more you give, the more that is available to everyone.”
Ramji also said that this is “the beginning of a 20-year revolution around what cloud platforms can be.”
It’s ultimately up to the community and its wide stakeholder base to ensure that the revolution is a productive one.
IBM Bluemix continues to grow
IBM offers the world’s largest Cloud Foundry environment with its IBM Bluemix platform. It was on full display during the conference in breakout sessions and even on the mainstage.
Michael “dr.max” Maximilien, a scientist, architect and engineer with the IBM Bluemix team, joined Simon Moser, an IBM senior technical staff member, during the opening keynote to provide an overview of some of the lessons they’ve learned from working in a Cloud Foundry environment.

“Embrace the weirdness.” @mosersd & @maximilien share lessons learned from @IBMBluemix at #CloudFoundry Summit. pic.twitter.com/kJXklTivQX
— IBM Cloud (@IBMcloud) September 27, 2016

The conversation continued with a number of breakout sessions highlighting the emergence of #serverless technology in general, particularly OpenWhisk, an IBM open-source, serverless offering. Maximilien told the crowd in his breakout session that OpenWhisk is a continuation of the IBM tradition of launching exciting, new open tech projects.
“We want to help lead the serverless movement,” he said. “Think of OpenWhisk as a push in that direction.”
Kim Bannerman, who leads the Technical Advocacy and Community team inside the Office of the CTO at IBM Blue Box, hosted a panel on serverless technology that featured Ruben Orduz and Tyler Britten, both technical advocates for IBM Blue Box, along with Casey West and Kenny Bastani of Pivotal.
It was clear that we’re still in early days for this technology, as much of the conversation revolved around the question, “What is serverless?” It will be some time before we start to see real-world use cases and more enterprises adopting it. Still, its potential is clear.
A few of the highlights from that session:

Is it Functions as a Service? Event-driven computing? At CloudFoundry Summit, the serverless discussion goes beyond buzzword. pic.twitter.com/pMpR4DeBZB
— IBM Cloud (@IBMcloud) September 27, 2016

Closing the gender gap
One noteworthy topic strung throughout the conference was the gender gap across the IT profession. While the industry is doing a better job of welcoming women into what’s been a traditionally male-dominated sector, there’s still a long way to go in hiring more female developers, ensuring equal pay and seeing more women at the executive level.
On Wednesday, Ursula Morgenstern, global head of consulting and systems integration at Atos, took to the mainstage to deliver a hopeful message that #cloud computing could represent the catalyst that brings more women into the field.

Problems exist at all levels: entering IT, being stuck in the middle and not getting to the top CloudFoundry @u_morgen pic.twitter.com/uVi2bgOqhC
— Paula Kennedy (@PaulaLKennedy) September 28, 2016

“It’s not just about gender. Ethnically diverse companies outperform their competitors by 35%” – @u_morgen CloudFoundry #diversity pic.twitter.com/37c5YJQroF
— Cloud Foundry (@cloudfoundry) September 28, 2016

Later that day, IBM sponsored a diversity luncheon, which brought together Cloud Foundry community members to discuss issues and potential solutions for advocating for a more inclusive IT industry.
Moving forward
As the Cloud Foundry community looks toward the future, three of its leaders— Jason McGee, VP and CTO of IBM Cloud Platform; Duncan Johnston-Watt, CEO of Cloudsoft, and Stormy Peters, VP of Developer Relations at Cloud Foundry—explained what members must do to advance the cause and promote more interoperability and cooperation between foundations.

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Migrating On-premise VMs to Azure

