Scott Williams is a senior DevOps Engineer at University of California (previously Azusa Pacific University and Claremont McKenna College). He contributes to a number of open source software projects and Linux distributions and is an Ambassador for the Fedora Project, representing Fedora at SCaLE since 2010.

Presentations

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Scalable Open Source Data Science on Bare Metal Kubernetes

By utilizing DevOps and cloud-native strategies, UCSB's College of Letters and Science hosts JupyterHub instances for over 50 courses and over 4600 persistent individual developer environments per year in baremetal Kubernetes environments.  This talk will highlight the methods to accomplish this from provisioning servers on immutable Linux to git-based CI driven pipelines for managing container images and deployment lifecycles, all using open source tools.

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Exploring Immutable Linux Desktops with Fedora

Experience the Fedora desktop in an immutable fashion!

This all levels demo explores the basics of Silverblue, Kinoite, Sericea, and Onyx. A survey of the history, installation basics, getting started, and basic tools will be covered.

We'll start with ways to install applications, proceed to upgrading between different versions of Fedora, and cover key container development tools. From basic users to container developers, there's something for everyone here! 

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