The ALASCA Tech-Talks provide a platform to showcase solutions that have the potential to improve the digital sovereignty of cloud infrastructures and services, as well as for use cases that rely on these digital sovereign infrastructures and services.
This is where techies meet techies. They are united by their conviction in open source software for the operation of cloud applications and the common goal of establishing digital sovereignty in Germany and Europe.
The ALASCA Tech-Talks have been held once a month since January 2023 and enjoy a loyal listenership. You too can become part of our ALASCA Tech-Talks - whether as a listener, co-discussant or speaker. We look forward to seeing you!
Look forward to the following Tech-Talk in March:
ALASCA Tech Talk #38
Going full Arctic Circle: Running ALASCA on open cloud infrastructure and standards
Friedrich Zahn & Dr Daniel Gerber (Software Engineers at ALASCA FOCIS)
Fostering open-source software communities in the 2020s requires more than just a Git server and a mailing list. However, ALASCA is the association for operational cloud infrastructure, so let’s have a taste of our own medicine!
We’ll share some insights into how we run ALASCA’s infrastructure on an open cloud platform and make use of open standards, what works well for us – and what doesn’t.
Specifically, we’ll showcase our OpenTofu repository for managing the ALASCA community’s resources, based on the Domain Manager role mandated by SCS. It is accompanied by RacStack (formerly known as Raclette Billing Dashboard) to monitor actual resource usage.
We’ll also talk about our auto-scaling GitLab and Woodpecker CI runners, as another example of an SCS-IaaS-based application – and how we managed to cause a DoS attack on our cloud within the first week of deploying them to production.
Users may be familiar with our GitLab projects and documentation pages, and are happy to pull from our registries. But that’s just the tip of the iceberg – we’ll illustrate the surprising number of infrastructure services required to run ALASCA and support our projects, and how we hope to improve transparency and reproducibility in the future.
We have already enjoyed the following speakers and topics in the past. Of course, you can also watch all the tech talks you missed on our YouTube channel. Just click your way through.
We are always looking for exciting topics for our ALASCA Tech-Talks. Do you have an open source project that you would like to share and discuss with the community? Great, then share your Tech-Talk idea with us and become an active part of the ALASCA Tech-Talk community.
Give us a brief pitch of your Tech Talk idea via our contact form. We will review your proposal internally and get back to you as soon as possible. We are also happy to support you in finding ideas. Just get in touch with us.
