ShapeBlue is a company that specializes in building public and private clouds using Apache CloudStack. They have introduced a CloudStack Container Service (CCS) that allows users to deploy and manage Kubernetes container clusters within their existing CloudStack infrastructure. The CCS introduces new APIs to CloudStack to create and manage container clusters, deploys Kubernetes on VMs, and provides a dashboard to deploy containerized applications. A demonstration showed how to create a container cluster, view metrics, access the Kubernetes dashboard, and deploy applications using the CCS.

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CloudStack Container
Service
ShapeBlue.com • @ShapeBlue
Paul Angus, VP Technology • @CloudyAngus
paul.angus@shapeblue.com
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“ShapeBlue are expert builders of public
& private clouds. They are the leading
independent global CloudStack services
company”
A b o u t S h a p e B l u e

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ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlue
Paul Angus – VP Technology
• Global authority on CloudStack & cloud infrastructure design.
• 15+ years C-Level experience.
• Apache CloudStack project committer & PMC member
• Specialising in deployment of CloudStack
and surrounding infrastructure especially the user story
• USP, Georgian Ministry of Justice, Orange, TomTom,
PaddyPower, Ascenty, BSkyB, SAP, British Telecom
A b o u t m e

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Introduction

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• Why
• What is it
• What it’s not
• CCS Components
• Demonstration
• Roadmap
• Summary
A g e n d a

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P a r t n e r e d wi t h s k i p p b o x
“Skippbox provides a developer
toolbox for cloud native
applications coupled with an
application lifecycle solution.”
• Tooling for cloud native
environments
• Professional services:
• Container strategy
• Docker
• Kubernetes

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H e ’s b a c k . .

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• Massive growth of cloud native applications
expected
• Containers are a key component of cloud native
applications
• Application level software delivery
• Lightweight (higher density)
• Faster start-up time
• Multi-tenancy is an afterthought
• IaaS is a VM based business
W h y ?

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• Based on the model offered by Google and Amazon
• CaaS offering within existing IaaS environments
• No disruption to user experience or business
• Users deploy and orchestrate containers within their
IaaS infrastructure
• Users pay for the underlying VM’s / infra.
• Built on established technologies
• Apache CloudStack
• Kubernetes
• CoreOS
W h a t i s i t ?

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• We are not dictating ‘THE’ CloudStack container
solution.
• The architecture of the open sourced framework
will allow other container platforms to use it.
• The framework doesn’t even have to be used to
run containers - could be DaaS.
W h a t i t ’s n o t

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Components

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1. ‘Application Clusters’ framework adds the concept of a group or
cluster of VMs into CloudStack and enables the creation and
management of those VMs as a group at the API level.
2. Deploy Kubernetes onto a group of VMs, configure them as a
Kubernetes cluster and query the Kubernetes API to obtain and
return state information.
3. Certificate Service to create CA for secure connection to dashboard
4. UI to simplify interaction with the clusters once created.
C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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New APIs
• createApplicationCluster
name: name of the application cluster
description: description of application cluster
type: service type - Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, Mesos etc
zoneid:
role: the name for this type of VM (within the Cluster Type i.e master or worker)
priority: used for starting order, lower numbers will be started sooner.
serviceofferingid: template: the template to use for VMs of this role
count: size of the cluster or number of VMs of this role to be provisioned
accountname: account for which application cluster shall be created
domainid:
networkid:
C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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New APIs
• deleteApplicationCluster
• startApplicationCluster
• stopApplicationCluster
• increaseRoleCount
(role: the name for the type of node to be added)
• decreaseRoleCount
• listApplicationClusters
• listClusterNodes
C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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Certificate Service
• Mgmt server(s) act as a Certificate Authority (CA)
• Mgmt server(s) can create client & server certificates
• Used to secure communications to the Kubernetes
Master node
• Will be expanded to (optionally) secure CloudStack
internal communications
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Plugin functionality for CloudStack
• Orchestrates the deployment of Kubernetes within
those VMs to manage the containers
• Creates secure access to the
Kubernetes API endpoint and dashboard
• Allows pass-through access to VMs
• Acts as a control plane only

20. C l i c k t o e d i t
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Creating container clusters using CloudStack
Container Service
• Creating the cluster
• Viewing metrics
• Understanding the VMs
• Accessing the Cluster dashboard
• Deploying a cloud native application
D e m o

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C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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Demonstration

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• Created a Container Cluster
• Viewed the auto-deployed dashboard
• Deployed two HA containerised applications
• Created firewall and load-balancing rules to expose
those applications
• Accessed those applications
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• Automate exposing services to public internet
• Support resizing of clusters
• Auto-scaling of clusters
• Upgrade of Kubernetes version
• Intelligent independent sizing of master node
• Optional HA for master nodes.
• Use of distributed etcd data store
• Optional use of anti-affinity groups
• Support for CloudStack volumes in Kubernetes for data persistency
• Support for baremetal deployments.
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• Currently supported in Apache Cloudstack 4.6 and 4.5
(as an independent plugin)
• Framework currently being contributed to the Apache
CloudStack project (https://tinyurl.com/m3996ex)
• ‘Kubernetes Plugin’ opensource and available on Github
(https://github.com/shapeblue/ccs)
• Once framework finalised in ACS, roadmap work will
continue.
Ti m e f r a m e s

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Q u e s t i o n s
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CloudStack Container
Service
ShapeBlue.com • @ShapeBlue
Paul Angus, VP Technology • @CloudyAngus
paul.angus@shapeblue.com
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