Cloud Orchestration- Bristol Skillswap March 2013

Talk I gave at the Pervasive Media Studio on cloud orchestration tools such as CloudFormation, OpenStack Heat and Juju from Ubuntu.

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1. Cloud Orchestration (Deploy ALL the things) Dan Hilton @danhilton Tuesday, 19 March 13
2. An architecture astronaut says... Tuesday, 19 March 13
3. WAT!? Tuesday, 19 March 13
4. In the beginning... We wrote lots of notes (or not...) We ran on one physical machine. We bought expensive hardware that solved our problems. Tuesday, 19 March 13
5. The problems “How does that _actually_ work?” “We can’t add any more ram/disk/IO” “The security patch costs how much??” Tuesday, 19 March 13
6. Solutions MOAR boxes! Scale out, not up! Ghost all the machines! To the cloud my friends! Tuesday, 19 March 13
7. Hang on... More complexity, more problems managing that complexity, testing it, controlling it. Tuesday, 19 March 13
8. A solution Your infrastructure as code Not just your different types of node but how the tiers work together. Define your non-functional requirements (monitoring, HA, DR, etc) Tuesday, 19 March 13
9. Projects IronFan AWS Cloud Formation OpenStack Heat project AWS Opsworks Ubuntu Juju Tuesday, 19 March 13
10. IronFan DSL for Chef cluster description Bias towards big data stacks. V. AWS bias Tuesday, 19 March 13
11. AWS cloudformation JSON format for describing infrastructure Not great for deploying software. Tuesday, 19 March 13
12. Open Stack Heat Like CloudFormation but for Open Stack Just off the bleeding edge - may cut you. Tuesday, 19 March 13
13. AWS Opsworks Chef-solo + AWS + special sauce = Provisioning magic Free to AWS users Tuesday, 19 March 13
14. Show me! LIVE DEMO HERE Tuesday, 19 March 13