Hello everyone. Thank you for joining me on this session. My name is Titus Kurek. I'm a product manager at Townally Cow. And today I'm going to talk about Microstack. So Microstack is an open stack on rails solution that allows you to install Microstack very quickly in the most straightforward available way. This session is going to be followed by a quick demo during which I will demonstrate how to install and use Microstack on my workstation. And hopefully there will be time for some questions and answers. So once we wrap up the session, we'll open the panel for questions. So at the beginning, I'm going to talk about two phases of OpenStack. So the first phase of OpenStack is that OpenStack is awesome. And we all know that like we are here because we believe that OpenStack is awesome. It combines market-sized worldwide. It's around a billion of dollars, which is very impressive. It's much higher compared to the market share of the containers market. OpenStack is one of the three biggest open source projects. And only three open source projects achieve this number of involvement from various companies, from various organizations, from various developers. And this is OpenStack, Linux Kernel, and Chromium. What we observe at Canonical and based on the data that are provided by various independent research institutions is that its adoption is constantly growing. If you have a look on the chart below, various proprietary solutions for private cloud implementation. Their adoption is declining while the adoption of OpenStack continues to grow, which is great. And finally, it is very major project. This year, OpenStack has been celebrating its 10 years anniversary. It's been available for 10 years. It's being supported by various companies and independent organizations. It achieves a level when it is really major. And its directions moving forward are going to focus on providing even more stability. So OpenStack is awesome and we all know about that. But unfortunately, OpenStack has second state. This is that it is complex and huge. It is a giant beast. If you have a look at the number of services that are currently available there for OpenStack, there are 32 services plus a number of supporting tools. Obviously, you don't need all of them, right? If you're about to run OpenStack in a data center, in a production environment, you're still probably going to struggle with at least 10 of those primary services, right? Now, each of those services, using a number of configuration files, each configuration file consists of a number of parameters. How are you going to absorb all of that knowledge? Will you be able to configure OpenStack to your desired ultimate state manually? Of course, no. And it is a known fact that OpenStack deployment used to be painful. In fact, there are various commercial OpenStack distributions available around which help you to at least abstract this complexity during the deployment phase so that you don't have to bother about all of the services, all of the processes running, all of the configuration files, every single line in a configuration file. But this is just one portion of the problem. The other problem is that OpenStack operations used to be even more painful. The successful deployment of a cloud is usually just the beginning of the journey. The entire cloud has to be operated effectively for deployment. So OpenStack operations used to be even more painful. And finally, back to this point that it is a huge beast. A typical production deployment consists of at least 12 nodes. So if you're about to set up a lab environment where you just want to experiment with OpenStack or if you were looking for OpenStack as a solution for your edge, it's OpenStack really unanswerable because with all of these overheads, it may turn out that you actually won't be able to successfully use it either on your workstation or in your development environment or on your edge. So this is the second phase of OpenStack. What if you don't need all of this complexity? What if you just need OpenStack? What if you need basic OpenStack services? If you don't need all of those container, per-metal, short-fire system services, just the basic goodness of OpenStack, which is typically Keystone, Glance, Nova, Neutron, and Cinder. What if you don't really care about various extensions, about various configuration options in its configuration files? What if you can just go with the default map? And finally, what if you don't need this cluster consisting of 12 nodes and all you need is just a lightweight OpenStack on Rails solution? Well, if you're looking for something like that, then I hope I have an answer for you. So at the end of the day, we may ask ourselves the question, why not just a single package? Why shouldn't we package all of OpenStack components together with all of their dependencies so that you would be able to install it in a single command and just start using it without struggling with all of this complexity behind its deployment and post-deployment operations? So if you're looking for a solution like that, then I hope I have an answer for you. And this answer is Microstack. So Microstack is an OpenStack in a snap, which means that all of its services with all of their dependencies are packaged together in a single error type that can be just installed by running a snub install command. There's another command to initiate it after the installation, but this is all you need. There are just two commands to set up an OpenStack class. If I'm going to present all of that during my demo part of this presentation, but if you would be looking to try OpenStack on your workstation, then I would encourage you to visit the following website, Microstack.run, or ubuntu.com slash OpenStack slash install, where you will find detailed information about how to install Microstack in just these two steps. So let's not have a look at what's behind Microstack, what's behind this OpenStack on Rails solution. So there are just basic services that are available in Microstack, but as mentioned before, they give you all of the goodness, all of the traditional goodness of OpenStack that you usually need to start your journey. You will find keystone there, you will find the horizon dashboard, glance for images, nova for compute, cinder for storage, neutron for networking, neutron comes with OVM by default, OVM is open source SVM platform that runs on the top of OVM, and what's also worth calling out is that clustering is also available in Microstack. So you can have, if you're looking for a solution where you would be running more than one server, then you can clustered Microstack so that you would be able to use multiple