Presentation given at Sizing Servers 2010

1. Building (Virtual) Appliances Kris Buytaert

3. Then Became an Op

4. Senior Linux and Open Source Consultant @inuits.be

5. „ Infrastructure Architect“

6. Building Virtual Appliances/Clouds since 2004

7. Surviving the 10 th floor test

8. Co-Author Virtualization with Xen

9. Guest Editor at Virtualization.com

10. But mostly, a DevOp

12. Build once, Run Everywhere

13. Why people don't like Virtual Appliances

14. Why Build Virtual Appliances

15. So you are building a Virtual Appliance ?

16. What Is A Virtual Appliance ?

17. Examples:

19. VirtualBox : http://virtualboximages.com/

20. Rpath :

21. LMGTFY

22. the software vendor himselve

23. VMWare : http://www.vmware.com/appliances/

24. Citrix : Announced

26. His “VM” just got bigger

28. Packaging & Distributing

29. Hypervisor independant

30. Support Multiple VM's in 1 package

31. Defines : CPU, Memory, Network, Storage

34. But there are some availble

36. RHEV as of v2.2 import and export available

37. Citrix Labs : Project Kensho

38. VMWare export tool

40. Doesn't fit with their authentication infrastructure

41. Doesn't fit with their standard database

42. Doesn't fit with their backup infrastructure

43. Doesn't fit with their operating system of choice

45. Did we mention authentication ?

46. How secure is the application

47. The application servers ?

48. The Firewall ?

50. Did you patch before or after that one was copied ?

51. How do you patch 100 VM's ?

52. What about machines that are offline ?

53. Image Sprawl, your update nightmare The biggest challenges we have in virtualization cloud are operational and organizational rather than technical. Christofer Hoff

56. Deploy your application on a virtual platform

57. A tool dedicated for virtual platforms (virtual networking, virtual security)

60. How secure is the The Firewall ?

61. What about updates ?

63. Suse Studio (Suse)

64. UshareSoft (distro indep)

65. Bitnami (distro indep)

66. But , how do you build your own software / infrastructure ?

68. should build using a CI setup

69. should be tested in a test environment

71. should be automated

72. should be disposable

73. Think deploy a VM , build software, transfer build results, destroy VM

75. should disposable

76. should automated

77. Think deploy a VM , test software, destroy VM

79. If my computer can't install it , the installer is borken

80. Reproducable

85. Overwrite customer preferences ?

86. Hosted Cfg Mgmt tools

88. Overwrite customer preferences ?

89. Hosted Cfg Mgmt tools

91. Filesystems

92. Firewalls

93. Webmin

94. Vlan support

96. Automate

97. Situation normal, nothing must change

98. Devops

99. ` Kris Buytaert < [email_address] > Further Reading http://www.krisbuytaert.be/blog/ http://www.inuits.be/ http://www.virtualization.com/ http://www.oreillygmt.com/ ? !