WeAreCloud 2015, AVG presentation

1. @tcpcloud
tcp cloud
in
AVG

2. Agenda
• About AVG
• AVG
• AVG Goals
• Where We Started
• AVG Infrastructure Layers
• Production Architecture
• OpenStack Architecture
• Model Driven CI/CD
• Stagging Deployment Process Comparison

3. About AVG Technologies
• internet security, performance optimization, and personal privacy and
identity protection applications
• top global antivirus company
• over 202 million active users used AVG´s software products and services
• products distributed over 100 countries

4. AVG (Where we started)
• IT Silos (different departments, technologies, domain specialists)
• Manual deployment processes
• Impossible to make frequent changes
• Vendor specific technologies (VMware, Cisco, etc.)
• Insuficcient APIs
• Legacy virtualize architecture with VMware vCenter, VLANs and Fibre
Channel
• No time for innovations

5. AVG Former Deployment Process

6. AVG Goals
• Remove Vendor Lock-in
• Reuse current Hardware Infrastructure with minimum intial costs
• Automate internal deployment processes (speed and complexity)
• Self-service tool for application life cycle management
• Robust Automation & Orchestration
• Seamless On-Demand Capacity Fulfillment
• Adopt Open Source Solutions based on OpenStack

7. AVG Infrastructure Layers
Server Virtualization
Network Virtualization
Infrastructure Orchestration
Infrastructure Service
Server & Apps

8. Neutron SDN solution
• All clouds are about networking
• Key and the most crucial component of OpenStack
• High Availability, Scalability, Migration, Multi-tenancy,
Performance, Security
• LBaaS, FWaaS, Service Chainning
• Possible solutions:
• Vanilla Neutron
• Cisco APIC
• VMWare NSX
• Juniper Contrail

9. AVG PoC findings
• Live Migration VM
• Production instances booted from volume – Hitachi VSP driver
• Automatic DNS registration
• OpenContrail DNS – Virtual, Tenant
• Glance image repository stored at EMC NFS
• Heat orchestration

10. Cloud Modules Drivers/Backends
Nova Cinder Neutron CM
Monitoring & Billing by

11. AVG Model Driven CI/CD

12. AVG Dashboard

13. Staging deployment process
Today
• Step 1 (1 MD)
• deploy F5 configuration
• deploy FW and network
configuration
• Step 2 (3 MD)
• spawn server
• 1. deploy app+content
• prepare application deploy scripts
• Step 3 (3 MD)
• basic tests
• final tuning
Total 48h in 10 days due delays when work is
transmitted between teams
Cloud
• Step 1 (1 min)
• Choose template
• Step 2 (5 min)
• Infrastructure deployment
• Step 3 (10 min)
• Application deployment
• Automated tests
Total cca 15 min
Staging deployment process description

14. Thank you!
Questions?
Martin Kšica
Martin.ksica@avg.com
Pavel Zajíc
pavel.zajic@avg.com