NIVOLAOpenstack for the public administration

CSI IMPLEMENTS AND MANAGES

IT SERVICES FOR PUBLIC

ADMINISTRATIONS

HELPING THEM TO BE

MORE EFFICIENT AND MODERN

FOUNDED IN 1977 BY THE PIEDMONT

REGION, TOGETHER WITH THE UNIVERSITY

AND POLYTECHNICS OF TURIN

CSI IS TODAY A CONSORTIUM OF OVER 120

PUBLIC STAKEHOLDERS:

PROVINCES, MUNICIPALITIES AND

ASSOCIATIONS, LOCAL HEALTH AGENCIES,

HOSPITALS AND MANY OTHER AUTHORITIES

CSI OFFERS CUSTOMISED SERVICES FOR

PA, IS AVAILABLE AT

CLOUD.CSIPIEMONTE.IT

CSI CLOUD IS BASED ON VMWARE

VCLOUD.

CSI CLOUD HOSTS THOUSANDS VMWARE

VIRTUAL MACHINES

CSI STAKEHOLDERS WANT TO SAVE

MONEY USING OPEN SOURCE

SOLUTIONS

CLOUD SERVICES

CSI CHOSE THE OPENSTACK SOLUTION

OPENSTACK IS A POWERFUL, OPENSOURCE INFRASTRUCTURE AS A

SERVICE PLATFORM

IT IS NOT AN ABSOLUTE NOVELTY FOR CSI

CSI IN RECENT YEARS HAS BEEN USING OPENSTACK IN SOME EU FUNDED

PROJECTS – OPERA (LOw Power heterogeneous architecture for nExt generation of

smaRt infrastructure and platforms in industrial and societal Applications) – H2020

CLOUD SERVICES

THE OPENSTACK ADOPTION BROUGHT

ABOUT SOME NEW PROBLEMS TO BE

SOLVED:

• SIMULTANEOUS MANAGEMENT OF

OPENSTACK AND VCENTER

• MULTIPLE AVAILABILITY ZONES AND

MULTIPLE REGIONS

SO A NEW PROJECT WAS STARTED:

NIVOLA

NIVOLA

NIVOLA IS A WORD IN THE PIEDMONT

DIALECT WHICH MEANS «NUVOLA» IN

ITALIAN, SO «CLOUD» IN ENGLISH

PIEDMONT IS A REGION IN THE NORTH

WEST OF ITALY

NIVOLA

CSI NIVOLA INFRASTRUCTURE

MAIN NIVOLA COMPONENTS

• OPENSTACK

• CLOUD MANAGEMENT PLATFORM (DEVELOPED

ENTIRELY IN PHYTON). IT WILL BE RELEASED ON

GITHUB AS AN OPENSOURCE PROJECT WITHIN

2018.

• NIVOLA API FOR BUSINESS SERVICES

• CLOUD MANAGEMENT CLIENT

• SERVICE PORTAL

• VCENTER WITH NSX FOR NETWORK

VIRTUALIZATION

NIVOLA COMPONENTS

ON ONE SIDE NIVOLA INTERACTS WITH THE OPENSTACK AND VCENTER API

ON THE OTHER SIDE IT IS CONNECTED WITH THE CLOUD MANAGEMENT

CONSOLE USED BY CSI OPERATORS TO MANAGE RESOURCES

• VIRTUAL MACHINES

• NETWORKS

• SECURITY GROUPS

• DATABASES

• ACCOUNTS

• AND SO ON..

NIVOLA COMPONENTS

ON THE SAME SIDE OF THE NIVOLA CONSOLE THERE IS

THE SERVICE PORTAL.

IT IS A USER FRIENDLY WEB INTERFACE FOR OUR

CUSTOMERS DEVELOPED WITH GOOGLE MDL

THE NIVOLA PORTAL IS NOT COMPLETED YET.

THE SERVICE PORTAL WILL BE AVAILABLE, MOST LIKELY,

AT THE END OF THIS YEAR.

NIVOLA COMPONENTS

NIVOLA DOES NOT USE ANY VENDOR SUPPORTED

OPENSTACK VERSION

NIVOLA IS USING THE OCATA VERSION BUT PLANS

ARE UNDER WAY TO MOVE TO A MORE RECENT

VERSION

NIVOLA OPENSTACK MODULES

THE FOLLOWING OPENSTACK MODULES ARE USED:

• KEYSTONE FOR AUTHENTICATION AND AUTHORIZATION

• DISKIMAGE – BUILDER FOR BUILDING GLANCE IMAGES WITH HEAT TOOLS INSIDE THEM

• NOVA FOR ADDRESSING KVM HYPERVISORS

• GLANCE FOR IMAGES

• CINDER FOR BLOCK STORAGE

• MANILA FOR SHARES

• NEUTRON FOR ADDRESSING OPENVSWITCH

• TELEMETRY (CEILOMETER WITH GNOCCHI)

• HEAT FOR ORCHESTATION

• SWIFT (NOT FOR OBJECT STORAGE BUT ONLY FOR SWIFT SIGNALS USED BY HEAT)

NIVOLA OPENSTACK MODULES

NOVA, CINDER AND MANILA ARE USING NFS ON NETWORK APPLIANCE

BECAUSE CSI WISHES TO SAVE INVESTMENTS MADE IN THE PAST.

THE AVAILABILITY OF DRIVERS FOR DIFFERENT STORAGE AND NETWORK

PLATFORMS IS AN OPENSTACK STRENGTH.

IN THE FUTURE A SWITCH TO CEPH IS LIKELY.

NIVOLA OPENSTACK MODULES

NIVOLA USES MANY HEAT TEMPLATES WITH

«SOFTWARE DEPLOYMENT» RESOURCES CONTAINING

ANSIBLE PLAYBOOKS.

MANY TEMPLATES WERE DEVELOPED FOR DEPLOYING

DATABASES, APPLICATION SERVER, WEB SERVERS AND

MANY OTHERS.

ANSIBLE IS ALSO USED FOR OPENSTACK DEPLOYMENT

AND ITS ECOSYSTEM.

NIVOLA OPENSTACK MODULES (HEAT/ANSIBLE)

THE ECOSYSTEM CONSISTS OF MONITORING AND

LOGGING COMPONENTS:

• KIBANA WITH ELASTIC SEARCH

• GRAPHITE

• GRAFANA

• OPENVAS

• ZABBIX (ZABBIX TEMPLATES WERE DEVELOPED TO

DISCOVER OPENSTACK NODES AND VIRTUAL

MACHINES)

NIVOLA ECOSYSTEM

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