On-demand Continuous Integration with Jenkins, jclouds, and CloudStackke4qqq
This document discusses using Jenkins, jclouds, and CloudStack together to provide scalable continuous integration testing. It describes how the author transitioned from using dedicated Jenkins masters and VMs to dynamically provisioning build slaves from CloudStack on demand using jclouds. The key steps were building standard images with Packer, configuring the jclouds plugin in Jenkins to integrate with CloudStack as the cloud provider, and configuring jobs to spin up slaves when needed and terminate them after 30 minutes of idle time. This approach provides scalable testing resources that match the varying demand of their many projects.
This document discusses using Puppet to manage infrastructure as code with Apache CloudStack. It describes how Puppet types and providers were developed to allow defining CloudStack instances and entire application stacks in Puppet manifests. This enables automated deployment and configuration of infrastructure along with software configuration. Examples are given of using Puppet to define CloudStack instances, groups of instances that make up an application stack, and setting defaults for attributes. Resources mentioned include the CloudStack and Puppet GitHub pages.
The document discusses several monitoring tools like Nagios, collectd, and Ganglia and notes their lack of automation plugins and APIs. It then introduces Zenoss as a holistic monitoring solution with powerful plugins and APIs that can monitor various cloud platforms, hypervisors, and provide dashboards. Finally, it lists some resources for getting started with Zenoss including documentation, community forums, and code repositories.
Successfully deploy build manage your cloud with cloud stack2ke4qqq
This document discusses CloudStack, an open source cloud management platform. It provides an overview of CloudStack's capabilities including deploying and managing virtual servers on demand, networking services, high availability, multi-tenancy, and support for multiple hypervisors. The document also discusses CloudStack's architecture, resources, availability zones, APIs, and acquisition by Citrix to build on their footprint in cloud computing. It concludes with inviting questions and providing contact information.
Managing Ceph operational complexity with JujuShapeBlue
James Page presented on using Juju and charms to manage the operational complexity of Ceph deployments. Juju provides an auto-magic deployment tool and model-driven operations that can be used to deploy Ceph along with related applications like rbd-mirror across multiple data centers. The Ceph charms encapsulate operational knowledge to handle tasks like installation, configuration, upgrades, scaling, and health monitoring. Juju allows defining the application model and relating applications across models, and includes features like MAAS for server provisioning and LXD for containers. Demostrations showed using Juju actions to manage Ceph operations like creating pools, refreshing mirrors, and upgrading versions across availability zones.
Running OpenShift Clusters in a Cloudstack EnvironmentShapeBlue
This document provides an overview of EWERK, an IT services company based in Germany that has over 600 customers across Europe, with a focus on their experience running OpenShift clusters on Cloudstack. It discusses the challenges of performance, VLAN separation for different customers, and using containers without SDN in Cloudstack, and outlines their hardware, network, storage, and Cloudstack installation configuration.
Thinking in Terms of a Data Center Operating SystemWeston Bassler
Weston Bassler will discuss the concept of a data center operating system and introduce Apache Mesos. A data center operating system treats all the machines in a data center as a single machine by abstracting resources into a single pool and allowing for better utilization of resources and ease of deploying and scaling applications. Apache Mesos is an open source project that implements this concept through a master-slave architecture and frameworks that manage tasks and services. Bassler will provide demonstrations of launching an application with Marathon, scaling an application on Marathon, and configuring Jenkins to run jobs on Mesos. He will also discuss ways to get started using Mesos through documentation, books, his GitHub repository, or by contacting him directly.
On-demand Continuous Integration with Jenkins, jclouds, and CloudStackke4qqq
This document discusses using Jenkins, jclouds, and CloudStack together to provide scalable continuous integration testing. It describes how the author transitioned from using dedicated Jenkins masters and VMs to dynamically provisioning build slaves from CloudStack on demand using jclouds. The key steps were building standard images with Packer, configuring the jclouds plugin in Jenkins to integrate with CloudStack as the cloud provider, and configuring jobs to spin up slaves when needed and terminate them after 30 minutes of idle time. This approach provides scalable testing resources that match the varying demand of their many projects.
