Join us for Open Source Fridays meetup via Skype with the Azure Global Black belts (GBBs). This online meet-up style Skype session will cover various Open Source and Linux solutions across Data, Artificial Intelligence, Applications and Infrastructure solutions on the Microsoft Azure cloud. We will highlight various ways Microsoft has embraced open source and the contributions back into OSS.
This is a monthly meetup for the first friday of each month and will start at 11:00 AM Eastern Time/8:00 AM Pacific Time on this Skype link. The next session is September 28, 2018. Calendar invites can also be dowloaded here: https://aka.ms/OSSFridaysInvite.
Agenda for November 16, 2018
- Container Basics
- Why Container Orchestration
- Container hosting choices on Azure
- Partner Spotlight – Altoros
- Cloud Native OSS solutions with Containers on Azure
- Customer examples
- Q&A
You can view previous recordings here: https://aka.ms/OSSFridays.
Previous session agendas:
Agenda for November 9, 2018
- OSS Updates
- Automation and Orchestration using Ansible on Microsoft Azure
- Overview of Ansible capabilities, roadmap and partnership
- Walkthru of integration of Ansible playbooks to rapidly deploy both PaaS and IaaS resources
- Partner Spotlight – SNP Technologies
- Data Center Migrations to Azure
- Q&A
Agenda for October 26, 2018
- Intro to Artificial Intelligence
- Microsoft’s Cloud AI Platform Overview
- Partner Spotlight – Blue Metal
- Real world customer stories on Microsoft’s AI platform
- Q&A
September 28, 2018
- Microsoft Ignite 2018 announcement recap – 25 minutes
- App/Dev
- Data
- Artificial Intelligence
- Infrastructure
- Deep dive topic of the month – 25 minutes
- Azure Databricks Delta
- Q&A
June 1, 2018
- Intros and updates
- OSS @ //Build 2018 recap
- Partner Spotlights
- Open Q&A
May 4, 2018
- Intros and updates
- Hackathons and workshops
- Azure Container Instances (ACI) GA
- Azure Sphere
- Partner Spotlights
- Dremio – Self-service BI for Big Data as well as tools around data access connectors for variety of big data systems
- MongoDB – One of the most popular document databases for modern applications. MongoDB Atlas is a fully automated cloud service in Azure that is optimized for high throughput, low latency, for the most demanding workloads at scale.
- Open Q&A
April 6, 2018
- Intros and updates
- High Performance Computing (HPC) in Azure
- MySQL and PostGres as a Service
- Azure Databricks
- Partner Spotlights
- DataStax – Managed DataStax Enterprise (PaaS DSE)
- Chef – Developer tools such as Habitat
- Open Q&A
March – no meetup this month
February 2, 2018
- Intros and updates
- OSS PaaS spotlight of the month – CosmosDB
- MongoDB API
- Gremlin (Graph) API
- Partner Spotlights
- Avere – Scalable and High Performance NFS on Azure
- Qubole – Autoscaling retail analytics platform
- Open Q&A
December 1, 2017
- Intros and updates
- OSS Events calendar
- Partner Spotlights
- Databricks – Azure Databricks PaaS for collaborative workspaces and fast analytics
- Red Hat – Openshift Container Platform on Azure
- Open Q&A
November 3, 2017
- Intros and updates
- AKS – Managed Kubernetes service
- OSS Events calendar
- Partner Spotlights
- Docker – MTA update and K8S announcement
- Cloudera – Altus PaaS preview and demo
- Open Q&A
October 6, 2017
- Microsoft's transformation with Open Source
- John Gossman – Distinguished engineer & Linux Foundation board member
- Recap of OSS events and happenings since the last OSSFridays
- Ignite 2017 review of OSS News
- Partner Spotlight: Pivotal.io
- Pivotal and Microsoft's partnership & technical investment areas
- Modernizing the application platform with Pivotal Cloud Foundry
- Open Q&A
Please contact us at GBBOSS@microsoft.com if you have any questions or have any opportunities you need GBB help with.