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BE A CLOUD NATIVE
Q1 2013
Jaret Chiles
Cloud Solutions Architect
Rackspace, The Open Cloud Company

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BE A CLOUD NATIVE
Which workload do I put in the cloud?
Application changes?
What is DevOps?
Should I think about lock-in?
Is my data safe?
Where do I start?

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THE POWER OF THE CLOUD
Programmatically accessible infrastructure

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INFRASTRUCTURE ON DEMAND
Deploy infrastructure when you need it

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INFRASTRUCTURE ON DEMAND
Turn it off when you don’t need it

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MATCH COST TO DEMAND
Shrink the gap with automation

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DEMAND PATTERNS

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HYBRID-CLOUD STRATEGIES
Own
the base.
Rent the
peak.
PEAK LOAD
BASE LOAD

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MULTI-CLOUD STRATEGIES
PARTNER DCCUSTOMER SITERACKSPACE LOCATIONS
DEDICATED PUBLIC CLOUD PRIVATE CLOUD PRIVATE CLOUD PUBLIC CLOUD
Rackspace Provides
The Fanatical Support
Write once, deploy anywhere

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A NEW WAY OF THINKING
Virtualization is a TECHNOLOGY…
Cloud Computing is a
BUSINESS MODEL

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WHY IS A MANDATE FOR DEV/OPS IMPORTANT?
Dev + Ops
On the same train
Increased Collaboration
Smarter Applications
Faster Time to Market

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IT DEV/OPS TRANSFORMATION
Communication… Collaboration… Integration
Dev/Ops Org Structure is Driven by Cloud Adoption
Operations:
Deeper Application
Knowledge
Developers:
Understands Code
Impacts Infrastructure

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DESIGNING APPLICATIONS FOR THE CLOUD
• Built for Resilience & Error Tolerance
• Loosely Coupled Components
• Preserved & Recoverable Application State
• Self monitoring, healing and scaling
CLOUD-AWARE
APPLICATION
DEVELOPMENT

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CONTINUOUS DEVELOPMENT

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CLOUD SECURITY = AGILE SECURITY
Think Like a
Developer

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SDKs and APIs
DEVELOPER GUIDES & MANAGED SERVICES
Self Service:
http://developer.[provider].com
Managed Services:
Extension of IT team

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CLOUD CONSUMPTION MODELS
Cloud Orchestration API Layer
Software
Development
Kits
Direct API
Interaction
Command
Line Tools
Control
Panels

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PURE CLOUD CONFIGURATION

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HYBRID CONFIGURATION

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EXAMPLE DEPLOYMENT DIAGRAM

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EXAMPLE DEPLOYMENT PROCESS OVERVIEW
Tools:
• Nova Command Line Tool (CLI)
• Rackspace Cloud Control Panel (Control Panel)
• Application Programming Interface (API)
Today’s steps:
1) Create a Private Cloud Network (CLI)
2) Deploy 6x 2GB Cloud Web Servers (CLI)
3) Deploy 4x 4GB Cloud App Servers (CLI)
4) Add SSD Block Storage to the App Servers (CLI)
5) Create a public Web Load Balancer (Control Panel)
6) Create a private App Load Balancer (Control Panel)
7) Create MySQL Database Instance (Control Panel)
8) Create Gold Images (Control Panel)
9) Push a static file to Cloud Files for CDN (API)

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NOVA COMMAND LINE – CLOUD NETWORKS
1) Create a private cloud network
nova network-create PrivateNet 192.168.0.0/24

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NOVA COMMAND LINE – CLOUD SERVERS
nova image-list
nova flavor-list