servers at the same time. With regards to minimal requirements, it's a multi-core processor and 16 gigabytes of RAM, so if you're running a typical developer laptop, you should be able to install it on your workstation. So as stated before, Microstack is an OpenStack for testing and development, you can get it up and running on your workstation, but it's also OpenStack for the edge. So if you have a look at what the trends are with the edge computing nowadays is that obviously the data center is going to remain as the key technology powering the infrastructure of organization. And we see OpenStack being deployed in the data center. This can be any type of an OpenStack, this can be Chound OpenStack, it can be AirShift, it can be Ansible powered OpenStack. And then on the edge, we see a bunch of satellite clouds, micro clouds, which typically run either on a single server or just a very small number of the servers like kind of a mini rack with three or five servers. And for this kind of a micro cloud approach, Microstack is the most straightforward way to go. But if you're looking for an OpenStack for the data center, that Microstack fits there as well. So the quick answer is yes, of course, you can use Microstack in the data center as well, like it provides clustering, so as stated before, you can get it up and running across a number of bare metal machines. But one thing you have to remember is that it's an OpenStack on Rails solution, right? It is a snap-based install that the most straightforward way to get OpenStack up and running is very light-based, but it's also opinionated. What does it mean? It means that it's not really configurable. So you only get those basic services and they come with the default value in the configuration file. So if you're looking for a more decent solution for the data center for an OpenStack in the data center, then my recommendation would be to have a look at Charm OpenStack, which is another distribution for OpenStack addressing all of its complexity, but in a different venue, providing a model-driven approach towards its deployment and operations. It's Charm-based, it's composable, configurable, provides lifecycle management capabilities, and it works at any scale. So when you go with your journey with Microstack, it's about making a decision that at some point you need a more powerful solution. So you've got the case, then you can switch to using Charm's OpenStack. But let's get back to Microstack and also analyze the differences between Microstack and solutions like DevStack or PackStack that also provide this kind of an OpenStack on Rails solution. So if you have a look at the differences listed here, the main benefit of Microstack is that all services are available in a single package, which is not the case with Azure Desktop or PackStack. It is a zero open stack because SNAPs receive automatic updates. There is a commercial support available from Chemical for Microstack, while DevStack and PackStack are just kind of a development and testing solutions. It provides the most straightforward deployment with a single command to install it and just another command to initiate it, which is again not the case with DevStack or PackStack. And obviously the disadvantage of Microstack compared to DevStack or PackStack is that it's not configurable. So again, it's an opinionated, SNAP-based OpenStack on Rails solution coming with basic set of services and default values in the configuration file. And now I'm going to move to the demo part of this presentation. So I'm going to switch to my terminal window where I have Microstack already installed because all of this process takes up to 20 minutes. So I ran this command before. We start with Microstack installation using some flags. Then it's just a matter of how quickly can it be downloaded on your local network. And then you run the Microstack init command that takes care of the initial services configuration. And while it's complete, we can start interacting with Microstack using the standard OpenStack client. So I can run something like OpenStack Capital List to display all of the services that are running here and start interacting with all of those APIs. But I can also go to the web GUI. It takes a while. One thing you have to remember is that it's still fully functional OpenStack. And I'm just running Dell Inspiron with limited resources. So it takes some time. But here we go. It's coming. I'm going to use the default username and password that's set during the Microstack installation. And I get the regular OpenStack dashboard. It's 100% upstream, so there's no customization here. It's just like a typical OpenStack that it gets up and running when installed on the O1. And now we can start navigating. We can check images. So there's a serious image downloaded by default. And now what I'm going to do in the next step is to instantiate the testing stones on my Microstack cloud. So obviously I can use, oh, sorry, obviously I can use typical OpenStack client commands as well as server create. But there's just a shorter command available with Microstack that you can use to spin up your test instance. We can move to the instances in the GUI to see whether it's coming. It is not coming yet, but as I stated, it takes some time. So we're about to wait and try to refresh. Here we go. It's building. So it's going to be available in a second. Now it's active. And a server test to launch. The instance has been successfully built. And we can install it. Sorry, we can access it by using a command that's provided here. So we're now inside of the instance on Microstack. We can run some basic commands. For example, let's check the uptime. And that's basically it. So again, what we get as a result is a single node OpenStack running on my workstation. It's 100% upstream. And it can be clustered. So if I would be running, if I was about to run OpenStack across a number of physical nodes, this is also available. And you can refer to those installation instructions that I provided at the beginning of this presentation to get Microstack up and running in a cluster mode. So that's basically it as for the demo and as for this presentation. I hope you enjoyed it. I would encourage you to give Microstack a shot. It's really just 20 minutes to get it up and running on your workstation. One thing that's worth calling out is that if you install it and you just want to remove it because it's consuming some resources on your side, there's only a single command to again uninstall it from your workstation. So that's all with regards to the presentation and the demo. I will be glad to answer any questions that you may have. Thank you very much.


