Bruno Cornec

Redfish is an IPMI replacement standardized by the DMTF. It provides a RESTful API for server out of band management and a lightweight data model specification that is scalable, discoverable and extensible. (Cf: http://www.dmtf.org/standards/redfish). This presentation will start by detailing its role and the features it provides with examples. It will demonstrate the benefits it provides to system administrator by providing a standardized open interface for multiple servers, and also storage systems.

We will then cover various tools such as the python-redfish library (Cf: https://github.com/openstack/python-redfish) offering Redfish abstractions useful to provide Redfish support for python based solutions such as Ironic in OpenStack, cobbler or anaconda. The recently OpenSource python-redfish-utility client will also been covered.

Finally, we'll show how to combine that to add CMDB support (with the Open Source iTop tool as an example) into a Software Defined Infrastructure.

Live or Recorded demos will be displayed in order to illustrate the different aspects covered during the presentation.

Docker has brought an ease of use without comparison with VMs typically to build native upstream distribution packages. Where before it was needed to launch a complete environment, copy the sources into it, invoke the build tools to create the packages and then copy them back to the host, Docker has made all these steps much easier and straight forward, allowing for more rapid package production and automation.

This presentation will show a detailed use case for building packages for the Mageia Linux distribution with bm and mgarepo usages encapsulated in Docker containers. It should help any upstream packager adopt a similar approach to make his packaging task a breathe.

Please note that this talk replaces one entitled "Do Linux Distributions Still Matter with Containers?" by Scott McCarty who has sent his apologies but is now unable to attend as he has fallen ill.

Docker has brought an ease of use without comparison with VMs typically to build native upstream distribution packages. Where before it was needed to launch a complete environment, copy the sources into it, invoke the build tools to create the packages and then copy them back to the host, Docker has made all these steps much easier and straight forward, allowing for more rapid package production and automation.

This presentation will show a detailed use case for building packages for both Mageia and Fedora with their respective bm or koji tools encapsulated in Docker containers. It should help any upstream packager adopt a similar approach to make his packaging task a breathe.