This document discusses using Puppet to manage infrastructure as code with Apache CloudStack. It describes how Puppet types and providers were developed to allow defining CloudStack instances and entire application stacks in Puppet manifests. This enables automated deployment and configuration of infrastructure along with software configuration. Examples are given of using Puppet to define CloudStack instances, groups of instances that make up an application stack, and setting defaults for attributes. Resources mentioned include the CloudStack and Puppet GitHub pages.
The document discusses several monitoring tools like Nagios, collectd, and Ganglia and notes their lack of automation plugins and APIs. It then introduces Zenoss as a holistic monitoring solution with powerful plugins and APIs that can monitor various cloud platforms, hypervisors, and provide dashboards. Finally, it lists some resources for getting started with Zenoss including documentation, community forums, and code repositories.
Successfully deploy build manage your cloud with cloud stack2ke4qqq
This document discusses CloudStack, an open source cloud management platform. It provides an overview of CloudStack's capabilities including deploying and managing virtual servers on demand, networking services, high availability, multi-tenancy, and support for multiple hypervisors. The document also discusses CloudStack's architecture, resources, availability zones, APIs, and acquisition by Citrix to build on their footprint in cloud computing. It concludes with inviting questions and providing contact information.
Managing Ceph operational complexity with JujuShapeBlue
James Page presented on using Juju and charms to manage the operational complexity of Ceph deployments. Juju provides an auto-magic deployment tool and model-driven operations that can be used to deploy Ceph along with related applications like rbd-mirror across multiple data centers. The Ceph charms encapsulate operational knowledge to handle tasks like installation, configuration, upgrades, scaling, and health monitoring. Juju allows defining the application model and relating applications across models, and includes features like MAAS for server provisioning and LXD for containers. Demostrations showed using Juju actions to manage Ceph operations like creating pools, refreshing mirrors, and upgrading versions across availability zones.
Running OpenShift Clusters in a Cloudstack EnvironmentShapeBlue
This document provides an overview of EWERK, an IT services company based in Germany that has over 600 customers across Europe, with a focus on their experience running OpenShift clusters on Cloudstack. It discusses the challenges of performance, VLAN separation for different customers, and using containers without SDN in Cloudstack, and outlines their hardware, network, storage, and Cloudstack installation configuration.
Thinking in Terms of a Data Center Operating SystemWeston Bassler
Weston Bassler will discuss the concept of a data center operating system and introduce Apache Mesos. A data center operating system treats all the machines in a data center as a single machine by abstracting resources into a single pool and allowing for better utilization of resources and ease of deploying and scaling applications. Apache Mesos is an open source project that implements this concept through a master-slave architecture and frameworks that manage tasks and services. Bassler will provide demonstrations of launching an application with Marathon, scaling an application on Marathon, and configuring Jenkins to run jobs on Mesos. He will also discuss ways to get started using Mesos through documentation, books, his GitHub repository, or by contacting him directly.
Thoughts about how to use CloudStack to develop a Big Data Solution in your data center.
Cloud as a virtual machine infrastructure and Big Data are converging as two key technical evolution in the data center. Virtualization enables multi-tenancy, heterogenous Operating systems and added security via isolation. Clouds like AWS EC2, Rackspace, or google GCE are good examples. Big Data tackles the challenge of the increase scale (amount) and complexity (type) of data faced in the enterprise. While Compute cloud show a departure from traditional hardware provisioning and configuration management via virtualization, big data is a departure from traditional relational databases and file systems. These two technical evolutions have been triggered by the new workloads of the internet (search, streaming) and the scale needed to server millions of users and millions/billions of objects to store or serve.
In this talk we show how CloudStack and its support for bare-metal provisioning is compatible with a public cloud. CloudStack being a data center orchestrator that can tackle both traditional enterprise workloads and internet scale/type workloads. Multiple zones can be created for compute cloud or big data. Big data can used as backend store to the compute cloud or as zone type to enabled big data workload on the bare metal hardware.
This hybrid mode of operation is seen as the next evolution of clouds and positions a data center orchestrator has more than a VM management system and a solution to big data management as well.
Sebastien Goasguen. With VM seemingly taking a back seat with containers coming back in fame, what is the role of CloudStack or OpenStack. In this talk Sebastien will briefly review the state of the art and bring some context around container orchestrators and how they relate to CloudStack. He will then discuss how containers orchestration can be easily integrated in CloudStack.
