Presentations

Amy Marrich
Audience: Everyone

Meet leaders from the OpenInfra Foundation, board and projects. 

Tom Yin, Vivekanandan Muthukrishnan, Amby Nagarajan
Audience: Intermediate

This demo addresses the challenges of managing latency, data locality, compliance, and availability in distributed environments. By integrating OpenStack edge cloud deployments with SONiC VPP switches over x86 servers across data centers, it enables seamless edge traffic routing through major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google) while retaining control at the edge. Optimized for IoT and AI/ML, this solution leverages network slicing to deliver a secure, multi-tenant environment. OpenStack and SONiC together provide high-performance, low-latency connectivity essential for edge computing.

Jay Faulkner
Audience: Everyone

A fully integrated OpenStack cluster, especially one utilizing Ironic or Neutron, touches all parts of an environment. Tight integration like this comes with a price: almost any issue in your environment may be surfaced as a failure or error to an end user. In this session, we will discuss how to properly monitor your OpenStack cluster, separating real-world failures from software bugs as well as how to market your cloud engineering work to nontechnical parts of the business.

Martial Michel
Audience: Everyone

OpenStack is a platform powering a vast array of scientific endeavors. The Scientific SIG is dedicated to representing and advancing the use cases and needs of research and high-performance computing atop OpenStack. If you work or play in scientific computing, come to this gathering of the SIG to connect with colleagues, discuss common interests, and help make OpenStack better for doing science!

Mark Wong, Stacey Haysler
Audience: Everyone
Topic: PostgreSQL

Various PostgreSQL community members attend SCaLE and are willing to meet with attendees and answer any questions. Many aspects of the community are covered: User groups, conference organization, core development, exhibitions, advocates and more! Please come and ask any questions!

Ryan Jarvinen, Evan Shortiss, Christian Hernandez
Audience: Advanced
Topic: Cloud Native

In this hands-on workshop attendees will learn the basics of how to use Argo Rollouts to progressively roll out apps. In this lab you will learn how to:
* Review the Rollouts specification
* Use Rollouts to perform a blue-green deployment
* Update the image with continuous integration and observe the blue-green progressive delivery in action
* Enhance the blue-green rollout with integrated testing by applying an AnalysisTemplate
* Update the image again and review how the AnalysisTemplate works
* Use Rollouts to perform a canary deployment with progressive delivery

Adam Christian
Audience: Everyone
Topic: Developer

In today’s world, we have advanced tools for testing and deploying apps, but internal engineering documentation is stuck in outdated practices like copy-pasting from wikis. Runme (runme.dev) rethinks documentation by turning Markdown into interactive Notebooks, using DevContainers for reliable dependencies, typed .ENV files for managing config/secrets, and cloud-native integrations. In just minutes, engineers can create interactive, testable docs that streamline processes and improve efficiency across teams.

Leigh Capili, Tom Bereknyei
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: Cloud Native

How many layers can you put in a container?
Do you know why there's a limit?

Containers are a fantastic virtualization technology.
They even have some packaging properties!

However, we can learn a lot of new cloud-native magic tricks if we bring packaging discipline a little further through the stack of bits that make up our container image layers and OCI manifests.

Nix uses stores that isolate packages into hashed folders that can be used independently from each other and combined with each other!

Sounds a lot like a container registry, doesn't it?

Rob Royce
Audience: Everyone

ROSA is an open-source AI agent developed at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to help develop, debug, troubleshoot, and operate robotic systems. It enables developers and operators to converse with robotic systems using natural language. ROSA is deeply integrated with ROS (Robot Operating System), a very popular open-source framework used to develop robotic systems. ROSA uses the various ROS tools to retrieve telemetry data, understand the underlying systems, parse log files, issue commands, and much more.

Jimmy Angelakos
Audience: Intermediate
Topic: PostgreSQL

Row-Level Security (RLS) in PostgreSQL is awesome, as it allows you to isolate each user or tenant's data, lock it down and default to "deny access"... but it sucks because it makes assumptions about your application that are not applicable in many cases.

Especially if your applications were developed without RLS in mind and you use a single app user to connect to the database, it's impossible to use RLS in any meaningful way.

In this talk, we'll look at possible ways to roll out RLS that can let you take advantage of this powerful feature in the real world.