In 2008, the company I worked for at the time finally felt that virtualization was ready to host production workloads.  We stood up a two node VMware ESX 3.5 cluster, and started to migrate a handful of Linux, Windows and Novell Netware (!) servers from bare metal to virtual.  Even with VMware’s migration tooling, it was still a very manual process.  I scripted as much as I could, but my higher ups never felt good about farming the process out to lower level resources.  It was always me who was on the hook for physical to virtual migrations in after hour maintenance windows.
But that was a lifetime ago in terms of technology, and long before today’s DevOps mentality and tooling existed.  I don’t hear as many customers planning P2V (Physical-to-Virtual) migrations these days.  Instead, they’re asking about V2V (Virtual-to-Virtual), or to be more specific, how can they move on-prem workloads to the cloud: V2C (Virtual-to-Cloud).  Quite a few times, I’ve been asked “Can CloudForms help me migrate VMs from my internal virtual infrastructure to the cloud?”
The answer I usually give is, “Not out of the box, but with CloudForms Automation and Red Hat Consulting services, it’s definitely possible.”  No customer ever really pursued this beyond the initial inquiry, however. My own curiosity and interest in Microsoft Azure lead me to try to actually prove this concept out. I submitted a proposal for Red Hat Summit for this year on automating on-prem to Azure migrations using Red Hat CloudForms, which was accepted. I wanted to demonstrate that CloudForms can do just about anything you can think of, with your imagination and knowledge of Ruby being the only real limiting factors.
All of the CloudForms automation methods and Ansible playbooks required to enable the migration of on-premise VMs running on Hyper-V to Azure are available on GitHub. There is also a video available of the process on YouTube.
There are two main challenges when it comes to performing any V2V migration:  dealing with the differences in virtual hardware, and converting between different virtual disk formats.  For the first proof-of-concept, I decided to take a bit of a shortcut by using Microsoft Hyper-V as my on-prem infrastructure source, and Microsoft Azure as my cloud destination.  We are seeing a lot of  interest in Azure as a cloud provider since we added support in CloudForms 4.0.  Since there is a lot common ground between Azure and Hyper-V, it was logical to start with these two platforms.  They both use a similar virtual disk format – only a bit of metadata needs to be removed from a Hyper-V disk before it can be uploaded and used as an image in Azure.  They also use the same virtual hardware, so there is no need to worry about the drivers and kernel modules change.
Here is a workflow of the migration process:

Selecting a VM to migrate
Retrieving Azure information
Preparing the VM
Converting the virtual disk to VHD
Uploading the converted disk
Provisioning the VM in Azure

Selecting a VM to Migrate
The process is initiated by selecting a VM from your on-prem infrastructure.  I used SCVMM/Hyper-V for this test, and I hope to use the same process for VMware & Red Hat Virtualization in the near future. I also tested with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 as the guest operating systems, but hope to use other guest operating systems in the future.
Select ‘Migrate to Azure’ from the ‘Migration’ button &8211; a custom button on VMs that leads to the Azure migration dialog.

Retrieving Azure Information
The Azure migration dialog uses several automation methods to retrieve information from the Azure provider in CloudForms.  The basic workflow is:

The Azure credentials and region are derived from the provider information in CloudForms
The resource group list is pulled via the Azure resource manager API, using CloudForms native azure-armrest Ruby gem
Once one of the resource groups is selected, the list of storage accounts, networks, and subnets are refreshed
The user selects the OS type (Windows or Linux), the instance size, enters a password for the “clouduser” account, and a name for the network interface and public IP address resources

Preparing the VM
When the submit button is clicked, CloudForms leverages its Ansible Tower integration to launch a job template that removes VM specific information (e.g. udev rules, SSH host keys, ethernet configuration) and installs the Windows Azure Linux Agent, as required to run on Azure. Similarly, Windows VMs have sysprep run against them to remove machine specific information.

Converting the Virtual Disk to VHD
The VM is shut down as the last task of the Ansible playbook. At this point, the virtual disk can be converted to VHD format to run on Azure.  In the case of Hyper-V, this means CloudForms starts a WinRM remote session against the Hyper-V host the VM was running on.  Using PowerShell, the path to the virtual hard disk is derived, and the disk is converted from VHDX to VHD format &8211; some extra metadata are removed from VHDX to VHD. Upon completion, the file is ready for upload to the selected storage account.
Uploading the Converted Disk
The upload to Azure uses the same WinRM session on the Hyper-V host which requires the installation of Azure Resource Manager powershell commandlets (performed once).  The migration method requires the Azure session credentials to be saved in the file:
C:credsazure.txt

Provisioning the VM in Azure
The time required to upload the image depends on the Internet bandwith. Once finished, a new public IP resource is created, along with a new network interface, and the two resources are associated with one another.  With a functioning network interface, a new instance is created from cloning the uploaded virtual disk.
The process takes approximately 2-3 minutes and results in a new instance ready to SSH/RDPe into. This instance is now listed in the Azure inventory in CloudForms.