Hello and welcome I Am giving a talk today about a topic that I personally think it's not shouldn't be necessary to give a talk about that And for a long time it has not been necessary because Nearly every group we did know and that was around did actually do precisely that I want to encourage All of the newer groups now to actually also do This talk is about running your own fucking infrastructure It came up as rent talk on tour camp When I discovered that the whole tour camp was completely run on Google groups Google documents and everything else that you could see that this company from Silicon Valley can provide So we have the situation that on a hacker camp Actually a company that everybody likes and loves for the product has the complete data of all participants for the camp because it wasn't possible to sign up there Without a Google account That made me make the first version of this talk short beer Okay, I'm giving this talk in English because we want to have a video presentation And the idea behind that is that I don't want to give this talk anymore And actually want to point out there is a link on the internet to media CC CD or whatever the way you can look for this talk I personally think this talk shouldn't need to be given anywhere but I think if this talk would be available as a acceptable video presentation you can show it in your hacker space and encourage people there to Do all this and this is the reason why I'm giving the talk in English on a German event was Nearly exclusively German speaking people. I'm sorry. Yeah for my very English Okay Most of me most of you know me. I'm McFly. I'm actually around this CCC thingy for a bit, I guess My study at computer science at the University of Darmstadt Meanwhile had Over five years and this is slightly outdated Experience of working admin as an administrator in security related environments At the moment, I work at a payment provider in security and security specialist there and my job contains and Map and meta-sploit and all those stuff all the day.  This is a process where you possibly need to go through and iterations help there and it will end with you Understanding lots of computers in the end So why should I give this?  One of the reasons that is pretty obvious to everybody and that is mentioned here very often is if you put your stuff on the cloud The government will have access to it actually pretty easy But that's not the only reason there are other things like the Provider will modify the service you have all seen when somebody changes the website that you use heavily because some user experience Guy said do this totally different and you find it unusable and you can't do anything about that You might experience who of you has a Facebook account. Okay, you don't need to admit that But I assume they're like people in here that have a Facebook account maybe a third of you and Do you remember the last time the terms of services and Facebook changed? It does so pretty frequently. It does change a lot of the legal stuff around documents and things published there and If you want to keep your Facebook account, don't look in there ever Another problem is that a provider might cancel a server a service Rarely unknown providers might modify your data. This does happen They might steal your data and one of the worst things that actually Does happen is providers might get hacked The question you're all seeing those questions up there is who do you trust with your data? Do you want to trust a? Cloud provider that is possibly not even in your legal sphere of the country or whatever you are in or Do you want to trust in administrators that you can go to and give him a beer and given a club Marta or? Tell him what you think of the latest other things positive and yeah Well, nothing for the we had the topic for the no more positive government has access I Think today that is a question that is does not really need a long discussion anymore for a long time It meant that basically the five eyes had access to the data you put in the cloud and to other providers Today we need to say that almost every government that asked has access to the data and It's not only the police. It's Dex authorities and invigilization services and as we see in cases in America the school authority there is tons of government related groups that get at one point or another point access to your data and Not in all countries and in every case that means that there is a judge that needs to be asked before that In a lot of the cases and a lot of the countries the police just writes a mail to Facebook and Well gets the data they asked for actually they usually don't write mails They have still in this paper time where they send pieces of papers So for the stuff that's not government because there's a lots of other stuff that That are interesting there why you want to run your own fucking infrastructure Providers Changed the service from time to time Most providers that haven't changed the service in the last 10 years are actually around anymore today Only very few are and the might change their services very often. That's an improvement Sometimes that's not really improvement Very important point is there that if you start with a service that is especially in the beginning of the service free and after a certain time after an certain amount of users have been boarded it comes to this point that in the Documentations of the companies very often described as the monetization strategy Usually you get either get ads or Parts of the service will turn into what they call freemium That basically means you then suddenly have to pay to access your own data Provider mice cancel service The monetization strategy That's actually not that unimportant point for most of those service providers because if you fail there usually the service is gone after a while It very often ends in a way that it gets bought by another company and the data migrated to somewhere you can't really see or say But even in cases where the data doesn't show up anywhere else somebody of you who remembers Google Wave Who did like it See There is other cities geo cities that contains tons of tons of Free private websites is closed and not reachable anymore today mega upload dodgeball Microsoft Zune Whoever bought their music in the beginning of the digital age was Microsoft Zune. They had some DMA protected Music files that needed to talk to their home server every time you wanted to play them and At one point Microsoft decided to switch off their server and you had some time to download it I'm at mp3 and if you didn't your music's gone. Well, the music you paid for is gone provider might modify data This is a point that is very often Not really seen as one of the dangers when you when it comes to serving data in the cloud and this came I'm mostly referencing to YouTube where it is mostly most obvious Play music in a German video put it on YouTube and it's gone faster than you can count to like five And that is not only true for music that really The music companies that claim to have the rights really have the rights We had lots of problems with some videos We published about the data retention law because we had some creative common music in there And it got taken down at 20 times because of claims of Time Warner's and Sony and whatever so no, this is Claims like we have had was one of the videos we had about the forward start by showing the data retention laws We had more than 20 claims from music companies for music in there that actually was creative comments music Another interesting thing not so obvious in Germany and This is also very interesting because this gets localized If you have a video that contains fuck in Germany, you can hear the fuck And if you watch over your VPN connection as American the fuck gets silenced out this is this is a modification of data and You possibly do not really realize that you have given YouTube the right to modify your data this way Another thing that actually modifying data is Thing that's more legal wise Your data is also the stuff you put in into the websites like Facebook and stuff And if you use that you will find that they constantly modify your especially privacy settings and I'm not don't want to just bash Facebook and they're all the time most of the social media platforms actually do that Provider mine steal data Did anyone have you have you ever used these URL shortness? Did you read the documentation which company runs them and what their monetization strategy is because that's actually interesting? You completely give them the right on the data to modify search Whatever when you link them with that and they don't only mean the link with that actually the data management there and They have business models for searching for some Terms and phrases and things that get fashion So this is what this partly is used to to find the latest trends To get through all this data to get some metadata out of that and to even use your data because was all of those Instagram anyone here? Did any picture of your Instagram ever show up on a Instagram website like an ads or something I?  