our journey to openstack with midonet
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BEING TRUEA journey to OpenStack and MidoNet
Cody Herriges• Went to business school
• In the field trained *nix Systems Administrator
• A focus on developing and building my way out of problems
• Joined Puppet Labs in 2010
PUPPET LABSManaging more than 10 million systems and devices
Puppet Labs• Founded in 2005
• Writes and maintains automation software
• Including the industry leading configuration management software Puppet
• Headquartered in Portland, OR
• Partnered with Networld in Japan
SysOps supports• Public facing web applications
• Enterprise infrastructure for end-users
• Continuous Integration compute and storage resources
SysOps is• Enterprise IT, with a twist
• A bunch of hackers
• Engineering
• Community advocates
• Generalists
SysOps is not• A "VMware shop"
• Windows admins
• A diehard fan
• Attracted to shiny things
Challenges• Current system
• The vSphere API and UI
• Visibility
• Automation
• Performance
Challenges• Migrating
• Tightly coupled tools
• Never ending release cycle
• We are self supporting
• Automating it all
• Users
For OpenStack• Opensource
• Built from known and proven components
• Strong ecosystem
• Familiar architecture
• Flexibility
Finding Midokura• Ran into Dan Conde
• Were ridiculously helpful and good to work with
• Similar challenges in the market
For Midonet• A solution SysOps can manage and NetOps
can approve
• Opensource
• Distributed
• Simply automated
Goals• Provide an interface users love to use
• Improve availability
• Scale horizontally
• Greater visibility
• Decrease MTR
Hiring
http://jobs.puppetlabs.com
(SysOps is behind on our yearly hiring plan...)