Guaranteeing Storage Performance by Mike Tutkowskibuildacloud
This session will introduce the basics of primary storage in CloudStack. Additionally, I discuss the challenges of guaranteeing storage performance in a cloud and how by leveraging the latest enhancements to CloudStack, storage administrators can deliver consistent, repeatable performance to 10s, 100s or 1,000s of application workloads in parallel. I'll review the CloudStack enhancements in detail, outline the management benefits they provide and discuss common go-to-market approaches.
About Mike Tutkowski
Mike Tutkowski, a member of the CloudStack PMC, develops software for the Apache Software Foundation's CloudStack project to help drive improvements in its storage component and to integrate SolidFire more deeply into the product.
The Future of SDN in CloudStack by Chiradeep Vittalbuildacloud
The core of CloudStack networking has always been software-defined. As the networking industry evolves to a software-defined future, CloudStack will have to evolve with it.
The presentation will examine the present state of SDN in CloudStack, look at some industry directions and attempt to predict the evolution of CloudStack with those trends.
Bio
Chiradeep Vittal is a Distinguished Engineer in the Converged Infrastructure Group at Citrix where he has technology leadership responsibilities around Citrix Cloud Platform, Citrix Lifecycle Manager and Citrix Workspace Pod. He is also a Project Management Committee member of the Apache CloudStack Project. At cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), he was a founding engineer, often tasked with the thorny details of virtualized networking and storage. Prior to cloud.com, he worked at several Silicon Valley startups in various architectural roles.
Chiradeep has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay and a M.Sc from the University of Alberta. He has spoken / presented at several conferences, including CloudStack Collab, LISA, OSCON, ONS, SDN Summit and LinuxCon. His twitter handle is @chiradeep and occasionally blogs at http://cloudierthanthou.wordpress.com
Cloudstack: the best kept secret in the cloudShapeBlue
Apache CloudStack is a scalable, multi-tenant, open-source cloud orchestration platform that provides infrastructure as a service. It has been in widespread production use for over 6 years, powering major public clouds and enterprise private clouds. Despite its proven track record and growing user community, CloudStack remains relatively unknown compared to other open-source cloud platforms.
Whats New in Apache CloudStack Version 4.5ShapeBlue
The document summarizes the new features in Apache CloudStack 4.5, including integration with external DNS providers, a Nuage VSP network plugin, vGPU enhancements, SAML 2.0 integration, support for Linux containers on RHEL 7, MySQL 5.6 and XenServer 6.5 support, improved VM sync for vSphere, enhanced SolidFire integration, domain/account/user sync among multiple regions, and improved CloudByte storage plugin.
The CloudStack usage service is used to track consumption of resources in Apache CloudStack for reporting and billing purposes. This talk will give an overview of the service before diving deeper into how data is processed from the CloudStack database into the different usage types before being aggregated into billable units or time slices in the usage database.
On CloudStack, Docker, Kubernetes, and Big Data…Oh my ! By Sebastien Goasguen...Radhika Puthiyetath
Sebastien Goasguen is a developer who works on Apache CloudStack and other open source projects related to cloud computing, containers, and big data. He gave a talk covering CloudStack, Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS, and how various technologies can work together for managing distributed applications and infrastructure. He also discussed the evolving landscape of cloud computing and how big data solutions fit within that landscape.
It has long been debated whether OpenStack is production ready. In this session you will learn how a major bank has gone to production with more than 5000 VMs that delivered the results of a 40% decrease in cost, reduced deployment time to hours not weeks, 56 new technologies introduced, 7 new platforms launched - all in under a year. Learn how their platform built on Rackspace and RHEL, coupled with best of breed open source tooling - SaltStack, Jenkins, Cloudify, and Nexus are the enablers for production-grade OpenStack.
http://sched.co/7fH1
This document discusses cost controlling and compliance at Misfit, a company that has been part of Fossil Group since 2011. It provides lessons learned around cost controlling including separating AWS accounts by environment, tagging resources, and using unit costs to simplify conversations. It also discusses implementing common compliance standards like ISO, PCI, and HIPAA by prioritizing shared requirements, conducting gap assessments, and maintaining documentation and training programs. The document outlines challenges of compliance work including time requirements and gaining awareness from other teams.