What happens and who accesses your data And if you then for example on your server share something over In this example Skype who does that but other do that also You will see that the first thing happening is Skype is accessing the data and then the data around that and The official excuse for that is that I need to prefetch that you don't share any malicious stuff with that but Also after pointing it out they stopped for that mmm Other thing is those people who use lots of applications Where they abuse your data they sometimes stated in the terms of services But did you ever had the problem that somebody was posting on your behalf because you accidentally allowed any application in something to whatever? This happens actually quite a lot especially in the gaming scene and for the last and the most funny of that especially here is One of the dangers you run into when you leave your cloud on your stuff in the cloud is That your stuff might get hacked This might happen also if you run your data by your own but Just imagine the size of the target that is laying around there if you can Pwn 13.7 million users compared to the 12 on the hacker space so Yeah Does anybody know how often Sony has even been hacked in the last two years because I tried to find it that out and I failed Yeah, that's The did Sony get hacked last week website that basically answers Yes, I know if Sony got hacked last week was on no for eight days in 2013 Go daddy got hacked Dropbox got hacked AT&T. There's somebody well I that's not really completely got hacked that is more they misconfigured their service and somebody Was very stupid and pointing that out so they put him to jail for that which totally makes sense Well Blizzard was heck living social rock you and I'm very sure those three points are By far not enough to describe and count all the other companies that got hacked and their data lost over the time This actually is a problem of a size that is Hardly even comes to surface because if the company's got hacked it's The common the corporate communication usually tries to keep that another carpet and And not publish too much about that it would be very interesting to get lost that forced them to inform the users of personal data When data got hacked, but this is not the case and this is not happening at all So there's way more So you see all those questions really a lot of them come to one point are you and your provider's interest really aligned Do you have the same interest as your provider does? The other answer is very clearly. Yes, if you're your own provider If not the provider might be only interested in profits due to legal reasons because most companies that are created for profit Actually are required by law to at least try to make profit Therefore keeping your data safe and private is For them a case of Balancing out the cost for security versus the benefits they have from keeping your data private So your data actually gets a price tag. That is one of the results of that.  I gave this talk on the talk amp and Everybody was like but it's a comfort was comfy to just put them on the slides, but then something happened this guy As He said I'm not really making anything up of the axis of the government. I think most of you have read Way more stuff. They hope they would never have to read somewhere in the papers about where your data travels and Where data about you travels and what data is collected about you and all the stuff besides the companies But also if it's collected by the companies The government requires just the right to access any of those data so For first for many people prison was the first case where this really become public But if you Google for that and follow the common conspiracy theories websites like FIFA or others you will easily realize that This has been going on this way at least since 1990 Where the first of those programs started? Some of them became slightly more sophisticated than they had been before some of them now target stuff that is really interesting and not like before just the noise in the internet but the Will of the security Services and all the three letter agencies to get your fingers onto your data That's nothing new that is at least since the 1990s So what to do? How many different Hacker spaces do we have here? Who from you is from Hacker space? 42 I Think a third of the people are from any Hacker space.  This is everything you should run I think today you need slightly more and it helps a lot to run more What can I run myself by myself? All those services above there are not really really complicated to run by yourself and Also, I'm very sure that several people of you will miss something for that. So if you run something for yourself One of the things you need to I'm sorry. It's hard to yeah This is the stuff that Millie ways runs by ourselves We are not a Hacker space. We are a group of people that sit around on the internet So we at some points needed some things and this came along with the making of the talk over the time We have set up all of this in I think a week and then some weekends It's not really a lot of work. I think and I propose what every Hacker space in every group here should run by themselves is for example a Java server if you have seen the CCC Java server and given the point that I owe error told in his talk everybody to use of the CCC Java server. It's not one of the biggest in the world it makes it at That big target and it makes it that big hassle to keep it running which actually is mostly the bigger problem You should run in your Hacker space email because even still today where most people think that is just the delivery pass for spam It is very important, especially together with mailing lists You want to add next the cult of and the card of because that's something where you what you actually use a lot on your mobile phone and That is a very nice place where you share a lot of data with Google automatically Just think of your phone book Fits easily and perfectly with an Android phone on the server Cloud storage we use C file for that another possibly is dropbox. There are other things For that C file works really fine. I can show some of that later for organization. We have red mime and an either pad and For most Hacker spaces having that around or at least in use not everybody needs to set up its own pad But for example for the red mime for example, I think that is if you actually do projects very very valuable for tool One of the rules that everybody knows that has done administration for while is administration is kind of work So it helps to script and monitor that and another point if you start at start in the beginning with Setting something up with a centralized address thing. I We have started with an open LDAP the guys who wrote open LDAP really like brackets and