DOST 2015: Ceph Security Presentation

After two days the first "Deutsche OpenStack Tage" ended. There have been many interesting presentations and discussions on OpenStack and also Ceph topics. You can find the slides from my talk about "Ceph in a security critical OpenStack Cloud" on slideshare.

Deutsche OpenStack Tage 2015

Next week, from 23.-24.06.2015, the "German OpenStack Days" (Deutsche OpenStack Tage) take place in Frankfurt. I will give a talk about "Ceph in a security critical OpenStack Cloud" on Wednesday. 

The presentations are conducted in German, so it's mainly interesting for German people. There are several OpenStack and also Ceph related talks on the schedule, including a work shop on Ceph. As far as I know there are still tickets available for the conference.

OpenStack Summit Vancouver

Finally back from Vancouver, back from an interesting week at the OpenStack Summit including a quite packed schedule with many interesting presentations, work sessions and meetings. 

I presented together with Sage Weil about "Storage security in a critical enterprise OpenStack environment" with focus on Ceph. You can find the slides at slideshare. There is also a video available at the OpenStack YouTube channel.

Update: OpenStack Summit Vancouver Presentation

The schedule for the upcoming OpenStack Summit 2015 in Vancouver is finally available. Sage and I submitted a presentation about "Storage security in a critical enterprise OpenStack environment". The submission was accepted and the talk is scheduled for Monday, May 18th, 15:40 - 16:20. 

There are also some other talks related to Ceph available:

• Ceph and OpenStack: current integration and roadmap (Josh Durgin, Sébastien Han)
• Keeping OpenStack storage trendy with Ceph and containers (Sage Weil)
• Ceph at CERN: A Year in the Life of a Petabyte-Scale Block Storage Service (Dan van der Ster)
• Swift vs Ceph from an architectural standpoint (Christian Huebner)
• A Year with Cinder and Ceph at TWC (Craig Delatte, Bryan Stillwell)
• Building Your First Ceph Cluster for OpenStack - Fighting for Performance, Solving Tradeoffs (Gregory Elkinbard, Dmitriy Novakovskiy)

Checkout the links or the schedule for dates and times of the talks. 

See you in Vancouver!

CDS: Infernalis Call for Blueprints

The "Ceph Developer Summit" for the Infernalis release is on the way. The summit is planed for 03. and 04. March. The blueprint submission period started on 16. February and will end 27. February 2015. 

Do you miss something in Ceph or plan to develop some feature for the next release? It's your chance to submit a blueprint here.

Vote for Presentations: OpenStack Summit Vancouver 2015

The next OpenStack summit is planed to take place in Vancouver from 18 - 22 May 2015. The  "Call for Speakers" ended last week. The vote for presentation period started today and will end 23. February, 23:00 UTC (00:00 CEST, 05:00 CST). 

This year I've submitted, together with Sage Weil, a talk to the "Cloud Security" track with the title: "Storage security in a critical enterprise OpenStack environment". The talk will provide insight into requirements for a secure setup and potential issues, pitfalls, and attack vectors against storage technologies used with an enterprise OpenStack cloud. We will present what Deutsche Telekom and Red Hat/Inktank, together with the community, are working on to build a security critical cloud with OpenStack and Ceph.

You can vote, if you are interested to see our talk at the summit, every vote is highly welcome. You can find a full abstract at the voting page.

My colleague Marc Koderer submitted this year two talks [1][2]. These are unrelated to Ceph, but he will appreciate your votes for sure, if you are interested in them.

Ceph Developer Summit 2014 - Hammer

The Ceph Developer Summit (CDS) for the next major Ceph release called Hammer started today some hours ago (2014/10/28). It's again a virtual summit via video conference calls.

I've submitted three blueprints:

• Ceph Security hardening [pad]
• How to make Ceph enterprise ready [pad]
• rados: improve ex-/import functionality [pad]

We already discussed the Ceph security and enterprise topics. You can find the results/logs in the pad. The sessions are recorded and will be available afterwards.

If you are interested in Ceph development: now it's time to join the video conference call. You can find all links, the timetable and blueprints to discuss here. There will be a second track with a lot of interesting discussions tomorrow.

If you are interested to work e.g. on the Ceph security topic: check the pad and feel free to contact me.