122
oSC17
openSUSE Conference 2017
2017-05-26
2017-05-28
3
00:15
2017-05-25T20:45:00+02:00
18:45
00:15
Saal (Main Hall)
Lightning Talk
1474-pre-conference-party-open-end
Pre-Conference Party (Open end)
Our pre-conference party will start on Thursday (May 25) at Kater Murr around 7pm.
You’ll find the Kater Murr at Johannesgasse 14, only a few minutes away from the main station.
https://kater-murr.com/
Our pre-conference party will start on Thursday (May 25) at Kater Murr around 7pm.
You’ll find the Kater Murr at Johannesgasse 14, only a few minutes away from the main station.
https://kater-murr.com/
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Christian Bruckmayer
2017-05-26T12:00:00+02:00
10:00
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1458-limux-the-loss-of-a-lighthouse
Limux: the loss of a lighthouse
Started in 200X the Limux was often cited as the lighthouse project for Free Software in the public administration. Since then we have regularly heard rumours about it. Have they now switched back to proprietary software again or not? Didn't they already migrate back last year? Is it a trend that public administrations aren't using Free Software anymore? Have we failed and is it time to get depressed and stop what we are doing? Do we need new strategies? Those are questions people in our community are confronted with.
We will shed some light on those questions, raise some more, and figure out what we -- as the Free Software community -- can learn from it.
Started in 200X the Limux was often cited as the lighthouse project for Free Software in the public administration. Since then we have regularly heard rumours about it. Have they now switched back to proprietary software again or not? Didn't they already migrate back last year? Is it a trend that public administrations aren't using Free Software anymore? Have we failed and is it time to get depressed and stop what we are doing? Do we need new strategies? Those are questions people in our community are confronted with.
We will shed some light on those questions, raise some more, and figure out what we -- as the Free Software community -- can learn from it.
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Matthias Kirschner
2017-05-26T13:00:00+02:00
11:00
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1376-how-openqa-works
How openQA works
Technical details about testing openSUSE
openQA has become core part of both openSUSE and SUSE development (and beyond), but there are many myths what it actually does. This talk targets interested developers who used openQA before, but used the test API as blackbox so far.
openQA has become core part of both openSUSE and SUSE development (and beyond), but there are many myths what it actually does. This talk targets interested developers who used openQA before, but used the test API as blackbox so far.
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Stephan Kulow
2017-05-26T13:30:00+02:00
11:30
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1362-openqa-developer-and-user-meeting
openQA Developer and User Meeting
Let's follow-up on Coolo's talk, dicuss technical details, ideas, etc.
openQA is an automated testing tool, capable of full system, console, and graphical application testing, written in Perl. This session wants to bring together the openQA backend developers with testcase writeres and users of openQA to discuss ideas, bugs, improvements and so on. Newbies to openQA or any interested persons are welcome to join and share ideas, questions, etc.
openQA is an automated testing tool, capable of full system, console, and graphical application testing, written in Perl. This session wants to bring together the openQA backend developers with testcase writeres and users of openQA to discuss ideas, bugs, improvements and so on. Newbies to openQA or any interested persons are welcome to join and share ideas, questions, etc.
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Marita
2017-05-26T14:00:00+02:00
12:00
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1390-open-build-service-development-roadmap
Open Build Service - Development Roadmap
Past, Present & Future
The Open Build Service is the central development tool of the openSUSE project. Are you an openSUSE packager and build.opensuse.org is your browser home page? Then this talk is for you! Moises (@mdeniz) and David (@dkang) from the OBS community gives you a little report on what has happened since oSC16, what is currently happening and what is planed to happen until next years openSUSE Conference.
The Open Build Service is the central development tool of the openSUSE project. Are you an openSUSE packager and build.opensuse.org is your browser home page? Then this talk is for you! Moises (@mdeniz) and David (@dkang) from the OBS community gives you a little report on what has happened since oSC16, what is currently happening and what is planed to happen until next years openSUSE Conference.
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David Kang
2017-05-26T15:00:00+02:00
13:00
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1322-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-tumbleweed-but-still-occationally-worry
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Tumbleweed, but Still Occationally Worry.
Everyone should be running a rolling release, and we should keep making it better
Rolling Releases are the future of Linux distributions. They are already the better solution for power users & developers. Tumbleweed is the future of Rolling Releases. The methodologies, techniques, and capabilities of Tumbleweed are opening up new doors, creating possibilities, and disrupting existing technologies beyond its borders. This session will explain how and why openSUSE Tumbleweed is paving the way for that future, while already being "the reliable rolling release". The talk will dispel the fears, uncertainties and doubts that many have regarding rolling releases in general and Tumbleweed specifically, and share how you can get involved both using, and improving, this exciting fast moving foundation of the openSUSE Project.
But not everything is perfect. This talk will also identify some rough edges in Tumbleweed and suggest collaborative solutions as to how the openSUSE Project could start addressing them, so we can continue the exceptional progress Tumbleweed has made into the future and beyond the year 2020.
Rolling Releases are the future of Linux distributions. They are already the better solution for power users & developers. Tumbleweed is the future of Rolling Releases. The methodologies, techniques, and capabilities of Tumbleweed are opening up new doors, creating possibilities, and disrupting existing technologies beyond its borders. This session will explain how and why openSUSE Tumbleweed is paving the way for that future, while already being "the reliable rolling release". The talk will dispel the fears, uncertainties and doubts that many have regarding rolling releases in general and Tumbleweed specifically, and share how you can get involved both using, and improving, this exciting fast moving foundation of the openSUSE Project.
But not everything is perfect. This talk will also identify some rough edges in Tumbleweed and suggest collaborative solutions as to how the openSUSE Project could start addressing them, so we can continue the exceptional progress Tumbleweed has made into the future and beyond the year 2020.
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Richard Brown
2017-05-26T16:00:00+02:00
14:00
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1382-opensuse-leap-recap-state-and-outlook
openSUSE Leap recap, state and outlook
Two 42 version were released (42.1 and 42.2), one is in the works (42.3). Time to recap what we achieved so far, discuss the progress of 42.3 and maybe take a look at what 15 will bring us.
Two 42 version were released (42.1 and 42.2), one is in the works (42.3). Time to recap what we achieved so far, discuss the progress of 42.3 and maybe take a look at what 15 will bring us.
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Ludwig Nussel
2017-05-26T17:00:00+02:00
15:00
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1414-sle-15-what-s-coming
SLE 15 - What's coming?
A glance into the future
A short introduction into the plans for SLE 15. You will learn about the schedule, scope, and other details of the next major code stream for SUSE Linux enterprise products.
A short introduction into the plans for SLE 15. You will learn about the schedule, scope, and other details of the next major code stream for SUSE Linux enterprise products.
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Stefan Behlert
2017-05-26T17:30:00+02:00
15:30
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1260-opensuse-kubic-what-is-this
openSUSE Kubic - What is this?
A new type of Distribution
openSUSE Kubic is the SUSE Container as a Service Platform based on openSUSE Tumbleweed. In this talk, we want to present what this is, how this works, how people can get involved.
openSUSE Kubic is the SUSE Container as a Service Platform based on openSUSE Tumbleweed. In this talk, we want to present what this is, how this works, how people can get involved.
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Thorsten Kukuk
2017-05-26T18:45:00+02:00
16:45
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1294-bridging-opensuse-and-sle-gap-part-deux
Bridging openSUSE and SLE gap, part deux
Return of the GNOME, part deux aka the revenge
Last year, we presented the state of openSUSE and SLE and how we were planning to close the gap between the two projects.
This talk will go into details on how we progressed for the last year, the pro and cons and what we plan for the future.
Last year, we presented the state of openSUSE and SLE and how we were planning to close the gap between the two projects.
This talk will go into details on how we progressed for the last year, the pro and cons and what we plan for the future.
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Frederic Crozat
2017-05-26T19:15:00+02:00
17:15
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1258-transactional-updates-with-btrfs
Transactional Updates with btrfs
Don't bring your system down
Applying small updates is normally no problem in a running system. But what about if there is a new major release of your favorite Desktop? Or a major version update of your used Linux distribution? Today’s concepts are most of the time to apply the patches in the running system and risk that a running service or Desktop breaks, or apply them all by booting an installation media and wait for quite some time until you can access your machine again. Or your boot process is stopped for a long time during which the updates are applied. Or some patches fails to apply and your system is in an inconsistent state.
A solution for this are transactional updates.
Transactional updates are atomic, means either they applied successful, or if an error occurred, you have the same state as before. And if an update does not work, there is an easy way to go back to the last working state.
There are different solutions for this, some require new package formats, other require a second partition and you can switch during the next reboot to the other partition.
I want to present a third solution: using a standard package manager and leverage btrfs for this.
With snapshots and rollback on btrfs, there is already everything available what you need. This talk will give a short introduction into snapshots and rollback with btrfs and show how to combine and use this technologies to your advantage.
Applying small updates is normally no problem in a running system. But what about if there is a new major release of your favorite Desktop? Or a major version update of your used Linux distribution? Today’s concepts are most of the time to apply the patches in the running system and risk that a running service or Desktop breaks, or apply them all by booting an installation media and wait for quite some time until you can access your machine again. Or your boot process is stopped for a long time during which the updates are applied. Or some patches fails to apply and your system is in an inconsistent state.
A solution for this are transactional updates.
Transactional updates are atomic, means either they applied successful, or if an error occurred, you have the same state as before. And if an update does not work, there is an easy way to go back to the last working state.
There are different solutions for this, some require new package formats, other require a second partition and you can switch during the next reboot to the other partition.
I want to present a third solution: using a standard package manager and leverage btrfs for this.
With snapshots and rollback on btrfs, there is already everything available what you need. This talk will give a short introduction into snapshots and rollback with btrfs and show how to combine and use this technologies to your advantage.
false
Thorsten Kukuk
2017-05-26T19:45:00+02:00
17:45
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1466-bbq-in-the-beer-garden-open-end
BBQ in the Beer Garden (Open end)
After the first day of the Conference we will meet for a BBQ in the Beer Garden.
After the first day of the Conference we will meet for a BBQ in the Beer Garden.
false
Christian Bruckmayer
2017-05-26T13:00:00+02:00
11:00
01:30
Seminarraum 1
Short Workshop
1372-technical-writing-for-non-writers
Technical Writing for Non-Writers
You need to write (technical) texts now and then? But you are not sure how to structure them, how to phrase your content, or how to best address your readers? This workshop shows you how to optimize texts to make them easier to understand (and translate). Get to know universal principles that can be applied to a wide variety of text types - including release notes, bug reports, error messages, or e-mails.
You need to write (technical) texts now and then? But you are not sure how to structure them, how to phrase your content, or how to best address your readers? This workshop shows you how to optimize texts to make them easier to understand (and translate). Get to know universal principles that can be applied to a wide variety of text types - including release notes, bug reports, error messages, or e-mails.
false
ta-ro
2017-05-26T15:00:00+02:00
13:00
03:00
Seminarraum 1
Workshop
1264-develop-a-yast-module-in-the-21st-century-way
Develop a YaST module in the 21st century way
Enjoyable object-oriented YaST development
YaST, the openSUSE beloved Swiss army knife, has been around since 1996. The history of quite some components still present in the current version can be tracked back to 1999. In 2013 the code was automatically converted from YCP, a purpose-specific procedural programming language, to Ruby, a general-purpose object oriented one. Since then, the YaST team has been trying to steady replace many YCP components and paradigms with new object-oriented, test-driven ones.
In this workshop we will develop a new YaST module from scratch using the new Ruby-based approach. That is, object oriented dialogs and clients, CFA to modify the configuration files, Cheetah to execute system commands, RSpec tests and so on.
