Vancouver, BC
May 21-24, 2018
OpenStack Architecture and Deployment at Target
Target is one of the largest retailers in the US. OpenStack usage has seen massive growth in support of Target's operations and is rapidly becoming the foundation of Target's compute infrastructure. This talk will discuss the evolution of Target's OpenStack architecture and deployment process over three years of production use, including CI/CD, containerization, a move to immutable infrastructure, the use of ironic for deployment and reducing reliance on vendor solutions.
What can I expect to learn?
Attendees will learn about the challenges and benefits of OpenStack deployment in a large enterprise environment and some of the specific design and implementation choices that have been made by Target as the environment grew and evolved.
Wednesday, May 23, 9:50am-10:30am (4:50pm - 5:30pm UTC)
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Principal Engineer
Mark Christenson is Pricipal Engineer, Cloud and Compute at Target Corporation and is responsible for all aspects of OpenStack at Target.
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Software Engineer
Ryan Tidwell is a contributor to the OpenStack Neutron project and has been deploying and tinkering with OpenStack in various roles since the Diablo release of OpenStack. He is well-versed in developing manageability tools for systems administrators and OpenStack operators, building SDN controllers and applications, and contributes to OpenStack's Neutron project. Ryan has experience... FULL PROFILE
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