it's Set it up get it running and they would never ever look in there It's really kind of ugly, but in the end it saves a lot of work. So I think it's worth it An alternative there is privacy idea which allows to factor authorization It supplies you with an LDAP and a radios interface You can authenticate all your services websites emails Jabba and all this stuff against that But Introducing privacy idea here would be enough for its own talk that is maybe scheduled for the Mitter and Mancows days or something Yeah, and also the last point we want to put up is we'll put up all the code and the config Sniplets we had to connect all the different software because this is most of the work setting all this up In a gip until the end of the Easter egg. This is not done yet. So don't try to clone it yet Yeah the thing that saves most of the Work is actually you need to write some software around the user on today's Authentification that we can give you we hope that somebody takes it and write something even more awesome about that For us it works Let me see if I find it. This is So this is The stuff that actually takes most work and as yes as you can see it's really not complicated Everybody who has spent a while coding knows that Using this is not a lot of work You basically have a registry where you sign up with a username and password that gets submitted into a database and Administrator later moves that on into an L up. This is everything you practically know needs to do and That sounds like pretty easy and like the rest of the whole talk Which I think is from the beginning at the end kind of obvious and should need to well anyway This is the stuff you need in your daily life And it's very nice to just be able to drop this link in an IC channel should just say hey Everybody who wants to use that sign up here and Some lines later you have the people on the network and they can all use all the stuff you build is actually nice thing I thought in the beginning that not a lot of people would use that We still don't consider milliways like being Productive it's still a kind of better and stuff like that but we are at how many users we had 70 users in a short time and especially this stuff that gets used a lot which did surprise me was the C file which is the cloud Storage a lot of people use that for example to get the pictures from their mobile phones on their laptops because It's a Dropbox replacement where you start in your own a hacker space And that's everything You need to set up for the people that just everybody can use it Okay, I think there's just the thank you slides left. So Does any one of you have any questions? I'm a administrator for longer time. So I like to use the DB and given tools. I use postfix Dove cut and stuff like that for that I don't really like to use pre-built stuff in the accept in the extent this pre-built stuff comes to Docker and I like those ideas in the one side but You will import a lot of security problems Possibly what you can't really overlook into your own house In the end and Docker I looked up for something for WordPress the most famous WordPress plug WordPress doc has in somewhere down there in the area for updates something like W gets and then they get something from an HDTV website and then it possess pipe bash and This updates your Docker So I looked into that and said yeah, they possibly need some To become a bit more mature before I would use that I think in most hackers space is not really a problem to set up Postfix Dove card run cubes squirrel mail or around creep or squirrel mail And there's tons of really good how-tos on the internet to do this with DB and if you've done this more than once I don't think in a group of two three people who do administration. This shouldn't take more longer than like two hours In the whole list I have had here The whole LDAP was roughly a third of the time and the rest is basically set it up with DB on and then I connected to the LDAP and it's done So I hope in the future we will be able to provide a Docket container that we can just give around or any other container software to people to just run that At the moment I would recommend everybody to look in those containers and see what the people are doing in there and You see ugly things if you actually do Are there any more questions? Yes? there are a lot of NGOs not In hacking issues and they need the same thing they need their own infrastructure. I always Ask us and digital quality ask us what can we do and we always say go to the next heck space ask them. Is that a good idea? Depends on the heck heck of space There are some heck of spaces where I would say this is a really good idea And there are some heck of spaces where I would be careful about that If their website is hosted the worst press and the mailing list is on Google news and Google groups and their stuff. Usually it's not a good address, too They all can learn Any more questions? Well, I tried to desperately find the other slides again we ended with On cloud That we don't use for file storage Because of the caldoff and cartoff part is actually pretty decent On cloud sucks if you use the storage part we use C file for the storage, but the caldoff and cartoff is awesome If anyone has any better solutions who would be very proud to get something running there and one of the stuffs we want to do is This allows will allow comments and discussions. I hope So we look for people that want to help with that and if you look for help setting this up You can reach us the best thing to actually reach us is ISE We hang around on pound me the ways on hack and Yeah, I'm coming to the end of the talk. Nobody has any questions one question Yes, we use Ron cube with Seaf plug-in that is actually pretty neat because and this actually gets users over to your server Because everybody has this tons of mailing lists They're subscribed to and have the sun about configured their filters to filter all their stuff But they would like to have it on the server, but they never set up see if so with us you or with the stuff We have you just upload your fire your thunderbird filter file and it imports it into the seaf and works awesome. I Can really really recommend that just for this detail the around cube see filter Did the question was did we allow our use collab? We looked on it and it looked kind of interesting, but Also very big and complicated and complex and so we decided to go with our way Any more questions? So first of all Danny coming to thanks.  He sits in Russia at the moment Okay, but I would also like to use this To say thank you for the administrators that run stuff for me. I Try to frequently give people that run stuff for me a club Marta or beer from while to while from time to time I think that's actually a good idea. And if there are some people around that run stuff for you you possibly should take this up and supply them with a club Marta from time to time because Administrating stuff is Often work at the time where you can't need it. It's not a lot of work though And I would like to also like to thanks. Thank you to some of the people from Millie ways Who have gone over the slide and made us made all the server


