OpenStack Maintenance - Find the Needle in the Haystack

1. Dirk Wallerstorfer Cloud Technology Lead OpenStack Maintenance Finding the needle in the haystack Copenhagen, October 19, 2017
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6. confidential Resource capacity and utilization OpenStack service availability/performance Supporting services Log analytics Applications running on top Real user monitoring, UX affects $ PaaS
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16. confidential Resource capacity and utilization OpenStack service availability/performance Supporting services Log analytics Applications running on top Dependencies Correlation of metrics/events/data Real user monitoring, UX affects $ PaaS
17. confidential This is NOT a REGULAR SIZE application environment! B X Z C A W D Y
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21. confidential Thank you! Dirk Wallerstorfer Cloud Technology Lead dirk.wallerstorfer@dynatrace.com @wall_dirk

various container and cloud technologies
innovation – applications, containers, k8s – now also Docker is friends with k8s
op efficiency – bosh for CF, now also k8s; or Magnum ...

PayPal, CERN, OICR

LAMP Stack 2.0 !
CF - VW, SAP
OS - BMW, amadeus
k8s – comcast, ebay

also OpenStack vendors think about applications
Monitoring tool landscape
Look at the stack – it’s going to fail!

Let’s say you observe all these things -> lots of data to browse through if anything breaks

CORRELATION TO THE HELP
measurement how to variables fluctuate together

doesn’t imply causation
IF YOU DON'T HAVE CONTEXT YOU MIGHT END UP LIKE THIS GUY
you need something that is easy to deploy, adaptable, and able to handle environments of that size

I think I made my point that it is challenging ...

Now it's up to you - how are you going to deal with those challenges?
if you don't monitor, you never know what you get ...

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