This document discusses Apache JClouds, an open source library that facilitates developing applications for a wide range of cloud providers. It allows developers to implement applications using JClouds APIs and run them on different cloud platforms without code changes, addressing challenges of cloud portability. The document outlines JClouds' compute and blob storage APIs, demonstrates its use, and notes its benefits like simplicity and portability while acknowledging limitations like documentation. It concludes that JClouds provides a simple approach for building portable cloud applications across multiple vendors.
The document discusses building a public or private cloud using OpenStack. It begins with an introduction to cloud computing and OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source cloud platform that is scalable and used by many large companies. The document then covers use cases for OpenStack like building test environments, provides examples of OpenStack implementations at CERN and Rackspace, and discusses how the group has setup OpenStack and built a sample Rails application using OpenStack Swift for photo storage. It acknowledges the challenges of implementing OpenStack and hopes to continue using it to support building large scale web applications.
This document discusses SQL Azure and Windows Azure Storage. SQL Azure allows storing databases in the cloud with high availability and load balancing. Windows Azure Storage provides durable cloud storage for blobs, disks, tables and queues. It replicates data across multiple datacenters for high availability and scales massively to store large amounts of unstructured and structured data.
After two years, CloudStack Meetup was conducted on Aug 6 to understand the simplicity of Cloudstack, Drill-down into Optional Secondary Storage, How it fares with Openstack
and a Detailed demo of VPC feature of Cloudstack
CloudStack challenges for China customersgavin_lee
CloudStack provides a viable option for private cloud deployment in China, addressing key customer concerns around stability, customization, local support and cost. The document discusses CloudStack's suitability for private vs public clouds in China and compares it to alternatives like VMware and OpenStack. It also presents a real-world case study of a large-scale CloudStack deployment for a government e-governance project virtualizing over 300 applications across multiple zones. Lessons learned include the importance of preparation, testing, network stability, backup solutions and contributing back to the CloudStack community.
This talk will give an introduction on how to use Terraform to deploy CloudStack infrastructure (VMs, Networks, Storage, etc.) using the Terraform cloudstack modules.
This document discusses building a Platform as a Service (PaaS) on top of the CloudStack cloud computing platform. It outlines several open source PaaS solutions like AppScale and Cloud Foundry that can be used on CloudStack and discusses challenges in areas like auto-scaling, deployment, and network configuration. The document also highlights a demonstration of AppScale running successfully on CloudStack and the potential to run the proprietary Stackato PaaS, which is based on Cloud Foundry, on CloudStack by supporting its required languages and frameworks.
The document discusses using MongoDB in the cloud and introduces Cloudify as a way to automate the deployment and management of MongoDB in cloud environments. It provides an agenda for discussing the state of MongoDB in the cloud, what is missing currently, and how Cloudify addresses this by allowing for automated installation, configuration, monitoring, repair, scaling and bursting of MongoDB deployments. The presentation then demonstrates Cloudify through a live demo.
From metal to service 100% automation with Apache CloudStack and Ansible - ...ShapeBlue
Celpax.com has recently deployed Apache CloudStack on Hetzner+Premises with full metal to service automation. In this talk, Rafael del Valle, Co-Founder of the company, will present the story of success. Furthermore, he will share why they chose open-source technologies and what advantages they got.
About Rafael del Valle
Rafael del Valle is a Computer Scientist with over 2 decades of experience creating software products and ventures. After launching products for companies such as Reuters or TIBCO Software, Rafael co-founded 2 software ventures. Rafael is a married father of 3, enjoys mountain biking, sailing and tinkering.
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CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea …
We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries.
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About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/
Puppet is ideal for abstracting away the configurations of machines. In the time since puppet arrived on the scene, IaaS has started to creep into the mainstream. Now instead of just managing the configuration in the machine, the machine state itself can be configured, and even broken out to manage the configuration of all the deployed instances in a datacenter. We'll explore delving into using Apache CloudStack to do so, but we'll talk about the applicable other platforms as well.
David Nalley
Committer/PMC member, Apache CloudStack
David is a recovering sysadmin who spent a year in operations before starting to work on cloudy things. He's currently employed by Citrix in the Open Source Business Office to spend his time working on Apache CloudStack. In addition to CloudStack he's been involved in a number of other open source projects, including Zenoss and the Fedora Project.
Thoughts about how to use CloudStack to develop a Big Data Solution in your data center.
