Workshop: Automating Swift deployments with SwiftStack
Channel: OpenInfra Foundation
Date: 2013-05-03

Speaker: John Dickinson, SwiftStack

This interactive session will cover automation and management tools for OpenStack Swift. Attendees will learn about the deployment mechanisms behind the scenes of SwiftStack. This is a hands-on workshop where we will install and configure a SwiftStack cluster in a virtual machine on attendees' laptops.

In this workshop, attendees will learn about: 

- The automation required to run OpenStack Swift in production
- Runtime stacks for load-balancing, ssl-termination and authentication
- Networking architecture for Swift
- Monitoring Swift-specific metrics
- Tuning a Swift cluster
- Best practices for cluster expansion and failure handling 

Attendees should bring their laptops (with virtualization extensions enabled in the BIOS), and we will provide a virtual machine image that will be used during the workshop.  

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