HPE now contributes to OpenBMC !

For those of you reading articles on this blog, this is not completely a new info. Indeed, during Fosdem, it was already possible to see a demo unit of a HPE ProLiant DL 360 running Linuxboot and an iLO 5 running an OpenBMC software stack.

But that was a proof of concept. Now, HPE has officially announced on the OpenBMC mailing list that we were contributing to the project and will bring our patches upstream, and help the community build a better software stack. I supppose that in particular our knowledge of the Redfish standard will be helpful to improve the project.

And more over, if your company is interested to test such a combination, feel free to contact Jean-Marie Verdun, Mike Garrett (both writers in the thread and promoters of this internally) or myself and we should be able to provide to you an access to such a system.

But that’s not all, we’re also…. hum, well you’ll know when it’s offically announced 🙂

Anyway, that’s the best news for our Open Source involvement since monthes and I’m glad that we’re making that possibility a reality for all the customers we have wanting a more open platform.

Stay tuned, more to come !

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Meet at the Paris Open Source Summit

After some years, I’m back again at the Paris Open Source Summit ! Well it’s becoming more and more difficult for me to travel professionnaly, even in France, and without the help of Jean-Marc Le Hen, I’d not have been able to come. So thank him by buying HPE gears with him 😉

I’ll be delivering a session on Redfish during the Cloud Native Infrastructure Track on Tuesday the 10th between 6:00 and 6:30PM and I’ll come back the day after to contribute to a round table on neutrality of contribution spaces animated by Amel Charleux during the Governance track on Wednesday the 11th between 11:00 and 11:59AM.

A great opportunity to touch base with the whole community gathered in the exhibition hall (I hope to be able to visit both the projects area as well as the professional booths)

If you catch me, I’ll be happy to discuss about FLOSS in general, or my favorites projects in particular !

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 !