The presentation by Wayne A. Walls discusses the reinventing of Rackspace into an open-source cloud infrastructure that emphasizes innovation, flexibility, and scalability for public and private cloud providers. It highlights the importance of continuous delivery, an open API, and community-driven development, demonstrating how Rackspace's cloud can facilitate rapid deployment and management. The document also showcases specific tools and technologies utilized in the process, emphasizing data-driven decisions and the integration of real-time capabilities.

1. REINVENTING RACKSPACE:
Agile-techture: Nimble Cloud Engineering
PRESENTED BY:
Wayne A. Walls
Enterprise Architect
Cloud Connect Chicago - Sept 2012
@waynewalls

2. REINVENTING RACKSPACE
OPEN SOURCE
CLOUD ON CLOUD
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
OPEN API

4. WINNING THE NEXT ROUND

5. WINNING THE NEXT ROUND

6. WINNING THE NEXT ROUND

7. WINNING THE NEXT ROUND

8. REINVENTING RACKSPACE
OPEN SOURCE
CLOUD ON CLOUD
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
OPEN API

9. OPEN SOURCE
• Software to make a cloud anywhere
• An ecosystem devoted to innovation
• Flexibility in deployment/features
• Standards for broad deployment
• No fear of lock-in
Open Source Cloud computing will meet the needs of public and
private Cloud providers by being simple and massively scalable.

10. OPEN SOURCE
– 63 Public repos
• OpenStack tools
• Mobile Apps
• Software Configuration Management (SCM)
• Cloud Management Software
– yagi
– atom-hopper
https://github.com/rackspace

11. OPEN SOURCE : Polling for information in OpenStack
INTERWEBS
AUTHENTICATION LAYER
ADMIN PUBLIC
API API
SCHEDULER
NETWORK
1 MQ
VOLUME
IMAGE SERVICES DB

12. OPEN SOURCE : Polling for information in OpenStack
INTERWEBS
AUTHENTICATION LAYER
ADMIN PUBLIC
API API
SCHEDULER
NETWORK
1 MQ
VOLUME
IMAGE SERVICES DB
YAGI

13. OPEN SOURCE : Polling for information in OpenStack
INTERWEBS
AUTHENTICATION LAYER
PUBLIC
ADMIN
API
SCHEDULER
NETWORK
1 MQ
VOLUME
IMAGE SERVICES DB
ATOM/
YAGI ATOM PUB

14. OPEN SOURCE : Polling for information in OpenStack
INTERWEBS
AUTHENTICATION LAYER
PUBLIC
ADMIN
API
SCHEDULER
NETWORK
1 MQ
VOLUME
IMAGE SERVICES DB
ATOM/ ATOM
YAGI ATOM PUB HOPPER

15. OPEN SOURCE : Polling for information in OpenStack
INTERWEBS
AUTHENTICATION LAYER
ADMIN PUBLIC
API
SCHEDULER
NETWORK
1 MQ
VOLUME
IMAGE SERVICES DB
ATOM/ ATOM
YAGI ATOM PUB HOPPER
REAL-TIME
PUBLISHER

16. OPEN SOURCE : Polling for information in OpenStack
INTERWEBS
AUTHENTICATION LAYER
ADMIN PUBLIC
API API
SCHEDULER
NETWORK
1 MQ
VOLUME
IMAGE SERVICES DB
MONITORING
ATOM/ ATOM
YAGI ATOM PUB HOPPER
REAL-TIME
PUBLISHER RBA/

17. OPEN SOURCE : Polling for information in OpenStack
INTERWEBS
AUTHENTICATION LAYER
PUBLIC
ADMIN
API
SCHEDULER
NETWORK USAGE
1 MQ
VOLUME
IMAGE SERVICES DB BILLING
CUSTOMER
TICKETING
MONITORING
ATOM/ ATOM
YAGI ATOM PUB HOPPER
REAL-TIME
PUBLISHER RBA/

18. A VIBRANT ECOSYSTEM
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19. REINVENTING RACKSPACE
OPEN SOURCE
CLOUD ON CLOUD
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
OPEN API

20. A BIT OF RACKSPACE CLOUD HISTORY
FirstGen Staging FirstGen Production
Rackspace Cloud Rackspace Cloud
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

21. YO DAWG I HEARD YOU
LIKE CLOUD
SO I PUT A CLOUD IN YOUR CLOUD SO
YOU CAN CLOUD WHILE YOU CLOUD18

22. BOOTSTRAPPING THE CLOUD
api scheduler database
network compute queue

23. SEED ENVIRONMENT
nova-api nova-api nova-api nova-api quantum glance
rabbitMQ nova-cells nova-db scheduler melange console
API (Region) Cell Region Services
rabbitMQ nova-db rabbitMQ nova-db rabbitMQ nova-db
nova-cells nova-cells nova-cells
scheduler scheduler scheduler
cell-0001 compute
cell-0003 compute
cell-0003 compute

24. SEED ENVIRONMENT
API (Region) Cell
Available Capacity
nova-api nova-api nova-aoi nova-api nova-api nova-api nova-aoi nova-api nova-api nova-api nova-aoi nova-api
rabbitMQ nova-cells nova-db scheduler rabbitMQ nova-cells nova-db scheduler rabbitMQ nova-cells nova-db scheduler

25. SEED ENVIRONMENT
API (Region) Cell
Available Capacity
nova-api nova-api nova-aoi nova-api nova-api nova-api nova-aoi nova-api nova-api nova-api nova-aoi nova-api
rabbitMQ Dev
nova-cells nova-db scheduler Staging
rabbitMQ nova-cells nova-db scheduler rabbitMQ Prod
nova-cells nova-db scheduler

26. DEPLOYMENTS AND UPGRADES
Load Balancer
nova-api nova-api nova-api

27. DEPLOYMENTS AND UPGRADES
Load Balancer
nova-api nova-api nova-api

28. REINVENTING RACKSPACE
OPEN SOURCE
CLOUD ON CLOUD
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
OPEN API

29. CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
From commit to staging ...
Commit by
community
OR
Rackspace

30. CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
From commit to staging ...
Commit by
community Merge &
OR Dev Tests
Rackspace
14 minutes

31. CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
From commit to staging ...
Commit by
community Merge & Package &
Deploy to
OR Dev Tests QA
Rackspace
14 minutes 17 minutes

32. CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
From commit to staging ...
Commit by
community Merge & Package & Automated
Deploy to Functional
OR Dev Tests QA Tests
Rackspace
14 minutes 17 minutes 15 minutes

33. CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
From commit to staging ...
Commit by
community Merge & Package & Automated Publish
Deploy to Functional Staging
OR Dev Tests QA Packages
Tests
Rackspace
14 minutes 17 minutes 15 minutes 30 seconds
... 47 minutes total elapsed time

34. TRACKING THE PIPELINE

35. DATA-DRIVEN DECISIONS

36. REINVENTING RACKSPACE
OPEN SOURCE
CLOUD ON CLOUD
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
OPEN API

37. OPEN API
API CLONING

38. OPEN API
Open SDKs Library Projects
Supernova
https://github.com/rackerhacker/supernova

39. REINVENTING RACKSPACE

40. REINVENTING RACKSPACE
VIRTUAL
OPEN SOURCE
CLOUD ON CLOUD
CONTINUOUS DELIVERY
OPEN API

41. Thank You!
@waynewalls
Visit us at booth #301
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