Conclusion
In this article, we looked at how CloudForms can reduce a multi-step V2C process to a couple of clicks from a dialog.  This allows IT teams to take complex processes that were previously entrusted to the highest level engineers and put them in the hands of lower level administrators. The Ansible Tower integration added since CloudForms 4.1 extends this even further.
A video of the Azure migration process is available, and you can keep up with the development of this automation method on github.
Quelle: CloudForms

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Let’s meet in Barcelona at the OpenStack Summit!

The post Let’s meet in Barcelona at the OpenStack Summit! appeared first on Mirantis | The Pure Play OpenStack Company.

As we count down the days to the OpenStack Summit in Barcelona on October 24-28, we’re getting ready to share memorable experiences, knowledge, and fun!

Come to booth C27 to see what we’ve built with OpenStack, and join in an “Easter Egg Hunt” that will test your observational skills and knowledge of OpenStack, Containers, and Mirantis swag from prior summits. If you find enough Easter eggs, you&8217;re entered in our prize drawing for a $300 Visa gift card or an OpenStack certification exam from our OpenStack Training team ($400 value). And as always, we’re giving away more awesome swag you’ve come to expect from us.

If you&8217;d like to set up some time at the summit to talk with our team, simply contact us and we&8217;ll schedule a meeting.

REQUEST A MEETING

 
Free Training
Mirantis is also providing two FREE training courses based on our standard industry-leading curriculum. If you&8217;re interested in attending, please follow the links below to register:

Tuesday, October 25th: OpenStack Fundamentals
Wednesday, October 26th: Introduction to Kubernetes & Docker

 
Mirantis Presentations
Here&8217;s where you can find us during the summit….
TUESDAY OCTOBER 25

Tuesday, 12:15pm-12:55pm
Level: Intermediate
Chasing 1000 nodes scale
(Dina Belova and Alex Shaposhnikov, Mirantis; Inria)

Tuesday, 12:15pm-12:55pm
Level: Intermediate
OpenStack: you can take it to the bank!
(Ivan Krovyakov, Mirantis; Sberbank)

Tuesday, 3:05pm-3:45pm
Level: Intermediate
Live From Oslo
(Oleksii Zamiatin, Mirantis; EasyStack, Red Hat, HP)

Tuesday, 3:55pm-4:35pm
Level: Intermediate
Is your cloud forecast a bit foggy?
(Oleksii Zamiatin, Mirantis; EasyStack, Red Hat, HP)

Tuesday, 5:05pm-5:45pm
Level: Intermediate
Kerberos and Health Checks and Bare Metal, Oh My! Updates to OpenStack Sahara in Newton.
(Nikita Konovalov and Vitaly Gridnev, Mirantis; Red Hat)

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 26

Wednesday, 11:25am-12:05pm
Level: Intermediate
The race conditions of Neutron L3 HA&8217;s scheduler under scale performance
(Ann Taraday and Kevin Benton, Mirantis; Red Hat)

Wednesday, 11:25am-12:05pm
Level: Advanced
The race conditions of Neutron L3 HA&8217;s scheduler under scale performance
(Florin Stingaciu and Shaun O&8217;Meara, Mirantis)

Wednesday, 12:15pm-12:55pm
Level: Beginner
The Good, Bad and Ugly: OpenStack Consumption Models
(Amar Kapadia, Mirantis; IDC, EMC, Canonical)

Wednesday, 12:15pm-12:55pm
Level: Intermediate
OpenStack Journey in Tieto Elastic Cloud
(Jakub Pavlík, Mirantis TCP Cloud; Tieto)

Wednesday, 2:15pm-3:45pm
Level: Intermediate
User Committee Session
(Hana Sulcova, Mirantis TCP Cloud; Comcast, Workday, MIT)

Wednesday, 3:55pm-4:35pm
Level: Beginner
Lessons from the Community: What I&8217;ve Learned As An OpenStack Day Organizer
(Hana Sulcova, Mirantis TCP Cloud; Tesora, GigaSpaces, CloudDon, Intel, Huawei)

Wednesday, 3:05pm-3:45pm
Level: Beginner
Glare – a unified binary repository for OpenStack
(Mike Fedosin and Kairat Kushaev, Mirantis)

Wednesday, 3:55pm-4:30pm
Level: Intermediate
OpenStack Requirements : What we are doing, what to expect and whats next
(Davanum Srinivas, Mirantis; RedHat)

Wednesday, 3:55pm-4:35pm
Level: Intermediate
Is OpenStack Neutron production ready for large scale deployments?
(Oleg Bondarev, Satish Salagame and Elena Ezhova, Mirantis)

