Drupal In The Cloud

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A Match Made in the CloudHow to best take advantage of the cloud for Drupal Sites
Bret Piatt
Community Stacker

Why cloud?
“The Cloud” is hosting with an API
Programmers Like APIs!
Reliable, Reusable Start States
On Demand
Usage-based Pricing

Where to begin? With Pantheon!
Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
Varnish
Apache HTTPD
APC Cache
Apache Solr
MySQL
Best in class, stable technology
http://launchpad.net/pantheon
Pantheon

Anonymous Love of Varnish
How much of your traffic is unauthenticated?
Why would you want to build the page each time?
Big spikes are typically unauthenticated..
When @aplusk tweets your site you’ll see this first
Having Varnish will give you time to react if tons of new people start registering..

APC is the Way for Me
APC = speed for site rendering..
..memcached = scale for your database.
Source: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2006/08/09/cache-performance-comparison/

Solr Power Keeps Us Warm
Faster and better..
..you can have your cake and eat it too!
You’ll see a huge difference if search is..
..a big part of your site load.
..a source of latency.
..a cause user frustration.
See more: http://drupal.org/project/apachesolr

Can we do this for real?
Live demo of installing and configuring Mercury on the Rackspace Cloud

A 12 Step Program in 30Minutes
Boot server: Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx), 512MB+ RAM recommended
Install updates
Install and configure BCFG2
Start the BCFG2 server
Start the BCFG2 client
Install Drush
Install Mercury
Install Apache Solr
Prepare Pressflow files and directories
Add Hudson to sudoers and restart it
Run the Mercury init Hudson job
Configure Pressflow
Details at: http://groups.drupal.org/node/70268

Cloud integrated drupal
Adding cloud to your application for increased scale and efficiency

API, Make Me a New Server
PHP libraries can...
Authenticate
Check limits
List servers
List images
Make a new server
Reboot a server
Delete a server
Full list at: http://tools.rackspacecloud.com

Cloud, Store My Images & Backups
Cloud Object Storage
Authenticate
Create private containers
Put backup in container
Create public containers
Put images in container
CDN enable container
Delete objects
Delete containers
Get this and more at http://github.com/rackspace

What is openstack
A community effort to build the best fully open data center operating system

OpenStack has a Mission
"To produce the ubiquitous Open Source cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable."
[Announced July 19th, 2010 and ratified by 25+ companies and 100+ community members]

Open 4 Times, Not Just Once
Open Source: We are committed to creating truly open source software that is usable and scalable. Truly open source software is not feature or performance limited and is not crippledlicensed under Apache 2.0.
Open Design: Every 6 months the development community will hold a design summit to gather requirements and write specifications for the upcoming release.
Open Development: We will maintain a publicly available source code repository through the entire development process. This will be hosted on Launchpad, the same community used by 100s of projects including the Ubuntu Linux distribution.
Open Community: Our core goal is to produce a healthy, vibrant development and user community. Most decisions will be made using a lazy consensus model. All processes will be documented, open and transparent.

Current Infrastructure Projects
OpenStack Compute
REST-based API
Hardware agnostic - commodity hardware, RAID not required
Hypervisor agnostic - support for Xen and KVM in initial release
Horizontally scalable
Asynchronous eventually consistent communication
OpenStack Object Storage
Object store, Distributed, REST-based API, No central database
Hardware agnostic - commodity hardware, RAID not required
Account/Container/Object structure (not file system, no nesting)
Replication (N copies of accounts, containers, objects)
Data distributed evenly throughout system
Scalable to multiple petabytes, billions of objects

Current Interface Projects
OpenStack Web Control Panel
Cappuccino framework
Ruby JSONP API proxy
OpenStack iPhone / iPad Control Panels
Mobile application management control panels
OpenStack Android Control Panel
Mobile server and storage management control panel

How Can Drupalists Help?
Infrastructure software needs an interface
Drupal + APIs = world class control panel
More information at http://openstack.org
Talk to @greenisus on Twitter
Project Lead for OpenStack Interfaces
Join IRC @ irc.freenode.com / #openstack
Get code @ http://launchpad.net/openstack

Q & A time begins now…
Thank you for joining us today to learn about cloud, Mercury, & OpenStack
Bret Piatt / Twitter: @bpiatt/ Email: bret.piatt@rackspace.com

Drupal In The Cloud

by Bret Piatt on Jul 24, 2010

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