Cloud as a virtual machine infrastructure and Big Data are converging as two key technical evolution in the data center. Virtualization enables multi-tenancy, heterogenous Operating systems and added security via isolation. Clouds like AWS EC2, Rackspace, or google GCE are good examples. Big Data tackles the challenge of the increase scale (amount) and complexity (type) of data faced in the enterprise. While Compute cloud show a departure from traditional hardware provisioning and configuration management via virtualization, big data is a departure from traditional relational databases and file systems. These two technical evolutions have been triggered by the new workloads of the internet (search, streaming) and the scale needed to server millions of users and millions/billions of objects to store or serve.
In this talk we show how CloudStack and its support for bare-metal provisioning is compatible with a public cloud. CloudStack being a data center orchestrator that can tackle both traditional enterprise workloads and internet scale/type workloads. Multiple zones can be created for compute cloud or big data. Big data can used as backend store to the compute cloud or as zone type to enabled big data workload on the bare metal hardware.
This hybrid mode of operation is seen as the next evolution of clouds and positions a data center orchestrator has more than a VM management system and a solution to big data management as well.
Sebastien Goasguen. With VM seemingly taking a back seat with containers coming back in fame, what is the role of CloudStack or OpenStack. In this talk Sebastien will briefly review the state of the art and bring some context around container orchestrators and how they relate to CloudStack. He will then discuss how containers orchestration can be easily integrated in CloudStack.
Guaranteeing Storage Performance by Mike Tutkowskibuildacloud
This session will introduce the basics of primary storage in CloudStack. Additionally, I discuss the challenges of guaranteeing storage performance in a cloud and how by leveraging the latest enhancements to CloudStack, storage administrators can deliver consistent, repeatable performance to 10s, 100s or 1,000s of application workloads in parallel. I'll review the CloudStack enhancements in detail, outline the management benefits they provide and discuss common go-to-market approaches.
About Mike Tutkowski
Mike Tutkowski, a member of the CloudStack PMC, develops software for the Apache Software Foundation's CloudStack project to help drive improvements in its storage component and to integrate SolidFire more deeply into the product.
The Future of SDN in CloudStack by Chiradeep Vittalbuildacloud
The core of CloudStack networking has always been software-defined. As the networking industry evolves to a software-defined future, CloudStack will have to evolve with it.
The presentation will examine the present state of SDN in CloudStack, look at some industry directions and attempt to predict the evolution of CloudStack with those trends.
Bio
Chiradeep Vittal is a Distinguished Engineer in the Converged Infrastructure Group at Citrix where he has technology leadership responsibilities around Citrix Cloud Platform, Citrix Lifecycle Manager and Citrix Workspace Pod. He is also a Project Management Committee member of the Apache CloudStack Project. At cloud.com (acquired by Citrix), he was a founding engineer, often tasked with the thorny details of virtualized networking and storage. Prior to cloud.com, he worked at several Silicon Valley startups in various architectural roles.
Chiradeep has a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Bombay and a M.Sc from the University of Alberta. He has spoken / presented at several conferences, including CloudStack Collab, LISA, OSCON, ONS, SDN Summit and LinuxCon. His twitter handle is @chiradeep and occasionally blogs at http://cloudierthanthou.wordpress.com
Cloudstack: the best kept secret in the cloudShapeBlue
Apache CloudStack is a scalable, multi-tenant, open-source cloud orchestration platform that provides infrastructure as a service. It has been in widespread production use for over 6 years, powering major public clouds and enterprise private clouds. Despite its proven track record and growing user community, CloudStack remains relatively unknown compared to other open-source cloud platforms.
Whats New in Apache CloudStack Version 4.5ShapeBlue
The document summarizes the new features in Apache CloudStack 4.5, including integration with external DNS providers, a Nuage VSP network plugin, vGPU enhancements, SAML 2.0 integration, support for Linux containers on RHEL 7, MySQL 5.6 and XenServer 6.5 support, improved VM sync for vSphere, enhanced SolidFire integration, domain/account/user sync among multiple regions, and improved CloudByte storage plugin.
The CloudStack usage service is used to track consumption of resources in Apache CloudStack for reporting and billing purposes. This talk will give an overview of the service before diving deeper into how data is processed from the CloudStack database into the different usage types before being aggregated into billable units or time slices in the usage database.
