OpenInfra Foundation Courses

Open-Source GenAI on OpenStack - Part Two Stable Diffusion

Explore deploying Stable Diffusion and open-source GenAI models on GPU-enabled OpenStack infrastructure for secure, scalable, self-hosted AI services with data sovereignty.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

United Nations International Computing Centre's Journey with OpenStack

Discover how UNICC built UNIQCloud, a sovereign OpenStack deployment designed for UN operations, emphasizing digital privacy, security, and vendor independence in critical environments.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Operator Nightmares in the Trenches of CERN's OpenStack Cloud

Discover real-world challenges and solutions from CERN's 12-year OpenStack cloud operations, including troubleshooting critical bugs and managing complex upgrades in production.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GAIA - CINECA's Large-Scale HPC Cloud Infrastructure for Scientific and Technological Research

Discover CINECA's GAIA, a massive OpenStack-based HPC cloud with 500 servers, 10PB Ceph storage, and GPU support for scientific research, plus load testing strategies using Rally.

• YouTube
• 25 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

OpenStack Clients - CLI and TUI for OpenStack Written in Rust

Discover how new Rust-based CLI and TUI tools simplify OpenStack operations, offering better performance, easier resource management, and improved user experience for cloud administrators.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Lessons Learned from Replacing Magnum with Gardener on OpenStack

Discover how to replace Magnum with Gardener on OpenStack, exploring Kubeception architecture, integration challenges, and production insights from a year of real-world deployment.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Multi-Arch OpenStack in Production - ARM64/x86 Bare Metal and Hypervisors with Kolla-Ansible

Discover how to deploy ARM64 and x86 architectures side-by-side in production OpenStack using Kolla-Ansible, multi-arch images, and unified provisioning with real-world insights.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Taming the Kraken - Experiences with Open Storage in the Field

Explore real-world open storage deployment experiences, Ceph's challenges, design considerations, performance insights, and practical integration with cloud infrastructure.

• YouTube
• 36 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Accelerating Bioinformatics AI Use Cases with Kubernetes

Discover how Kubernetes and OpenStack accelerate bioinformatics AI workloads, focusing on protein language models, GPU optimization, and MLOps best practices for computational biology research.

• YouTube
• 37 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Steps Down the OpenAPI Path

Discover OpenStack's journey implementing OpenAPI v3.1 specifications across services, exploring milestones, benefits, API complexities, and client improvements achieved so far.

• YouTube
• 34 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Architecting a Managed Kubernetes Service on OpenStack for Public Cloud Delivery

Discover how to architect a secure, scalable managed Kubernetes service on OpenStack with decoupled etcd, isolated control planes, and multi-AZ high availability for public cloud.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

2 Billion Objects, Multi Region Sync - Pushing Ceph RGW to Hyperscaler Scale

Discover how Ceph RGW achieves hyperscaler performance with 2 billion object multi-region sync, dynamic resharding optimizations, and vendor-neutral S3 storage for hybrid clouds.

• YouTube
• 26 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Building a Sovereign DBaaS Supporting OpenStack

Discover how to implement a scalable, sovereign database-as-a-service for open-source databases on OpenStack with practical Kubernetes control plane design and automation techniques.

• YouTube
• 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

FlagRelease - Building a Unified Platform for Automated AI Model Migrations

Discover how FlagRelease automates AI model migration across diverse chip architectures, tackling cross-platform compatibility challenges with open-source toolchains and CI/CD pipelines.

• YouTube
• 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Keystone - Native Federation Support, Advanced Auth Security, Rust

Discover how Keystone's redesigned federation support enables seamless user identity management across platforms using OpenIDConnect, JWT workload auth, SCIM sync, and FIDO security tokens.

• YouTube
• 45 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video