Foreword
Dear members, dear interested parties,
We are looking forward to an exciting 2024 and to starting the new year with lots of news.
Firstly, we are delighted that we have already been able to plan ahead with firmly scheduled presentations for our ALASCA Tech-Talks until May of this year. This shows that our format is being accepted and is becoming increasingly established as an important event. We are also looking forward to a special highlight in autumn this year: the first ALASCA Summit.
In addition, we were able to establish two new projects in ALASCA at the end of last year, which we would like to inform you about in this newsletter.
Have fun reading!
Marius Feldmann
Board of Directors ALASCA e.V.
Content of our newsletter
Save the Date: ALASCA Summit and Call for Contributions open
The first ALASCA Summit is just around the corner! This community event brings together open source enthusiasts to jointly shape the digital future of the cloud in Europe.
Get ready for two days full of presentations, workshops and discussions on open source technologies in the cloud.
When and where?
- 29 and 30 October 2024
- German Hygiene Museum Dresden
What can you expect?
- The opportunity to Open source projects from ALASCA get to know and get in touch with the community behind the projects
- A space to present tools and technologies to promote digital sovereignty
- Get in touch with open source enthusiasts and find ways to work together
Call for Contributions
Would you like to be a sponsor*? Or are you interested in giving a presentation? Do you have an interesting topic for a workshop? Or perhaps you have other ideas on how the ALASCA Summit can benefit from your knowledge, experience and the latest open source technologies in the cloud? Then please get in touch with us by 30.04.24.
You can find more information and updates on the event on the Summit page.
*Are you already an ALASCA member? Great, then you will receive an exclusive right of first refusal on our sponsor packages.
New projects in ALASCA
As already mentioned in our last newsletter, at the end of last year we were busy reviewing and onboarding new projects in our association. Today we are pleased to officially announce that ALASCA is now home to two more open source projects. One of them is Yake - Yet another Kubernetes Engine.
Yake (formerly known as 23KE) is a Gardener installer and lifecycle management tool that greatly simplifies the configuration and deployment of Gardener as well as the necessary upgrade processes. The open source tool supports IT teams running self-hosted Gardener clusters by providing a centralised operator to manage the cluster control plane, streamlining lifecycle management tasks.
So far, Yake has been developed by ALASCA members 23 Technologies GmbH and STACKIT. However, we would like to invite other open source supporters and enthusiasts to actively participate in the future development. Give Yake a try yourself and let us know how you like it.
In addition to Yake, we have Krake an open source tool for the management of energy-efficiencyoptimised, distributed workloads within the association.
Krake is an orchestrator engine for containerised and virtualised workloads on distributed and heterogeneous cloud platforms. With Krake, cloud users can distribute their virtual workloads - in addition to typical metrics such as hardware, latencies and costs - primarily according to energy-efficient criteria. Krake does this by creating a thin aggregation layer on the various platforms (such as OpenStack or Kubernetes) and making it available to the cloud user via a single interface.
The development of Krake was initiated by ALASCA member Cloud&Heat Technologies and significantly co-developed by dNation. We would be delighted if we could win you over as further contributors.
ALASCA Tech-Talks
Maybe you've already seen it. If not, we would like to draw your attention to our new ALASCA Tech-Talks landing page, which has been part of our website since the end of last year. Here, interested parties can find all the information about the ALASCA Tech-Talks condensed on one page, easily access the recordings of past Tech-Talks and download the corresponding calendar entries and access data. Take a look on at our landing page.
Upcoming Tech Talks
We are delighted that the next Tech-Talks have been scheduled until the middle of the year. Look forward to the following talks with us. The corresponding calendar entries are available for download under each Tech Talk. Feel free to import them directly into your calendar or subscribe to our mailing list so that you don't miss any upcoming tech talks.
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Until next time, we wish you a good time.
