How Platform9 makes upgrades simple and painless

1. Sirish Raghuram
Co-founder, CEO
Platform9
OpenStack Upgrade Simplified
Private Clouds Made Easy
Ken Hui
Director, Tech Marketing
Platform9

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Speaker Bio
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Sirish Raghuram
• Co-founder, CEO at Platform9
• Previously: Staff Engineer at VMware (12 years)
• Technical and Management responsibility for
multiple VMware products
Ken Hui
• Director of Technical Marketing at Platform9
• Previously: Cloud Solutions @ EMC, Open
Cloud Architect @ Rackspace, vArchitect @ VCE
• Virtualization, OpenStack, Containers guru

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• Recommended for technical audience looking to
use OpenStack in production
• Assumes fair knowledge of OpenStack
Audience
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• OpenStack Upgrade
• Existing Paradigms
• Challenges
• Platform9’s Approach
• Net Result
Overview
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OpenStack Architecture
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Clarity UI
Nova
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Cinder
Scheduler
Keystone
(Identity)
CLI / Tools Scripts Heat
(Orchestration)
Neutron
Glance
(Images)
Basic Storage
Compute
Basic Network
Block
Storage
Network
Controller

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• Complex orchestration across several different
components with intricate dependencies
• Ref: http://docs.openstack.org/openstack-ops/content/
upgrade-icehouse-juno.html
Upgrade Process
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OpenStack Upgrade
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• Symantec upgrade from Havana to IceHouse
• Ref: http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/
openstack-havana-icehouse-upgrade-symantec-cloud
Real World Example
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Platform9 Managed
OpenStack:
• Your servers host your data
• Platform9 hosts the
OpenStack controller as a
Service, with an SLA
• No need to install, monitor,
troubleshoot or upgrade
OpenStack
Platform9 Managed OpenStack
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• “Zero-touch Upgrade”
• Literally zero work for customers
• In success or failure scenarios
• Related:
• Backup / Restore for OpenStack control plane
• Shared Workflow for Install / Upgrade
Requirements
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OpenStack Controller Workflow
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Vanilla OS
customer
state
Template
Image V1
Customer
Server V1
Fresh Install
Upgrade
Vanilla OS
Template
Image V2
Customer
Server V2

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Platform9
OpenStack
Upgrade Workflow

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Platform9: Havana to Juno Upgrade
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• Simple, reproducible workflow
• Install / upgrade / patch follow similar script
• Clean separation of state helps w/ backup / restore of
OpenStack controllers
• Anomaly detection via Platform9 monitoring infrastructure
• Meets core requirements
• Zero-touch for customers
• 100% automated
• Handles success and error scenarios
Review
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• Fine-grained orchestration
• Roll-out upgrade across N compute nodes at a time
• Reduces risk, detect any anomalies early
• Reduced downtime
• Currently 10-20 min
• Target: < 5 mins
• Explore “live upgrades”?
• Rolling upgrade across 3-way HA controller
• Phased upgrade of compute nodes
Futures
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• Considerations and approach to simplify
OpenStack upgrades
• Do you have upgrade war stories or tips?
• Please share via GTM chat panel!
Recap
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• Get to production with OpenStack in minutes
• Request your own Platform9 account
• Related resources
• Best practices for OpenStack
• http://platform9.com/resources/webinars.html
• Upcoming:
• CI/CD with OpenStack: Jun 25, 2015
• OpenStack Monitoring & Telemetry: Jul 9, 2015
• Have questions?
• @Platform9Sys
• support@platform9.com
Summary
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