Attendees are expected to be proficient with object oriented programming (preferably Ruby) and to have an recent openSUSE system (can be a virtual machine) to follow the workshop. Having read the YaST development tutorial in advance would definitely be a plus.
YaST, the openSUSE beloved Swiss army knife, has been around since 1996. The history of quite some components still present in the current version can be tracked back to 1999. In 2013 the code was automatically converted from YCP, a purpose-specific procedural programming language, to Ruby, a general-purpose object oriented one. Since then, the YaST team has been trying to steady replace many YCP components and paradigms with new object-oriented, test-driven ones.
In this workshop we will develop a new YaST module from scratch using the new Ruby-based approach. That is, object oriented dialogs and clients, CFA to modify the configuration files, Cheetah to execute system commands, RSpec tests and so on.
Attendees are expected to be proficient with object oriented programming (preferably Ruby) and to have an recent openSUSE system (can be a virtual machine) to follow the workshop. Having read the YaST development tutorial in advance would definitely be a plus.
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Ancor González Sosa
2017-05-26T18:00:00+02:00
16:00
01:30
Seminarraum 1
Short Workshop
1248-improving-the-web-of-trust-with-gnome-keysign
Improving the Web of Trust with GNOME Keysign
The keysigning problem helps to strengthen the Web of Trust which is the decentralised PKI in the OpenPGP world.
It depends on people participating by signing other people's keys.
However, when following best practises, the act of signing a key involves secure transfer of the OpenPGP key which contemporary casual key signing protocols for small groups address by exchanging the fingerprint of the key to be signed.
The key will then be downloaded over an untrusted channel and the key obtained needs to be manually verified.
We will see a less stressful approach to signing keys which makes it easy to sign a person's key.
It enables very small groups of people to casually hold very small key signing parties.
The key idea is to automatically authenticate the key material before the transfer via a secure audible or visual channel.
A Free Software implementation of the protocol will be shown and people are invited to sign their keys :-)
The keysigning problem helps to strengthen the Web of Trust which is the decentralised PKI in the OpenPGP world.
It depends on people participating by signing other people's keys.
However, when following best practises, the act of signing a key involves secure transfer of the OpenPGP key which contemporary casual key signing protocols for small groups address by exchanging the fingerprint of the key to be signed.
The key will then be downloaded over an untrusted channel and the key obtained needs to be manually verified.
We will see a less stressful approach to signing keys which makes it easy to sign a person's key.
It enables very small groups of people to casually hold very small key signing parties.
The key idea is to automatically authenticate the key material before the transfer via a secure audible or visual channel.
A Free Software implementation of the protocol will be shown and people are invited to sign their keys :-)
false
Tobias Mueller
2017-05-26T19:45:00+02:00
17:45
01:00
Seminarraum 1
Long Talk
1470-bbq-in-the-beer-garden-open-end
BBQ in the Beer Garden (Open end)
After the first day of the Conference we will meet for a BBQ in the Beer Garden.
After the first day of the Conference we will meet for a BBQ in the Beer Garden.
false
Christian Bruckmayer
2017-05-26T13:00:00+02:00
11:00
00:15
Galerie
Lightning Talk
1300-osc2-the-modern-osc
osc2 - The modern osc
Development status and how to contribute
osc2 is the next generation command line client for the openSUSE build service. It is a object oriented rewrite of the old osc tool.
I will give a short talk about the status of the project and how you can contribute.
osc2 is the next generation command line client for the openSUSE build service. It is a object oriented rewrite of the old osc tool.
I will give a short talk about the status of the project and how you can contribute.
false
Marco Strigl
2017-05-26T13:30:00+02:00
11:30
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1392-my-move-to-suse
My Move to SUSE
or how I learned to stop worrying and love the chameleon
A little over a year ago I found myself doing the Distro Dance. Trying to decide which Linux distro to use for a new datacenter deployment. I was starting to question my old solid choice, CentOS, and decided to go with SUSE.
Join me as I go over my journey to SUSE, and why I am now convinced that it is the best Linux Distro out there today.
Also see how I am convincing people to switch to SUSE and abandon the old ways of Linux for the chameleon.
A little over a year ago I found myself doing the Distro Dance. Trying to decide which Linux distro to use for a new datacenter deployment. I was starting to question my old solid choice, CentOS, and decided to go with SUSE.
Join me as I go over my journey to SUSE, and why I am now convinced that it is the best Linux Distro out there today.
Also see how I am convincing people to switch to SUSE and abandon the old ways of Linux for the chameleon.
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Thomas S Hatch
2017-05-26T14:00:00+02:00
12:00
00:15
Galerie
Lightning Talk
1232-making-a-practicle-vnc-client-for-character-terminals
Making a practicle VNC client for character terminals
Digs into terminal programming in depth, and demonstrates the VNC client live.
This is a lightening talk and live demo of a practical VNC client made for character terminals.
The more theoretical topics of the talk will dig into the basics of VNC programming, terminal manipulation, and how to deal with terminal input quirks.
This is a lightening talk and live demo of a practical VNC client made for character terminals.
The more theoretical topics of the talk will dig into the basics of VNC programming, terminal manipulation, and how to deal with terminal input quirks.
false
Howard Guo
2017-05-26T14:15:00+02:00
12:15
00:15
Galerie
Lightning Talk
1236-reproducible-builds-in-opensuse-2017
reproducible builds in openSUSE (2017)
state of the Geeko
last year, I talked about reproducible builds in openSUSE and this talk is meant to give an update on where we are now, in addition to another short introduction on what it is and why it is important.
size: 20-30 minutes
Last years talk: https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC16/program/proposal/838
Wiki page on the topic: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Reproducible_Builds
Slides: http://rb.zq1.de/presentation/reproducible.pdf
last year, I talked about reproducible builds in openSUSE and this talk is meant to give an update on where we are now, in addition to another short introduction on what it is and why it is important.
size: 20-30 minutes
Last years talk: https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC16/program/proposal/838
Wiki page on the topic: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Reproducible_Builds
Slides: http://rb.zq1.de/presentation/reproducible.pdf
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Bernhard M.
2017-05-26T15:00:00+02:00
13:00
01:00
Galerie
Long Talk
1342-creating-an-opensuse-powered-robot
Creating an openSUSE Powered Robot
The joys of open source (taking other peoples work to make something cool for yourself).
Often as software engineers / developers the first thing we do when we want to start a cool new project is just write code. In reality what we should do is look at everything that already exists first, open source software provides a wonderful platform too build cool things with very little effort by utalising existing code.
I will use the expereinces and lessons I have learned from building an openSUSE powered robot [1] to illustrate this, I will go through my design and design decisions to further illustrate this point while also touching on other systems engineering concepts such as modular design and using open protocols to further allow reuse and changes.
The level of design in the talk will be such that someone with some basic electronics skills (like myself) could go away and build something similar at the same time the majority of the talk will be aimed toward people with some software background but not nessearly any knowledge of electronics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMz01IRAgZI
I could probably cut this back to a 30 Min talk if required.
Often as software engineers / developers the first thing we do when we want to start a cool new project is just write code. In reality what we should do is look at everything that already exists first, open source software provides a wonderful platform too build cool things with very little effort by utalising existing code.
I will use the expereinces and lessons I have learned from building an openSUSE powered robot [1] to illustrate this, I will go through my design and design decisions to further illustrate this point while also touching on other systems engineering concepts such as modular design and using open protocols to further allow reuse and changes.
The level of design in the talk will be such that someone with some basic electronics skills (like myself) could go away and build something similar at the same time the majority of the talk will be aimed toward people with some software background but not nessearly any knowledge of electronics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMz01IRAgZI
I could probably cut this back to a 30 Min talk if required.
false
Simon Lees
2017-05-26T16:00:00+02:00
14:00
01:00
Galerie
Long Talk
1428-ceph-explained-with-raspberry-pis
Ceph Explained - With Raspberry Pis
Demonstration of Ceph on a Raspberry Pi cluster
This talk provides an introduction into Ceph, a software defined storage with openSUSE. The talk is going to explain and demonstrate how Ceph distributes data over hosts, racks and other failure domains and scales with the number of available nodes. The handling of failed hardware is explained and demonstrated. The talk concentrates on the theoretical concepts and a live demonstration.
This talk provides an introduction into Ceph, a software defined storage with openSUSE. The talk is going to explain and demonstrate how Ceph distributes data over hosts, racks and other failure domains and scales with the number of available nodes. The handling of failed hardware is explained and demonstrated. The talk concentrates on the theoretical concepts and a live demonstration.
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Sven Seeberg
2017-05-26T17:00:00+02:00
15:00
00:15
Galerie
Lightning Talk
1464-opensuse-and-platform-as-a-service
openSUSE and Platform as a Service
"Here is my source code, run it in the cloud for me, I don't care how", this is the mantra of the Cloud Foundry community, the leading open source Platform as a Service project. SUSE is part of the Cloud Foundry community and works upstream and downstream. We have Cloud Foundry running on openSUSE. This presentation will show what this is all about and where we are.
"Here is my source code, run it in the cloud for me, I don't care how", this is the mantra of the Cloud Foundry community, the leading open source Platform as a Service project. SUSE is part of the Cloud Foundry community and works upstream and downstream. We have Cloud Foundry running on openSUSE. This presentation will show what this is all about and where we are.
false
Cornelius Schumacher
2017-05-26T17:30:00+02:00
15:30
01:00
Galerie
Long Talk
1330-a-view-inside-of-opensuse-s-awesome-haskell-support
A View inside of OpenSUSE's Awesome Haskell Support
The functional programming language "Haskell" has been instrumental in researching the design of compilers, type systems, and advanced programming language features for more than 2 decades, but in recent years it has also become increasingly popular with red-blooded software engineers who worry about practical tasks like developing client/server systems, standalone applications, cryptography, finance solutions, or REST application back-ends. As it happens, openSUSE offers outstanding support for the Haskell language ecosystem and is therefore an ideal platform for discerning Haskell hackers who develop commercial-grade solutions. Both Tumbleweed and Leap support a whopping 2,200 Haskell packages that cover the entire LTS Haskell standard version 8.x. Furthermore, there exists a sophisticated infrastructure to easily maintain and update a package set of that size, which guarantees that important new releases make it into the distribution with a minimal delay.
In this presentation, we would like to describe the current state of Haskell packaging in openSUSE, covering the following topics in particular:
1. Introduce Haskell briefly and explain why it kicks ass.
2. How can I install and set up a Haskell development environment with openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed?
3. How can I package and deploy my own Haskell applications on openSUSE with the Open Build Sevice?
4. How does the underlying infrastructure work ("cabal2obs") that makes all this possible?
The target audience for this presentation are Haskell programmers who would like to get started using openSUSE, openSUSE users who would like get started with Haskell, and packagers who would like to get insights into an endeavor that maintains and updates several thousand spec files without major human intervention.
The functional programming language "Haskell" has been instrumental in researching the design of compilers, type systems, and advanced programming language features for more than 2 decades, but in recent years it has also become increasingly popular with red-blooded software engineers who worry about practical tasks like developing client/server systems, standalone applications, cryptography, finance solutions, or REST application back-ends. As it happens, openSUSE offers outstanding support for the Haskell language ecosystem and is therefore an ideal platform for discerning Haskell hackers who develop commercial-grade solutions. Both Tumbleweed and Leap support a whopping 2,200 Haskell packages that cover the entire LTS Haskell standard version 8.x. Furthermore, there exists a sophisticated infrastructure to easily maintain and update a package set of that size, which guarantees that important new releases make it into the distribution with a minimal delay.
