by Cody Herriges of Puppetlabs at MidoDay Tokyo 2015

1. BEING TRUE
A journey to OpenStack and MidoNet

2. 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

3. PUPPET LABS
Managing more than 10 million systems and devices

4. 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

5. SysOps supports
• Public facing web applications
• Enterprise infrastructure for end-users
• Continuous Integration compute and
storage resources

6. SysOps is
• Enterprise IT, with a twist
• A bunch of hackers
• Engineering
• Community advocates
• Generalists

7. SysOps is not
• A "VMware shop"
• Windows admins
• A diehard fan
• Attracted to shiny things

8. Challenges
• Current system
• The vSphere API and UI
• Visibility
• Automation
• Performance

9. Challenges
• Migrating
• Tightly coupled tools
• Never ending release cycle
• We are self supporting
• Automating it all
• Users

10. For OpenStack
• Opensource
• Built from known and proven components
• Strong ecosystem
• Familiar architecture
• Flexibility

11. Finding Midokura
• Ran into Dan Conde
• Were ridiculously helpful and good to work
with
• Similar challenges in the market

12. For Midonet
• A solution SysOps can manage and NetOps
can approve
• Opensource
• Distributed
• Simply automated

13. Goals
• Provide an interface users love to use
• Improve availability
• Scale horizontally
• Greater visibility
• Decrease MTR

14. Hiring
http://jobs.puppetlabs.com
(SysOps is behind on our yearly
hiring plan...)