Open Source For You — December 2017

Open Source India 2017

A workshop in progress at OSI 2017

Key workshops @ osi 2017

Self-Service Automation in OpenStack Cloud
(by Soh Hiong, senior consultant, NetApp)
To build an OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure, there is
only one choice for block storage. SolidFire delivers a very
comprehensive OpenStack block storage integration. This
workshop helped participants to learn how SolidFire’s integration
with OpenStack Cinder seamlessly enables self-service automation
of storage and guarantees QoS for each and every application.

Building Machine Learning Pipelines with PredictionIO
(by Manpreet Ghotra and Rajdeep Dua, Salesforce India)
Apache PredictionIO is an open source machine learning server
built on top of a state-of-art open source stack for developers
and data scientists to create predictive engines for any machine
learning task. This workshop helped attendees understand how to
build ML pipelines using PredictionIO.

Software Architecture: Principles, Patterns and Practices
(by Ganesh Samarthyam, co-founder, CodeOps Technologies)
Developers and designers
aspiring to become architects and
hence wanting to learn about
the architecture of open source
applications, using case studies
and examples, participated in
this workshop. It introduced
key topics on software
architecture including
architectural principles,
constraints, non-functional
requirements (NFRs),
architectural styles and
design patterns, viewpoints
and perspectives, and
architecture tools.

Serverless Platforms: What to Expect and What
to Ask For (by Monojit Basu, founder and director, TechYugadi
IT Solutions and Consulting)
The advent of serverless platforms evokes a feeling of déjà
vu. This workshop narrowed down resource utilisation to
the granularity of a function call while remaining in control
of execution of the code! Serverless platforms offer various
capabilities to address the questions that users of these platforms
need to be aware of. The goal of this workshop was to help
attendees identify the right use cases for going serverless.

Analysing packets using Wireshark (by Sumita Narshetty,
security researcher at QOS Technology)
The workshop helped attendees understand packets capture and
analyse packets using Wireshark. It covered different aspects
of packet capture and the tools needed to analyse captured

packets. Attendees also learned how to use Wireshark for

troubleshooting network problems.

OpenStack Cloud Solution (by Manoj and Asutosh, Open

Stack consultants for Prodevans)

The workshop helped attendees to master their ability to work on

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) OpenStack platform services

with Red Hat Ceph Storage, and implement advanced networking

features using the OpenStack Neutron service.

OpenShift DevOps Solution (by Chanchal Bose, CTO, Prodevans)

This was a hands-on workshop to get familiar with containers.

It covered OpenShift’s advantages and features as well as the

DevOps CI/CD scenario on OpenShift.

Ansible Automation (by Manoj, Sohail and Varsha, Ansible

consultants for Prodevans)

This workshop was for those with basic Linux knowledge and an

interest in Linux systems administration. It covered an introduction

to Ansible, and then highlighted its advantages and features. The key

takeaway was on how to automate infrastructure

using Ansible.

Make your First Open

Source IoT Product

(by Arzan Amaria,

senior solutions

architect for the cloud

and IoT, CloudThat)

This workshop involved

a hands-on session

on building a small

prototype of an ideal

product using open

source technologies.

By following step-by-

step instructions and

practical assistance,

participants were able to

build and make a connected device, a process that inspired them

to innovate new products. The instructor shared the right logic

and resources required for anyone to jumpstart the journey of

IoT development.

Hands-on experience of Kubernetes and Docker in action (by

Sanil Kumar, chief architect, Cloud Team, Huawei India)

This workshop provided exposure to and visualisation of the

cloud from the PaaS perspective. It also introduced Kubernetes

and containers (Docker). It was a hands-on session, designed

to help participants understand how to start setting up and

using Kubernetes and containers, apart from getting to learn

application deployment in a cloud environment, inspecting

containers, pods, applications, etc.

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