LinuxCon Brazil 2011 | Presentations

Introducing SlapOS, Turn Your Linux Into a Cloud Node

SlapOS is a distributed, open source, Cloud operating system, which can turn any existing Linux Machine into a Cloud Computing Node. With SlapOS, anyone can become a Cloud provider, sell Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) or Infrastructure as a Service (PaaS). With SlapOS it does not matter if one uses their own private hardware infrastructure or public, shared infrastructure. SlapOS can accommodate the diversity of Cloud resources and gather them as if they were yours. SlapOS also helps optimizing resource usage between different Cloud providers. In this presentations aims to introduce SlapOS concepts, philosophy and innovative design. It will be introduced how to become cloud computing provider (SaaS, IaaS or PaaS) with average hardware running Linux Distribution (almost any kind), for this, it will be used Wordpress and KVM, as examples for kind of softwares and/or virtual machines that SlapOS is already able to provide.

Rafael Monnerat

Rafael works at Nexedi Brazil Director and core developer of ERP5 BR Project. Participated in several ERP Implementation and R&D projects world wide. In addition to ERP5, Rafael is core developer of several others Open Source Cloud Computing Applications, like SlapOS, CloudOOo, UNG and Vifib. Co-Author of the book chapter "ERP5: Designing for Maximum Adaptability" (Beautiful Code), and few others book chapters and academic papers.