Meet at the Open Source Summit EMEA 2022

As in person events are back again , I’m back as well to continue to promote FLOSS (Free/Libre/Open Source Software) when I’m selected as a speaker of course. And this was the case again for this new Open Source Summit session in Dublin next week.

This time I’ll be presenting a 101 Workshop on Demand session on Ansible with my peer Frédéric Passeron from the HPEDev team. Times being what they are, we didn’t get any budget to travel from HPE, so Frédéric will be remote and, as I couldn’t imagine to be remote for such interactive sessions, I made a request for support to the Linux Foundation for this travel, which was accepted, and I really want to thank them, as I think I’d have cancel otherwise. So as for Fosdem in 2019, I will be there as the president of the FLOSSITA association, instead of an HPE employee.

Our session will be wednesday, the 14th of september from 2:20PM to 3:55PM. I’ll be around if you want to meet and speak. See you there !

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Presentations from the Redfish Workshop in Lyon

You can find the presentations made for the Redfish Workshop I organized in Lyon after the last Open Source Summit on the Workshop page. You’ll find there an updated status of the standard (2019.3) made by Jeff Autor compared to the version delivered in San Diego. Also you’ll find the level of adoption of Redfish by the OpenBMC project. As well, there is an interesting use case shared by Julien Niedergang from SUSE that wasn’t presented in San Diego.

If you managed an event and want to integrate that workshop in it, don’t hesitate to contact me so we can replay it.

Also available, the last version of the Docker Hands-on Lab that I delivered yesterday.

The Europe Redfish Workshop Agenda is now available

Time is flying, and the Workshop is like winter, coming ! We now have the agenda available so you should be even more keen to attend that free event in Lyon the 31st of october !!

Let’s meet over there !

The Redfish Workshop is at the end of this month in Lyon, France

As announced earlier, at the end of this month, in Lyon, just after the 3 days dedicated to the Open Source Summit Europe, HPE and SUSE will host the 31st of october a reprise of the Redfish Workshop already organized during the Open Source Summit in San Diego in August.

It has also now been announced on the HPE Dev portal which should lead to more audience, especially as I can now announce that in addition to Jeff Autor, co-chair of the Redfish Forum, who will cover the lates news on the standard, you’ll also be lucky to hear from Gunnar Mills, who will talk about the new Redfish support added in OpenBMC 2.7 and the future 2.8 version. Full agenda should be published RSN !

And all that is free (as in beer) for you, as all costs are covered by HPE and SUSE, so at least if you can’t come, invite your friends to attend but it’s first come, first serve ! See you there.

Click on http://redfish.dmtf.org for more details on the Redfish standard

Redfish Workshop at the Open Source Summit Europe 2019

Not only will I be speaking at the upcoming Open Source Summit later in october, but I’m also coordinating a co-located event, the second Redfish Workshop !

A replay of the US Redfish Workshop will be held Thursday, October 31, 2019 | 9:00am – 5:00pm at the Lyon Convention Centre, the day after the Open Source Summit Europe 2019 ends.

The Redfish Workshop is a one day event, with live demos that puts you in direct contact with Redfish Project technical experts. Its primary aim is to show sysadmin, architects and developers how to use the Redfish standard in their environments to benefit from a standard management layer for their deployments, configuration and management of systems.

Our knowledgeable and engaging speakers will help you better understand topics like using DMTF tools for system configuration, using the REST API to perform Redfish operations from python, learning latest news on the standard and its future evolution, Through interactive sessions, demos and labs, you’ll have a chance to network and better understand and practice the concepts presented.

This is a free of charge event, sponsored by Hewlett Packard Enterprise and SUSE.

Who can benefit:

• System/Software Developers
• Tech Leads / Development Leads
• Software Architects
• Chief Engineers
• System Engineers
• Development Engineers
• DevOps / System Administrators
• Application Engineers
• Open Source Technologists

Our Keynote speaker will be Jeff Autor who will cover (at least !) the latest news since last year around the Redifsh standard.

For more information about the event please visit the Redfish Workshop page
IMPORTANT: We have a limited number of seats available for this event so please register

And if you’ve expertise you want to share during this workshop, feel free to contact me, there is still room in the Agenda !

Meet at the Open Source Summit EMEA

I’m very happy to have been selected once more for the upcoming Open Source Summit Europe in Lyon (YES for the first time in France !!) from the 28th to the 30st of October 2019.

