Ganeticon 2019

18 Jun 2019, 09:00 → 19 Jun 2019, 17:00 Europe/Copenhagen

MC333 (Umeå University, Umeå, Sweden)

Tuesday, 18 June

09:00 → 10:00 Talks and discussion

Users report about their Ganeti application, experiences and solutions. There will be discussions about Ganeti (community, improvements, future orientation, etc.)

09:00 Welcome to Umeå and Ganeticon 2019

Welcoming talk

Speaker: Mattias Wadenstein (NeIC)

20190617-Welcome.pdf

09:30 Real-time planning

Filling out the timetable with discussions and reviewing the schedule

Speaker: Mattias Wadenstein (NeIC)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 12:00 Talks and discussion

Users report about their Ganeti application, experiences and solutions. There will be discussions about Ganeti (community, improvements, future orientation, etc.)

10:30 Project status

Discussion on the project's current status. 2.16.1 was the first community-driven release, but there's still a long way to go until the project runs as a sustainable community project.

Speaker: Apollon Oikonomopoulos (Ganeti/Debian/Skroutz)

11:30 Ganeti experience

Speaker: Sasha Lucas

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:00 Talks and discussion

Users report about their Ganeti application, experiences and solutions. There will be discussions about Ganeti (community, improvements, future orientation, etc.)

13:00 Ganeti at ACC

Use of Ganeti at the Academic Computer Club at Umeå Univerisy

Speaker: Mattias Wadenstein (NeIC)

20190617-GanetiAtACC.pdf

13:30 Free software at Sipgate

Speaker: Rudolph Bott

sipgate-GanetiCon-2019.pdf

14:00 Ganeti at NDGF

Speaker: Petter A. Urkedal (NeIC & NBI)

ganeticon-2019-ndgf.pdf

14:30 The way to Python 3

A brief discussion about migrating Ganeti from Python 2 to Python 3: what has been done sofar, what is there left to do, what can we do about it.

There is already PoC work on https://github.com/apoikos/ganeti/tree/python3-next and https://github.com/YSelfTool/ganeti/tree/python3.

Speaker: Apollon Oikonomopoulos (Ganeti/Debian/Skroutz)

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:30 Talks and discussion

Users report about their Ganeti application, experiences and solutions. There will be discussions about Ganeti (community, improvements, future orientation, etc.)

15:30 Features you'd like to see

Brainstorming/feedback session about features that would be a welcome addition to Ganeti. If you're using Ganeti with some ugly hacks to get your work done, or are missing something in your everyday work with Ganeti, step up and share it with us!

Speaker: Apollon Oikonomopoulos (Ganeti/Debian/Skroutz)

16:30 How to attract more contributors

Discussion topic: There are those that say the development pace is slow these days. What could we do to attract more contributors? What's the type of contributions most needed?

Speaker: Mattias Wadenstein (NeIC)

17:00 Computer room tours

There are three rooms:

Academic Computer Club - large mirror, freenode/OFTC servers, etc
HPC2N Compute - high density aircooled compute room
HPC2N/CS/Informatics - classic raised floor room with tape library and storage, services, ganeti cluster, etc

Speaker: Mattias Wadenstein (NeIC)

20:00 → 22:00 Social dinner provided by Sipgate

Dinner at a nice place

Wednesday, 19 June

09:00 → 10:00 Workshops and other group-related activities

On the second day, we like to hack on and around Ganeti. From approx. 9:00 to 15:00 we will try to fix or (un)break your cluster, solve a common problem, add a simple feature or code a small solution, etc.

09:00 Real-time planning

Scheduling the workshop part, splitting into groups, etc.

Speaker: Mattias Wadenstein (NeIC)

10:00 → 10:30 Coffee break

10:30 → 12:00 Workshops and other group-related activities

On the second day, we like to hack on and around Ganeti. From approx. 9:00 to 15:00 we will try to fix or (un)break your cluster, solve a common problem, add a simple feature or code a small solution, etc.

12:00 → 13:00 Lunch break

13:00 → 15:00 Workshops and other group-related activities

On the second day, we like to hack on and around Ganeti. From approx. 9:00 to 15:00 we will try to fix or (un)break your cluster, solve a common problem, add a simple feature or code a small solution, etc.

15:00 → 15:30 Coffee break

15:30 → 17:00 Workshops and other group-related activities

On the second day, we like to hack on and around Ganeti. From approx. 9:00 to 15:00 we will try to fix or (un)break your cluster, solve a common problem, add a simple feature or code a small solution, etc.