In this presentation, we would like to describe the current state of Haskell packaging in openSUSE, covering the following topics in particular:
1. Introduce Haskell briefly and explain why it kicks ass.
2. How can I install and set up a Haskell development environment with openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed?
3. How can I package and deploy my own Haskell applications on openSUSE with the Open Build Sevice?
4. How does the underlying infrastructure work ("cabal2obs") that makes all this possible?
The target audience for this presentation are Haskell programmers who would like to get started using openSUSE, openSUSE users who would like get started with Haskell, and packagers who would like to get insights into an endeavor that maintains and updates several thousand spec files without major human intervention.
false
Peter Simons
2017-05-26T18:30:00+02:00
16:30
01:00
Galerie
Long Talk
1278-suse-package-hub
SUSE Package Hub
How to get open source packages into SLES
SUSE Package Hub is a project to collect openSUSE packages built for SUSE Linux Enterprise in a central repository. The policies for this repo are aligned with SUSE in order to maintain supportability of the main OS, making the packages "safe" to install and use.
Packages maintained for SUSE Linux Enterprise exist in many different individual projects - in particular the "devel" projects. Many of these packages would be useful for SUSE Linux Enterprise customers but some of them could interfere with functionality and supportability of the SUSE product if installed. The risk of breaking supportability makes it difficult for SUSE to recommend these community maintained packages to end customers. At the same time, SUSE encourages community efforts and wants to promote the community based packages to all users.
This talk is about presenting the idea and concept of SUSE Package Hub and the current status of the project.
Length: targeted ~30 minutes + 10 minutes discussions/questions
SUSE Package Hub is a project to collect openSUSE packages built for SUSE Linux Enterprise in a central repository. The policies for this repo are aligned with SUSE in order to maintain supportability of the main OS, making the packages "safe" to install and use.
Packages maintained for SUSE Linux Enterprise exist in many different individual projects - in particular the "devel" projects. Many of these packages would be useful for SUSE Linux Enterprise customers but some of them could interfere with functionality and supportability of the SUSE product if installed. The risk of breaking supportability makes it difficult for SUSE to recommend these community maintained packages to end customers. At the same time, SUSE encourages community efforts and wants to promote the community based packages to all users.
This talk is about presenting the idea and concept of SUSE Package Hub and the current status of the project.
Length: targeted ~30 minutes + 10 minutes discussions/questions
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Wolfgang Engel
2017-05-26T19:45:00+02:00
17:45
01:00
Galerie
Long Talk
1468-bbq-in-the-beer-garden-open-end
BBQ in the Beer Garden (Open end)
After the first day of the Conference we will meet for a BBQ in the Beer Garden.
After the first day of the Conference we will meet for a BBQ in the Beer Garden.
false
Christian Bruckmayer
2017-05-26T13:30:00+02:00
11:30
03:00
Seminarraum 2
Workshop
1242-opensuse-heroes-workshop
openSUSE Heroes workshop
Learn how to administrate the openSUSE infrastructure
It's time to come, sit together and work on all the different topics inside the openSUSE infrastructure. The foundation of the openSUSE Heroes during the last openSUSE Conference was just a starting point. Now it's time to get your hands dirty and see where you can help to improve the infrastructure of your favorite distribution.
We will have small lightning talks inside the workshop program - but the main focus will be pair programming resp. pair administration.
This workshop should be on the list of each community member who wants to get or has administration rights on openSUSE machines.
Guests are always welcome - even if you just want to see "your admins" and give them a hug or a beer for their work :-)
It's time to come, sit together and work on all the different topics inside the openSUSE infrastructure. The foundation of the openSUSE Heroes during the last openSUSE Conference was just a starting point. Now it's time to get your hands dirty and see where you can help to improve the infrastructure of your favorite distribution.
We will have small lightning talks inside the workshop program - but the main focus will be pair programming resp. pair administration.
This workshop should be on the list of each community member who wants to get or has administration rights on openSUSE machines.
Guests are always welcome - even if you just want to see "your admins" and give them a hug or a beer for their work :-)
false
Lars Vogdt
2017-05-26T17:00:00+02:00
15:00
01:30
Seminarraum 2
Short Workshop
1394-continuous-integration-with-the-open-build-service
Continuous Integration with the Open Build Service
** Please find the workshop's requirements below **
Getting a new Linux appliance with every commit you push sounds awesome but impossible, right? Not with the Open Build Service, the Free Software build and distribution system which powers openSUSE, ownCloud and Tizen! Usually a lot of manual work is necessary to create your custom Linux appliance, but the Open Build Service abstracts all the complicated technologies and makes this task as easy as pie. In this workshop, we will show you how we plug several open source technologies together to create Linux appliances in a fully automated, continuous integration cycle.
Starting with a commit to your favorite version control system, the OBS will build a ready-to-use image of an operating system for you automatically, using the power of KIWI. And to finish the continuous integration cycle, openQA will run automated tests to make sure your appliance still works as expected. We will combine this workshop with the 'openQA beginners workshop' submitted by Marita Werner. This workshop will cover the package and image building process in OBS, the openQA part will be covered by the following workshop.
If you still manually build and test your Linux appliances, this workshop is for you!
** REQUIREMENTS **
If you planned to join this workshop, please make sure that
- you have git installed and a valid GitHub account.
- you have osc installed and a valid build.opensuse.org account.
** Please find the workshop's requirements below **
Getting a new Linux appliance with every commit you push sounds awesome but impossible, right? Not with the Open Build Service, the Free Software build and distribution system which powers openSUSE, ownCloud and Tizen! Usually a lot of manual work is necessary to create your custom Linux appliance, but the Open Build Service abstracts all the complicated technologies and makes this task as easy as pie. In this workshop, we will show you how we plug several open source technologies together to create Linux appliances in a fully automated, continuous integration cycle.
Starting with a commit to your favorite version control system, the OBS will build a ready-to-use image of an operating system for you automatically, using the power of KIWI. And to finish the continuous integration cycle, openQA will run automated tests to make sure your appliance still works as expected. We will combine this workshop with the 'openQA beginners workshop' submitted by Marita Werner. This workshop will cover the package and image building process in OBS, the openQA part will be covered by the following workshop.
If you still manually build and test your Linux appliances, this workshop is for you!
** REQUIREMENTS **
If you planned to join this workshop, please make sure that
- you have git installed and a valid GitHub account.
- you have osc installed and a valid build.opensuse.org account.
false
mschnitzer
2017-05-26T18:30:00+02:00
16:30
01:30
Seminarraum 2
Short Workshop
1360-openqa-beginner-training
openQA Beginner Training
Santi Zarate & QA engineers will show you how to start writing Testcases in openQA
openQA is an automated testing tool, capable of full system, console, and graphical application testing.
This on-hands training will give you a technical introduction on how to write testcases for an operating system.
openSUSE's QA engineeers will explain step by step how to write, debug and improve testcases in openQA.
<b>Requirements: Bring your own machine and make sure that openQA is installed on the machines, and ensure that the machines can use virtualization (cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep vmx)</b>
openQA is an automated testing tool, capable of full system, console, and graphical application testing.
This on-hands training will give you a technical introduction on how to write testcases for an operating system.
openSUSE's QA engineeers will explain step by step how to write, debug and improve testcases in openQA.
<b>Requirements: Bring your own machine and make sure that openQA is installed on the machines, and ensure that the machines can use virtualization (cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep vmx)</b>
false
Marita
2017-05-26T20:00:00+02:00
18:00
01:00
Seminarraum 2
Long Talk
1472-bbq-in-the-beer-garden-open-end
BBQ in the Beer Garden (Open end)
After the first day of the Conference we will meet for a BBQ in the Beer Garden.
After the first day of the Conference we will meet for a BBQ in the Beer Garden.
false
Christian Bruckmayer
2017-05-27T12:00:00+02:00
10:00
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1318-moving-beyond-infrastructure-as-code
Moving Beyond Infrastructure as Code
: Why Event-Driven Infrastructure is the Path Forward for Distributed Computing
The data center is getting bigger and more complex, and the microservice revolution is creating even more moving parts with application stacks that may contain hundreds and thousands of containers and services. How do we move beyond the old patterns of configuration management and infrastructure as code to what's required to survive in a world of distributed systems? If application developers can write event-driven programs to listen and react to stimulus, why can't operators do the same for infrastructure?
In this keynote Thomas Hatch, SaltStack technical founder and CTO, will discuss how to control modern data center complexity, and turn it to a competitive advantage, using SaltStack and SUSE technologies. Thomas will provide insight into the SaltStack model for event-driven infrastructure and the emerging framework for intelligent, responsive application stack management. Modern data center commodities have never been so diverse. From bare-metal to containers, Kubernetes to web servers, SaltStack and SUSE have solutions to bring order and peace of mind to a complex new world.
The data center is getting bigger and more complex, and the microservice revolution is creating even more moving parts with application stacks that may contain hundreds and thousands of containers and services. How do we move beyond the old patterns of configuration management and infrastructure as code to what's required to survive in a world of distributed systems? If application developers can write event-driven programs to listen and react to stimulus, why can't operators do the same for infrastructure?
In this keynote Thomas Hatch, SaltStack technical founder and CTO, will discuss how to control modern data center complexity, and turn it to a competitive advantage, using SaltStack and SUSE technologies. Thomas will provide insight into the SaltStack model for event-driven infrastructure and the emerging framework for intelligent, responsive application stack management. Modern data center commodities have never been so diverse. From bare-metal to containers, Kubernetes to web servers, SaltStack and SUSE have solutions to bring order and peace of mind to a complex new world.
false
Thomas S Hatch
2017-05-27T13:00:00+02:00
11:00
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1358-adding-salt-to-autoyast
Adding Salt to AutoYaST
Integration between AutoYaST and Configuration Management Systems
YaST2 Configuration Management is a brand new YaST module which offers integration between AutoYaST and Salt. It's no secret that many AutoYaST configuration features can be implemented using some Configuration Management System (like Salt or Puppet). So the idea is to bring together the best of both worlds: AutoYaST will take care of installing the base system (partitioning, networking, etc.) and Salt will configure the system.
During this talk, attendees will see the module in action and will get into the nitty-gritty details as well. Of course, we'll also have a look at experimental features, like Puppet support or SUSE Manager Salt Formulas integration.
Last but not least, we would love to hear more ideas from you and discuss your use case.
YaST2 Configuration Management is a brand new YaST module which offers integration between AutoYaST and Salt. It's no secret that many AutoYaST configuration features can be implemented using some Configuration Management System (like Salt or Puppet). So the idea is to bring together the best of both worlds: AutoYaST will take care of installing the base system (partitioning, networking, etc.) and Salt will configure the system.
During this talk, attendees will see the module in action and will get into the nitty-gritty details as well. Of course, we'll also have a look at experimental features, like Puppet support or SUSE Manager Salt Formulas integration.
Last but not least, we would love to hear more ideas from you and discuss your use case.
false
Imobach González Sosa
2017-05-27T13:30:00+02:00
11:30
00:15
Saal (Main Hall)
Lightning Talk
1378-spec-cleaner-progress-and-plans-in-cleanups
Spec-cleaner - progress and plans in cleanups
How to be lazy and keep pretty spec files
Just short talk to discuss the plans focus and future of the spec-cleaner tool and its incorportation in the distribution.
Just short talk to discuss the plans focus and future of the spec-cleaner tool and its incorportation in the distribution.
false
Tomáš Chvátal
2017-05-27T13:45:00+02:00
11:45
00:15
Saal (Main Hall)
Lightning Talk
1266-yast-from-the-repository-to-the-distributions
YaST: from the repository to the distributions
Continuous testing and delivery, the YaST way
In this talk we will briefly explore all the mechanisms and workflows used by the YaST developers in order to share as much code as possible between all the SUSE and openSUSE distributions, while ensuring the quality of all the different YaST modules.