Hello everyone, and welcome back to theCUBE's live coverage of Google Cloud Next here in Las Vegas, Nevada. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Rob Streche. We're getting toward the end of the day. There's a DJ thumping. I think there's cocktails coming out soon. Yeah, we're going to be dealing with the envy of the day, but I think what's been keeping us going has really been the great guests that have been coming on and really talking about what they're doing with Google and the partnerships that Google has brought to the table this afternoon have been fantastic, and I think this one's going to be awesome as well. Well, a great segue to welcome Scott Alfieri. He is the global lead Accenture Google Business Group. Welcome to the show, Scott. It's great to be here. Thank you. I just want to say and reflect on an amazing point for Google Cloud. Google Cloud Next 24 is epic. I mean, what they've announced, the energy 30,000 people here is phenomenal. So it's great to be here with you. Yeah, I mean, I think that part of it, we were talking about it earlier on, is that over a thousand enhancements that TK talked about on stage this morning, you start to look at that, and a lot of that really does tie into what's going on with Accenture and going on with the partner community in general. How do you really look at it about what does I guess the Accenture Google Business Group do and how does that tie back to Google Cloud? Beautiful question. Thank you for that also. Let's be sort of set in frame context. So the Accenture Google Business Group represents all of Accenture. So it's bringing together our industry and technical capabilities coupled with pioneering Google technology. Frankly, our charter is super simple. It is to help our clients move through business reinvention on and with Google technology. So if you sort of step back from that and just sort of think about some things that are new this year, so we're excited that we announced here at Google Next several pretty pioneering engagements. So the first is with Best Buy. So everyone is talking about Chatbots, think instead about a digital concierge that's able to support all of us as well as their customer service agents as you move through product inquiry, move through questions and move through service. So extremely powerful. Second major investment in sort of news for us is with our Accenture Federal Services business partnered with Google Public Sector. So we've announced there is a new Data and AI Center of Excellence and that comes on the back of what we announced several months ago related to a Cyber Security Center of Excellence. That charter for the Cyber Security Center of Excellence is all about helping and ensuring our agencies are able to monitor and be prepared for cyber threats. So pretty exciting. Those are sort of top three areas that, you know, top two areas that we're very excited about. Finally, with Intercontinental Hotels and Resorts, 6,000 hotels globally, massive, 19 global brands are focused there together with Google and IHG is to enhance the guest experience. So that all of us as guests of IHG when we travel their families or in work have the best data being brought forward to enhance our experience as a guest. So really, really exciting. And thank you for having me here. What did you call the Chatbot? A digital concierge? A digital concierge. I love it. I just find, like Chatbot seems mechanical. It sounds very more refined and sophisticated. I'm talking to a digital concierge. I love it. So those are sort of the three high level. Can you walk us through some of the recent news that you're announcing. It's a dizzying number of announcements. So if we just sort of step back and we'll double click a little bit more on Best Buy. So picture, everything is about customer intimacy, right? So if you step back on that, it's about a brand and the end consumer. And if you can bring hyper-personalization together, much of that now is being done through generative AI. That fundamentally changes the intimacy you have and who wins in the end, the consumer and the brand. All of that then is what surrounds that concierge. On the US federal work, I mean those are significant investments we're making because you can say you have a center of excellence, but it sits behind the center of excellence are the people, the certification, the instrumentation, the training that bring those to life. So now we're doing that now with data and AI. We've already been doing that with cybersecurity. And if you think about Google's cybersecurity business, it's massive, chronicle, chronicle SOAR, SecPalm, their pathway language model, and of course, Mandiant and IHG, that's just exciting because with all the work that we, the three of us do, we're traveling a lot to think about checking it that late hour and having everything there for you as a guest to enhance that experience. I don't know, that just sort of makes me feel good. Yeah, as people who do travel just a bit, I think it really is one of those things that we look at and say, hey, bringing that concierge experience would be very nice when I got here at 1130 last night. So I definitely do understand that. But I think it also is that really there's a lot of other news that you have with Google as well, from investments in skills, for instance. And kind of take us through some of that and where that's helping out and where you're going with that. Well, I'll first just start with Accenture. Accenture continues to make big investments in our ecosystem, partners, and obviously surrounding cloud, data and AI, generative AI, security, and obviously with Google and Google Cloud. So start there, that's the baseline. We recently announced a billion dollar investment in what we're calling Accenture Learn Vantage. The charter of Accenture Learn Vantage is to essentially bring forward all the methodologies, content, and training to essentially re-skill the next generation of all the employee bases of our clients. So super exciting, extremely bold. Now that investment of a billion is on top of our three billion dollar investment we made last year in data and AI holistically. So we are putting money behind the significant growth that we're seeing here. Now other areas we made investments staying within generative AI and Google. We have globally generative AI studios. Obviously those studios, in order for you to deliver generative AI on Google, they need to be instrumented, supported, prototypes built from clients as well as with Google so we can showcase that to activate imagination with our clients. Another area with Google that we're super excited about is a joint generative AI COE. So picture Accenture people and Googlers together in the same entity working for our clients from early stage prototyping to then more detailed engineering. We have to realize is that in generative AI, that's what a lot of people are talking about but what does it start with? It starts with cloud. Before cloud it starts with migration and modernization. So from cloud you then get to if you will the data state and then above that you get to generative AI. All of these are cared for in that. And if we think about the professionals we have over 13,000 Google cloud certifications, super proud of and 36,000 Accenture people are trained and skilled in Google. So in the end it's all about the people and our ability to bring precision and scale to the market. I'm going to ask about that center of excellence you were just talking about. What are some of the tenants? You talked earlier about your charter and the work you're trying to do together with Google. How do you come up with what exactly are the joint, the attributes that you're looking for in the people who are at this center of excellence and what you're trying to do together and then make sure that everyone is pulling together to come up with these solutions that are so desperately needed by organizations. Thank you for that question. Maybe I'll start a little bit even upstream. The charter again for Accenture is about business reinvention. That's everything from industry to technology to the new ways of working for all the people. So if we start there, everything frames around that because we are in the advancement of a new economy. We're not piloting generative AI anymore. We are now enterprise reinvention at scale. Now your question is about the people. So the first is everyone at Accenture is intellectually curious. If you're not intellectually curious in any company at this time and not technically adept or interested in embracing it, you're probably going to have some more difficulty in the business world because everything about business is driven in and supported by technology. So first is intellectual curiosity. The