Wednesday, 5:05pm-5:45pm
Level: Beginner
How Four Superusers Measure the Business Value of their OpenStack Cloud
(Kamesh Pemmaraju and Amar Kapadia, Mirantis)

THURSDAY OCTOBER 27

Thursday, 9:00am-9:40am
Level: Intermediate
Sleep Better at Night: OpenStack Cloud Auto­-Healing
(Mykyta Gubenko and Alexander Sakhnov, Mirantis)

Thursday, 11:00am-11:40am
Level: Advanced
OpenStack on Kubernetes &8211; Lessons learned
(Sergey Lukjanova, Mirantis; Intel, CoreOS)

Thursday, 11:00am-11:40am
Level: Intermediate
Unified networking for VMs and containers for Openstack and k8s using Calico and OVS
(Vladimir Eremin, Mirantis; Intel)

Thursday, 11:50am-12:30pm
Level: Intermediate
Kubernetes SDN Performance and Architecture Evaluation at Scale
(Jakub Pavlík and Marek Celoud, Mirantis TCP Cloud)

Thursday, 3:30pm-4:10pm
Level: Advanced
Ironic Grenade: Blowing up our upgrades.
(Vasyl Saienko, Mirantis; Intel)

Thursday, 3:30pm-4:10pm
Level: Beginner
Application Catalogs: understanding Glare, Murano and Community App Catalog
(Alexander Tivelkov and Kirill Zaitsev, Mirantis)

Thursday, 5:30pm-6:10pm
Level: Beginner
What&8217;s new in OpenStack File Share Services (Manila)
(Gregory Elkinbard, Mirantis; NetApp)
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OpenStack Developer Mailing List Digest September 17-23

Announcing firehose.openstack.org

A MQTT based unified message bus for infra services.
This allows a single place to go for consuming messages of events from infra services.
Two interfaces for subscribing to topics:

MQTT protocol on the default port
Websockets over port 80

Launchpad and gerrit events are the only things currently sending message to firehose, but the plan is to expand this.
An example [1] of gerritbot on the consuming side, which has support for subscribing to gerrit event stream over MQTT.
A spec giving details on firehose [2].
Docs on firehose [3].

Full thread

Release countdown for week R-1, 26-30

Focus: All teams should be working on release-critical bugs befor ethe final release.
General

29th September is the deadline for the new release candidates or release from intermediary projects.
Quiet period to follow before the last release candidates on 6th October.

Release actions:

Projects not following the milestone-based release model who want a stable/newton branch created should talk to the release team.
Watch for translation patches and merge them quickly to ensure we have as many user-facing strings translated as possible in the release candidates.

If your project has already been branched, make sure those patches are applied to the stable branch.

Liaisons for projects with independent deliverables should import the release history by preparing patches to openstack/release.

Important Dates:

Newton last RC, 29 September
Newton final release, 6 October
Newton release schedule [4]

Full thread

Removal of Security and OpenStackSalt Project Teams From the Big Tent

The Security and OpenStackSalt projects are without PTLs. Projects leaderless default to the #Technical Committee for decision of what to do with the project [5]. Majority of the Technical Committee has agreed to have these projects removed.
OpenStackSalt is a relatively new addition to the Big Tent, so if they got their act together, they could be reproposed.
We still need to care about security., and we still need a home for the vulnerability management team (VMT). The suggested way forward is to have the VMT apply to be its own official project team, and have security be a working group.
The Mitaka PTL for the Security mentions missing the election date, but provides some things the team has been working on:

Issuing Security Notes for Glance, Nova, Horizon, Bandit, Neutron and Barbican.
Updating the security guide (the book we wrote on securing OpenStack)
Hosting a midcycle and inducting new members
Supporting the VMT with several embargoed and complex vulnerabilities
Building up a security blog
Making OpenStack the biggest open source project to ever receive the Core
Infrastructure Initative Best Practices Badge
Working on the OpenStack Security Whitepaper
Developing CI security tooling such as Bandit

One of the Technical Committee members privately received information that explains why the security PTL was not on top of things. With ~60 teams around there will always be one of two that miss, but here we’re not sure it passes the bar of “non-alignment with the community” that would make the security team unfit to be an official OpenStack Team.
Full thread

[1] – http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack-infra/gerritbot/commit/?id=7c6e57983d499b16b3fabb864cf3b
[2] &8211; http://specs.openstack.org/openstack-infra/infra-specs/specs/firehose.html
[3] &8211; http://docs.openstack.org/infra/system-config/firehose.html
[4] &8211; http://releases.openstack.org/newton/schedule.html
[5] &8211; http://docs.openstack.org/project-team-guide/open-community.html#technical-committee-and-ptl-elections
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Announcing the new Docs Repo on GitHub!

