Thomas Goirand

Debian Cloud Team BoF

Discussion session for the Debian Cloud team:

• status on official images
• tools for building our images
• etc…

Server freedom: why choosing the cloud, OpenStack and Debian

After 7 years of OpenStack existence, it’s time to step back, and understand why using, and operating it is more important than ever. In this talk, we’ll cover why running your workload on the cloud is becoming increasingly crucial because of the costs and agility of the cloud empowers its users. We’ll see why running on the cloud, rather than on legacy dedicated servers, gives more freedom than ever. Then we’ll see why using OpenStack over proprietary solutions matters for your freedom. Finally, we’ll see how choosing Debian to run OpenStack makes a real difference in avoiding vendor lock-in.

Using a Yubikey workshop: how to use it

As Infomaniak has offered 30 yubikeys to DDs in Debconf, this workshop will teach how to set it up, so you can be up and running to upload packages signed with your GPG subkeys in the Yubikey. This will also help to avoid some of the traps.

BoF: let's rewrite a new Debian installer, with live image, without udeb and busybox

It looks like a bunch of us are interested in writing a new Debian installer that would live on a live distribution, rather than using Busybox as it is today. Let’s talk about how we can do it.