second is our investments in our people as they move through their career in the certification and training that make them relevant to the market so we can deliver bold outcomes for our clients. And what are those outcomes? Everything from the reinvention that drives new business growth to operational efficiencies to brand new technical landscapes that then power business reinvention. So thank you for that broad question but allowing me to address it from both our charter, our people, what attracts us, how they're motivated and ultimately the outcome. Yeah, I think that to me is one of the keys and I love the investment, billion dollars is nothing to sneeze about in the AI skills we've been talking about this all day, it's like what's going to happen and where are people going to go? How do they become applicable in this new model? But what's really next between Accenture and Google? What's next on your plate with Google Cloud? Well obviously if we just think a little bit, right now for again, 24, Google Next 24, the five awards. Again, Global Services Partner of the Year, the first one, the second one, Industry Partner of the Year for Retail, the third one around public sector, U.S. federal civilian, super excited, fourth one about specialization machine learning and then the fifth around talent development in Japan. So that's our baseline now. When I think about 24 and as we then extend into 25, this year is about helping clients scale. Cloud, data in AI, cyber security, surrounded by new ways of working. So start fundamentally there. But something that's really interesting, you've heard all day today about Gemini. So I'm just going to give you two really interesting live things we're doing, I can't say the client names, but everyone's been doing language translation for some time, but the secret sauce of it is context, right? You can do the translation of the words, but what is the context of the sentence and the purpose and intent? That's where we're spending a lot of time, Gemini being Google's multimodal large language model. So that we're working on Arabic for example, amazing to be involved in that and watch the difference of sort of its capabilities. The second, let's talk about an automobile manufacturer. So early stage concept design, if you're able to enable a designer to do prototyping faster, to get adjustments faster, to bring in governance to then move things through into ladder parts of design, there's a dramatic impact on how fast a car, a new car, a new design can be brought to market, as well as how fast something could be retired and let's make adjustments. So those are two things in Gemini. Finally, I just step back and think there's sort of four things that our teams globally are focused on with Google and our clients. All of this framed in industry, why? Because industry is where our clients live. So the first is customer engagement. When you think about customer engagement, all of the technology of Google, all the capabilities of Accenture, allow us to frame positions where a brand can create more hyper personalization in turn or intimacy with the end consumer. Everybody wins. The second is operational efficiency. Now this is a broad term, right? But this is everything from where you go from cloud to cyber to data to AI to help clients reinvent. The third is new product development for growth. When I step back on that, obviously you can't just be doing operational efficiency, you need to be finding new revenue streams. So using cloud native platform engineering on Google to recreate or create the net new S-curve of growth for clients is fundamentally an amazing experience to be involved in. And finally, I'll close with, it's all about the people. All about the people. The world needs more people embracing technology, not less. The world needs more people trained in generative AI, not less. And our objective and purpose is to unlock the superpowers of organizations globally. And that's everything from the developer to the marketer, to the sales associate, to the team leader. So I just wanted to thank you for having me here. Hopefully you can tell the passion we have around Google and appreciate your questions on our business. No, we thank you. I mean, I think again, it's always good to hear where the rubber meets the road and where things are really going and where the concierge is actually adding value. So it's always good to give and inspire people at what they're looking to go and do and build. So thank you as well. Thank you. Yeah, absolutely. No, your optimism is palpable. So, excellent, excellent. Well, thank you so much for coming on the show and thank you for tuning in to theCUBE's live coverage of Google Cloud Next. I'm your host, Rebecca Knight, along with my co-host, Rob Streche. You are watching theCUBE, the leading source of enterprise news. Thank you.


Hi, I'm Ingrid Sapphire. I'm a math teacher educator working in the curriculum division of the WIT education department. I'd like to introduce two podcasts that we're going to show you about a project known as DIPIP, the Data-Informed Practice Improvement Project. We'll be able to listen to Yael Shalem and Karen Brody who will speak from their different perspectives of their involvement in the project in two different phases. Professor Yael Shalem is an assessment expert in the curriculum division and Professor Karen Brody is a mathematics expert also in the curriculum division. The project has a two-fold aim. Firstly for the participants, there's the developmental aspect that through their involvement in the project on a weekly basis they can learn about their their own teaching but from a research point of view we believe that their lessons and can come out about how to turn around the the poor mathematics situation that we see in our country today. This project was funded by the Harding Department of Education and took place in the Harding province of South Africa. Professor Yael Shalem will speak to us about phases one and two of the project which ran on the Witts University campus. Teachers used to come to the campus for meetings. There are about 55 teachers involved over the three-year period, about 20 departmental facilitators and 10 Witts postgraduate and academics acted as group leaders of the sessions. Professor Karen Brody will speak to us about phase three of the project which started in 2011 and differently from phases one and two takes place at the actual schools so teachers meet and have their discussions on their own turf.


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I'm also looking here, I don't believe that these two played on the pro competition, I don't know how much familiarity is between these two, but I know that coming into this, Dragon knew his path, looked ahead. We actually had him on when we were doing a little bit of a pre-show and said that, you know, he almost self-predicted and put the most work into upgraded. And we saw that there in that first game. And now we're going to see a little bit more of that knowledge on display here against Deoxys. It says he's coming in with a lot of secret stuff for Jackie. But Deoxys, you know, one of the young and up-and-comers of our community. I think it's just a celebration of young talent in another realm. Deoxys is one of those players and MK11 is kind of birthed, this new generation of fighting game players that are crazy talented. They have a crazy amount of tournament clutch, but the fist bump goes in. We're jumping into our next match up here. Final combat. That was the first 50-50 of the match, by the way, whether it was going to be a fist bump or a handshake starting off, guessing. Here we go. We've all been there. The second round of the winners' quarterfinals. Dragon versus Deoxys. Act of Friends out there. We're starting off with a bang. And oh, and then some. Doesn't want to potentially quite pull the trigger on the crushing blow just yet. Crushing blow launches. Some players will leave it