By John Mulhausen
The documentation team at Docker is excited to announce that we are consolidating all of our documentation into a single GitHub Pages-based repository on GitHub.
When is this happening?

The new repo is public now at https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io.
During the week of Monday, September 26th, any existing docs PRs need to be migrated over or merged.
We’ll do one last “pull” from the various docs repos on Wednesday, September 28th, at which time the docs/ folders in the various repos will be emptied.
Between the 28th and full cutover, the docs team will be testing the new repo and making sure all is well across every page.
Full cutover (production is drawing from the new repo, new docs work is pointed at the new repo, dissolution of old docs/ folders) is complete on Monday, October 3rd.

The problem with the status quo

Up to now, the docs have been all inside the various project repos, inside folders named “docs/” — and to see the docs running on your local machine was a pain.
The docs were built around Hugo, which is not natively supported by GitHub, and took minutes to build, and even longer for us to deploy.
Even worse than all that, having the docs siloed by product meant that cross-product documentation was rarely worked on, and things like reusable partials (includes) weren’t being taken advantage of. It was difficult to have visibility into what constituted “docs activity” when pull requests pertained to both code and docs alike.

Why this solution will get us to a much better place

All of the documentation for all of Docker’s projects will now be open source!
It will be easier than ever to contribute to and stage the docs. You can use GitHub Pages’ *.github.io spaces, install Jekyll and run our docs, or just run a Docker command:
git clone https://github.com/docker/docker.github.io.git docs
cd docs
docker run -ti –rm -v “$PWD”:/docs -p 4000:4000 docs/docstage
Doc releases can be done with milestone tags and branches that are super easy to reference, instead of cherry-picked pull requests (PRs) from several repos. If you want to use a particular version of the docs, in perpetuity, it will be easier than ever to retrieve them, and we can offer far more granularity.
Any workflows that require users to use multiple products can be modeled and authored easily, as authors will only have to deal with a single point of reference.
The ability to have “includes” (such as reusable instructions, widgets that enable docs functionality, etc) will be possible for the first time.

What does this mean for open source contributors?
Open source contributors will need to create both a code PR and a docs PR, instead of having all of the work live in one PR. We’re going to work to mitigate any inconvenience:

Continuous integration tests will eventually be able to spot when a code PR is missing docs and provide in-context, useful instructions at the right time that guide contributors on how to spin up a docs PR and link it to the code PR.
We are not going to enforce that a docs PR has to be merged before a code PR is merged, just that a docs PR exists. That means we should be able to merge your code PR just as quickly, if not more so, than in the past.
We will leave README instructions in the repos under their respective docs/ folders that point people to the correct docs repo.
We are adding “edit this page” buttons to every page on the docs so it will be easier than ever to locate what needs to be updated and fix it, right in the browser on GitHub.

We welcome contributors to get their feet wet, start looking at our new repo, and propose changes. We’re making it easier than ever to edit our documentation!
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5 Minutes with the Docker Captains

#Docker Captain is a distinction that Docker awards select members of the community that are both experts in their field and are passionate about sharing their Docker knowledge with others.

This week we are highlighting 3 of our outstanding Captains who are making September one filled with Docker learnings and events. Read on to learn more about how they got started, what they love most about Docker, and why Docker.
Alex Ellis
Alex is a Principal Application Developer with expertise in the full Microsoft .NET stack, Node.js and Ruby. He enjoys making robots and IoT-connected projects with Linux and the Raspberry PI microcomputer. He is a writer for Linux User and Developer magazine and also produces tutorials on Docker, coding and IoT for his tech blog at alexellis.io.

