Talk about a prototype dashboard that improves the operational experience in the UI for large cloud operators.

1. Operational
Dashboard for Apache
CloudStack (ODAC)

2. Who Am I?
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Chip Childers
Work on Apache CloudStack
Previously with SunGard Availability Services
Now with CumuLogic
Background in Web Development and
Operational tool development

3. Question: Does the
CloudStack UI Scale for
large environments?

4. Key Issues
• Visual scalability
• Determining qualitative value of each potential
metric
• No capacity trending

5. Zone View

7. • Uses D3.js
• Decision Tree:
• Unmanaged /
Maintenance - Gray
• Error - Red
• Highest of Memory or
CPU allocation dictates
color along green >
orange > red linear scale

10. Project Components
• cs-operator-dash - contains the Rails UI
• cs_eventconsumer - a gem that can run a daemon
process to pull CloudStack events out of a RabbitMQ
broker and push them into MongoDB
• cs_capacityretriever - a gem that can run a daemon
process to periodically pull various capacity information
from a CloudStack management server via my
cloudstack_ruby_client gem, again pushing that data into
MongoDB

11. Futures?
• Take the experiment back into the Apache
CloudStack project? (not implementation, just
ideas)
• Separate project long term?
• Should there be a “cloud operator” dashboard
for multiple “stacks”?

12. Thanks!
(and go fork it!)
(and go fork it!)
(and go fork it!)
• https://github.com/chipchilders/odac