En route to CI/CD nirvana with the Nuage Networks Technical Marketing Team. This presentation goes over the challenges we faced building an ecosystem of technology partner with a small team. From building a self-service demonstration platform for employees, partners & customers to automating various aspects of our day to day job.

1. En route to CI/CD nirvana
finCODE US 2018
Remi Vichery
Technical Marketing Engineer

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> whoami
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Network
Telecommunication
Software Engineering
Orange (ISP)
Nuage Networks
OpenStack
Wireshark
Open Security Controller
And many more
Networking
DevOps
Software Defined Anything
@rvichery
Remi Vichery
Technical Marketing Engineer

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Nuage Networks (a Nokia venture)
§ HQ in Silicon Valley with a global team
§ A Nokia venture focused on data center and branch
network evolution for the cloud era
§ Offers an open, high-performance, scalable SDN/SD-
WAN solution that supports any workload, anywhere
and over any physical infrastructure
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Our Challenges
& Solutions

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Growing an Ecosystem of Partners
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2015 Today
With a
small team
Minimize
costs
Increase
velocity
Encourage
growth

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We Started With...
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And then, built our base infrastructure
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OpenStack Private Cloud

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A FIRST self service portal
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At the beginning
§ No CI/CD pipeline
§ No tests
§ Deployed as a monolithic app on bare-metal
At the end
§ Fully automated deployment/rollback with Gitlab + Rancher
§ Switched to micro-services
~4000 labs deployed
BY THE NUMBERS
~5 minutes to deploy a lab
~500 users

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Learn & re-build better -
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~2700 labs deployed
BY THE NUMBERS (since Nov 2016)
< 30 seconds to deploy a lab
~2000 users
§ Rebuilt from scratch
§ Based on a API first principle
§ 15+ micro-services
§ Switched from Rancher to OpenShift
§ Tests/deployments/rollbacks are fully
automated using Gitlab CI & OpenShift
§ Foundation of many internal projects

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Code Driven Infrastructure
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is our main source of truth
Physical infrastructure managed by
Host Monitoring PXE Infrastructure Application & Metrics
Monitoring
Datacenter Management &
IPAM

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Benefits - Infrastructure Costs
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Savings: $1,114,030* Costs: $152,600
Platform capacity upgrades
* based on AWS costs to deploy/maintain the same amount of virtual environments

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Benefits - Growth & Velocity
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From days to minutes to setup a demo
From days to hours to setup a partner integration environment
Added 40+ partners in the ecosystem
While keeping a team of only 5 persons
Reduced our effort to requalify partner integrations

13. Our route to
CI/CD nirvana

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Nuage Networks SDN
Auto-Scaling OpenStack
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Nuage Networks SDN
OpenStack OpenStack
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Gitlab
Ansible
Nuage Networks eXperience
OpenStack
Polls metrics/usage
Analyze trends
Commit to add N
servers
Pipeline runs on updated
repository
Run playbook to
create server
Create servers
according to request
Run playbook
to configure
servers

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Nuage Networks SDN
Auto-Scaling OpenStack
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OpenStack
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Gitlab
Ansible
Nuage Networks eXperience
OpenStack
Polls metrics/usage
Analyze trends
Commit to add N
servers
Pipeline runs on updated
repository
Run playbook to
create server
Create servers
according to request
Run playbook
to configure
servers

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Certification as CI/CD pipelines
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8Gitlab
Apache Airflow
Nuage Networks eXperience
Nuage CATS (Cloud Automation
Testing System)
User create a new
certification entry
Create pipeline definition
Push the
pipeline
reference
Get pipeline
definition
Create a lab
environment
Deploy the
environment
Generate
the test
suite
Execute the test
suite against the
environment
Commit reports into
pipeline definition

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Key Takeaways
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1. Public cloud is not always the best option
2. Find the right toolset for your business
3. Maintain small, innovative teams
4. Don’t be afraid to restart something from scratch
Keep It Simple Stupid*
*from Kelly Johnson, Lead Engineer at Lockheed Skunk Works

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Go to nuagex.io It’s free !

19. THANK YOU!
Got questions ?
Contact me at remi.vichery@nuagenetworks.net
On Twitter/Github/Gitlab @rvichery