Talk given by Giles Sirett of ShapeBlue at Linux Cloudopen >Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. In this talk, Giles will give an introduction to the technology, its history and its architecture. He will look common use-cases (and some real production deployments) that he sees across both public and private cloud infrastructures and where CloudStack can be completed by other open source technologies. Giles will also compare and contrast Apache Cloudstack with other IaaS platforms and why he thinks that the technology, combined with the Apache governance model will see CloudStack become the de-facto open source cloud platform. He will run a live demo of the software and talk about ways that people can get involved in the Apache CloudStack project

1. Building Clouds on Apache
CloudStack: An Introduction
Linux CloudOpen 23 Oct 2013
Giles Sirett
CEO ShapeBlue
Giles.sirett@shapeblue.com
Twitter: @ShapeBlue

2. 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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3. How to build an IaaS cloud
PaaS
Billing
Developer
tooling
Multi-cloud
management
eCommerce Platform
Ecommerce platform
Management
orchestration API
CloudStack API
CMP - Orchestration layer
Apache CloudStack
Choice of Hypervisor (KVM, VMWare,
Hypervisor
Xen, hyper-V)
Networking
Commodity
compute
compute
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Storage
Storage
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4. The World of IaaS Choices
Vendor centric
End to end
vCloud Director
Microsoft System
Center
Abiquo
OnApp
Felxiant
Haexagrid
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Open communities
CloudStack
OpenStack
Opennebula
Euacalyptus

5. 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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6. CloudStack Users
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7. CloudStack Users 2.0
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8. CloudStack Users 3.0
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9. CloudStack Deployment Models
Private Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
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Public Cloud

10. CloudStack Use-Case’s
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Service Provider / public cloud
Devops automation
AWS insourcing
Traditional enterprise workloads
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11. 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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12. User Interface
Administrator
Integration API
(OSS/BSS, Monitoring, Identity Management , Etc
Operational Integration
CloudStack Architecture
End User
Developer API
Console
Availability and Security
Backup
LB
HA
Monitoring
Dynamic Workload Management
Resource Management
Servers
Storage
Amazon
Custom
Image Libraries
Application Catalog
Custom Templates
Operating System ISOs
Network
Service Management (Billing, Metering, Accounts, etc.)
Virtualization Layer
Servers
Network
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Storage

13. Deployment Model
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14. Management Server Deployment Architectures
Management
Server
GUI
Load Balancer
MySQL
DB
MySQL
DB
Management
Server
API
Management
Server
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Zone 1
Zone 1
Zones

15. Two Networking Models
Advanced Zone
Basic Zone
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Massive scale
Simple, AWS like
Security Groups
Elastic IPs and Elastic
Load Balancing
• VLAN / SDN isolation
• Virtual Router or physical
devices for:
• DNS & DHCP
• Firewall, VPN
• Load Balancing
• Source / Static NAT
• Port Forwarding
• Virtual Private Clouds
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16. Demo
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Provisioning virtual
resources
Controlling virtual
resources
Networking as a Service

17. Any Questions ?
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18. VPC Components
Public Gateway
Private Gateway
Created by Root Admins
Virtual Router – Connects
Configured by Users (Static Routes)
all theNetworks,
VPC Components
Network Tiers – Isolated
Site-2-Site VPN
each with unique VLAN and CIDR
Linked to Public Gateway
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