I will only deliver there 1 session this year (which was well attended at the Open Source Summit in San Diego by 25 attendees) :

• A hands-on lab on Docker which really explain what it means to containerize a web-based app.

And thanks to SUSE’s help, we (HPE) will be able again to replay the Redfish Workshop we gave as well in the Open Source Summit in San Diego. More details will be shared on this next week.

If you happen to be around, as usual feel free to come to my seessions and discuss with me of any topic you’d like, hopefully I’ll be able to bring some ideas in the discussion and make it enjoyable if not useful. So see you soon in Lyon !

Presentations from OSS San Diego

My work as a speaker is now over for the Open Source Summit San Diego.

You can find the presentations made for the Redfish Workshop I organized there on the Workshop page. If you want a summary, you can try to look at the presentation I made during the event which is now available on slideshare.

Also available, the last version of the Docker Hands-on Lab that I delivered yesterday.

I’ve also been choosen as a speaker for OSS EMEA, so I’ll announce next week what I’ll do there (teasing ;-))

RHEL/CentOS users: help test MondoRescue

Yes, like me the project is not dead ! I’ve been able to successfully backup/restore with the last MondoRescue test version I made for RHEL/CentOS 7. As this was a long standing issue I had with this, I’d like to see whether other users who have had issues with either 3.2.2 or the beta of 3.3. So please report on our mailing-list your findings with this (and share success, but also issues).

Even if other distros may still not fully work, I’ll publish that version if I don’t get too many negative feedback, if only to show there is still work on that project !

That should be early next week, when I’m back from the OSS NA 2019, where I’m presenting, and organizing tomorrow the first Redfish Workshop ! Don’t hesitate to come if you’re in San Diego, Room Sapphire P, 4th floor of the Hilton Bayfront.

Availability of the Redfish Workshop Agenda

As announced, the detailed agenda is now available just below, as well as on the Workshop Page.

• 09:00-09:10 Workshop Intro – Bruno Cornec, Bryan Gartner (10′)
• 09:10-09:45 Introduction to Redfish – Bruno Cornec (35′)
• Definitions
• Why Redfish ?
• Data Model with DMTF reference models
• Demo
• 09:50-11:20 The Redfish Standard – Jeff Autor (1h30′)
• Status
• What’s new since last year in 2018.2/3
• Power & Cooling infra data model
• 11:20-11:50 Configuring Bios via Redfish – Ghazi Belaam (30′)
• Configuring Boot options
• Configuration tools (DMTF Tackle Box)
• 11:50-12:30 Meet the experts (30′)
• 12:50-14:00 Lunch (provided) & Networking
• 14:00-15:00 Redfish usage in Software Stacks: the SUSE example – Bryan Gartner (1h)
• Bare Metal deployment with Redfish and Ironic in SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9
• Prototype of Redfish usage with Saltstack & SUSE Manager
• Terraform + OneView (Using Redfish REST API)
• 15:00-16:45 Hands-on lab on learning Redfish with python – Bruno Cornec (1h45′)
• Redfish concepts and Command Line Interface tools
• Redfish using the request python module
• Redfish using the JSON module
• Redfish using the python-redfish library & tools
• Redfish using an existing python DMTF example
• 16:45-17:00 Round table at the end for a Q&A session – All

IMPORTANT We have a limited number of seats available for this event so please ​register

The workshop has now been both announced by the Linux Foundation and HPE DEV so hopefully, we’ll see a raising number of inscriptions to it. If you’re interested by the topic, and are not far away from San Diego, please come !

2 weeks to the Redfish Workshop

We’re making progress with the detailed content of the Redfish Workshop that will happen the 20th of August in San Diego prior to the OSS+ELC NA 2019.

It’ has now been anounced as a colocated event, so hopefully more people will be aware and will attend. To register (no cost asked thanks to HPE and SUSE !), please use the following form. We have a limited number of seats.

The detailed agenda will be published very soon now, but I can already announce that one of our key speaker will be Jeff Autor, HPE Distinguished Technologist and Redfish Forum Co-Chair who will be able to answer all your nasty (or more simple :-)) questions about the standard and cover for us the latest news.

Another key speaker will be Bryan Gartner, SUSE Senior Techology Strategist who will detail various use cases of the Redfish standard in SUSE products (OpenStack and Ironic, and Salt and SUSE Manager).