Austin OpenStack Meetup December 2012 presentation. The first part of the session was Chef for OpenStack, the second was Q&A about AT&T's OpenStack private cloud deployments to multiple data centers.

1. Chef for OpenStack
Austin OpenStack Meetup
December 6, 2012
Matt Ray
Senior Technical Evangelist
Opscode

2. What is Chef?
Chef is an automation platform for developers & systems engineers to continuously
define, build, and manage infrastructure.
CHEF USES:
“
Recipes and Cookbooks
that describe Infrastructure as Code.
Chef enables people to easily build &
manage complex & dynamic applications
at massive scale
”
• New model for describing infrastructure that
promotes reuse
• Programmatically provision and configure
• Reconstruct business from code repository,
data backup, and bare metal resources

3. Chef is Infrastructure as Code
• Programmatically provision
and configure
• Treat like any other code base
• Reconstruct business from
code repository, data backup,
and bare metal resources.

4. How Can Chef Help?
Blueprint Your Infrastructure Build Anything… And Manage It Simply
• Compute • Provision compute resources in • Introduce continuous incremental
the Data Center and the Cloud change or total change.
• Application
• Storage • Infrastructure • Automatically reconfigure
everything
• Security • Application Stacks
• Re-provision for disaster
• Network • Big Data recovery
• Configuration Standards • HPC • Fail-over to bare metal
• Linux, Windows, OSX, Unixes • Monitor for compliance
• Cloud migrations become trivial
Using 1,000’s of
man-days of prior art!
Discoverable and Searchable Infrastructure

5. The Chef Community
• Apache License, Version 2.0
• 1000+ Individual contributors
• 180+ Corporate contributors
• Dell, HP, Rackspace, Calxeda,
VMware, SUSE, and many more
• 700+ cookbooks
• Plugins for every cloud
• http://community.opscode.com
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6. What's Out There?
Chef for OpenStack
Resources

7. Chef for OpenStack: Why
• Community for the automated deployment
and management of OpenStack
• Reduce fragmentation and encourage
collaboration
• Deploying OpenStack is not "secret sauce"
• Project not a product
• Apache 2 license

8. Chef for OpenStack: What
• Chef Repository for Deploying OpenStack
• Documentation for Chef for OpenStack
• Cookbooks
• Keystone
• Glance
• Nova
• Horizon
• Swift
• Quantum
• Cinder
• Knife OpenStack

9. Chef for OpenStack: Where
• groups.google.com/group/opscode-chef-
openstack
• #openstack-chef on irc.freenode.net
• github.com/opscode/openstack-chef-repo
• github.com/mattray/openstack-chef-docs
• github.com/opscode-cookbooks/
• keystone, glance, nova, horizon,
swift,quantum,cinder
• github.com/opscode/knife-openstack

10. Chef for OpenStack: Who

11. Chef for OpenStack: Today
• Chef repo for Essex
• Operating Systems (Ubuntu 12.04)
• Hypervisors (KVM, LXC)
• Databases (MySQL)
• FlatDHCP networking with floating IPs
• Test Kitchen

12. Rackspace Private Cloud: Alamo
• Parallel fork of current cookbooks
• github.com/rcbops/chef-cookbooks
• www.rackspace.com/cloud/private/

13. Chef for OpenStack: When
• Folsom is under active development
• Rackspace, AT&T, DreamHost have
active branches
• Quantum (Nicira, OVS)
• Cinder
• Hyper-V
• Red Hat

14. Chef for OpenStack: How
github.com/mattray/openstack-chef-docs
moving to
github.com/opscode/chef-docs

15. Deploying OpenStack
• Chef ties it all together automatically
• Scaling changes how we deploy
• Interchangeable components
• Configurations shared, supported &
documented
• Licensing makes it available to everyone

16. knife openstack

17. knife openstack
$ knife openstack
Available openstack subcommands: (for details, knife SUB-
COMMAND --help)
** OPENSTACK COMMANDS **
knife openstack flavor list (options)
knife openstack image list (options)
knife openstack server create (options)
knife openstack server delete SERVER [SERVER] (options)
knife openstack server list (options)

18. knife openstack flavor list
$ knife openstack flavor list
ID Name Virtual CPUs RAM Disk
1 m1.tiny 1 512 MB 0 GB
2 m1.small 1 2048 MB 10 GB
3 m1.medium 2 4096 MB 10 GB
4 m1.large 4 8192 MB 10 GB
5 m1.xlarge 8 16384 MB 10 GB

19. knife openstack image list
$ knife openstack image list
ID Name
4a197431-503d-4b85-b61e-84af21ca8654 cirros-image
f8ebb842-c0c0-4be3-8c4c-f72f48edec50 precise-image

20. knife openstack server create
knife openstack server create -a -f 1 -I f8ebb842-c0c0-4be3-8c4c-f72f48edec50
-S local -i ~/.ssh/local.pem -x ubuntu

23. Chef for Infrastructure Portability
• knife openstack
• Piston, Nebula, Crowbar, TryStack
• knife hp
• knife rackspace
• knife ec2
• ... and many others

24. Chef for OpenStack Roadmap
• Documentation (docs.opscode.com)
• Hypervisors (Hyper-V)
• Databases (PostgreSQL)
• Operating Systems (RHEL, Debian, SUSE)
• HA Configurations
• Quantum (pluggable)
• Cinder (pluggable)
• Community Events (Boston January 22)

25. Chef for OpenStack Ecosystem
• Cookbooks reusable outside of OpenStack
• Test Kitchen
• Librarian
• Spiceweasel
• pxe_dust
• knife-rackspace/hp/dreamhost
• Sputnik Cloud Launcher
• Crowbar

26. Chef for OpenStack TL;DL
• Opscode.com/openstack
• Project, not a product
• Lots of contributors with real
deployments
• Essex works, Folsom merging
• Features driven by demand
(show up for what you want)
• Documentation with examples

27. AT&T

28. Questions?
Matt Ray
matt@opscode.com
Twitter|GitHub|IRC: mattray