on the table, just because Gravel is available. You don't want to waste the damage. But now, looks like Dragon is going all guns blazing right here. And another poke. A good amount of damage to start things off. And the last-minute crossover. Dragon ready for it. Just showing a high-level amount of patience and pro-takes. That's what you've got to look at with Dragon. He has some of the craziest play-fix in the entire scene. Oh. Dragon thought he could get away with a stagger right there because of all the threats after the 4-2-3. Wall could come. Hell's wrath could come. Heck, anything from this character. Away teleport. Everything that you're looking for. So to get the punish. We saw that by Deoxys. And we saw Dragon up with that jump back point an awful lot earlier against Nivik. Just to cover the leap in. And even on a whiff can get out of Hell's wrath. Just kind of cover two options there in the air. Extra damage. Real estate. Nice man. Matchup knowledge really. Dragon. Gonna take that first round. Immediately clipped. By the neutral jump from Deoxys. He's gonna get a full combo. Keep the corner position. Doesn't quite get the final hit. But the bulk of the damage is done. Unfortunately though. Here's a stun. And Dragon. Once more wants to keep things as unbreakable as physically possible. Nice amount of damage. Deoxys currently on the offense. The grab's gonna be good. And he's plenty more than that came from. Oh my. And now he'll do it. Two for two going through the wall. And that was absolutely sensational. Recognize the breakaway. And got the teleport Dragon. That may have been one of the craziest things I've ever seen in Mortal Kombat 11. I mean Cetrion. She was recently changed in the patch. Went out and cost two bars of defense to teleport out of the corner. You as a Cetrion player. You got to find other ways to get out of the corner safely. And that breakaway setup was one of them. And look at Dragon. He's done great damage. And now Deoxys going in with a little bit of those desperately trying to catch him off guard. But Dragon with the iron offense again. That's plus. Happy to hold those plus braids. Hold all the mids in the world. The second the grab comes out. Great reaction. Not speaking of reactions. Jump. Every single time he went airborne. It looked like Dragon had the reaction with that instant jump. I believe that the fire one's the two. And that the jump one is the wind one. It's kind of hard to tell some of our elements. But looks so prepared for the matchup. And Deoxys does have a couple more characters up the sleeve. Two others. I don't know what the pick would be here. I mean in this situation you have to think. Right. Clearly Dragon has us. That was looking strong. That was looking strong. Yeah. Exactly. But going in with another game one game sometimes really can't be enough to get knowledge. All right. Well how comfortable am I realistically. So he's going to try and give it one more game and very least Deoxys remember this is his main character. There are alternatives. But against Dragon you've got to bring your A game. No side characters unless they're a top performance. Oh my. Crushing blows. It walks right into the 2-1-3 to restart. What's going to be the guest here at the row? Oh get him out of the reed. And another one's going to get spent. Dragon a very expensive breakaway. Clips should be a full combo. Couple of down ones just to get the gravity up. Just a bit higher here. Oh trying to bait Dragon into taking a throw right there. Deoxys multiple times in the row. Dragon not falling forward against the swing of the 1-1. But no full combo punish here trying to get him to 1-1 block from Dragon. Going to get the hiccup for sure but this is not going to be enough for the kill. It's going to be positioning at the same time. Remember it's going to send full screen. Do good damage. And if you're a character with that projectile full screen as long as you don't want to be. What does Dragon go for? Oh hell's wrath instead. Oh. Ah he swaps. Goes in swinging. I mean in that situation you've got shippable lifeless. You're far basically wasn't there as well. You've got to make a hard decision. Round 2 fires. I didn't see if the ox has had an offensive bar right there because if he would have shrapneled at the last second, I don't think there is any anti-airing shrapnel in that situation. It's making a little bit of a ballsy button there by Dragon. But he isn't fazed by this leap at all no matter where it is on the screen. Just sticking it button after button. Look. The ox is probably sitting there thinking where is my health gone? Half of it. Already down the trade. It's literally being melted by all of these firebeams coming from the sky ketchup. That's what's happening here. Well we're going to get a good start. That throw gives her incredible positioning. It's a pressure and trying to get Dragon to anti-air right there. We saw that earlier in the ox's match. Love throwing that early jump normal and then cancelling into the shrapnel after. See if you can catch those buttons. So far, unaffected. They're going to go for maybe a trip guard there. No one's home. But once it's back quick they confirm. Now Dragon. Yeah, that break with the ox is forced to have to do it really. Charmant will take the damage but max range that punch, crushing blow ticked. And with the fatal blow in play, you teched it but hang on a minute. Oh, that's just enough I think.  Now jumps this. Does he run it back or do we go back to character snacks for at least a time out? We saw a little bit of him coming alive right there. He was one read away there in that round to stay alive. Dragon, that execution is looking pretty crisp. Catch up if I could in the end execution is underratedly good. Some of these setrions confirms they are not as easy as they look. Especially when you factor in just the footsies like Dragon, you would normally as a setrion play you'd associate with just your keeper ways. Yes. His footsies, his spatial awareness some of the absolute best in the world is why setrion fits him like a glove. Yeah, this is a character that was made for his style. There were a lot of setrion players that probably aren't comfortable a nice little punish there getting in between that hell's wrath just kneeling the haste that kind of jump but he finds a way but natural barrier active frames of that move some of the highest in the game you have to show so much respect the guys is good as well full combo right away forced out there for the oxes a forward grab good positioning as well because long knockdown frames for Dragon who's sitting on a fantastic life lead and the throw tech again. Yeah, you brought that up earlier and it was like Dragon even this back to the corner most of that round just fought his way out and he's perfectly comfortable doing that and I guarantee some of these throws are not the obvious one either. They are the unorthodox throw you out of the corner grabs throw you towards when my back's to the wall and he'll still attack them but he has that next level that's 6 cents and it's bringing him into a match point here against the oxes a 3-0 is not what I expected here between these two players but we're moments away for it potentially being the case that Dragon again. No belief they're out of the oxes and it's Dragon with the immediate switch and as the frame goes over with the strat he's about to land into a combo right there if he wouldn't have let that rip. Fatal blow is going to be a play for the oxes could be the start of a potential comeback but really just a mountain of a comeback needing to be made re-stand situation Dragon just trying to jump out Oh he's got the no one would expect Dragon to jump twice in a row that's why he was such a good choice and he's going to do the 2-1-2 maximum amount of chip possible Dragon going to take it here dominant performance to move along on the winner's side and that is going to be the winner's side of top 8 for Dragon