Thomas Cameron is an Open Source technologist with 27 years of experience. He's watched the information technology industry grow from PC servers and client/server architecture to distributed, to cloud computing. He's worked with technologies from Novell NetWare to Windows servers to Linux, and now the cloud. He is a senior solution architect at Amazon Web Services, and was previously a global technology evangelist at Red Hat.

Presentations

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Enterprise Automation with AWX (upstream for Ansible Automation Platform)

In this session, Thomas Cameron will introduce you to AWX, the upstream project for Ansible Automation Platform from Red Hat. AWX is a management platform which enables sysadmins to automate jobs across an entire enterprise. You can patch, install new software, uninstall unneeded software, change workloads, set kernel tunables, manage configurations, and more via Ansible playbooks and roles. Now you can extend the power of Ansible in your enterprise using AWX, including organizations, inventories, credentials, projects, 

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Linux in Amazon Web Services: Tips and Tricks

Using Linux in Amazon Web Services (AWS) is not terribly different from using Linux in your datacenter, but there are some things you should be aware of when planning on deploying and managing Linux workloads in the cloud. In this session, AWS Senior Solutions Architect Thomas Cameron will discuss deploying and managing various Linux distributions in AWS.

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High Availability Clustering with Corosync and Pacemaker

Red Hat's Thomas Cameron will demonstrate the setup and configuration of a high availability application cluster with shared filesystem.

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An Introduction to Container Security

Red Hat's Thomas Cameron will give a quick overview of container security. He'll discuss Linux capabilities (libcap), Security Enhanced Linux, control groups, kernel namespaces, tips and tricks, and bust soem myths about containers.

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Gluster Quickstart

GlusterFS is a unified, poly-protocol, scale-out filesystem serving many petabytes of data using commodity x86 hardware. Gluster can service Unix, Linux, and Windows clients using NFS, CIFS, or the native Gluster protocol.

Red Hat's Thomas Cameron, Chief Architect for the central US, will demonstrate getting Gluster set up. He'll cover setting up the Gluster nodes and setting up distrubuted, replicated, and geo-replicated environments.

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