This meetup is hosted in conjunction with the new Stacki San Jose user group. Click here for more info: https://www.meetup.com/Stacki-San-Jose/events/226518518/

Agenda:

6:30pm-7:00pm Food, drinks, and conversation

7:00pm-7:45pm Overview of Stacki- Greg Bruno, VP Engineering, StackIQ 

7:45-9:00pm Deploying an OpenStack cluster with Stacki & Ansible - Rob Neff, Cloud Solutions Architect, Flex Ciii & Hugh Ma, Cloud Validation Developer, Flex Ciii

Stacki is the fastest open source CentOS/RHEL bare metal provisioning tool that can take your servers from bare hardware (or virtual hardware) to working Linux, ready to install applications. 

Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.

Flex is a leading sketch-to-scale™ solutions company that designs and builds intelligent products for a connected world.  Flex Ciii is a business within Flex, which develops servers and integrated rack scale solutions.