Learn how Rake, unit tests, Github, Jenkins, Travis, OBS and even Docker are used to deliver the developer's work to the already released products (via maintenance updates), to the ones still to be released and to our rolling distribution Tumbleweed.
In this talk we will briefly explore all the mechanisms and workflows used by the YaST developers in order to share as much code as possible between all the SUSE and openSUSE distributions, while ensuring the quality of all the different YaST modules.
Learn how Rake, unit tests, Github, Jenkins, Travis, OBS and even Docker are used to deliver the developer's work to the already released products (via maintenance updates), to the ones still to be released and to our rolling distribution Tumbleweed.
false
Ancor González Sosa
2017-05-27T14:00:00+02:00
12:00
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1462-open-source-projects-and-product-management-need-pain-or-useless
Open Source Projects and Product Management - Need, Pain or Useless?
Patrick and Holger from ownCloud will question and discuss if Open Source Projects need Product Management and if it makes any difference. Communities open many feature requests – which one shall be implemented? Only the once volunteers show up to offer code? How to handle interests of organizations in the community?
Specific developments for customers will have an impact on roadmap and featureset – is this good or bad and how can it be managed? Sometimes there are conflicts – how can those be solved? Do Developers experience Product Management as a pain or do they see value? What difference does it make for the users?
By keeping the balance between divers interests Open Source Product Management provides value for everybody!
Patrick Maier, Product Manager ownCloud
Holger Dyroff, Co-Founder ownCloud
Patrick and Holger from ownCloud will question and discuss if Open Source Projects need Product Management and if it makes any difference. Communities open many feature requests – which one shall be implemented? Only the once volunteers show up to offer code? How to handle interests of organizations in the community?
Specific developments for customers will have an impact on roadmap and featureset – is this good or bad and how can it be managed? Sometimes there are conflicts – how can those be solved? Do Developers experience Product Management as a pain or do they see value? What difference does it make for the users?
By keeping the balance between divers interests Open Source Product Management provides value for everybody!
Patrick Maier, Product Manager ownCloud
Holger Dyroff, Co-Founder ownCloud
false
Holger Dyroff
2017-05-27T15:00:00+02:00
13:00
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1244-virtual-networking-in-the-nfvi
Virtual Networking in the NFVi
Landscapes and Challenges
NFV is a complex world made of hardware technologies and software stacks. A key component is the NFV infrastructure which provides the environment on which the Virtual Networking Functions run. The ecosystem of software/hardware for the NFVI is growing day-by-day making end-users life very difficult: Which platform to buy? Which stack to deploy? Which Virtual Networking solution should be adopted? Answering all these questions is far from being an easy task. In this presentation, we will provide you with the current state of the art of the vSwitch ecosystem (i.e. Open vSwitch, VPP), discuss different approaches around common use cases, deployment and integration challenges (i.e. SDN controller and orchestration integration) and what questions you shall ask yourself before picking your final networking software stack.
This presentation will help developers and end-users who are getting closer to the NFV world to familiarize themselves with the existing NFV technologies and, potentially, help them chose what to focus on based on our perspective.
Attendees can expect a detailed update on the current open-source vSwitch portfolio, new trends and on-going discussions within the open-source community.
NFV is a complex world made of hardware technologies and software stacks. A key component is the NFV infrastructure which provides the environment on which the Virtual Networking Functions run. The ecosystem of software/hardware for the NFVI is growing day-by-day making end-users life very difficult: Which platform to buy? Which stack to deploy? Which Virtual Networking solution should be adopted? Answering all these questions is far from being an easy task. In this presentation, we will provide you with the current state of the art of the vSwitch ecosystem (i.e. Open vSwitch, VPP), discuss different approaches around common use cases, deployment and integration challenges (i.e. SDN controller and orchestration integration) and what questions you shall ask yourself before picking your final networking software stack.
This presentation will help developers and end-users who are getting closer to the NFV world to familiarize themselves with the existing NFV technologies and, potentially, help them chose what to focus on based on our perspective.
Attendees can expect a detailed update on the current open-source vSwitch portfolio, new trends and on-going discussions within the open-source community.
false
Marco Varlese
2017-05-27T16:15:00+02:00
14:15
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1436-the-importance-of-performance-testing-in-the-nfv-world
The importance of performance testing in the NFV world
Challenges and state-of-the-art in the OPNFV community
Performance testing is very important in various different deployments and scenarios however in the NFV (Network Function Virtualization) it is even more meaningful. With a growing umbrella of projects and hence infrastructure NFV and SDN represent a very complex environment to test and, as a result, to give the correct interpretation to figures gathered through performance testing. Is my result good or bad? And how much better could it be and why? These are just few of the questions which people involved in performance testing ask themselves regularly. The OPNFV community is focused on creating a framework (made of multiple projects) which can help with performance gathering but not yet with analytics.
This talk will provide an insight on performance testing for NFV, the state-of-the-art in the OPNFV community and a short demo running on an openSUSE distribution.
Performance testing is very important in various different deployments and scenarios however in the NFV (Network Function Virtualization) it is even more meaningful. With a growing umbrella of projects and hence infrastructure NFV and SDN represent a very complex environment to test and, as a result, to give the correct interpretation to figures gathered through performance testing. Is my result good or bad? And how much better could it be and why? These are just few of the questions which people involved in performance testing ask themselves regularly. The OPNFV community is focused on creating a framework (made of multiple projects) which can help with performance gathering but not yet with analytics.
This talk will provide an insight on performance testing for NFV, the state-of-the-art in the OPNFV community and a short demo running on an openSUSE distribution.
false
Marco Varlese
2017-05-27T17:15:00+02:00
15:15
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1328-preventing-cloud-data-breaches-in-open-source
Preventing cloud data breaches in open source
The privacy and the personal data on the internet are under attack by hackers and international espionage programs. It is important to keep data safe and secure to protect the privacy of the users.
Open source software like Nextcloud and openSUSE are key to provide the necessary tools to the users to protect their data and run their own infrastructure.
But to provide the expected security to the users it is necessary that the software is configured correctly and always has the latest security patches. It was lately discovered by Nextcloud that a big number of cloud services running on the internet are not secured properly. Some of them, even operated by big organisations, are even trivial to hack. This is a challenge for the open source community that we need to address.
This talk will cover the current problems with insecure services that were discovered by Nextcloud and discussed possible steps to improve the situation. Examples are easier to understand administration interfaces, better notifications to the admins if actions are needed and potentially live patching of software. The talk will discuss potential consequences and new challanges for Linux distributions around software distribution and better guiding of admins to make the right decissions around security.
It will also discuss the current and upcoming federation features of Nextcloud and how to become part of the community.
The privacy and the personal data on the internet are under attack by hackers and international espionage programs. It is important to keep data safe and secure to protect the privacy of the users.
Open source software like Nextcloud and openSUSE are key to provide the necessary tools to the users to protect their data and run their own infrastructure.
But to provide the expected security to the users it is necessary that the software is configured correctly and always has the latest security patches. It was lately discovered by Nextcloud that a big number of cloud services running on the internet are not secured properly. Some of them, even operated by big organisations, are even trivial to hack. This is a challenge for the open source community that we need to address.
This talk will cover the current problems with insecure services that were discovered by Nextcloud and discussed possible steps to improve the situation. Examples are easier to understand administration interfaces, better notifications to the admins if actions are needed and potentially live patching of software. The talk will discuss potential consequences and new challanges for Linux distributions around software distribution and better guiding of admins to make the right decissions around security.
It will also discuss the current and upcoming federation features of Nextcloud and how to become part of the community.
false
FrankKarlitschek
2017-05-27T18:15:00+02:00
16:15
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1250-take-me-to-leap-a-story-of-love-and-despair
Take me to Leap - a story of Love and Despair
The journey to bring some packages into the official Distribution
Having a project that builds nicely in OBS is one piece of the story. Taking it into the openSUSE Distribution is a different thing.
On last years oSC the Leap release manager (Ludwig) approached me 'Why dont you bring GNU Health into Leap'? Yes, why not? I liked the idea, but had not enough time to spend for the project.
When the first RC was announced, we had to speed up....and finally made it!
Up to that point there was a steep learning curve. The presentation will highlight the major steps - and why we still struggle with the update project.
It gives an outlook on the upcoming GNU Health Release as well
Having a project that builds nicely in OBS is one piece of the story. Taking it into the openSUSE Distribution is a different thing.
On last years oSC the Leap release manager (Ludwig) approached me 'Why dont you bring GNU Health into Leap'? Yes, why not? I liked the idea, but had not enough time to spend for the project.
When the first RC was announced, we had to speed up....and finally made it!
Up to that point there was a steep learning curve. The presentation will highlight the major steps - and why we still struggle with the update project.
It gives an outlook on the upcoming GNU Health Release as well
false
Axel Braun
2017-05-27T19:00:00+02:00
17:00
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1246-opensuse-arm-boards-update
openSUSE ARM boards update
This talk will follow-up on the corresponding 2016 talk with an update on new ARM boards enabled in openSUSE.
This talk will follow-up on the corresponding 2016 talk with an update on new ARM boards enabled in openSUSE.
false
Andreas Färber
2017-05-27T13:00:00+02:00
11:00
01:30
Seminarraum 2
Short Workshop
1450-opensuse-for-small-and-medium-sized-business
openSUSE for Small- and Medium Sized Business
Workshop around usage of openSUSE in the small and medium business
There are a couple of activities out there that make openSUSE attractive for usage in small and medium business. That goes from desktop applications such as Kraft (http://volle-kraft-voraus.de) up to a full fledged specialized server solution such as the Invis Server (http://www.invis-server.org/) that build on the openSUSE distribution.
The community around these projects came up with the idea to integrate more to provide an even better offering for users. It should be positioned as an easy to use, secure, cost effective, efficient and feature complete solution for companies in the small- and medium business size, addressing the specific needs of this user group.
In this workshop we will discuss how to achieve that, on which level the integration will happen, and how we will pick that up in the openSUSE community. Goals of this workshop would be to set a foundation of a group of people who are willing to move that forward, to define goals for an openSUSE for SMB project, explain what the idea and the options are, spread the word about the already existing solutions and hopefully sort out the first technical questions (also such as how to name the baby ;-) , along with having fun of course.
An invitation goes to all interested people who are interested to either use or create such a solution, coming from the openSUSE project or other, specifically SMB related projects.
There are a couple of activities out there that make openSUSE attractive for usage in small and medium business. That goes from desktop applications such as Kraft (http://volle-kraft-voraus.de) up to a full fledged specialized server solution such as the Invis Server (http://www.invis-server.org/) that build on the openSUSE distribution.
The community around these projects came up with the idea to integrate more to provide an even better offering for users. It should be positioned as an easy to use, secure, cost effective, efficient and feature complete solution for companies in the small- and medium business size, addressing the specific needs of this user group.
In this workshop we will discuss how to achieve that, on which level the integration will happen, and how we will pick that up in the openSUSE community. Goals of this workshop would be to set a foundation of a group of people who are willing to move that forward, to define goals for an openSUSE for SMB project, explain what the idea and the options are, spread the word about the already existing solutions and hopefully sort out the first technical questions (also such as how to name the baby ;-) , along with having fun of course.
