Building Clouds on Apache CloudStack: An Introduction

Linux CloudOpen 23 Oct 2013

Giles Sirett

CEO ShapeBlue

Giles.sirett@shapeblue.com

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-Cases 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

Image Libraries

Application Catalog

Custom Templates

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Administrator End User Console

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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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