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James Donner
on 14 August 2015

Guests in Ubuntu OpenStack: ODS Vancouver


A key theme of IaaS is that Guests are what makes the compute part of IaaS interesting. And, as Dustin Kirkland suggests in his OpenStack Summit keynote, “It’s a variety of guests that keep it interesting” – like any decent party.

We want to go to a party that has all sorts of crazy guests; it’s the variety that makes it a good one, right? In the data centre there’s always variety. There is no such thing as 100% homogeneity in a data centre.

In this featured video from OpenStack Summit Vancouver, Dustin discusses the value of Guests in an OpenStack environment; showing how they bring a range and variety of technologies to the stack – and with that, the flexibility and scope to design a limitless number and type of clouds.

 

Want To Master Canonical’s OpenStack Tools? Take a look at our Fundamentals training

Created by Canonical’s Engineering team, the Ubuntu OpenStack Fundamentals Training course is a classroom-based combination of lectures and lab work. The course gives a comprehensive introduction to Ubuntu OpenStack and our industry-leading cloud toolset Juju (services orchestration), MAAS (hardware provisioning) and Landscape (systems management and monitoring).

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