Mike Ainsworth, SaltStack director of technical sales and services, shares the SaltStack story at the All Things Open conference in 2013.

1. “Automating Cloud Factories w/ new opensource software”
An open source story
@mike_ainsworth
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2. PRESENTATION TOPICS
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Intro
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Open… for business!
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Open Scalability
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3. Wait a minute…
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4. Who is Mike Ainsworth?
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5. I started as a hobbyist
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6. Career Snapshot…
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7. Career Snapshot…
15 yrs Enterprise Information Systems & Security
Educator, Consultant, Researcher, & Evangelist
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Altiris, Symantec, AppSense, Venafi
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SaltStack
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(wait… I’m starting to see a pattern here)
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8. Open Opportunity
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9. A different business perspective
Closed
Source
Value
Open Source
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10. A different business perspective
Closed
Source
Value
Open Source
Software License
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11. A different business perspective
Closed
Source
Value
Open Source
Software License
Utility +
Exclusivity
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12. A different business perspective
Closed
Source
Value
Software License
Open Source
Subscription
License
Utility +
Exclusivity
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13. A different business perspective
Closed
Source
Value
Open Source
Software License
Subscription
License
Utility +
Exclusivity
Utility +
Enablement
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14. Open for Business
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• Tuned and curated software release
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• “Hand-in-glove” relationships
• Delivering real value to customers
• Helping them solve real problems
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15. Some Background on the Project
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16. Some Background on the Project
• Project Officially Launched February 2011
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17. Some Background on the Project
• Project Officially Launched February 2011
• Massive Development Community Backing
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18. Some Background on the Project
• Project Officially Launched February 2011
• Massive Development Community Backing
• #8 2012 GitHub Octoverse behind OpenStack Nova
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19. Some Background on the Project
• Project Officially Launched February 2011
• Massive Development Community Backing
• #8 2012 GitHub Octoverse behind OpenStack Nova
• SaltStack already established player in Cloud
Management / Config Management market
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20. Open Building Blocks
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21. Open Building Blocks
• Python
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22. Open Building Blocks
• Python
• ZeroMQ
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23. Open Building Blocks
• Python
• ZeroMQ
• M2Crypto
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24. Open Building Blocks
• Python
• ZeroMQ
• M2Crypto
• YAML
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25. Open Building Blocks
• Python
• ZeroMQ
• M2Crypto
• YAML
• Jinja
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26. Open Building Blocks
• Python
• ZeroMQ
• M2Crypto
• YAML
• Jinja
• MsgPack
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27. Harnessing the Power of Community
#8 2012 GitHub Octoverse
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28. Harnessing the Power of Community
#8 2012 GitHub Octoverse
Everybody Wins
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29. For context… a little about Salt
Salt manages both State (configuration)….
….and Flow (orchestration)
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30. SALT STATE
• Web-scale application stack deployment
• Continuous deployment, release automation, application healing
• Configuration management:
o Language agnostic
o Simple & flexible:YAML default & Jinja templates
o Data driven, extremely fast
o Declarative or imperative
o Configure packages, services, files and users
o More than 100 built-in state modules, or easily create them
o State modules wrap execution modules
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31. SALT FLOW
• Fast infrastructure mgmt & remote system
automation
• Real-time system data and status monitoring
• Any cloud provisioning and orchestration
• Private cloud deployment and management
• Virtual machine automation
• IT process automation
• Asynchronous, parallel execution
• More than 200 built-in execution modules
available, or easily create them
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32. Defining the Problem
• Agile Dev cycles faster than ever
• Operations accruing “Technical Debt”
• Need for automation to improve
efficiency
• Minimize Learning Curve
• Need for Agnostic System
Administration
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33. Public/Private cloud diversity…
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34. …and application stacks like snowflakes
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35. Execution Modules, State Modules & Cloud Drivers… Oh My!
Modules and Drivers, the power behind Salt’s
data-driven execution….
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36. Execution Modules, State Modules & Cloud Drivers… Oh My!
Modules and Drivers, the power behind Salt’s
data-driven execution….
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37. Execution Modules, State Modules & Cloud Drivers… Oh My!
Modules and Drivers, the power behind Salt’s
data-driven execution….
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38. Build, Maintain and QA Leverage
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39. Build, Maintain and QA Leverage
How to Build, and Maintain Module and
Driver libraries?
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Hire an army of developers, qa engineers
and product managers…. Or…
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40. Tap the power of the Community
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41. SaltStack: Speed & Scalability
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42. Open Source: ideas that Scale
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43. Thank You
@mike_ainsworth
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