An invitation goes to all interested people who are interested to either use or create such a solution, coming from the openSUSE project or other, specifically SMB related projects.
false
Klaas Freitag
2017-05-27T15:00:00+02:00
13:00
03:00
Seminarraum 2
Workshop
1334-your-desktop-application-as-a-cross-distribution-appimage
Your desktop application as a cross-distribution AppImage
Using OBS and AppImage
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/probonopd/opensuse-conference-2017-your-desktop-application-as-a-cross-distribution-appimage
Wiki: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Using-Open-Build-Service
Simon Peter, AppImage
Adrian Schröter, SUSE
Let's bundle your desktop application as a cross-distribution "one app = one file" AppImage. In this workshop, you will learn from AppImage lead developer Simon Peter and Open Build Service lead developer Adrian Schröter how to build your application in a reproducible, secure way, and how to distribute it in the AppImage format, including digital signatures and binary delta updates.
What to bring: Your desktop application, ideally already building on Travis CI or Open Build Service. A notebook. An open mind, persistence, and willingness to experiment.
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/probonopd/opensuse-conference-2017-your-desktop-application-as-a-cross-distribution-appimage
Wiki: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Using-Open-Build-Service
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/probonopd/opensuse-conference-2017-your-desktop-application-as-a-cross-distribution-appimage
Wiki: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Using-Open-Build-Service
Simon Peter, AppImage
Adrian Schröter, SUSE
Let's bundle your desktop application as a cross-distribution "one app = one file" AppImage. In this workshop, you will learn from AppImage lead developer Simon Peter and Open Build Service lead developer Adrian Schröter how to build your application in a reproducible, secure way, and how to distribute it in the AppImage format, including digital signatures and binary delta updates.
What to bring: Your desktop application, ideally already building on Travis CI or Open Build Service. A notebook. An open mind, persistence, and willingness to experiment.
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/probonopd/opensuse-conference-2017-your-desktop-application-as-a-cross-distribution-appimage
Wiki: https://github.com/probonopd/AppImageKit/wiki/Using-Open-Build-Service
false
Simon Peter
2017-05-27T13:00:00+02:00
11:00
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1344-enlightenment-what-is-it-why-should-you-use-it
Enlightenment? What is it? Why should you use it?
An Introduction to the most used Linux Desktop*
The Enlightenment project is one of the longest surviving Linux desktops with its initial release predating that of Gnome or KDE, depending on how you count the numbers Enlightenment is also the most used Linux Desktop.
For several years now openSUSE has had the best Enlightenment support of any Linux Distro as the Enlightenment maintainer for openSUSE and as a member of the Enlightenment Release team i'll walk you through enlightenment on openSUSE and where / why you should use it. I will also cover some of the other applications produced by the enlightenment project such as the popular terminal emulator terminology.
The Enlightenment project is one of the longest surviving Linux desktops with its initial release predating that of Gnome or KDE, depending on how you count the numbers Enlightenment is also the most used Linux Desktop.
For several years now openSUSE has had the best Enlightenment support of any Linux Distro as the Enlightenment maintainer for openSUSE and as a member of the Enlightenment Release team i'll walk you through enlightenment on openSUSE and where / why you should use it. I will also cover some of the other applications produced by the enlightenment project such as the popular terminal emulator terminology.
false
Simon Lees
2017-05-27T13:30:00+02:00
11:30
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1388-obs-in-numbers
OBS in numbers
In this short talk, we will present to the community the data that we have about usage of the OBS. This data show a clear trending in the user behaviour, and is used currently to make important decisions about our future as a Free Software project.
In this short talk, we will present to the community the data that we have about usage of the OBS. This data show a clear trending in the user behaviour, and is used currently to make important decisions about our future as a Free Software project.
false
Ana Maria Martinez Gomez
2017-05-27T14:00:00+02:00
12:00
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1368-how-obs-helps-you-to-make-packaging-software-a-breeze
How OBS helps you to make packaging software a breeze
OBS provides a wide range of feature that help packagers to ship their software to their users. This talk is showing some of the key features of OBS and how they help packagers to make their life easier. For example, did you know that you can setup OBS to fetch package sources directly from GitHub and build them?
OBS is a Rails-based web application, with a perl backend, that allows users to build and distribute packages for a wide range of distributions, like SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and ARCH Linux.
http://openbuildservice.org/
OBS provides a wide range of feature that help packagers to ship their software to their users. This talk is showing some of the key features of OBS and how they help packagers to make their life easier. For example, did you know that you can setup OBS to fetch package sources directly from GitHub and build them?
OBS is a Rails-based web application, with a perl backend, that allows users to build and distribute packages for a wide range of distributions, like SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and ARCH Linux.
http://openbuildservice.org/
false
bgeuken
2017-05-27T15:00:00+02:00
13:00
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1298-yast-news
YaST News
Summary of the last year
A tour on what's new in the YaST world, all the way from the high level
view down to some interesting technical details. The talk includes an
introduction to quite some new cool stuff and a review on what is being
dropped or improved. There will also be an open discussion on how
several features implemented in YaST to support SLE can open new
possibilities for openSUSE.
A tour on what's new in the YaST world, all the way from the high level
view down to some interesting technical details. The talk includes an
introduction to quite some new cool stuff and a review on what is being
dropped or improved. There will also be an open discussion on how
several features implemented in YaST to support SLE can open new
possibilities for openSUSE.
false
Josef Reidinger
2017-05-27T15:30:00+02:00
13:30
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1302-snaps-on-opensuse
Snaps on OpenSUSE
Snaps are a new packaging format that allows unmodified binaries to run across a wide variety of distributions. Snapd is the software that manages snaps on a running system. Learn about the basics of snaps, snapd and what is needed to port snapd to OpenSUSE.
Presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/zkrynicki/snaps-on-open-suse
Snaps are a new packaging format that allows unmodified binaries to run across a wide variety of distributions. Snapd is the software that manages snaps on a running system. Learn about the basics of snaps, snapd and what is needed to port snapd to OpenSUSE.
Presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/zkrynicki/snaps-on-open-suse
false
zyga
2017-05-27T16:00:00+02:00
14:00
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1228-next-generation-storage-for-yast
Next Generation Storage for YaST
Why Users should look forward to the Redesign.
The YaST team is currently redesigning the storage code, down from the library
up to the UI. This will allow many new features, e.g. btrfs multi device
support, encrypted root, bcache and whole disk usage. We will explain the new
internal design allowing much more flexable setups than in the past and some
of the features for end users.
The YaST team is currently redesigning the storage code, down from the library
up to the UI. This will allow many new features, e.g. btrfs multi device
support, encrypted root, bcache and whole disk usage. We will explain the new
internal design allowing much more flexable setups than in the past and some
of the features for end users.
false
Arvin Schnell
2017-05-27T16:30:00+02:00
14:30
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1416-rapido-quick-kernel-testing-from-source
Rapido: quick kernel testing from source
Test kernel changes in a matter of seconds using Rapido - a glorified wrapper for Dracut and QEMU.
This talk will walk through the process of taking a kernel source repository and turning it into a testable VM.
For those who would like to play along on their own machine, please bring:
- a laptop with openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed installed
- Kernel source (mainline master)
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
- Rapido source
- https://github.com/ddiss/rapido.git
After covering a simple standalone test procedure, the walk-through will then move on to kernel testing alongside network accessible storage such as iSCSI, and also touch on some debugging techniques.
Test kernel changes in a matter of seconds using Rapido - a glorified wrapper for Dracut and QEMU.
This talk will walk through the process of taking a kernel source repository and turning it into a testable VM.
For those who would like to play along on their own machine, please bring:
- a laptop with openSUSE Leap or Tumbleweed installed
- Kernel source (mainline master)
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
- Rapido source
- https://github.com/ddiss/rapido.git
After covering a simple standalone test procedure, the walk-through will then move on to kernel testing alongside network accessible storage such as iSCSI, and also touch on some debugging techniques.
false
David Disseldorp
2017-05-27T17:00:00+02:00
15:00
01:00
Galerie
Long Talk
1364-coloring-it-students-green
Coloring IT Students Green
SUSE Academic Program explained
The new SUSE Academic Program explained!
As a leading open source company, SUSE supports schools, higher learning institutions and the academic community in getting free access to our extensive experience and knowledge.
Many IT-students still get trained in software stacks that are not the highest in demand by the labor market. In many cases IT-infrastructure classes are still dominated by proprietary software, but the dominating IT-infrastructure "in real life" nowadays is open source technology.
As SUSE delivers enterprise open source technology many schools have asked SUSE to come with a academic program now we are able to explain you most bits and bites of how we believe we can color schools and students green!
The new SUSE Academic Program explained!
As a leading open source company, SUSE supports schools, higher learning institutions and the academic community in getting free access to our extensive experience and knowledge.
Many IT-students still get trained in software stacks that are not the highest in demand by the labor market. In many cases IT-infrastructure classes are still dominated by proprietary software, but the dominating IT-infrastructure "in real life" nowadays is open source technology.
As SUSE delivers enterprise open source technology many schools have asked SUSE to come with a academic program now we are able to explain you most bits and bites of how we believe we can color schools and students green!
false
Emiel Brok
2017-05-27T18:15:00+02:00
16:15
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1384-from-bare-metal-to-the-cloud
From bare metal to the cloud
Bring your application to Kubernetes
Kubernetes is an open source project for orchestrating containerized applications.
But how to containerize your workload? How to bring your containerized application into Kubernetes?
This talk will show how we transferred our application to Kubernetes.
- This includes containerizing the application (based on an openSUSE docker image)
- How to expose your application services via Kubernetes.
- How to create a shared file system for all Pod belonging to your application via Kubernetes.
I will show how to do that plus a demo on a running Kubernetes System provided by SUSE CaaS
Kubernetes is an open source project for orchestrating containerized applications.
But how to containerize your workload? How to bring your containerized application into Kubernetes?
This talk will show how we transferred our application to Kubernetes.
- This includes containerizing the application (based on an openSUSE docker image)
- How to expose your application services via Kubernetes.
- How to create a shared file system for all Pod belonging to your application via Kubernetes.
I will show how to do that plus a demo on a running Kubernetes System provided by SUSE CaaS
false
Stefan Haas
2017-05-27T19:00:00+02:00
17:00
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1336-open-vswitch-and-dpdk-your-vms-deserve-better
Open vSwitch and DPDK - Your VMs deserve better
Using OvS + DPDK to boost inter-VM network traffic
Improving virtual workloads is a on-going and complex problem. Many of the optimizations are targeting the networking stack which is becoming a bottleneck as the traffic traverses from the hypervisor to the virtual machine and vice versa. As a result of which, improving the components that sit in-between is normally the first thing to look at. One such component is Open vSwitch whcih is a popular virtual switch heavily used in OpenStack. Another component is the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). We are going to briefly discuss how these components work and how they can be combined together. At the end there will be a short demo showing these technologies in action.
This talk is going to be presented by Markos Chandras and Nirmoy Das
Improving virtual workloads is a on-going and complex problem. Many of the optimizations are targeting the networking stack which is becoming a bottleneck as the traffic traverses from the hypervisor to the virtual machine and vice versa. As a result of which, improving the components that sit in-between is normally the first thing to look at. One such component is Open vSwitch whcih is a popular virtual switch heavily used in OpenStack. Another component is the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK). We are going to briefly discuss how these components work and how they can be combined together. At the end there will be a short demo showing these technologies in action.
This talk is going to be presented by Markos Chandras and Nirmoy Das
false
Markos Chandras
2017-05-27T19:30:00+02:00
17:30
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1446-collecting-data-from-iot-devices-using-sigfox-network
Collecting data from IoT devices using Sigfox network
Making data collection easier
This talk will give you introduction to Sigfox network and show differences between Sigfox and other IoT networks. It will also demonstrate examples on how you can process collected data. Live demo will be displayed on stage.