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NOVA COMMAND LINE – CLOUD SERVERS
• nova image-list (Copy desired Image-ID)
• nova flavor-list (Copy desired Flavor-ID)
• nova network-list (Copy desired Network-ID)
2) Deploy six 2GB Ubuntu 12.04 Web Servers sharing PrivateNet
for i in `seq 1 6` ; do nova boot --image 5cebb13a-f783-4f8c-8058-
c4182c724ccd --flavor 4 --nic net-id=b771c94e-5cfe-43c1-a8be-
486451d3ca74 Web$i; done
3) Deploy four 4GB Ubuntu 12.04 App Servers sharing PrivateNet
for i in `seq 1 4` ; do nova boot --image 5cebb13a-f783-4f8c-8058-
c4182c724ccd --flavor 5 --nic net-id=b771c94e-5cfe-43c1-a8be-
486451d3ca74 App$i; done

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NOVA COMMAND LINE – CLOUD SERVERS
nova list

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD SERVERS

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NOVA COMMAND LINE – CLOUD BLOCK STORAGE
4) Deploy four 100MB SSD Block Storage Volumes for App1-4
for i in `seq 1 4` ; do nova volume-create --volume-type SSD 100 -
-display-name app$i; done
nova volume-list

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NOVA COMMAND LINE – CLOUD BLOCK STORAGE
Attach the volumes via Volume-ID
nova volume-attach App1 6bbb976d-a54a-432a-b6e1-0fc6eb05f415
/dev/vdb
nova volume-attach App2 ff7c37b3-bc8f-4c47-a5ee-582504a8dd18
/dev/vdb
nova volume-attach App3 ce8edb03-2757-4c41-925b-c8cff812b12b
/dev/vdb
nova volume-attach App4 a757bfd3-ddd2-43f1-a1c0-84ab50217aed
/dev/vdb
nova volume-list

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD LOAD BALANCERS
5) Deploy a public cloud load balancer for HTTP traffic

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD LOAD BALANCERS

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD LOAD BALANCERS

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD LOAD BALANCERS

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD LOAD BALANCERS
6) Deploy a private cloud load balancer for internal TCP traffic

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD LOAD BALANCERS

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD LOAD BALANCERS

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD LOAD BALANCERS

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD DATABASES
7) Deploy a MySQL database

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD DATABASES

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD DATABASES

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD DATABASES

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD DATABASES

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD SERVER IMAGES
8) Create “Gold” server images

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD SERVER IMAGES

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CLOUD CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD SERVER IMAGES

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APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE – FILES
7) Push a file to Cloud Files and enable it over the Akamai CDN
Upload File to Container
curl
-X PUT -T screenies/hello.jpg -D -
-H "ETag: 805120e285a7ed28f74024422fe3594"
-H "Content-Type: image/jpeg"
-H "X-Auth-Token: fc81aaa6-98a1-9ab0-94ba-aba9a89aa9ae"
-H "X-Object-Meta-Screenie: Hello World"
https://storage.clouddrive.com/v1/CF_xer7_343/
images/hello.jpg
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Date: Thu, 09 July 2009 17:03:36 GMT
Server: Apache
Content-Length: 0
ETag: 805120e285a7ed28f74024422fe3594
Content-Type: text/plain

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APPLICATION PROGRAMMING INTERFACE – FILES
CDN Enable Container
curl
-X PUT -D -
-H "X-Auth-Token: fc81aaa6-98a1-9ab0-94ba-aba9a89aa9ae"
-H "X-CDN-Enabled: True"
-H "X-TTL: 259200"
https://storage.clouddrive.com/v1/CF_xer7_343/images
HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:34:13 GMT
Server: Apache
X-CDN-URI: http://c10171.r71.cf0.rackcdn.com
X-CDN-SSL-URI: https://c10171.ssl.cf0.rackcdn.com
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/plain; charset-UTF-8

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CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD FILES

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CONTROL PANEL – CLOUD FILES

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EXAMPLE DEPLOYMENT RECAP

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RESOURCES
Product Information
http://www.rackspace.com/cloud
Rackspace Developer Portal
http://developer.rackspace.com
Knowledge Center & Best Practices
http://www.rackspace.com/knowledge_center
OpenStack Community
http://www.openstack.org

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THANK YOU
Jaret.Chiles@Rackspace.com
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jaretchiles
@jaretchiles