As a Docker Captain, how do you share that learning with the community?
I started out by sharing tutorials and code on my blog alexellis.io and on Github. More recently I’ve attended local meet-up groups, conferences and tech events to speak and tell a story about Docker and cool hacks. I joined Twitter in March and it’s definitely a must-have for reaching people.
Why do you like Docker?
Docker makes the complex seem simple and forces you to automate your workflow. I have a background in software engineering and automation is everything for delivering reliable, repeatable and testable systems.
What’s a common tech question you’re asked and the high-level explanation?
The questions vary and often surprise me – I like to be able to connect people to the right Captains or Docker folks. Opening an issue about a technical problem on Github is really valuable for the community and the Docker project. Please give feedback.
What’s your favorite thing about the Docker community?
The community is vibrant and full of life &8211; people are working on solutions for problems that you may have and are generous with their knowledge.
Who are you when you’re not online?
I love film photography &8211; everything from buying vintage cameras, to developing and printing my own images. I balance my time at the screen with road cycling &8211; cruising down country lanes in the countryside or spending just time away from the screen in the great outdoors.
Marcos Lilljedahl
Marcos Lilljedahl is an OS evangelist and Golang lover with a strong background in distributed systems and app architecture. Marcos is currently working at Matica, a Machine Learning startup that brings latest in research to industry. Mantica runs Machine learning apps in a fully dockerized environment mainly using compose / machine and engine.

How has Docker impacted what you do on a daily basis?
Although I run pretty much everything in containers (even games like Counter Strike / Quake3 / etc), the biggest benefit comes from the fact that it really has helped to reduce friction when working with different teams and platforms. It’s a fundamental tool for everyone to speak the same “app” language and then translate that directly into production.
As a Docker Captain, how do you share that learning with the community?
I’m not the “blog post” kind of person, I usually like to deep dive into code and understand the core principles about Docker. I usually contribute by helping people resolve GitHub issues or by responding on the Slack community channel when there are specific questions or unexpected issues. Also, whenever I find some time, I like to hack on stuff like our two hackathon winner projects CMT and Whaleprint.
Why do you like Docker?
What I like the most is its fundamental purpose (help people with great ideas to make things possible) and the community behind it.
Who are you when you’re not online?
I like to do all kind of sports like sailing, swimming, playing soccer, running, snowboarding, roller hockey and crossfit. I also enjoy spending weekends with my girlfriend and family cooking asado.
If you could meet anyone in the world dead or alive who would it be and why?
I would have loved to meet young Steve Jobs. I believe he transmitted the energy to make anyone do the impossible.
Sreenivas Makam
Sreenivas Makam is currently working as a senior engineering manager at Cisco Systems, Bangalore. His interests include SDN, NFV, Network Automation, DevOps, and cloud technologies, and he likes to try out and follow open source projects in these areas. His blog can be found at sreeninet.wordpress.com and his hacky code at github.com/smakam. Sreenivas wrote a book on Mastering CoreOS, which was published in February 2016. He has done the technical reviewing for Mastering Ansible book, Packt Publishing, Ansible Networking Report, O’Reilly Publisher and Network programmability and Automation book, O&8217;Reilly Publisher. He has given presentations at Docker and other meetups in Bangalore.

How has Docker impacted what you do on a daily basis?
I come from a networking background and used to approach problems from an infrastructure point of view. Docker has given me the insight to approach problems from a developer or an operator perspective.
As a Docker Captain, how do you share that learning with the community?
I enjoy sharing my learning and knowledge through my blogs. Other than this, I give presentations in Docker meetups and other meetups in Bangalore. The best part about being a Docker captain is the direct access to Docker developers and other Docker captains and there is always something new to learn from them.
How did you first get involved with Docker?
I was fascinated with cloud adoption and trying out related technologies like AWS and Google cloud, Openstack and SDN. I dabbled into Docker as part of this. I was initially impressed with how fast I could build, deploy and destroy a Docker container. I got involved in Docker from October 2014 and the first version I used was Docker 1.3.
Why do you like Docker?
There are many reasons, the biggest reason is perhaps the simplicity. There has been a lot of effort put in making complex topics like Orchestration and Security very easy to use for both developers and operations teams.
What’s your favorite thing about the Docker community?
The Docker community is super-active, encourages new members and supports diversity.
Follow all of the Docker Captains on Twitter using Docker with Alex Ellis’ tutorial.
Docker Captains
Captains are Docker ambassadors (not Docker employees) and their genuine love of all things Docker has a huge impact on the Docker community – whether they are blogging, writing books, speaking, running workshops, creating tutorials and classes, offering support in forums, or organizing and contributing to local events – they make Docker’s mission of democratizing technology possible. Whether you are new to Docker or have been a part of the community for a while, please don’t hesitate to reach out to Docker Captains with your challenges, questions, speaking requests and more.
While Docker does not accept applications for the Captains program, we are always on the lookout to add additional leaders that inspire and educate the Docker community. If you are interested in becoming a Docker Captain, we need to know how you are giving back. Sign up for community.docker.com, share your activities on social media with the Docker, get involved in a local meetup as a speaker or organizer and continue to share your knowledge of Docker in your community.
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Visit Docker @ Microsoft Ignite – Booth #758