This talk will give you introduction to Sigfox network and show differences between Sigfox and other IoT networks. It will also demonstrate examples on how you can process collected data. Live demo will be displayed on stage.
false
Jan Krupa
2017-05-27T13:30:00+02:00
11:30
00:30
Seminarraum 1
Normal Talk
1346-making-sense-of-your-security-logs-using-syslog-ng
Making sense of your security logs using syslog-ng
Parsing and enriching log messages
Event logging is a central source of information for IT security. The syslog-ng application collects logs from many different sources, performs real-time log analysis by processing and filtering them, and finally it stores the logs or routes them for further analysis.
In an ideal world, all log messages come in a structured format, ready to be used for log analysis, alerting or dashboards. But in a real world only part of the logs belong to this category. Traditionally, most of the log messages come as free format text messages. These are easy to be read by humans, which was the original use of log messages. However, today logs are rarely processed by the human eye. Fortunately syslog-ng has several tools to turn unstructured and many of the structured message formats into name-value pairs, and thus delivers the benefits of structured log messages.
Once you have name-value pairs, log messages can be further enriched with additional information in real-time, which helps responding to security events faster. One way is adding geo-location based on IP addresses. Another way is adding contextual data from external files, like the role of a server based on the IP address or the role of the user based on the name. Data from external files can also be used to filter messages, for example to check firewall logs to determine whether certain IP addresses are contained in various black lists for malware command centers, spammers, and so on.
Logging is subject to an increasing number of compliance regulations. PCI-DSS or many European privacy laws require removing sensitive data from log messages. I will demonstrate how logs can be anonymized in a way that they are still useful for security analitics.
At the end I would like to introduce you to the basics of syslog-ng configuration, and demonstrate how the collected logs can be used for alerting or visualized on a dashboard.
Event logging is a central source of information for IT security. The syslog-ng application collects logs from many different sources, performs real-time log analysis by processing and filtering them, and finally it stores the logs or routes them for further analysis.
In an ideal world, all log messages come in a structured format, ready to be used for log analysis, alerting or dashboards. But in a real world only part of the logs belong to this category. Traditionally, most of the log messages come as free format text messages. These are easy to be read by humans, which was the original use of log messages. However, today logs are rarely processed by the human eye. Fortunately syslog-ng has several tools to turn unstructured and many of the structured message formats into name-value pairs, and thus delivers the benefits of structured log messages.
Once you have name-value pairs, log messages can be further enriched with additional information in real-time, which helps responding to security events faster. One way is adding geo-location based on IP addresses. Another way is adding contextual data from external files, like the role of a server based on the IP address or the role of the user based on the name. Data from external files can also be used to filter messages, for example to check firewall logs to determine whether certain IP addresses are contained in various black lists for malware command centers, spammers, and so on.
Logging is subject to an increasing number of compliance regulations. PCI-DSS or many European privacy laws require removing sensitive data from log messages. I will demonstrate how logs can be anonymized in a way that they are still useful for security analitics.
At the end I would like to introduce you to the basics of syslog-ng configuration, and demonstrate how the collected logs can be used for alerting or visualized on a dashboard.
false
Peter Czanik
2017-05-27T14:30:00+02:00
12:30
00:30
Seminarraum 1
Normal Talk
1332-obs-b-appimage
OBS <B AppImage
Portable cross-distro application bundles for the Linux desktop
http://speakerdeck.com/probonopd/opensuse-conference-2017-obs-b-appimage
Speakers:
Simon Peter, AppImage
Adrian Schröter, SUSE
Providing desktop applications to multiple Linux-based target systems (distributions) can be cumbersome. Whereas upstream application authors have always had the possibility to offer downloads for Windows and macOS, distributing packages for Linux has traditionally required a lot of additional duplicated effort from maintainers, and does not scale well beyond the core set of applications that are part of the distributions.
Lately, application bundle formats like AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap have gained popularity in the Linux world, with Linux Torvalds calling AppImage "just great" and users appreciating the ease of the "one app = one file" concept.
Providing an application in AppImage format can have many advantages:
- Just one format for many major distributions like openSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, and others
- Super simple for users: just download one file, make it executable, and run
- No unpacking or installation necessary
- No root needed
- No system libraries changed
- Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
- Optional desktop integration with `appimaged`
- Optional binary delta updates (only download the bytes that have changed between builds)
- GPG signatures (inside the file)
- Works on Live ISOs and when booting into multiple different distributions
On the flipside, it has been argued that distributing application bundles places additional burden on upstream application authors, who now also need to keep the bundled libraries up-to-date. Tools used by distributions can greatly mitigate this, by ensuring reproducible, up-to-date builds from trusted sources.
In this talk, Open Build Service lead developer Adrian Schröter and AppImage lead developer Simon Peter illustrate the challenges around providing quality application bundles and how they can be solved by using proven distribution methodologies such as those provided by the Open Build Service.
http://speakerdeck.com/probonopd/opensuse-conference-2017-obs-b-appimage
http://speakerdeck.com/probonopd/opensuse-conference-2017-obs-b-appimage
Speakers:
Simon Peter, AppImage
Adrian Schröter, SUSE
Providing desktop applications to multiple Linux-based target systems (distributions) can be cumbersome. Whereas upstream application authors have always had the possibility to offer downloads for Windows and macOS, distributing packages for Linux has traditionally required a lot of additional duplicated effort from maintainers, and does not scale well beyond the core set of applications that are part of the distributions.
Lately, application bundle formats like AppImage, Flatpak, and Snap have gained popularity in the Linux world, with Linux Torvalds calling AppImage "just great" and users appreciating the ease of the "one app = one file" concept.
Providing an application in AppImage format can have many advantages:
- Just one format for many major distributions like openSUSE, Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS, Debian, and others
- Super simple for users: just download one file, make it executable, and run
- No unpacking or installation necessary
- No root needed
- No system libraries changed
- Works out of the box, no installation of runtimes needed
- Optional desktop integration with `appimaged`
- Optional binary delta updates (only download the bytes that have changed between builds)
- GPG signatures (inside the file)
- Works on Live ISOs and when booting into multiple different distributions
On the flipside, it has been argued that distributing application bundles places additional burden on upstream application authors, who now also need to keep the bundled libraries up-to-date. Tools used by distributions can greatly mitigate this, by ensuring reproducible, up-to-date builds from trusted sources.
In this talk, Open Build Service lead developer Adrian Schröter and AppImage lead developer Simon Peter illustrate the challenges around providing quality application bundles and how they can be solved by using proven distribution methodologies such as those provided by the Open Build Service.
http://speakerdeck.com/probonopd/opensuse-conference-2017-obs-b-appimage
false
Simon Peter
2017-05-27T15:15:00+02:00
13:15
00:30
Seminarraum 1
Normal Talk
1432-software-for-humans-an-intro-to-usability
Software for humans - An intro to usability
How YOU can make your software easy to use
There many reasons why, when it was first introduced in 2001, the original Apple iPod got so popular. Even though it was simpler, it had fewer features and it was more expensive than other MP3 players in the market, people loved it and it sold like hotcakes. The main reason for its popularity was that it was a pleasure to use: easy, fast, intuitive.
Unfortunately, compared to commercial products, a lot of the open source software out there is not very easy to use. A lot of OSS is built from the developer's perspective, without taking into account the user's experience. Too many buttons, unclear wording, and other faults play against the usability of OSS, reducing the number of people who will enjoy using it.
The good news is that making software easy to use is not that difficult, and it doesn't require having Apple's budget. OSS developers just need to take usability into consideration when building the apps they want to share with the world.
In this talk, I will give a short introduction to what usability is, explain the benefits that come from building usable software, and show how developers can increase the usability of their creations.
There many reasons why, when it was first introduced in 2001, the original Apple iPod got so popular. Even though it was simpler, it had fewer features and it was more expensive than other MP3 players in the market, people loved it and it sold like hotcakes. The main reason for its popularity was that it was a pleasure to use: easy, fast, intuitive.
Unfortunately, compared to commercial products, a lot of the open source software out there is not very easy to use. A lot of OSS is built from the developer's perspective, without taking into account the user's experience. Too many buttons, unclear wording, and other faults play against the usability of OSS, reducing the number of people who will enjoy using it.
The good news is that making software easy to use is not that difficult, and it doesn't require having Apple's budget. OSS developers just need to take usability into consideration when building the apps they want to share with the world.
In this talk, I will give a short introduction to what usability is, explain the benefits that come from building usable software, and show how developers can increase the usability of their creations.
false
Hernan Schmidt
2017-05-27T15:45:00+02:00
13:45
01:30
Seminarraum 1
Short Workshop
1280-how-to-get-packages-into-suse-package-hub
How to get packages into SUSE Package Hub
How to get open source packages ready to use in SLES
SUSE Package Hub is a central repository for openSUSE packages for SUSE Linux Enterprise.
In this workshop you will learn and understand the basic concepts of SUSE Package Hub and how to contribute.
Since the project is based in OBS (Open Buildservice), you will also learn the process of submitting packages to Package Hub with all the rules and policies along the way.
SUSE Package Hub is a central repository for openSUSE packages for SUSE Linux Enterprise.
In this workshop you will learn and understand the basic concepts of SUSE Package Hub and how to contribute.
Since the project is based in OBS (Open Buildservice), you will also learn the process of submitting packages to Package Hub with all the rules and policies along the way.
false
Wolfgang Engel
2017-05-27T17:30:00+02:00
15:30
01:30
Seminarraum 1
Short Workshop
1326-virus-competition
Virus competition
Write a virus in assembly language
The workshop will start with a short introduction of RedCore, the assembly-like programming language used in CoreWar. Then some time would be given so everybody can write its virus/warrior. And then we will organise a virus competition! If there is time enough we will organise two rounds, so you will be able to modify your first virus and give it another try.
pMARS will be used, you can download it for openSUSE here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:ammartinez:branches:games/pmars
The workshop will start with a short introduction of RedCore, the assembly-like programming language used in CoreWar. Then some time would be given so everybody can write its virus/warrior. And then we will organise a virus competition! If there is time enough we will organise two rounds, so you will be able to modify your first virus and give it another try.
pMARS will be used, you can download it for openSUSE here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:ammartinez:branches:games/pmars
false
Ana Maria Martinez Gomez
2017-05-28T12:00:00+02:00
10:00
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1438-how-kde-gets-things-done
How KDE gets things done
From happy developers to happy users
We often have the impression that while we keep working things don't seem to get solved. In this presentation we will discuss the development process, then will go over what the KDE community has been up to in terms of QA and will bring some ideas so that we can create, together, better solutions.
We often have the impression that while we keep working things don't seem to get solved. In this presentation we will discuss the development process, then will go over what the KDE community has been up to in terms of QA and will bring some ideas so that we can create, together, better solutions.
false
Aleix Pol
2017-05-28T13:00:00+02:00
11:00
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1352-how-the-kde-community-packages-for-sle-in-packagehub-were-done
How the KDE community packages for SLE in PackageHub were done
Submitting more than 400 new packages to Backports
This talk will explain how the KDE packages were prepared and submitted to Package Hub so SLE users could enjoy them. Missing dependencies, rpmlint complaining about valid packages, not fully available dependencies, missing branding packages... It wasn't an easy path to travel but it was worth it. This talk will explain the problems found and how they were solved with the hope to make it easier for others to submit their packages to Package Hub.
This talk will explain how the KDE packages were prepared and submitted to Package Hub so SLE users could enjoy them. Missing dependencies, rpmlint complaining about valid packages, not fully available dependencies, missing branding packages... It wasn't an easy path to travel but it was worth it. This talk will explain the problems found and how they were solved with the hope to make it easier for others to submit their packages to Package Hub.
false
Antonio Larrosa
2017-05-28T13:30:00+02:00
11:30
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1374-opensuse-legal-review-process
openSUSE Legal Review Process
The Legal Review happening in the Factory development process is a black box for many, even though it's very important for keeping openSUSE away from danger. But many only know the downside of this requirement: if the review takes "too long".
