CloudLabs Helps Ecosystem Deliver Rack Scale Solutions with Stacki and OpenStack-Ansible Benchmarking
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This document discusses CloudLabs' focus on rack scale reference platforms and integrated solutions. It provides an overview of CloudLabs' investments in rack solutions including CORD, OPNFV, OCP, and Intel RSA architectures. It also summarizes Stacki for baremetal provisioning, OpenStack-Ansible for OpenStack deployment, and CloudLabs' benchmarking framework for validating solutions from baremetal to rack scale.
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CloudLabs Helps Ecosystem Deliver Rack Scale Solutions with Stacki and OpenStack-Ansible Benchmarking
- 1. CONFIDENTIAL Stacki, OpenStack-Ansible, Benchmarking StackiFest - May 2017 Hugh Ma | Rob Neff
- 2. 1 CONFIDENTIAL Restricted – share with permission only. CloudLabs Helps Ecosystem Deliver Solutions Integrated solution with SW, HW across networking, storage & compute offer differentiation possibilities at many layers CEC HW Services/SLAs Layer SW HW SW SW HW STORAGE HW Enterprise Application Layer BI/Analytics Operations ERP/SCM Infrastructure Layer Telco and Cloud solutions requires multiple decisions across various platforms and vendors developing specific solution CloudLabs goal is to provide integrated solutions based on partnerships across key vendors
- 3. 2 CONFIDENTIAL Restricted – share with permission only. CloudLabs focuses on Rack Scale Reference Platforms EMS Services JDM Hardware System Integration Firmware/BIOS Platform software Appliance Applications APPLIANCE READY NODE Cloud Reference Architecture Cloudlabs Focus Node N System Integration CLOUD OS Node 1 Rack Scale Integration Current Ciii Customers Ciii Cloud Customers Cloud-enabled Apps & Workloads Enterprise Customers Cloud-enabled Apps & Workloads APPLIANCE READY RACK
- 4. Rack Scale Solution Workflow Architect Ciii RSP Engineering flex 1 Integrate Test Manufacture 32 5 Optimize 4 Services Support 6 FlexBench and FlexConfig Storage Compute Switch
- 5. 4 CloudLabs Investment in Rack Solutions CORD Platform OPNFV based IaaS Telco Infra Project platforms OCP Based Platform Intel RSA Architecture Service Provider Driven Solutions Services bring differentiation Multi-vendor Spares Management Full rack integration Repair / Returns Custom ServicesSupply chain ‘as a service’
- 6. Server Provisioning with Stacki Open Source Simplified Baremetal Provisioning Mac address targeted PXE Booting Customizable Local CentOS and Ubuntu Repositories Hardware & Software RAID Support NIC Bonding Post-Install Configuration http://www.stacki.com/
- 7. OpenStack(i) - Ansible • Using Ansible to deploy OpenStack • First released in April 2015 (Kilo) • https://github.com/openstack/openstack-ansible • OpenStack-Ansible deployment steps:
- 8. 7 CONFIDENTIAL Restricted – share with permission only. Benchmarking Overview Benchmarking Framework Automated and Agent-Less with a full-featured web interface to launch tasks from. Baremetal to Rackscale Node deployment including server imaging and Cluster OpenStack deployment, and virtual machine creation. Multi-Level Validation Validate and Benchmark at all levels including node- level components, databases, containers, and cloud. Data and Log Analytics Results, Logs, and Node metadata provide visualizations and raw data for deeper investigations.
- 10. Stacki Host Tasks • These tasks show utilizing the Stacki Ansible Host Module to: Remove host if it exists on in Stacki Add a new host to Stacki Wait for node to return from imaging process
- 11. 10 Stacki Inventory Script • JSON Formatted output of host information via Stacki APIs • Made to work for Ansible dynamic inventory to be passed to ansible or ansible-playbook • Uses yml formatted parameter file for required arguments # stacki.yml --- stacki: auth: stacki_user: admin stacki_password: abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz123456789 stacki_endpoint: http://192.168.1.10/stack use_hostnames: false
- 12. Unity, medium VMs provide optimal cumulative Unixbench performance
- 13. Looking Ahead • Expand Module Capabilities – Networking (VLAN, BONDS) – Storage (RAIDS, PARTITIONING) – Carts and Appliances • Community Contribution – Stacki Inventory Script • https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/devel/contrib/inventory/stacki.py – Stacki Host Module • https://github.com/ansible/ansible/tree/devel/lib/ansible/modules/remote_management/stacki – Ansible Blog Post • https://www.ansible.com/blog/how-flex-ciii-uses-ansible-tower-for-benchmarking
- 14. Questions? Hugh Ma (Hugh.Ma@flextronics.com) Rob Neff (Rob.Neff@flextronics.com)
Editor's Notes
- We have a robust existing manufacturing automation platform, but as new server architectures have begun to arrive, we wanted a more agile, modern process that could also be used for R&D and developing reference solutions. As we moved to the rack scale and began both software and hardware partnerships, the reference solution matrix began to grow so we needed a strong imaging solution and the ability to rapidly deploy software stacks from partners, automate the deployment of applications, and deliver requested performance data quickly. We noticed that Configuration Management tools had greatly matured in the past 3 years, and we tried a number of them. They each had their strengths, and Hugh’s going to talk about why we chose Ansible and how we developed our test solution around it.
- 1. Multitrack enterprise cloud (Open Stack) 2. Multi vendor rack appliance (Cisco, Tintri, Open Stack) 3. Mirantis Open Stack – SW from M. – HW from flex and third party 4. Open NFV software stack for Telco - network virtualization Cloud-In-Box Openstack Based Vmware CAN/EVO Rack Hadoop Data Analytics Openstack Sahara Cloudera-Teradata NFV IaaS NFV Optimized Rack Scale OCP Based Designs Smart Rack Design Compute/Network/Storage Sleds Intel Rack Scale Reference Designs These are the multiple areas where CloudLabs is currently focused on or looking into as a roadmap. Within each category, we have a partner we are working with to define solution. Cloud in a Box solutions currently are based on our work done with Mirantis Openstack. NFV related work is based on using SDN/NFV vendors such as Plumgrid, Contrail and also Open Daylight based controllers. OCP based platforms are on the roadmap and we are looking at common unifying theme to base the architecture on. There have been multiple different views on OCP, however, most companies are looking at OCP as a base platform to start from. For instance Nokia Airframe has borrowed ideas from OCP for product form factor definition. Our familiarity and comfort with such standards provides us ability to engage in customer conversations in a well informed manner. Intel RSA based Architecture is primarily a data center management framework which would be run on our Victoria/Queensland based racks.
- To help us validate our hardware, we utilize an open-source provisioning tool called Stacki. It allows us to quickly PXE boot the proper machines with the proper image, with RAID and NIC Bonding support. It also utilizes local repositories which makes the process that much faster. It also has the ability to run additional configuration after the initial OS install to further automate the process.
- Red outline is for showing where stacki comes in to play