calgary openstack meetup january 2015

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Calgary OpenStack Group O p e n S t a c k . F r o m D e p l o y m e n t t o U s a g e

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Who

Deploying OpenStack Lessons

How can I use OpenStack?

How do people use OpenStack?

Agenda

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“Cybera is a not-for-profit organization that works to spur and support innovation, for the economic benefit of Alberta, through the use of cyberinfrastructure.”

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OpenStack

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HORIZON Dashboard

KEYSTONE Authentication/Users

NEUTRON Networking

GLANCE Images

NOVA Compute

CINDER Block Storage

SWIFT Object Storage

TROVE Databases

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OpenStack? An API?

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HORIZON Dashboard

KEYSTONE Authentication/Users

NEUTRON Networking

GLANCE Images

NOVA Compute

CINDER Block Storage

SWIFT Object Storage

TROVE Databases

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iSCSI

NFS

Gluster

Ceph

???

Cinder

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KVM

Xen

HyperV

VMWare

???

Nova

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TOO. MANY. CHOICES.

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Started with Bexar

Started with Production with Cactus

Operate several medium sized OpenStack clouds

Our OpenStack History

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Shared Computing Resources for Post Secondaries

Resources for startups, researchers, and post secondary collaboration.

Types of Clouds

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Deployment

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Underlying Decisions are important

Automate

No seriously. Automate

Deployment

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Nova (Hypervisor) -> KVM

Cinder (Block Storage) -> NetApp via iSCSI

Network -> Nova Networking with VLANs.

Pieces

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Distribution (RDO, Mirantis, Nebula, SmartStack etc.)

Roll your own (Packages, Source?)

Balancing Services

Overcommit?

Installing

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Enjoy!

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Except when we can’t

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Corrupted storage? Components matter.

Events don’t finish?! RabbitMQ and HAProxy aren’t friends.

Stuff Happens

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OpenStack Operators Mailing List:https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists#Operators

IRC: irc.freenode.net #openstack-operators

OpenStack Operators

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Using OpenStack

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Use the Dashboard

Kick the Tires

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Kick the Tires

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Kick the Tires

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Security Groups

Floating IPs

Key Pairs

Security Groups. Again.

Kick the Tires

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Vagrant + vagrant-openstack-plugin

Automation tool of choice (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, etc.)

OpenStack python utils

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SDKs

Tools

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How is this different from a VPS?

Kick the Tires

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OpenStack has an API for managing resources

Instance creation and deletion is inexpensive

Automation

Clouds and Elastic Bands

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How do people use OpenStack?

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Orchestra in the cloud?!

http://nime2014.org/proceedings/papers/541_paper.pdf

Use Cases

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Virtual Computing Lab

http://www.cybera.ca/projects/completed-projects/virtual-computing-lab/

http://www.cybera.ca/assets/Publications/ICA-conference-Apache-VCL-and-OpenStack.pdf

Use Cases

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Learning Management for Alberta

http://www.cybera.ca/projects/shared-services/learning-management-cloud/

Use Cases

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OpenStack is awesome. OpenStack is a tool.

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Thank you. P R E S E N T E D B Y M i c h e a l J o n e s

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