OpenStack in Production
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Canonical transitioned its internal IT infrastructure to use OpenStack in their private cloud (CanoniStack) to practice what they preach to customers. This was challenging due to heterogeneous hardware, deciding on OpenStack software versions, and managing the cloud platform. They overcame these challenges and now run two OpenStack regions for internal systems. Looking forward, Canonical aims to run more internal services on CanoniStack and improve areas like high availability and live upgrades.
OpenStack in Production
- 1. OpenStack in Production The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Presentation by Robbie Williamson [email protected] www.canonical.com April 2013 1
- 2. About Canonical Where London, Boston, Taipei, Shanghai When Established in 2004 Who 500+ people Why To bring Ubuntu to the world 2
- 3. We've Done “Cloud” Since 2008 “Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition will preview Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC). Ubuntu is the first commercially-supported distribution to enable businesses to build cloud environments inside their firewalls. With Ubuntu 9.04 Server Edition, organisations can explore the benefits of cloud computing without the data or security issues associated with moving data to an external cloud provider. Following a successful beta programme last year, Ubuntu Server Edition 9.04 will also be fully available on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2).” http://www.ubuntu.com/news/ubuntu-9.04-server 3
- 4. The Big Question in 2011... Can We Practice What We Preach? ● Transition our IT infrastructure to a cloud-centric workflow across the entire company 4
- 5. The Big Question in 2011... Can We Practice What We Preach? ● Transition our IT infrastructure to a cloud-centric workflow across the entire company ● Support the Ubuntu Project, as well as Canonical's internal systems and developers 5
- 6. The Big Question in 2011... Can We Practice What We Preach? ● Transition our IT infrastructure to a cloud-centric workflow across the entire company ● Support the Ubuntu Project, as well as Canonical's internal systems and developers ● Move from a traditional “IS over here and development over there” to real DevOps 6
- 7. The Answer in 2013... Yes We Can! 7
- 8. The Answer in 2013... Yes We Can!.....but it was damn hard ● Organizational Expectations ● Heterogeneous Hardware ● Software Decisions 8
- 9. Organizational Expectations Management ● How much more efficient will we be? Developers ● How much faster can we develop, test, and deploy? Operations ● How can we do our jobs!? 9
- 11. Heterogeneous Hardware Different Vendors/Architectures ● IBM ● Dell ● HP ● Supermicro ● ARM ● Intel/AMD 11
- 12. Heterogeneous Hardware Different Vendors/Architectures ● IBM ● Dell ● HP ● Supermicro ● ARM ● Intel/AMD Different Capacities ● Processors ● Storage ● Networking 12
- 13. Heterogeneous Hardware Different Vendors/Architectures ● IBM ● Dell ● HP ● Supermicro ● ARM ● Intel/AMD Different Capacities ● Processors ● Storage ● Networking Different Locations ● Boston ● Taipei ● Isle of Man ● London ● Shanghai 13
- 15. Software Decisions Which cloud platform do we use? ● Eucalyptus...Cloudstack...OpenStack? 15
- 16. Software Decisions Which cloud platform Openstack release do we use? ● Essex...Folsom...Grizzly? 16
- 17. Software Decisions Which cloud platform Openstack release do we use? ● Essex...Folsom...Grizzly? How do we manage the hardware pool? ● Assign...Install...Upgrade? 17
- 18. Software Decisions Which cloud platform Openstack release do we use? ● Essex...Folsom...Grizzly? How do we manage the hardware pool? ● Assign...Install...Upgrade? How do we manage the cloud? ● Access...Zones...Resources? 18
- 19. Software Decisions Which cloud platform Openstack release do we use? ● Essex...Folsom...Grizzly? How do we manage the hardware pool? ● Assign...Install...Upgrade? How do we manage the cloud? ● Access...Zones...Resources? How do we manage the services? ● Deploy....Manage....Scale? 19
- 20. One Small Clarification... Configuration Management Service Orchestration 20
- 21. Software Decisions MAAS 21
- 22. CanoniStack CanoniStack ● Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ● Openstack from Ubuntu Cloud Archive ● 2 regions, 1 Datacenter ● Folsom (including -proposed) ● Grizzly (including -proposed) ● 9 compute nodes in total ● 168 cores, 432Gb RAM ● Separate iSCSI based nova volume/cinder available in each region ● 4 swift nodes ● Shared by both regions ● All deployed and managed with MAAS & Juju 22
- 23. ProdStack ProdStack ● Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ● Folsom OpenStack from the Ubuntu Cloud Archive ● Single region and Datacenter ● 10 compute nodes ● 240 cores, 960Gb RAM ● 10 swift nodes ● 6 ceph nodes ● All deployed and managed with MAAS and Juju 23
- 24. Looking Forward... ● More Services, e.g. ● Music Search ● Video Search ● Full ubuntu.com website ● Launchpad PPA Builders ● Cross Environment Deployment ● High Availability + 1 ● Live Host Machine Upgrades ● “Chaos Monkey” ● “Mayhem Badger” 24
- 25. Questions please Thank you Robbie Williamson [email protected] www.canonical.com 25