Building Clouds on Apache CloudStack: An Introduction · Building Clouds on Apache CloudStack: An Introduction Linux CloudOpen 23 Oct 2013 Giles Sirett CEO ShapeBlue [email protected]

Building Clouds on Apache CloudStack: An Introduction

Linux CloudOpen 23 Oct 2013

Giles Sirett

CEO ShapeBlue

[email protected]

Twitter: @ShapeBlue

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So, what is CloudStack then?

Apache CloudStack is a scalable, multi-tenant, open source, purpose-built, cloud orchestration platform for delivering turnkey Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds

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How to build an IaaS cloud

Commodity compute

Storage Networking

Hypervisor

CMP - Orchestration layer

orchestration API

eCommerce Platform

Choice of Hypervisor (KVM, VMWare, Xen, hyper-V)

Apache CloudStack

Ecommerce platform

CloudStack API

Billing Management

Networking compute Storage

PaaS Developer

tooling Multi-cloud

management

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vCloud Director Microsoft System

Center

Vendor centric

Abiquo OnApp Felxiant

Haexagrid

End to end

CloudStack OpenStack

Opennebula Euacalyptus

Open communities

The World of IaaS Choices

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CloudStack Background

• Open source Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform, under ASL 2.0 license

• A vibrant and growing community in ASF

– Developed since 2008 by Cloud.com

– Acquired by Citrix in 2011

– Donated to Apache April 2012

– Became top level AF project March 2013

• A proven cloud platform

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CloudStack Users

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CloudStack Users 2.0

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CloudStack Users 3.0

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CloudStack Deployment Models

Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Public Cloud

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CloudStack Use-Case’s • Service Provider / public cloud

• Devops automation

• AWS insourcing

• Traditional enterprise workloads

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Feature Highlights • Broad Hypervisor support

—XenServer, KVM, VMware, OracleVM • Scalable architecture

—Support thousands of hosts and virtual machine guests — AWS API fidelity • High availability

—Configurations that provide automatic failover for virtual machines • Virtual Networking Ability to define service level definitions with specific

resource footprints • Choice of interfaces

— Web UI, command line, REST-based API

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CloudStack Architecture

Availability and Security

Servers Network Storage

Virtualization Layer

Service Management (Billing, Metering, Accounts, etc.)

Resource Management

Servers Storage Network

Dynamic Workload Management

Backup LB HA Monitoring

User Interface Developer API Amazon Custom

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Application Catalog

Custom Templates

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Deployment Model

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Management Server Deployment Architectures

Management Server

Zone 1 Zone 1

Zones

MySQL DB

GUI

API

MySQL DB

Management Server

Management Server

Load Balancer

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Two Networking Models

• Massive scale • Simple, AWS like • Security Groups • Elastic IPs and Elastic

Load Balancing

Basic Zone

• VLAN / SDN isolation • Virtual Router or physical

devices for: • DNS & DHCP • Firewall, VPN • Load Balancing • Source / Static NAT • Port Forwarding

• Virtual Private Clouds

Advanced Zone

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Provisioning virtual resources

Controlling virtual resources

Networking as a Service

Demo

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Private Gateway Created by Root Admins Configured by Users (Static Routes)

VPC Components

Virtual Router – Connects all the VPC Components Network Tiers – Isolated Networks,

each with unique VLAN and CIDR

Public Gateway

Site-2-Site VPN Linked to Public Gateway

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