Brad Topol

My O'Reilly OSCON Keynote presentation with Pedro Cruz on The Role of Open Source in Mitigating Natural Disasters.

KubeCon Panel Discussion: Leveraging Cloud Native Technology to Transform Your Enterprise. I was on a great KubeCon panel with Cheryl Hung (CNCF), Jeff Brewer(Intuit), and Ken Owens (Mastercard)on Leveraging Cloud Native Technologies to Transform your Enterprise.

My KubeCon presentation with Michael Elder on how to leverage Kubernetes to Support 12 Factor for Enterprise Apps.

My Kubernetes in the Enterprise Book co-authoered with Michael Elder and Jake Kitchener

This blog article is focused on enabling software developers new to Kubernetes to more quickly learn the Kubernetes source code. It provides a deep dive on Kubectl and describes valuable tools for learning the Kubernetes source code.

I recently co-authored a book on OpenStack Keystone with my colleagues Steve Martinelli and Henry Nash. Look for it to be available soon!

OpenStack continues to experience significant innovation in the area of federated identity and federated service provider support for OpenStack based hybrid clouds. In this presentation we will provide a brief overview of the federated functionality that was available in previous Keystone Releases (Icehouse and Juno). We then provide an overview of the newest innovations in Keystone for supporting hybrid clouds. We will share an overview of key new features such as support for OpenID Connect… Show more

OpenStack continues to experience significant innovation in the area of federated identity and federated service provider support for OpenStack based hybrid clouds. In this presentation we will provide a brief overview of the federated functionality that was available in previous Keystone Releases (Icehouse and Juno). We then provide an overview of the newest innovations in Keystone for supporting hybrid clouds. We will share an overview of key new features such as support for OpenID Connect and tighter integration with OpenStack's dashboard (Horizon). We will also provide an overview of how our OpenStack superuser, CERN, is leveraging the Keystone hybrid federation support and enhancing it with a discovery service for greater usability and scalability. We then provide a deep dive into the inner workings of Keystone's hybrid cloud support and describe the typical configurations required for deployment of this new capability. Lastly, we describe best practices for how to i) configure Keystone to interoperate with mod_shib , ii) configure Horizon to perform single sign-on for a federated hybrid cloud, and iii) configure a common mapping that will work with Keystone's hybrid support. Show less

As federation for hybrid cloud continues to come to the forefront, we plan on discussing how IBM and it's offerings plan to support hybrid scenarios and how to take advantage of Keystone's fundamental work in the area. We will begin the presentation by defining hybrid cloud and common scenarios. We will demonstrate how IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack (ICM) can be used to interoperate with another OpenStack deployment (ICM or SoftLayer), to deliver a hybrid cloud environment using the… Show more

As federation for hybrid cloud continues to come to the forefront, we plan on discussing how IBM and it's offerings plan to support hybrid scenarios and how to take advantage of Keystone's fundamental work in the area. We will begin the presentation by defining hybrid cloud and common scenarios. We will demonstrate how IBM Cloud Manager with OpenStack (ICM) can be used to interoperate with another OpenStack deployment (ICM or SoftLayer), to deliver a hybrid cloud environment using the Keystone-to-Keystone federation that was available in the Juno release of OpenStack. We will also discuss the key differences between a client managed ICM as opposed to a vendor managed ICM.We intend to have a demo that showcases the Keystone-to-Keystone feature in action. At a minimum, we would have an application that shows a user from one cloud can be trusted to access resources (spin up a VM) on another cloud. This will be shown either using a python program, the CLI, or (if functioning) the Horizon web interface. Show less

Enterprise readiness, quality improvements and user experience enhancemens are just a few of the highlights of the latest release of OpenStack codenamed Kilo. As the OpenStack ecosystem celebrates yet another successful milestone, I wanted to honor all of OpenStack’s developers by highlighting some of the best new features users can expect in this latest release as well as celebrate some truly amazing contributions by team IBM.

A key feature of any cloud infrastructure is the ability to provide auditing capabilities for compliance with security, operational and business processes. Firms can verify this compliance by leveraging a solid auditing mechanism. This article provides an overview of the enhancements made in a few recent OpenStack projects to support application programming interface (API) and security auditing through the Distributed Management Task Force’s Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF) standard and… Show more

A key feature of any cloud infrastructure is the ability to provide auditing capabilities for compliance with security, operational and business processes. Firms can verify this compliance by leveraging a solid auditing mechanism. This article provides an overview of the enhancements made in a few recent OpenStack projects to support application programming interface (API) and security auditing through the Distributed Management Task Force’s Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF) standard and also covers how the QRadar Security Intelligence Platform to process these standard audit records and perform threat and incident analysis on them. Show less

Among the many cloud services, cloud object storage has perhaps experienced the most growth. It is commonly used for storing photographs, images documents, and audio and video files. Every day, people find new uses for their favorite object store. Regardless of the purpose of the application you are developing, understanding cloud object storage services is an essential part of building a real-world, scalable solution.

In this presentation, we describe the federated identity enhancements we have added to support Keystone to Keystone federation for enabling hybrid cloud functionality. We begin with an overview of key hybrid cloud use cases that have been identified by our stakeholders including those being encountered by OpenStack superuser CERN.

Enterprise readiness and user experience improvements are just a few of the highlights of the latest release of OpenStack, codenamed Juno. As the OpenStack ecosystem celebrates yet another successful milestone, I wanted to honor all of OpenStack’s developers by highlighting some of the best new features that users can expect in this latest release, as well as celebrate some truly amazing contributions by team IBM.

OpenStack is open source software for building public and private clouds that provides an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. Keystone is an OpenStack subproject that provides identity services, including user authentication and authorization, for the OpenStack family of projects. Learn how to integrate Keystone's recently released federated identity capability with IBM® Tivoli® Federated Identity Manager (TFIM).

IBM Open Technologies Demo of TOSCA OpenStack Heat-Translator. This demo represents an early version of the Heat-Translator project code as shown during the OpenStack Summit, in Atlanta, May 12-16, 2014.

Provides a summary of my personal contributions to OpenStack

This session will hone in on service provider federation and explain how enterprises can identify trust-based relationships to implement federation solutions for OpenStack environments

In this talk we provide an overview of the recent enhancements made in OpenStack projects to support API and security auditing using the DMTF Cloud Auditing Data Federation (CADF) standard.

This article presents an early preview of the key IBM contributions in the Icehouse release of OpenStack

OpenStack is open source software for building public and private clouds that provide an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) platform. Keystone is an OpenStack subproject that provides identity services, including user authentication and authorization, for the OpenStack family of projects. This article shows how to configure Keystone to use a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) server as its back end for identity services, instead of the default SQL back end.

Transcoding is technology for adapting content to match constraints and preferences associated with specific environments. This paper compares and contrasts different approaches to content adapta tion, including authoring different versions to accommodate different environments, using application server technology such as JavaServer pages™ (JSP™) to create multiple versions of dynamic applications, and dynamically transcoding information generated by a single application. For dynamic… Show more

Transcoding is technology for adapting content to match constraints and preferences associated with specific environments. This paper compares and contrasts different approaches to content adapta tion, including authoring different versions to accommodate different environments, using application server technology such as JavaServer pages™ (JSP™) to create multiple versions of dynamic applications, and dynamically transcoding information generated by a single application. For dynamic transcoding, the paper describes several different transcoding methodologies employed by the IBM WebSphere™ Transcoding Publisher product, including HyperText Markup Language (HTML) simplification, Extensible Markup Language stylesheet selection and application, HTML conversion to WML, WML deck fragmentation, and image transcoding. Show less