Greg Althaus did a 90 minute Crowbar deep dive at this week’s Austin Cloud User Group.  Brad Knowles recorded audio and posted it so I thought I’d share the link and my annotations.  There are a lot more times to catch up with our team at Dell in Austin, Boston, and Seattle.

Video Annotations –  (##:## time stamp)

• 00:00 Intros & Meeting Management
• 12:00 Joseph George Introduction / Sponsorship
• 16:00 Greg Starts – why Crowbar
• 19:00 DevOps slides
• 21:00 What does Crowbar do for DevOps
  • make it easier to manage
  • make it easier to repeat
• 24:00 What’s included – how we grow / where to start
• 27:20 Starting to show crowbar – what’s included as barclamps
  • pluggable / configuration
  • Barclamps!
• 28:10 What is a barclamp
  • discussion about the barclamps in the base
• 34:30: We ❤ Chef. Puppet vs Chef
• 36:00 Why barclamps are more than cookbooks
• 36:30 State machine & transitions
• Q&A Section
  • 38:50 Reference Architectures
  • 43:00 Barclamps work outside of Crowbar?
  • 44:15 Hardware models supported
  • 47:30 Storage Queston
  • 49:00 HA progress
  • 53:00 Ceph as a distributed cloud on all nodes
  • 56:20 Deployer has a map of how to give out roles
• 58:00 Demo Fails
• 58:30 Crowbar Architecture
• 62:00 How Crowbar can be extended
• 63:00 Workflow & Proposals
• 65:40 Meta Barclamps
• 71:10 Chef Environments
• 73:40 Taking OpenStack releases and Environments
• 75:00 The case for remove recipes
• 77:33 Git Hub Tour
• 79:00 Network Barclamp deep dive
• 84:00 Adding switch config (roadmap topic)
• 86:30 Conduits
• 87:40 Barclamp Extensions / Services
• 89:00 Questions
  • 89:20 Proposal operations
  • 93:30 OpenStack Readiness & Crowbar Design Approach
  • 93:10 Network Teaming
  • 94:30 Which OS & Hypervisors
  • 96:30 Continuous Integration & Tools
  • 98:40 BDD (“cucumberesque”) & Testing
  • 99:40 Build approach & barclamp construction
• 100:00 Wrap up by Joseph