SCS Connect is our webinar series about SCS – with exciting topics ranging from technical insights and practical applications to tips on certification. The webinars are open to everyone and offer space for questions and discussion.

📅 Next webinar: August 27, 2026, 3:00–4:00 PM (CEST)
🎙️ Speaker: Lucas Grümbel (Team Lead Project Management) & Jan Mußmann (Managing Director), UPONU GmbH
💡 Topic: Non-Persistent VDI in OpenStack: Use of template-based, short-lived instances for VDI

Managing a large number of terminal servers, coordinating updates, and scaling in VDI (Virtual Desktop Infrastructure) scenarios require a high degree of control, planning, and automation. With template-based, short-lived VM instances, UPONU has an intelligent method for provisioning and deleting terminal servers. UPONU uses this approach to achieve easy scaling of the VDI infrastructure up and down and to enable centralized software updates.
In this talk, Lucas & Jan present their deployment pipeline for creating and customizing short-lived VDI instances in OpenStack. UPONU combines OpenTofu, Ansible, and PowerShell to orchestrate all required components on OpenStack, Omnissa Horizon, and the guest operating system. In addition, UPONU provides an easy-to-use user interface with Semaphore for their service desk.
You will learn about a concrete implementation of non-persistent VDI instances and gain a deeper understanding of the underlying concepts.

The talk will be held in German.

We look forward to the exchange with you!