This presentation is trying to shed light into the black box and show the processes and applications used. Explaining the challenges and pitfalls - and the actions we took to speed up the process.
The Legal Review happening in the Factory development process is a black box for many, even though it's very important for keeping openSUSE away from danger. But many only know the downside of this requirement: if the review takes "too long".
This presentation is trying to shed light into the black box and show the processes and applications used. Explaining the challenges and pitfalls - and the actions we took to speed up the process.
false
Stephan Kulow
2017-05-28T14:00:00+02:00
12:00
00:15
Saal (Main Hall)
Lightning Talk
1310-1-year-of-maintaining-a-public-repository-mirror
1 year of maintaining a public repository mirror
Over a year ago we setup a public repository mirror. Until now we're
officially listed as a mirror for the following distributions
(https://pkg.adfinis-sygroup.ch/):
* Arch Linux
* CentOS
* Debian
* EPEL
* OpenSUSE
* Ubuntu
This talk will give an overview what is required to quickly setup a new package
mirror and shows how we manage our mirror with Ansible, which automates the
installation and configuration of a new mirror. The Ansible playbook will be
available on GitHub at the time of the talk. In addition we try to motivate the
attendees to contribute to the global mirror network.
We'll show some statistics and graphs and explain what new mirrors can expect
in terms of storage, requests and bandwidth. So far our mirror has generated
over 45TB of outbound traffic, which is quite much for a mirror in Switzerland.
Over a year ago we setup a public repository mirror. Until now we're
officially listed as a mirror for the following distributions
(https://pkg.adfinis-sygroup.ch/):
* Arch Linux
* CentOS
* Debian
* EPEL
* OpenSUSE
* Ubuntu
This talk will give an overview what is required to quickly setup a new package
mirror and shows how we manage our mirror with Ansible, which automates the
installation and configuration of a new mirror. The Ansible playbook will be
available on GitHub at the time of the talk. In addition we try to motivate the
attendees to contribute to the global mirror network.
We'll show some statistics and graphs and explain what new mirrors can expect
in terms of storage, requests and bandwidth. So far our mirror has generated
over 45TB of outbound traffic, which is quite much for a mirror in Switzerland.
false
Philipp Marmet
2017-05-28T14:30:00+02:00
12:30
00:30
Saal (Main Hall)
Normal Talk
1350-ceph-elk-opensuse
Ceph, ELK & opensuse
This talk will be held by Denys Kondratenko and Abhishek Lekshmanan to talk about Ceph and ELK (Elastic Stack) integration and current status on openSUSE (Leap and Tumbleweed).
Ceph is a distributed storage platform that is contender to become the future of software defined storage, providing unified access to block, object and file interfaces. However like any complex systems there are various subsystems that may fail and analyzing logs is generally the first line of action. This is where the ELK stack comes in, to search, analyze and process logs and metadata.
We will cover topics such as:
* Current status of ELK and Ceph on openSUSE (Leap and Tumbleweed)
* Metadata export to Elasticsearch - RGW Metadata Search
* Ceph logs and cluster log parsing with Logstash
* Future of the ELK for Analyzing and Alerting for Ceph
* Current status of Ceph ELK integration for openSUSE
<a href="http://abhishekl.in/osc17-ceph-elk/">Slides are here</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/theanalyst/osc17-ceph-elk">here</a>
Ceph is a distributed storage platform that is contender to become the future of software defined storage, providing unified access to block, object and file interfaces. However like any complex systems there are various subsystems that may fail and analyzing logs is generally the first line of action. This is where the ELK stack comes in, to search, analyze and process logs and metadata.
We will cover topics such as:
* Current status of ELK and Ceph on openSUSE (Leap and Tumbleweed)
* Metadata export to Elasticsearch - RGW Metadata Search
* Ceph logs and cluster log parsing with Logstash
* Future of the ELK for Analyzing and Alerting for Ceph
* Current status of Ceph ELK integration for openSUSE
<a href="http://abhishekl.in/osc17-ceph-elk/">Slides are here</a>, and <a href="https://github.com/theanalyst/osc17-ceph-elk">here</a>
false
Denis Kondratenko
2017-05-28T15:30:00+02:00
13:30
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1288-opensuse-heroes-fighting-the-villains
openSUSE Heroes fighting the villains
The openSUSE Infrastructure
Once again, the team behind the administration, support and maintenance of the openSUSE infrastructure is here to present services, machines and people, and all of the improvements after the renaming of the team on oSC16.
Once again, the team behind the administration, support and maintenance of the openSUSE infrastructure is here to present services, machines and people, and all of the improvements after the renaming of the team on oSC16.
false
Theo Chatzimichos
2017-05-28T16:30:00+02:00
14:30
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1312-collectl-a-system-monitoring-tool-like-no-other
collectl - a system monitoring tool like no other
Collectl is a comprehensive, fine-grained monitoring tool that collects a vast quantity of system metrics
Collectl was developed over a dozen years ago as a very lightweight yet highly detailed system monitoring tool, capable of collecting hundreds system performance metrics as frequently as every second. Its companion tool colplot, provides an easy to use web-based plotting package capable of displaying detailed statistics for multiple systems at the same time. Think of colmux, a third tool, as top-anything across a number of machines. It is capable of displaying anything collectl can collect in top-format, sorted by any column of your choice. For example, say you have a 100 node cluster, with colmux you can look at the disk wait times across thousands of disks sorted sorted from slowest to fasted, allowing you to easily identify bad or hot drives, OR look at memory consumption for leaks. How about a bad NIC consuming a CPU by interrupts? Or how about which process is doing the more disk reads, or write, or page faults? And remember, this is across a cluster.
The focus of collectl has always been highly efficient metrics collection and display via a CLI, no pretty pictures and no databases to slow it down. However what it does have is an API to allow it to pass those metrics onto whatever high level tools one may wish to communicate with. For example it has native support for ganglia or graphite over a socket. If you have some other favorite tool it can usually be adapted to communicate with it as well. Unfortunately most centralized tools are easily overwhelmed with fine-grained metrics and can only deal with them at granularities in the 1-min range. Not to worry, collectl has the ability to record and save metrics to local disk at one rate and send simultaneously send them to a central tool at a different rate, making it possible to get a coarser-grained centralized view and if there is a problem, still have access to finer-grained data.
Collectl has been used for monitoring some of the largest computing clusters in the world and in the last several years has been enhanced for monitoring Open Stack Clouds. It is currently packaged as part of OpenSUSE.
Collectl was developed over a dozen years ago as a very lightweight yet highly detailed system monitoring tool, capable of collecting hundreds system performance metrics as frequently as every second. Its companion tool colplot, provides an easy to use web-based plotting package capable of displaying detailed statistics for multiple systems at the same time. Think of colmux, a third tool, as top-anything across a number of machines. It is capable of displaying anything collectl can collect in top-format, sorted by any column of your choice. For example, say you have a 100 node cluster, with colmux you can look at the disk wait times across thousands of disks sorted sorted from slowest to fasted, allowing you to easily identify bad or hot drives, OR look at memory consumption for leaks. How about a bad NIC consuming a CPU by interrupts? Or how about which process is doing the more disk reads, or write, or page faults? And remember, this is across a cluster.
The focus of collectl has always been highly efficient metrics collection and display via a CLI, no pretty pictures and no databases to slow it down. However what it does have is an API to allow it to pass those metrics onto whatever high level tools one may wish to communicate with. For example it has native support for ganglia or graphite over a socket. If you have some other favorite tool it can usually be adapted to communicate with it as well. Unfortunately most centralized tools are easily overwhelmed with fine-grained metrics and can only deal with them at granularities in the 1-min range. Not to worry, collectl has the ability to record and save metrics to local disk at one rate and send simultaneously send them to a central tool at a different rate, making it possible to get a coarser-grained centralized view and if there is a problem, still have access to finer-grained data.
Collectl has been used for monitoring some of the largest computing clusters in the world and in the last several years has been enhanced for monitoring Open Stack Clouds. It is currently packaged as part of OpenSUSE.
false
markseger
2017-05-28T17:30:00+02:00
15:30
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1440-devops-delivering-value-in-a-judgmental-world
DevOps, delivering value in a judgmental world
Golden Hammers never had it so good
DevOps is one of the Industry's great buzz words. You've heard that DevOps (or ITOps, or WhateverOps) will solve all your development-to-deployment problems and how agile processes can increase the velocity of your projects. But you also likely know that it's not a silver bullet that solves all problems. This session will discuss how DevOps helps, what the pitfalls are, and how to avoid failure while squeezing the BEST out of DevOps.
DevOps is one of the Industry's great buzz words. You've heard that DevOps (or ITOps, or WhateverOps) will solve all your development-to-deployment problems and how agile processes can increase the velocity of your projects. But you also likely know that it's not a silver bullet that solves all problems. This session will discuss how DevOps helps, what the pitfalls are, and how to avoid failure while squeezing the BEST out of DevOps.
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craig gardner
2017-05-28T18:30:00+02:00
16:30
01:00
Saal (Main Hall)
Long Talk
1456-annual-meeting-with-the-opensuse-board
Annual Meeting With the openSUSE Board
Like every year, the last session will be a meeting with the openSUSE Board.
Like every year, the last session will be a meeting with the openSUSE Board.
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Douglas DeMaio
2017-05-28T13:00:00+02:00
11:00
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1296-opensuse-mentoring-status-update
openSUSE Mentoring Status Update
openSUSE participates this year again in Google Summer of Code and Rails Girls Summer of Code. We will start with an introduction of these programs and the openSUSE history. We will then give you an update about this year's edition: What changed, which projects do participate, why is it important for openSUSE?
openSUSE participates this year again in Google Summer of Code and Rails Girls Summer of Code. We will start with an introduction of these programs and the openSUSE history. We will then give you an update about this year's edition: What changed, which projects do participate, why is it important for openSUSE?
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Christian Bruckmayer
2017-05-28T13:30:00+02:00
11:30
00:15
Galerie
Lightning Talk
1354-continuous-integration-using-travis-and-docker
Continuous Integration using Travis and Docker
There is no excuse for NOT using continuous integration
Do you work on an open source project? Is your source code hosted at GitHub? Do you use continuous integration or continuous deployment? Why NOT?
This short talk will be about some tricks we use in the YaST team for continuous integration. Because we need a specific environment we use the Docker containers for building and testing at Travis. This approach also decreased out maintenance effort and made the builds more reliable.
Hopefully this talk encourages you to use continuous integration also for your projects.
(Some more details can be already found in my blog at https://blog.ladslezak.cz/2017/03/28/docker_at_travis/.)
Do you work on an open source project? Is your source code hosted at GitHub? Do you use continuous integration or continuous deployment? Why NOT?
This short talk will be about some tricks we use in the YaST team for continuous integration. Because we need a specific environment we use the Docker containers for building and testing at Travis. This approach also decreased out maintenance effort and made the builds more reliable.
Hopefully this talk encourages you to use continuous integration also for your projects.
(Some more details can be already found in my blog at https://blog.ladslezak.cz/2017/03/28/docker_at_travis/.)
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Ladislav Slezák
2017-05-28T13:45:00+02:00
11:45
00:15
Galerie
Lightning Talk
1426-connected-kanban
Connected Kanban
IoT: Internet of Teams
Most software engineers use kanban boards for task management, often these are physical boards using post-it notes. These physical boards are often great for visibility and enjoyable to use. However they are very disconnected from the digital side of the software development world.
What if we could use moving physical kanban cards to update our digital systems, bridging our physical and digital worlds.