On CloudStack, Docker, Kubernetes, and Big Data…Oh my ! By Sebastien Goasguen...Radhika Puthiyetath
Sebastien Goasguen is a developer who works on Apache CloudStack and other open source projects related to cloud computing, containers, and big data. He gave a talk covering CloudStack, Docker, Kubernetes, CoreOS, and how various technologies can work together for managing distributed applications and infrastructure. He also discussed the evolving landscape of cloud computing and how big data solutions fit within that landscape.
It has long been debated whether OpenStack is production ready. In this session you will learn how a major bank has gone to production with more than 5000 VMs that delivered the results of a 40% decrease in cost, reduced deployment time to hours not weeks, 56 new technologies introduced, 7 new platforms launched - all in under a year. Learn how their platform built on Rackspace and RHEL, coupled with best of breed open source tooling - SaltStack, Jenkins, Cloudify, and Nexus are the enablers for production-grade OpenStack.
http://sched.co/7fH1
This document discusses cost controlling and compliance at Misfit, a company that has been part of Fossil Group since 2011. It provides lessons learned around cost controlling including separating AWS accounts by environment, tagging resources, and using unit costs to simplify conversations. It also discusses implementing common compliance standards like ISO, PCI, and HIPAA by prioritizing shared requirements, conducting gap assessments, and maintaining documentation and training programs. The document outlines challenges of compliance work including time requirements and gaining awareness from other teams.
This document discusses Apache JClouds, an open source library that facilitates developing applications for a wide range of cloud providers. It allows developers to implement applications using JClouds APIs and run them on different cloud platforms without code changes, addressing challenges of cloud portability. The document outlines JClouds' compute and blob storage APIs, demonstrates its use, and notes its benefits like simplicity and portability while acknowledging limitations like documentation. It concludes that JClouds provides a simple approach for building portable cloud applications across multiple vendors.
The document discusses building a public or private cloud using OpenStack. It begins with an introduction to cloud computing and OpenStack. OpenStack is an open source cloud platform that is scalable and used by many large companies. The document then covers use cases for OpenStack like building test environments, provides examples of OpenStack implementations at CERN and Rackspace, and discusses how the group has setup OpenStack and built a sample Rails application using OpenStack Swift for photo storage. It acknowledges the challenges of implementing OpenStack and hopes to continue using it to support building large scale web applications.
This document discusses SQL Azure and Windows Azure Storage. SQL Azure allows storing databases in the cloud with high availability and load balancing. Windows Azure Storage provides durable cloud storage for blobs, disks, tables and queues. It replicates data across multiple datacenters for high availability and scales massively to store large amounts of unstructured and structured data.
After two years, CloudStack Meetup was conducted on Aug 6 to understand the simplicity of Cloudstack, Drill-down into Optional Secondary Storage, How it fares with Openstack
and a Detailed demo of VPC feature of Cloudstack
CloudStack challenges for China customersgavin_lee
CloudStack provides a viable option for private cloud deployment in China, addressing key customer concerns around stability, customization, local support and cost. The document discusses CloudStack's suitability for private vs public clouds in China and compares it to alternatives like VMware and OpenStack. It also presents a real-world case study of a large-scale CloudStack deployment for a government e-governance project virtualizing over 300 applications across multiple zones. Lessons learned include the importance of preparation, testing, network stability, backup solutions and contributing back to the CloudStack community.
This talk will give an introduction on how to use Terraform to deploy CloudStack infrastructure (VMs, Networks, Storage, etc.) using the Terraform cloudstack modules.
This document discusses building a Platform as a Service (PaaS) on top of the CloudStack cloud computing platform. It outlines several open source PaaS solutions like AppScale and Cloud Foundry that can be used on CloudStack and discusses challenges in areas like auto-scaling, deployment, and network configuration. The document also highlights a demonstration of AppScale running successfully on CloudStack and the potential to run the proprietary Stackato PaaS, which is based on Cloud Foundry, on CloudStack by supporting its required languages and frameworks.
The document discusses using MongoDB in the cloud and introduces Cloudify as a way to automate the deployment and management of MongoDB in cloud environments. It provides an agenda for discussing the state of MongoDB in the cloud, what is missing currently, and how Cloudify addresses this by allowing for automated installation, configuration, monitoring, repair, scaling and bursting of MongoDB deployments. The presentation then demonstrates Cloudify through a live demo.
