Joey Jablonksi's presentation that he delivered at WebMonsters on Oct 17, 2011.

1. Crowbar:
An operations framework for
Cloud Scale Environments
Joey Jablonski
Principal Solution Architect

2. Team Introduction
Revolutionary Cloud Solutions
Focus is green field and scale
Advanced technologies
Open Source
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3. Projects Introduction
Crowbar
DevOps inspired Cloud deployment solution
OpenStack
IaaS ….. PaaS
Hadoop
Rapid deployment RA & DG
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4. Community Cloud Infrastructure
We needed Cloud Infrastructure that
Had support from major industry players
Was collaboratively developed without a single owner
Had an API that was Service Provider license friendly
Could be demonstrated to run at scale
Was built on open source components
Had global reach and support
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5. Open Cloud Operations
Intersection of two major technology waves:
Operational Automation (DevOps)
Open Source Cloud (OpenStack)
Together, a practical approach to cloud scale
Manages elastic resources
Embraces constant change
Productizes best practices
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6. Lessons from Hyper-scale
Hyper-scale (1000s of servers) forced customers to
change their core assumptions.
To operate large systems, customers
Embraced scale out design (inconsistency is OK)
Eliminated hardware redundancy (too expensive)
Shunned manual steps (too slow)
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7. Crowbar

8. Images vs. Layers: Lifecycle
Layers: Upgrade
Images: Replacement
Config Config Config
I I
Foo Foo
Config
Config
I+A+U+ I+A+U+ I+A+U+
Bar v1 Bar v2
O/S O/S O/S
U U
OS OS
Config Bar v2
I+A+U+
O/S
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9. Modular Design: Barclamps
APIs, User Access, Nagios Ganglia Dashboard
& Ecosystem
Partners
Ops Management
Hadoop OpenStack Barclamps
Dell “Crowbar”
Cloud
Infrastructure &
Dell IP Extensions
Crowbar DNS Logging
Core Components &
Operating Systems
Deployer NTP
Provisioner BIOS IPMI
Physical Resources
Network RAID
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10. Crowbar = Install State Machine
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11. Dashboard
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12. Barclamps and Proposals
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13. Monitoring
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14. OpenStack

15. Dell’s Destination for OpenStack
VM mgmt Billing Portals Monitoring Security
Ecosystem
& Perform.
API Clients
Partner
Orchestrate Aggregate User Mgmt. Status Identity
Templates Charging Delegation Health IP Inspect
Provisioning Thresholds VM Mgmt. Alerts Log Monitor
Amazon API OpenStack Cloud API
Compatibility
Operations Nova Glance Swift
Mgmt. Network
Ecosystem
Ops Infrastructure
VM Mmgt. Image Mgmt. Obj. Mgmt. Monitoring
Partner
Metering
Nagios
Console
Hypervisor Security
LDAP (KVM, Xen, etc)
Chef
Operating Systems (Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS, Windows, etc)
Crowbar
Physical Infrastructure: Servers & Networks
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16. OpenStack Timeline
• Image • 8 options for host virt • Network as a Service
Registry & (incl KVM, Hyper- • Volume as a Services (LunR)
• OpenStack Delivery V, Xen, ESX) • GPU accelerators, larger multi-core
Compute service • Live migration (KVM) • Multi-cluster container sync
and • Compute & • Compute API 1.0 • Multi-zone support, intra-data center and
Storage storage • Glance CLI federation across data centers.
enhance - • IPv6 • Stability and QA automation
ments • Complete, stable OpenStack API 1.1
Nov 2010 Dec Jan 2011 Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
1.0 1.5
Feb 2011: Apr 2011: Sep 2011: Oct 2011:
OpenStack OpenStack OpenStack OpenStack
Bexar Release Cactus Diablo Design Summit
Release Release
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17. Links
https://github.com/cloudedge
http://dell.com/hadoop
http://dell.com/openstack
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18. OpenStack Community
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