Sirish Raghuram Co-founder, CEO

Platform9

How OpenStack Accelerates Software Development

Private Clouds Made Easy

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Speaker Bio

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Sirish Raghuram

• Co-founder, CEO at Platform9

• Previously: Staff Engineer at VMware (12 years)

• Technical and Management responsibility for multiple VMware products

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• Best practices from managing 50+ active OpenStack deployments

• Recommended for technical audience looking to use OpenStack to empower software developers

Preamble

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• Bare metal (run applications on physical hardware)

• Public cloud (AWS, GCE, Azure)

• Private cloud (OpenStack, CloudStack)

• Static virtualization (VMware vSphere)

Introduction: OpenStack vs …

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OpenStack Architecture

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Clarity UI

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Scheduler

Keystone (Identity)

CLI / Tools Scripts Heat (Orchestration)

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Basic Storage

Compute

Basic Network

BlockStorage

NetworkController

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Platform9 Managed OpenStack:

• Your servers host your data

• Platform9 hosts the OpenStack controller as a Service, with an SLA

• No need to install, monitor, troubleshoot or upgrade OpenStack

Platform9 Managed OpenStack

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• Self-service portal

• VM instance management

• Visibility

• Deployment

• Customization

• Quotas and leases

#1 — Self-Service Provisioning

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• Reuse

• Base Operating Systems with security patches

• Commonly used application environments

• Application builds for testing

• Reduce

• Time spent in repeatedly re-creating application environments

• Configuration drift / sprawl

#2 — Shared image library

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• OpenStack CLI

• keystone, nova, glance, et al

• Libraries

• libcloud: https://libcloud.apache.org/

• jclouds: https://jclouds.apache.org/

• CM Tools

• Ansible: http://docs.ansible.com/nova_compute_module.html

• Salt: http://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/clouds/all/salt.cloud.clouds.openstack.html

• Puppet: https://forge.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs/node_openstack

• Chef: https://github.com/chef/knife-openstack

#3 — CLIs, Libraries and CM Tools

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#4 — REST APIs for Automation

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• REST: Simple, familiar pattern

• Any language - https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SDKs

• Vendor Neutral

• Stable, Versioned

• Clear separation of concerns

• Hosts, Storage, Network, Tenants, Users

• Nova (EC2), Cinder (EBS), Neutron (ELB), Swift (S3), Heat (CloudFormation)

• Separation of physical vs virtual concepts

• Simpler, easy to use

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• vSphere Web Services API:

• https://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.wssdk.apiref.doc_50%2Fvim.vm.ConfigSpec.html

• OpenStack API:

• http://docs.platform9.com/#a-idcreate-instanceapost-v2tenant_idservers

• Observations:

• OpenStack API dramatically easier to program to

• Cloud centric: e.g. Tenant, Flavors, no Hardware detail

Illustration: Create VM

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• CI/CD basics

• Build every commit

• Every build deployed

• Every deployment tested

• Infrastructure implications

• Shared pool of resources

• Always available

• 100% automated

• Over-provisioned aggressively

#5 — Turbocharge CI/CD

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• CI / CD Basics:

• http://www.slideshare.net/ChristopherRead/continuous-integration-build-pipelines-and-continuous-deployment

• How Platform9 engineering uses Platform9:

• http://blog.platform9.com/continuous-integration-delivery-using-openstack/

References

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• Developers want

• Composite applications comprised of multiple individual nodes

• Rules and dependencies across these nodes

• Ability to reasonably enforce these during deployment

• Examples

• Node mapping to availability zones

• Auto-scaling groups

• Ref: https://github.com/openstack/heat-templates/blob/master/hot/F18/NovaInstanceWithCinderVolume_Native.yaml

#6 — Orchestrate App Stacks

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#7 — Platform for CF, Mesos, Docker

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http://docs.cloudfoundry.org/deploying/openstack/install_cf_openstack.html

https://github.com/cf-platform-eng/mesos-boshrelease

https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-paris-summit-2014/session-videos/presentation/orchestrating-docker-with-openstack

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• Reviewed 7 ways in which OpenStack accelerates software development

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Recap

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• Accelerate development productivity with OpenStack

• Request your own Platform9 account

• Related resources

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• Have questions?

• Ask away!

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• support@platform9.com

Summary

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