brainstorming for UDS-N - Cloud Infrastructure

[Stéphane Graber]

On Tue, 2010-09-28 at 21:59 +0200, Allison Randal wrote:
> Server topics are included in all the other tracks, but the UDS team
> called out cloud technology for special attention. It's an area where
> Ubuntu is one of the leading players in driving innovation, which means
> it's a big opportunity for us as a community to make a difference in the
> world at large. This includes being a good guest and being a good host,
> as well as evaluating new technologies.
> 
> What's high on your list for this area?
> Allison

I guess an important topic when thinking of server is virtualization and
contextualization both for flexibility and security.

I believe we can greatly improve our VM server solution (my biggest wish
at the moment is for some kind of ACLs on VMs running in libvirt) and
prepare to have a rocking solution for the next LTS.

Contextualization is also something I use everyday as the current policy
at my employer is to have a full container per service. That means that
I currently administer a few hundreds VZ containers just for our
internal infrastructure (a few thousands if including customers).

Containers offer a lot of flexibility at a very low cost and can be used
to greatly improve everyone's security even on the desktop.
That's really something I believe we should focus more on and I know
there's an existing interest from both the Server and Security team.
We also have the chance to have Daniel Lezcano (upstream for LXC) at UDS
this time.

-- 
Stéphane Graber
Ubuntu developer
http://www.ubuntu.com
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