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1. Deploying a best of breed OpenStack
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Adam Carter David Medberry John Griffith
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adam@solidfire.com david.medberry@canonical.com john.griffith@solidfire.com
2. Agenda • What did we set out to accomplish
• How did we get there?
– Compute (Nova) environment
– Block Storage (Cinder) environment
– Deployment via Ubuntu Charms
• What do we have to show for it?
• What we learned along the way
• Where to from here
• Q&A
3. What did we • A blueprint
• A reference architecture
set out to – For any OpenStack deployer looking to stand
accomplish? up a production-ready compute (Nova) and
block storage (Cinder) environment
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– IaaS
– DBaaS
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– Predictable performance
– Quality-of-Service
– Ease of Use
4. OpenStack Compute Environment
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archive
– http://ubuntu-cloud.archive.canonical.com/
• Multi-node nova-compute and distinct nova cloud
controller
• Messaging node with Horizon, Keystone, mysql,
and Rabbitmq
• Swift
5. Deployment
• Juju/Charms
• Applying a generic load to a 'local' volume is not an
ideal Juju use case, but it can be done
• Customizing an image may solve the same problem
more efficiently if network bandwidth is an issue by
pre-loading all packages and applications
• And co-locating an Ubuntu mirror in your cloud is
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designed for so many instances)
6. OpenStack Block Storage Environment
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packages
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SolidFire OpenStack driver
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8. Where to from • Blueprint for Grizzly Cinder (this week)
here • Finish the reference architecture and
publish it
• Cinder development in Grizzly
9. What we learned along the way…
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