From metal to service 100% automation with Apache CloudStack and Ansible - ...ShapeBlue
Celpax.com has recently deployed Apache CloudStack on Hetzner+Premises with full metal to service automation. In this talk, Rafael del Valle, Co-Founder of the company, will present the story of success. Furthermore, he will share why they chose open-source technologies and what advantages they got.
About Rafael del Valle
Rafael del Valle is a Computer Scientist with over 2 decades of experience creating software products and ventures. After launching products for companies such as Reuters or TIBCO Software, Rafael co-founded 2 software ventures. Rafael is a married father of 3, enjoys mountain biking, sailing and tinkering.
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CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea …
We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries.
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About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/
Puppet is ideal for abstracting away the configurations of machines. In the time since puppet arrived on the scene, IaaS has started to creep into the mainstream. Now instead of just managing the configuration in the machine, the machine state itself can be configured, and even broken out to manage the configuration of all the deployed instances in a datacenter. We'll explore delving into using Apache CloudStack to do so, but we'll talk about the applicable other platforms as well.
David Nalley
Committer/PMC member, Apache CloudStack
David is a recovering sysadmin who spent a year in operations before starting to work on cloudy things. He's currently employed by Citrix in the Open Source Business Office to spend his time working on Apache CloudStack. In addition to CloudStack he's been involved in a number of other open source projects, including Zenoss and the Fedora Project.
Introduction to Apache CloudStack by David Nalleybuildacloud
Apache CloudStack is a mature, easy to deploy IaaS platform. That doesn't mean that it can be done without thought or preparation. Learn how CloudStack can be most efficiently deployed, and the problems to avoid in the process.
About David Nalley
David is a recovering sysadmin with a decade of experience. He’s a committer on the Apache CloudStack (incubating) project, a contributor to the Fedora Project and the Vice President of Infrastructure at the Apache Software Foundation.
Apache Deltacloud: Speaking EC2 and CIMI to Openstack (and others)lutter
This document discusses Apache Deltacloud, which allows clients to interact with different cloud platforms through common APIs. Deltacloud supports the EC2 and CIMI standards. It can act as an EC2 frontend to interface with clouds like OpenStack. Deltacloud also implements the CIMI standard developed by DMTF to provide a common REST API for cloud resources across platforms.
This document provides an introduction and overview of Node.js. It discusses the brief history of server-side JavaScript, how Node.js was created to enable easy push capabilities for websites, and its growth in popularity in the following years. The document also covers key aspects of Node.js like non-blocking I/O, event loops, streams, modules, and dependency management with NPM. Popular frameworks like Express, Hapi, and tools/concepts like IoT, desktop apps, and real-time apps are also mentioned.
We will introduce Airflow, an Apache Project for scheduling and workflow orchestration. We will discuss use cases, applicability and how best to use Airflow, mainly in the context of building data engineering pipelines. We have been running Airflow in production for about 2 years, we will also go over some learnings, best practices and some tools we have built around it.
Speakers: Robert Sanders, Shekhar Vemuri
This document discusses puppetizing complex applications like sipXecs, an open source voice over IP telephony server. It provides an overview of Puppet and how it can be used to deploy and configure sipXecs in a repeatable, automated way. Challenges with the existing sipXecs installation and configuration are discussed. The document explores potential approaches like using test frameworks and APIs but concludes there is no perfect solution yet and engagement with upstream suppliers may be needed.
Self-Service Provisioning and Hadoop Management with Apache AmbariDataWorks Summit
This document discusses delivering self-service Hadoop using Apache Ambari. It defines self-service Hadoop as enabling users to provision their own Hadoop clusters and analyze data within minutes. Key building blocks for self-service Hadoop include a self-service user interface, agility/elasticity, and IT support. Apache Ambari is highlighted as it allows automated provisioning of Hadoop clusters via REST APIs and provides enterprise-grade management. The presentation demonstrates how Ambari APIs can be used to quickly provision virtual Hadoop clusters on demand and deploy specific analytics services.
Apache Druid Auto Scale-out/in for Streaming Data Ingestion on KubernetesDataWorks Summit
Apache Druid supports auto-scaling of Middle Manager nodes to handle changes in data ingestion load. On Kubernetes, this can be implemented using Horizontal Pod Autoscaling based on custom metrics exposed from the Druid Overlord process, such as the number of pending/running tasks and expected number of workers. The autoscaler scales the number of Middle Manager pods between minimum and maximum thresholds to maintain a target average load percentage.
