RightScale Webinar: May 11, 2010 – In this webinar, learn how you can RightScale-enable your machine images, whether you are required to build your own machine images to comply with corporate governance and security policies; are installing software that requires significant user input to configure; or want to preserve existing investments you've made building virtual or cloud images. Watch the video at http://vimeo.com/rightscale/how-to-rightscale-enable-your-images.
12. RightScale Servers What is a Server? Software configuration -> what to install, how, where Hardware resources -> cpu, memory, disk, network, … Data -> data files produced over the server’s lifetime Power of the cloud: hardware resources are plentiful, flexible The config and the data are key The hardware can be turned off, upgraded, downgraded, replicated, etc. RightScale Server abstraction: config, data, & history config config config config config config replicate stop start HW HW HW HW HW data data data data data data
17. Benefits to enabling your image with RightScale Monitoring Machine and User Action Auditing Alerts and Escalations (Including Auto-Scaling) Reporting and User Permissions
18. It is Easy to Enable Any Image What does it take to RightScale-enable an image? Install RightLink Agent# rpm -i rightscale_5.3.0-centos_5.4-i386.rpm-or- Rebundle Tag the image as RS-enabledprovides:rs_agent_type=right_link
19. RightLink on Linux install Demo Import RightLink Starter ServerTemplate Switch ServerTemplate to use your image and launch Site waits for RightLink to start (server shows “booting”) Manually install RightLink and start mkdir /etc/rightscale.d;echo ec2 > /etc/rightscale.d/cloud;rpm –i http://mirror.rightscale.com/rightlink/5.3.0/centos/rightscale_5.3.0-centos_5.4-i386.rpm;tail -f /var/log/messages; Result: Full-fledged server with monitoring & automation Rebundle for future launches
20. What is RightLink? Functions Receive commands from RightScale Query RightScale (instance API) Locate related servers Open-source Agent Extensible Transparent State-Aware Secure Signed&encryptedAMQP transport Deployment scope RightScale Tag store server1 server2 serverA serverB RL RL RL RL Production Development
22. RightLink / Machine Tags Demo lb=marketing app=marketing backend_ip=1.2.3.4 backend_id=www1 LB1 WWW1 register with lb=marketing app=marketing backend_ip=1.4.3.8 backend_id=www2 lb=marketing WWW2 LB2 app=marketing backend_ip=1.2.3.5 backend_id=www3 WWW3 app=marketing backend_ip=1.4.3.9 backend_id=www4 locate where app=marketing WWW4 RightScale tag store
23. Windows Beta Windows 2003, 2008 Coming Soon Monitoring, Alerts,Escalations, Arrays… 4 Base RightImages:Base 32 & 64 Bit Windows 200332 Bit SQLServer 2005 Express64 Bit SQLServer 2005 Standard ServerTemplate Support:PowerShell 2.0 RightScriptsChef Cookbooks Installable RightLink Agent
28. RightScale Enable Any Image What does it take to RightScale-enable an image? Install RightLink agent Tag the image as RS-enabled Rebundle -> RightScale-enabled image Give some details about what we have (rpm/deb/msi)
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Good morning and welcome to our webinar, Creating Agile and Automated IT Infrastructure in the CloudMy name is Betsy Zikakis, I’m the VP of marketing at RightScale. Before we get started we’d like to ask you a couple of questions. The results will help us calibrate our discussion to better meet your needs. 1. What is your experience using the cloud… (use standard poll)2. What has your experience been using machine images to configure servers? on a scale from 1 worst to 10 best… how easy has it been for you to:Create new machine imagesTroubleshoot problemsExecute routine maintenancePort machine images to alternative infrastructureThank you!
With me presenting today are: TvE, CTO and RightScale founder; as well as David Welch one of our Sales Engineers.We also Hunter Williams answering questions online. As we go through the webinar, please feel free to ask questions at any time. You can enter any questions into the questions panel at the bottom of the Go To Meeting control panel. For the ones that are applicable to a broad audience, we open them up for live discussion at the end.
Here’s what we have planned for you today… After a quick introduction to RightScale,Thorsten will talk about why and how to RightScale your existing images and then we’ll see in a demo how easy it actually is. The Darryl and Raphael will walk us through the RightLink Technology and show another demo of Rightlink in action. We’ll wrap up with a live Q&A, but please go ahead and start asking your questions. We’ll take the more broadly applicable ones and open them up for discussion with the speakers at the end.
For those of you who don’t know RightScale, we have been helping customers manage their cloud deployments for over 3 years. Today, we have more than 20,000 users and have launched over 800,000 servers in the cloud. Our customersvary in size and industry – from large multi-national media, insurance and pharmaceutical companies, to online gaming and Web2.0 startups. RightScale is available on demand, so you don’t need to purchase any software, and we have a trained professional services team ready to help you learn more about RightScale and cloud computing, architect and deploy your applications, and help you when you encounter problems.
For our customers, the cloud starts with RightScale.Our Platform helps them deploy and manage their applications in the cloud by providing a layer of abstraction from the underlying cloud infrastructure. The RightScale Platform operates with an ever-growing list of public cloud infrastructure providers including Amazon and Rackspace and public or private clouds built with Eucalyptus or Vmware’svCloud Express. The platformoffers a fast on-ramp with proven, cloud-ready solutions; improves productivity and agility by delivering management tools and automation; and it offers complete transparency and user administration to keep you in control at all times. If you need to migrate to a different cloud for any reason, RightScale ensures your applications are portable.
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Darryl – background, RL as a product, Raphael will show some of the advanced automation…
Darryl – spice it up on WindowsAnnounce Windows BetaWalk through What Will Be Available (but not future)Raphael to Demo Automation“We will also be making a RightLink installer available for Windows2003 so that you can enable your existing Windows 2003 virtual machines.” (Build #1)