How We Turned Les Restos du Coeur into a Cloud Provider
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A volunteer group built a private cloud for the Restos du Cœur to reduce costs and increase efficiency, using Kubernetes and OpenStack to provide scalability and resilience. The talk covers motivations and challenges of deploying an open infrastructure in a nonprofit context, technical details of the architecture and configuration choices, and operational strategies that made the system robust and flexible while saving the charity substantial resources.
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chapters (26)
- 0:00Project vision
- 2:16Restos du Cœur project
- 5:06Historical context
- 7:55Joining department 28
- 9:16Initial challenges
- 11:44Centralizing data center
- 13:51Recovering 300 servers
- 15:15Security and centralization
- 16:40Cloud goals
- 17:23Network architecture rules
- 18:46Infrastructure as Code security
- 20:32Immutable infrastructure
- 21:55Deployment and sharing
- 23:17Kubernetes and OpenStack choice
- 25:25Hyperconvergence management
- 27:50Cloud services operation
- 29:55Cloud console and API
- 31:38Energy automation
- 34:08CMDB and Netbox
- 35:51Open source independence
- 36:55Passbolt for credentials
- 37:57Cold room monitoring
- 39:41WiFi and inclusion
- 40:24Linux migration
- 41:46Hosted services savings
- 43:11Outcome and contributions
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