This talk will demonstrate an IoT solution that I designed and built.
Most software engineers use kanban boards for task management, often these are physical boards using post-it notes. These physical boards are often great for visibility and enjoyable to use. However they are very disconnected from the digital side of the software development world.
What if we could use moving physical kanban cards to update our digital systems, bridging our physical and digital worlds.
This talk will demonstrate an IoT solution that I designed and built.
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Chris Ellis
2017-05-28T14:30:00+02:00
12:30
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1304-gcompris-qt-package-s-journey-in-opensuse
gcompris-qt package's journey in openSUSE
From upstream source code to Leap packaged application
Whenever you are curious about how sources become an installable software in Leap without additionnal repository, or think about contributing to openSUSE project with some packaging stuff, this talk will retrace the journey of gcompris-qt package from its upstream source to the final package that will be natively available in openSUSE Leap 42.3.
I will explain in details the different steps to follow, how to do that, and some receipts against traps. At the end, you will have a good overview of what means get a package to Factory. You also will have a step by step roadmap to make your first contributions.
Whenever you are curious about how sources become an installable software in Leap without additionnal repository, or think about contributing to openSUSE project with some packaging stuff, this talk will retrace the journey of gcompris-qt package from its upstream source to the final package that will be natively available in openSUSE Leap 42.3.
I will explain in details the different steps to follow, how to do that, and some receipts against traps. At the end, you will have a good overview of what means get a package to Factory. You also will have a step by step roadmap to make your first contributions.
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Bruno Friedmann
2017-05-28T15:00:00+02:00
13:00
01:00
Galerie
Long Talk
1234-libabigail-how-semantic-analysis-of-c-and-c-elf-binaries-can-be-used-to-analyze-abi-changes
Libabigail: How semantic analysis of C and C++ ELF binaries can be used to analyze ABI changes
Libabigail is an infrastructure for semantic analysis of ELF binaries containing C or C++ programs. It powers command line tools like ‘abidiff’, which let users compare ABI changes between two different versions of a given ELF binary by analyzing just the binary and its ancillary debug information.
The result of the binary comparison is a kind of hierarchical ‘diff’ which shows changes up to the types of the interfaces that constitute the ABI of an ELF program.
This infrastructure allows software distributors (among other actors) to build specific tooling to review and analyze ABI changes that might occur whenever a shared library package is updated. That tooling might even be tailored to automatically prevent packages with unwanted incompatible ABI changes to reach users.
This talk intends to present Libabigail, its architecture, its capabilities, its current limits, its associated tools and how it might be used to further build highly tailored ABI verification tooling. The talk will also explore the potential improvement paths that are currently identified, and from the feedback of the audience, explore improvement paths that are not yet identified.
Libabigail is an infrastructure for semantic analysis of ELF binaries containing C or C++ programs. It powers command line tools like ‘abidiff’, which let users compare ABI changes between two different versions of a given ELF binary by analyzing just the binary and its ancillary debug information.
The result of the binary comparison is a kind of hierarchical ‘diff’ which shows changes up to the types of the interfaces that constitute the ABI of an ELF program.
This infrastructure allows software distributors (among other actors) to build specific tooling to review and analyze ABI changes that might occur whenever a shared library package is updated. That tooling might even be tailored to automatically prevent packages with unwanted incompatible ABI changes to reach users.
This talk intends to present Libabigail, its architecture, its capabilities, its current limits, its associated tools and how it might be used to further build highly tailored ABI verification tooling. The talk will also explore the potential improvement paths that are currently identified, and from the feedback of the audience, explore improvement paths that are not yet identified.
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dodjiseketeli
2017-05-28T16:00:00+02:00
14:00
00:15
Galerie
Lightning Talk
1356-the-atom-editor
The Atom Editor
A Hackable Text Editor for the 21st Century
This is a short introduction to the Atom text editor (https://atom.io/). The authors describe it as "A hackable text editor for the 21st Century". It is an open source editor originally developed by GitHub but with large community around.
In this talk I will describe my experience with the editor and highlight some interesting features. I will also briefly mention what the "hackable to the core" feature means.
(You can find some details already at https://blog.ladslezak.cz/2015/12/14/the-atom-editor-part-i-introduction/ and https://blog.ladslezak.cz/2015/12/18/the-atom-editor-part-ii-atom-packages/.)
This is a short introduction to the Atom text editor (https://atom.io/). The authors describe it as "A hackable text editor for the 21st Century". It is an open source editor originally developed by GitHub but with large community around.
In this talk I will describe my experience with the editor and highlight some interesting features. I will also briefly mention what the "hackable to the core" feature means.
(You can find some details already at https://blog.ladslezak.cz/2015/12/14/the-atom-editor-part-i-introduction/ and https://blog.ladslezak.cz/2015/12/18/the-atom-editor-part-ii-atom-packages/.)
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Ladislav Slezák
2017-05-28T16:30:00+02:00
14:30
00:30
Galerie
Normal Talk
1308-from-source-to-package
From source to package
Leveraging the power of GitLab CI
During this talk we'll show a complete CI/CT pipeline and how we automated the
following tasks:
* Render and publish RST / sphinx based documentation
* Build and publish packages (deb + rpm) on a public repository (incl. signing)
The idea is to automate the whole pipeline starting simple with application
testing and finally deploying it or building and publishing the appropriate
packages and documentations.
The process is automated with GitLab, GitLab-CI, Docker and several smaller
projects we have published on GitHub:
* pyaptly (https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/pyaptly)
* pkgbuild-bot (https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/gitlab-pkgbot)
* docbuild-bot (https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/gitlab-docsbot)
We are sure that this fully automated approach for different uses cases brings
a new angle into the CI/CT space. Properly packaging software (incl. signing)
is still not that easy and many tend to work around it. Attendees will get new
ideas how to fully automate the process of transforming source code to a
ready-to-use package and not only parts of it.
During this talk we'll show a complete CI/CT pipeline and how we automated the
following tasks:
* Render and publish RST / sphinx based documentation
* Build and publish packages (deb + rpm) on a public repository (incl. signing)
The idea is to automate the whole pipeline starting simple with application
testing and finally deploying it or building and publishing the appropriate
packages and documentations.
The process is automated with GitLab, GitLab-CI, Docker and several smaller
projects we have published on GitHub:
* pyaptly (https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/pyaptly)
* pkgbuild-bot (https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/gitlab-pkgbot)
* docbuild-bot (https://github.com/adfinis-sygroup/gitlab-docsbot)
We are sure that this fully automated approach for different uses cases brings
a new angle into the CI/CT space. Properly packaging software (incl. signing)
is still not that easy and many tend to work around it. Attendees will get new
ideas how to fully automate the process of transforming source code to a
ready-to-use package and not only parts of it.
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Michael Hofer
2017-05-28T17:00:00+02:00
15:00
01:00
Galerie
Long Talk
1320-opensuse-jurrassic-park
openSUSE & Jurrassic Park
What should we do about Containerised Applications?
Containerised Application technologies like AppImage, Snappy and Flatpak promise a brave new world for Linux applications, free from the worries of shared libraries and dependency issues. Just one problem, this is a road long travelled before, such as in the application dark ages of Win32 applications and DLLs. And it worked out so wonderfully there... Do we risk a future where, like the resurrected dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, this family of applications will break their containment and start eating our users? This session will try to present a fair argument about the situation, frankly discussing the benefits promised by these technologies, but highlighting the very real issues and risks their widespread adoption could, and in some cases are, already bringing to the table.
The talk with cover the promised benefits of application containers, such as AppImage, Snappy and Flatpak. It will detail the empowerment of developers who use the technologies, the ability for upstream projects to have a much closer role in delivering their software, and the benefits that brings to both the upstream projects and their users. But as a counter to those benefits, the session will detail some of the risks and responsibilities that come with that technology. The complexities of library integration, the risk of introducing new forms of dependency issues, and the transference of responsibility for those issues, plus security, away from the current Distributions delivering upstream projects towards those upstream projects directly. As a conclusion, the session will start to ask the question, what the hell should openSUSE do about this mess? How much can we help fix it or mitigate the problems? How much do we want to be involved in that new world?
Containerised Application technologies like AppImage, Snappy and Flatpak promise a brave new world for Linux applications, free from the worries of shared libraries and dependency issues. Just one problem, this is a road long travelled before, such as in the application dark ages of Win32 applications and DLLs. And it worked out so wonderfully there... Do we risk a future where, like the resurrected dinosaurs of Jurassic Park, this family of applications will break their containment and start eating our users? This session will try to present a fair argument about the situation, frankly discussing the benefits promised by these technologies, but highlighting the very real issues and risks their widespread adoption could, and in some cases are, already bringing to the table.
The talk with cover the promised benefits of application containers, such as AppImage, Snappy and Flatpak. It will detail the empowerment of developers who use the technologies, the ability for upstream projects to have a much closer role in delivering their software, and the benefits that brings to both the upstream projects and their users. But as a counter to those benefits, the session will detail some of the risks and responsibilities that come with that technology. The complexities of library integration, the risk of introducing new forms of dependency issues, and the transference of responsibility for those issues, plus security, away from the current Distributions delivering upstream projects towards those upstream projects directly. As a conclusion, the session will start to ask the question, what the hell should openSUSE do about this mess? How much can we help fix it or mitigate the problems? How much do we want to be involved in that new world?
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Richard Brown
2017-05-28T13:00:00+02:00
11:00
03:00
Seminarraum 2
Workshop
1370-deploy-ceph-with-salt
Deploy ceph with salt
Diving into the Deepsea
Deploying ceph manually can be a very tedious and challenging task. Luckily ceph-deploy, based on ssh, arose and made the deployment a bit easier, but... it does not scale.
Salt does not care if you have 1 or 10000 nodes. That's why we chose it to build a tool that allows ceph deployment and management at a (almost) infinite scale.
If you always wanted to deploy ceph but never knew how? Come by.
Deploying ceph manually can be a very tedious and challenging task. Luckily ceph-deploy, based on ssh, arose and made the deployment a bit easier, but... it does not scale.
Salt does not care if you have 1 or 10000 nodes. That's why we chose it to build a tool that allows ceph deployment and management at a (almost) infinite scale.
If you always wanted to deploy ceph but never knew how? Come by.
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Joshua Schmid
2017-05-28T16:00:00+02:00
14:00
01:30
Seminarraum 2
Short Workshop
1270-opensuse-reproducible-builds-discussion-round
openSUSE reproducible builds discussion round
where to go
addendum to my reproducible builds presentation (that should be scheduled before this)
to discuss with Dimstar, Ludwig and other interested parties about the future of reproducible builds for openSUSE
addendum to my reproducible builds presentation (that should be scheduled before this)
to discuss with Dimstar, Ludwig and other interested parties about the future of reproducible builds for openSUSE
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Bernhard M.
2017-05-28T15:00:00+02:00
13:00
03:00
Seminarraum 1
Workshop
1348-packaging-workshop
Packaging workshop.
Packaging - How hard can it be (not very)
The packaging team at SUSE would like to run a packaging workshop to introduce people to the concepts behind packaging and OBS, while I am organizing this workshop I will be helped by other members of the packaging team. We will start with the basics then potentially move to some more advanced areas. To make the most of the workshop participants will need to bring a laptop.
We could probably make this work in 1.5 hrs but depending on the numbers we may need 3.
The packaging team at SUSE would like to run a packaging workshop to introduce people to the concepts behind packaging and OBS, while I am organizing this workshop I will be helped by other members of the packaging team. We will start with the basics then potentially move to some more advanced areas. To make the most of the workshop participants will need to bring a laptop.
We could probably make this work in 1.5 hrs but depending on the numbers we may need 3.
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Simon Lees