Above and Beyond the Platform with CentOS Linux

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== Type

Presentation

== Category

Developer, Operations

== Biography

Since 2000 Karsten has been teaching and living the open source way. As part of Red Hat's Open Source and Standards team, he helps with Red Hat community activities. As a 19 year IT industry veteran, Karsten has worked as an IT manager, professional services consultant, technical writer, and developer advocate. Recently Karsten has joined the CentOS Project as a Board member, Red Hat liaison on the Board, and engineering team manager.

He lives in his hometown of Santa Cruz, CA with his wife and two daughters on their small urban farm, Fairytale Farm, where they grow food and nurture sustainable community living. 

Karsten has been a keynote and session speaker, panelist, and organizer at open source conferences, including Linux Collab Summit, SCALE, OSCON, Community One, Community Leadership Summit, FUDCON, Open Source Bridge, Linux Fest North West, and the Red Hat Summit.

== Abstract (sub-900 char)

Which favorite Linux platform has grown beyond providing a slow-moving rebuild of enterprise Linux? Which Linux platform is emerging as a top choice for open source community proofs, development, testing, and production environments?

Since Jan 2015 the CentOS Project has moved far beyond the core Linux rebuild that built the project's reputation. Through an open & transparent community process, special interest groups are building emerging technologies on top of the core Linux platform. Diverse SIG examples include OpenStack (RDO) and the Xen Project, ARM-65 (AArch64) and cloud providers, and Project Atomic (Vagrant, Docker, & more) and NFV/SDN.

Underlying all this is a community build system cbs.centos.org and a fresh CI infrastructure ci.centos.org, which are used by SIGs to build and test continuously against the entire stack on top of the latest CentOS linux versions.

== Audience will gain (sub-900 char)

Although there is a growing awareness, many people are still not aware of how much more there is to CentOS Linux as a platform for open source development work.

This talk introduces the audience to new variants of CentOS such as Docker containers, Vagrant and cloud provider images, and emerging technology stacks.

Developers and operators will learn how they can not only consume but help create variants of CentOS Linux.

== Content better Linux/open source ecosystem (sub-900 char)

Even while the emerging technology discussions such as containers, configuration, and orchestration are focused on items above the base Linux platform, none of those technologies can work without a solid OS underneath them.

The CentOS Linux platform has been a go-to for developers and administrators for a long time, even more so now. As the CentOS Project expands beyond supporting just the core Linux platform, it has opened the doorway for a new generation of open source projects to find success.

This presentation will inform developers and operators about what is available and how to use emerging technologies on top of CentOS Linux.

== Experience level

Any

== Technical requirements

None