 

Next week Microsoft will host over 20,000 IT executives, architects, engineers, partners and thought-leaders from around the world at Microsoft Ignite, September 25th-30th at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Visit the Docker booth #758 to learn how developers and IT pros can build, ship, and run any application, anywhere, across both Windows and Linux operating systems with Docker. By transforming modern application architectures for Linux and Windows applications, Docker allows business to benefit from a more agile development environment with a single journey for all their applications.
Don’t miss out! Docker experts will be on-hand to for in-booth demos to help you:

      Deploy your first Docker Windows container
      Learn about Docker containers on Windows Server 2016
      Manage your container environment with Docker Datacenter on Windows

Calling all Microsoft MVPs!

Attend our daily in booth theater session “Docker Containers for Linux and Windows” with Docker evangelist Mike Coleman in the Docker booth @ 2PM every day. Session attendees will receive exclusive Docker and Microsoft swag.
To learn more about how Docker powers Windows containers, add these key Docker sessions to your Ignite agenda:
GS05: Reinvent IT infrastructure for business agility
Microsoft’s strategy centers on empowering you – the IT professionals – to generate business value within your organizations. With Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack, you can leverage the power of cloud to drive business agility and developer productivity With the launch of Windows Server 2016 and Microsoft System Center 2016, you can accomplish more than ever before in your existing datacenters. And with Operations Management Suite, you can securely manage all of your on-premises and cloud infrastructure from one place. Microsoft Corporate VP Jason Zander discusses in-depth the latest technology innovations across all of these areas that help you reinvent your IT infrastructure, and be a hero within your organizations.
Speaker: Jason Zander, Microsoft
 
BRK3146: Dive into the new world of Windows Server and Hyper-V Containers
Applications need to be always available, globally accessible, scalable and secure in today’s 24/7 economy. Businesses must be able to deploy rapid updates and revisions at a lower cost with fewer resources than ever before to be competitive. Containers are an amazingly powerful technology for building, deploying and hosting applications that have been proven to reduce costs, improve efficiency and reduce deployment times &8211; making it a hot new feature in Windows Server 2016. We dive into the architecture features of the new container technology, talk about development and deployment experiences and best practices, along with some of the new Windows innovations such as Hyper-V Containers and Active Directory backed container identity.
Speakers: Taylor Brown, Microsoft & Patrick Lang, Microsoft
Thursday, September 29, 9:00am &8211; 10:15am, Room A1
BRK3147: Accelerate application delivery with Docker Containers and Windows Server 2016
Applications are changing and Docker is driving the containerization movement to deliver new microservices applications or provide a new construct to package legacy applications. Attend this session to learn how the combination of Docker, Linux, Microsoft Windows Server and Microsoft Azure technologies together deliver an application platform for hybrid cloud apps. Accelerate your app delivery and gain freedom to use any stack across a secure software supply chain.
Speakers: Mike Coleman, Docker & Taylor Brown, Microsoft
Thursday, September 29, 12:30pm &8211; 1:45pm, Room A411 &8211; A412
BRK3319: The Path to Containerization – transforming workloads into containers
Containers, micro-services and Docker are all the rage but what workloads are they used for? And how can you take advantage of these transformative new technologies? In this session you will hear from a user that has succeeded in taking their existing .Net application and migrated it into Windows containers proving them the agility and flexibility to further transform the application. But where do I start with containers? We will further cover concepts and best practices for identifying and migrating applications from existing deployments into containers and how to start down the path to microservice architectures.
Speakers: Taylor Brown, Microsoft & Matthew Roberts, Microsoft
To get ready for Ignite and to learn more about Docker, read the eBook Containers for the Virtualization Admin by Docker Technical Evangelist Mike Coleman.
More resources

Learn more about Docker for the Enterprise
Read the white paper: Docker for the Virtualization Admin
See all the integrations between Docker and Microsoft
Learn more about Docker Datacenter

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