Learn Complex Skills, From Anywhere - Combining Django, Ansible and OpenStack to Teach Any Tech Skill
Innovative platform combining Django, Ansible, and OpenStack to teach complex, distributed tech skills remotely. Enables hands-on learning of modern technologies through realistic, on-demand lab environments.
Using Open Source Communities to Provide Uni Students an Insight into the IT Industry
Leveraging open source projects to expose students to real-world IT practices, fostering skills in communication, documentation, testing, and infrastructure management beyond traditional curricula.
Monitoring Infrastructure Using the Elastic Stack
Learn to build a robust monitoring infrastructure using Elastic Stack. Explore Beats, Logstash, Elasticsearch, and Kibana for efficient log and metric analysis in IoT and microservices environments.
Using Containers to Analyse the Impact of Climate Change
Scalable data processing pipeline using containers for simulating crop productivity and environmental outcomes, enabling high-resolution analysis of climate change impacts on agriculture.
Faucet SDN Tutorial
Hands-on tutorial for installing and configuring Faucet SDN controller, exploring features like VLANs, ACLs, and routing. Includes network monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana dashboards.
Docker for Novices
Comprehensive introduction to Docker for beginners, covering basic concepts, terminology, image building, container running, port mapping, and Docker Compose, with hands-on examples.
Production Ready Kubernetes in OpenStack Public Clouds
Explore building a production-ready managed Kubernetes service on OpenStack, covering network isolation, persistent storage, load balancing, authentication, multi-master deployment, and automated upgrades.
Building Reproducible Computing Environments - A Workshop for Non-Experts
Learn to create reproducible computing environments using Dockter, a tool for generating Docker images and JSON files for research projects. Hands-on tutorial to build an interactive, reproducible research report.
Dev - Ops Relationships, Status - It's Complicated
Humorous exploration of Dev/Ops relationships, offering insights and tips to improve collaboration while highlighting common challenges and misconceptions in a lighthearted manner.
Configuration Is -riskier than?- Code
Explore the risks and challenges of configuration changes in IT operations, comparing them to code changes and discussing strategies to enhance safety and reduce outage risks.
SRE for Smaller Organisations
Discover how to apply Google's Site Reliability Engineering principles in smaller organizations, focusing on reproducibility, automation, security, and visibility for achieving business goals.
A Practical Introduction to Docs-As-Code
Practical introduction to Docs-As-Code approach for managing project documentation, featuring a demonstration project and tools like Sphinx, GitLab CI/CD, Docker, and GNU Make.
Every Image Has a Purpose
Explore tailored container image creation for different scenarios, optimizing size and tools for deployment, development, and integration environments.
Dynamic Workloads Need Dynamic Storage - Using Rook-Ceph with K8s
Explore dynamic storage for container environments using rook-ceph with Kubernetes. Learn about rook basics, persistent storage needs, and see a live demo of rook-ceph in action.
Panfrost - Open Source Meets Arm Mali GPUs
Explore the journey of creating an open-source driver for Arm Mali GPUs, from reverse engineering to upstreaming, and learn about the Panfrost project's progress and challenges.
Unsafe Defaults - Deploying Kubernetes Safer
Explore common security pitfalls in self-hosted Kubernetes deployments and learn practical tips for enhancing cluster safety, from SSL configurations to pod security policies.
Kubernetes Developer Workflows in Visual Studio Code
Explore Kubernetes development in Visual Studio Code with a free extension, enhancing productivity through visual tools and customizable features for easier container orchestration workflows.
Securing Container Runtimes - How Hard Can It Be?
Explore container runtime security vulnerabilities, their root causes, and potential solutions through kernel-space and user-space protections, applicable beyond container environments.
Planning for and Handling Failures - From Open Hardware and Aviation to Production at Google
Exploring failure management across hardware, aviation, and tech industries, offering insights to improve risk assessment and prevention strategies.
The Future of the Desktop Is on Hypervisor Powered Containers
Explore desktop containers using Xen hypervisor, comparing to Docker and LXC. Learn about implementation, benefits, challenges, and future prospects for improved system isolation and security.
FreeBSD Bhyve Intro
Introduction to FreeBSD's bhyve hypervisor: history, supported guests, components, running Windows, future work, and challenges in virtualization technology.