A Groovy Kind of Java (San Francisco Java User Group)Nati Shalom
Today's application stack is built out many popular OSS frameworks such as Cassandra, MongoDB, Scala, Play, Memcache, RabitMQ alongside the more traditional JEE stack which includes app servers such as Tomcat and JBoss. In this environment the same practices that we used to have in JEE centric world for managing and deploying our app are not relevant anymore. In this session we'll introduce a new open source framework based on Groovy for packaging your application, automating the scaling, failover, and more.
Rapid Application Development with WSO2 PlatformWSO2
This document provides an overview of a presentation by Smaisa Abeysinghe, VP of Delivery at WSO2, on rapid application development with JavaScript and data services. It includes details about the presenter and their background at WSO2, an overview of WSO2 as a company including their products and partnerships, and discusses challenges in rapid application development as well as how JavaScript can help address these challenges. The document also introduces Jaggery.js as a JavaScript framework for building multi-tier web applications, provides examples of getting started with Jaggery.js, and demonstrates RESTful URL mapping and HTTP verb mapping in sample applications.
Spark on Dataproc - Israel Spark Meetup at taboolatsliwowicz
This document summarizes a presentation about Google Cloud Dataproc, a fully managed Spark and Hadoop service. It provides an overview of Dataproc's features like fast cluster provisioning, minute-based billing, and integration with other Google Cloud services. The presentation demonstrates Dataproc's pricing and performance advantages over AWS EMR, and outlines Google's roadmap to add more frameworks, tools, and data stores to Dataproc.
Building a cloud based managed BigData platform for the enterpriseHemanth Yamijala
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Building a Dev/Test Cloud with Apache CloudStack
1. Building a Test/Dev Cloud with
Apache CloudStack
David Nalley
ke4qqq@apache.org
@ke4qqq
2. #whoami
● Sysadmin of a decade
● Apache Software Foundation Member
● Apache CloudStack Committer & PMC Member
● Fedora Project Contributor
● Employed by Citrix in the Open Source Business Office
3. Why use cloud?
From a dev POV the process normally looks like:
● Start new project
● File ticket for resources....wait....wait....wait
● Get resources, that aren't configured....wait...
● Get network access.....get permission....wait
● Get things done.
4. Why use cloud?
● What IT Operations provides is not what a developer wants.
5. Get rid of the waiting
● Remove the constraints - developers empowered to get things
done.
● Agility
● Enforce automated process instead of manual ones
6. What does a dev/test cloud look like?
● Self-service - developers can provision their own environments
● Usage measurement - we worry about VM sprawl
● Isolated networks - must not let dev/test interfere with the real
world.
● Commodity - as cheap as practical
● May also house production workloads
7. Self service
● Provisioning manually doesn't add value
● Can be completely automated
● Do they need full control or just pushing pre-configured
environments?
14. Usage
● Jevons Paradox
● Plenty of waste possible as well - will developers always
destroy a machine when they are done with it?
● Important to show what projects and groups are consuming
resources as well as how they are using those resources
15. Commodity - Storage
● Commodity storage - this is dev/test environment - high
performance, resilient storage isn't needed.
● Local storage tends to be the best mix of cheap and performant
● No failover, but it's dev/test - do you need it?
16. Commodity - Networking
● Layer 3 isolation - (aka Security Groups)
● VLANs - (not as commodity, but still relatively cheap on a small
scale, but not at scale)
● Virtual routers (provide DHCP, DNS, LB, Firewall, PF, NAT, etc)
17. Commodity Hypervisor
● KVM is my personal choice in this space.
● Easiest to consume - completely open source
18. Limiting resources
● Limit the number of VMs, snapshots, IP addresses, etc.
● Use 'projects' to share resources
● This means most folks will never have problems, but heaviest
users will not be able to interrupt service for others.
Dev wants to work - IT has process, and tickets, etc.
Talk a lot about the general architecture of CloudStack
What does self service really mean?
IS this really your idea of enabling developers? It might be nice to have, but it shouldn't be the real interface - even with defaults this takes 6 clicks.....which is better than filing a ticket, but doesn't scale.
Elasticity is only imagined - look at default limits placed on AWS users.