Building Complete Private Clouds with Apache CloudStack and Riak CS

IT infrastructure rigidity has emerged as one of the leading barriers to achieving the cost efficiency and operational agility required to drive growth. While public cloud such as Amazon Web Services and Rackspace provide this agility, many organizations are precluded from utilizing them due to regulatory, security, performance, and/or existing investments. For these organizations to realize these agility benefits, they must transform their private infrastructures to embrace public cloud principles.

During this session, we will explore cloud system architecture principles and best practices. Using the Apache CloudStack cloud orchestration platform and Basho’s Riak CS object store, a complete, open source private cloud will be realized that creates the operational agility and cost-reduction benefits of public clouds.

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1. BUILDING COMPLETE PRIVATE CLOUDS WITH APACHE CLOUDSTACK + RIAK CS John Burwell (jburwell@basho.com | @john_burwell) Wednesday, October 23, 13
2. Who Am I • Consulting Engineer @ Basho Technologies • Member, Apache CloudStack PMC • Ran operations and designed automated provisioning for hybrid analytic/virtualization clouds • Led architectural design and server-side development of a SaaS physical security platform Wednesday, October 23, 13
3. ... but I submitted a ticket. Wednesday, October 23, 13
4. Shifting Role Of IT From Cost Center To Business Opportunity Wednesday, October 23, 13
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6. Agility Exploitation Requires Rapid Execution Infrastructure management must be delegated Wednesday, October 23, 13
7. Agility Exploitation Requires Rapid Execution Infrastructure management must be delegated Infrastructure Must Become Boring Wednesday, October 23, 13
8. Composable Infrastructure • Resource Pooling • Rapid Elasticity • Self Service • Metering/Charge Back Wednesday, October 23, 13
9. Got It ... Why Go Private? • Leverage existing infrastructure investment • Customization and Control • Regulatory/Security Requirements • Cost Wednesday, October 23, 13
10. Doesn’t vSphere/ XCP/XenServer already do that? Wednesday, October 23, 13
11. Traditional Workload Management Network Hypervisor Cluster Hypervisor Cluster Shared
12. Traditional Workload Management Network Hypervisor Cluster Hypervisor Cluster Shared
13. Software Is Eating Hardware • Moore’s Law has pulled fault tolerance up the stack • Commodity Hardware • Reduced cost • Services more workload types • Dynamic resource allocation Wednesday, October 23, 13
14. Software Is Eating Hardware • Moore’s Law has pulled fault tolerance up the stack • Commodity Hardware • Reduced cost • Services more workload types • Dynamic resource allocation Specialized Hardware Reduces Agility Wednesday, October 23, 13
15. Cloud Workload • Reliable • Fault Tolerant • Commodity Hardware • Self-Service provisioning • Control Plane -> Dynamic scale out model SDN Rack Rack Object
16. Cloud Workload • Reliable • Fault Tolerant • Commodity Hardware • Self-Service provisioning • Control Plane -> Dynamic scale out model SDN Rack Rack Object
17. Traditional Workload Cloud Workload Reality Wednesday, October 23, 13
18. Complete Private Cloud + Compute Services Object Storage Services Wednesday, October 23, 13
19. What Is Apache CloudStack? §Open source software that deploys and manages large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. §CloudStack is a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation. Wednesday, October 23, 13
20. What Is Apache CloudStack? §Open source software that deploys and manages large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. §CloudStack is a Top-Level Project at the Apache Software Foundation. Wednesday, October 23, 13
21. Apache CloudStack Users Wednesday, October 23, 13
22. Anatomy Of CloudStack • Management Server Farm • Management and provisioning tasks • Zone • Collection of pods, network offerings and secondary storage • Pod • Collection of clusters in the same failure boundary • Cluster • A grouping of hosts and their associated storage • Hosts • Servers onto which services will be provisioned • Primary Storage • VM disk storage • Network • Logical network associated with service offerings • Secondary Storage • Template, snapshot and ISO storage Zone CloudStack Pod Cluster Host Host Network Primary Storage VM VM CloudStack Pod Cluster Secondary Storage Wednesday, October 23, 13
23. Primary Vs Secondary Storage • Random access read/write • Changes often • Zone Scoped • Focused on throughput • Write once/read many • Append only • Zone or Region Scoped • Focused on reliability Wednesday, October 23, 13
24. Primary Vs Secondary Storage • Random access read/write • Changes often • Zone Scoped • Focused on throughput • Write once/read many • Append only • Zone or Region Scoped • Focused on reliability Secondary Storage is the lifeboat. Wednesday, October 23, 13
25. What Is Riak CS? • Simple, reliable storage of large objects accessed using the S3 or Swift API • Objects are stored in buckets with a unique key • Multi-tenant security model with per object ACLs • Usage Accounting and Reporting • Open Source (Apache2 Licensed) Wednesday, October 23, 13
26. What Is Riak CS? • Simple, reliable storage of large objects accessed using the S3 or Swift API • Objects are stored in buckets with a unique key • Multi-tenant security model with per object ACLs • Usage Accounting and Reporting • Open Source (Apache2 Licensed) Your Own Private S3 Wednesday, October 23, 13
27. Anatomy Of Riak CS • S3/Swift API Proxy + Riak key-value store • Peer-to-Peer Design: Any node can service any read or accept any write request • Maintains multiple replicas (default 3) spread across multiple nodes • Ops Friendly Wednesday, October 23, 13
28. Anatomy Of Riak CS • S3/Swift API Proxy + Riak key-value store • Peer-to-Peer Design: Any node can service any read or accept any write request • Maintains multiple replicas (default 3) spread across multiple nodes • Ops Friendly Horizontally scaleable storage on commodity hardware Wednesday, October 23, 13
29. Riak CS Use Cases • Secondary Storage for VM snapshot and template data • Database Backup Storage • Serving Static Content • Application Log Storage Wednesday, October 23, 13
30. Achieving Commodity Reliability • Create a zone per power source/backbone network connection • Establish independent primary storage in each zone • Utilize intra-datacenter block-level replication between zones • Distribute Riak CS nodes evenly across zones Wednesday, October 23, 13
31. The Complete Private Cloud Management Network Hypervisor Cluster Hypervisor Cluster Shared
32. Up And Running With Riak CS • Learn more @ http://basho.com/riak-cloud-storage • Grab it @ http://docs.basho.com/riakcs/latest/riakcs- downloads/ • Follow us @basho • Help from the riak-users@lists.basho.com mailing list or on FreeNode @ #riak • Contribute @ http://github.com/basho/riak_cs Wednesday, October 23, 13
33. Join Our Community • Learn more @ http://cloudstack.apache.org • Grab it @ http://cloudstack.apache.org/downloads.html • Follow us @cloudstack • Help from the cloudstack-users@cloudstack.apache.org mailing list or on Freenode @ #cloudstack • Contribute on the cloudstack-dev@cloudstack.apache.org mailing list or on Freenode @ #cloudstack-dev Wednesday, October 23, 13
34. Thoughts? Questions? Wednesday, October 23, 13
35. Thank you! Deck http://slideshare.net/JohnBurwell1 Follow @ john_burwell Email jburwell@basho.com Wednesday, October 23, 13