Open Source Summit Europe 2024

Linux is the backbone of our society, functioning within mission-critical systems across sectors such as energy, transportation, healthcare, and industrial automation. Once operational, these systems need to serve for decades. To achieve Smart Cities and IoT integration, these systems must be interconnected to enrich our lives. However, this interconnectivity brings challenges in managing vulnerabilities and upgrading systems. These systems must not only adhere to international standards and regulations but also maintain compatibility and integrity.
The Civil Infrastructure Platform (CIP) addresses these issues by providing Industrial Grade Linux. Over the past seven years, CIP has delivered robust, secure, and sustainable open-source base systems.
This presentation will showcase the real value of CIP, emphasizing its role in enhancing system reliability and security through collaborative efforts. Start using CIP today, become a part of its development, and collaborate with us to build a sustainable society.

Testing the Linux kernel and its associated components at scale presents unique challenges compared to other software projects. While user-space projects can usually use containers to efficiently and quickly run their integration tests, kernel-level software requires virtual machines, making the process more difficult. At LINBIT, we also notice this when developing our Linux kernel driver, DRBD, and other components that depend on it.

That is why, after several iterations with other approaches, we have created our own open-source tool for the task: Virter, a "Docker for VMs."
Virter isn't just a proof-of-concept; it's a practical solution. Its primary design goal is to simplify the provisioning, cloning, and running of virtual machines. We currently use it to run around 40,000 VM instances every day as part of our testing efforts.

In this talk, we will share our experience testing the Linux kernel, a journey that ultimately led to the creation of Virter. We will demonstrate how we now use Virter to effectively and efficiently test Linux kernel components and explore how your workflow might benefit from it, too.

AI agents have the potential to unlock the next wave of enterprise productivity, but implementing them in production is a complex task. In this session, we'll delve into the key challenges of building agents that are not only useful but also safe, reliable, and scalable in real-world applications.  We will discuss and demonstrate with code the essential components of building AI agents and introduce the Bee stack, an open-source initiative by IBM Research to empower developers to build robust agentic applications.

By sharing our expertise and experience, we'll provide a starting point for developers and business leaders to unlock the full potential of AI agents in their organizations.

Hosted by Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation

1. Empowering Newcomers: A Journey of Learning Through Open Source Mentorship Programs. - Prateek Singh, Fountaine LCC

2. Evolving Beyond the Label: Creating a New Identity for ORAS - Asmit Malakannawar, Biorce

3. Navigating the ORASphere - Restructuring the Documentation of ORAS - Deepesha Burse, LFX Mentee at ORAS Project (Student)

4. Secure Your Container Projects: A Guide to OCI Hooks and Avoiding CRI Socket Pitfalls - Akshay Gaikwad, InfraCloud Technologies

5. Unlocking the Power of Chainsaw: A Dive Into Effortless End-to-End Testing for Kubernetes Operators - Shubham Gupta, Uber

6. Fully Automated Release and Code Review with CI/CD: Case Study from Kubescape - Songlin Jiang, Aalto University

7. Empowering Innovation: Leading Hyperledger Documentation in the Metaverse and Beyond - Arunima Chaudhuri, National Institute of Technology Warangal (NITW)

8.  An Adventure through the Linux Kernel - Javier Carrasco Cruz, WolfVision GmbH

9. The Epic Integration: Bridging OpenKruise Workloads with ArgoCD and Helm - Mahesh Raju Kasbe, CNCF - OpenKruise

10. Impact of LFX Mentorship: My Learnings at Carvel and the Journey Beyond - Ashish Kumar, India Institute of Technology

11. Diving into Zowe App Store & How OSS Transformed Me? - Priyansh Mehta, Open Mainframe Project

12. Empowering Open Source: My Journey with the Open Mainframe Project's Software Discovery Tool - Prince, IIIT Gwalior

13. Linux Kernel Bug Fixing Experience  - Andrew Kanner, CloudLinux

14. From Console to VS Code: Build Reasonably Easy Extensions - Roshan Swain, MathWorks

15. Crafting Prometheus Exporters From Scratch - Yash Raj Singh, Syself

16. Fast and Portable Media Processing Functions with Server Side Wasm - Hrushikesh Rao Naidnur, Goldman Sachs

Closing Remarks by Greg Kroah-Hartman, Kernel Maintainer & Fellow, The Linux Foundation