Giles Sirett: Introduction and CloudStack news
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Giles Sirett: Introduction and CloudStack news
- 1. CloudStack European User Group 27 February 2020 -Berlin Giles Sirett Chairman - CEUG Twitter:@Cloudstack
- 2. Collaborative environment for: All thingsApache CloudStack Related tech: ecosystemproducts, hypervisors, storage, etc. Technical deep-dives, issues & best practice Case studies & user stories To showcase complementary technologies To share ideas & problems with other users Meet quarterly, usually in London LinkedIn group is only “membership database” The aims of the CloudStack EUG
- 3. Thanks to today’s sponsors
- 4. 13:00 Welcome and CloudStack news – Giles Sirett 13:15 Importing VMware infrastructures into CloudStack - Andre Paul, Itelligence 14:00 CloudStack and Terraform – Robert Sander, Heinlein- Support 14:45-15:15 Break 15:15 Primate, a new CloudStack UI - Paul Angus, ShapeBlue 16:00 Running Cloudstack and OpenShift with NetApp on KVM- Sven Vogel, Ewerk 17:00 Drinks Today’s Agenda
- 5. • CloudStack European User Group • CloudStack User Group Germany • Geneva CloudStack User Group • CloudStack - Romania • Australian CloudStack User Group • CloudStack Brazil User Group • Vancouver CloudStack Meetup • Japan CloudStack User Group • CloudStack India Bangalore Chapter • CloudStack India Hyderabad Chapter • CloudStack Pune Meetup • CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group • CloudStack NYC User Group • CloudStack Boston User Group • CloudStack DC and NoVA User Group This group is one of many…
- 6. C l i c k t o e d i t CloudStack Collaboration Conferences http://Cloudstackcollab.org
- 9. C l i c k t o e d i t @CloudStack @GilesSirett W h at i s C l ou d S t ac k ? Apache CloudStackis a scalable, multi- tenant, open-source, purpose-built, cloud orchestration platform for delivering turnkeyInfrastructure-as-a- Service clouds
- 10. C l i c k t o e d i t @CloudStack @GilesSirett Cl o u d st ack “ k n o w n u s e r s ”
- 11. C l i c k t o e d i t @CloudStack @GilesSirett Cl ou d s t ac k *k n own u s er s ”
- 12. C l i c k t o e d i t @CloudStack @GilesSirett C l ou d S t ac k * k n ow n * u s er s
- 13. C l i c k t o e d i t @CloudStack @GilesSirett H ow t o b u i l d an IaaS c l ou d compute StorageNetworking Hypervisor CMP - Orchestration layer orchestrationAPI eCommerce Platform Choice of Hypervisor (KVM, VMWare, Xen, hyper-V, OVM, XCP-ng) Apache CloudStack Cloudstack UI CloudStack API CaaS ecommercce Networking compute Storage PaaS Developer tooling Multi-cloud management Cloud Monkey
- 14. C l i c k t o e d i t @CloudStack @GilesSirett K ey c l ou d S t ac k f eat u r es • Broad & deep Hypervisor support • XenServer, KVM, VMware, OracleVM, Hyper-V, XCP-ng • Enterprisegrade tenant Virtual Networking model • Scalable architecture • Support thousands of hosts and virtual machine guests • Largest known production cloud 35k+ physical hosts • High availability • Configurations that provide automatic failover for virtualmachines • Choice of interfaces • Web UI, command line, REST-based API
- 15. C l i c k t o e d i t S i m p l e U I
- 16. C l i c k t o e d i t AP I exam p l es Examples of Cloudstack Rest API: List VMs for all users: http://10.2.3.183:8096/client/api?command=listVirtualMachines&listall=true List all my templates: http://10.2.3.183:8096/client/api?command=listTemplates&templatefilter=all Create new network "RootNet2" http://10.2.3.183:8096/client/api?command=createNetwork&zoneId=ea2edb5f-2fbd-4390-a731- b4e252d2f5c7&name=RootNet2&displayText=RootNet2&networkOfferingId=d323caa4-976b-4cd3-b57c- 58864b842a40&domainid=d30d22bf-6afd-11e8-aa6b-06227e0108af&account=admin Create a new VM attached to RootNet1 http://10.2.3.183:8096/client/api?command=deployVirtualMachine&response=json&zoneid=ea2edb5f-2fbd-4390- a731-b4e252d2f5c7&templateid=d3121fc3-6afd-11e8-aa6b- 06227e0108af&hypervisor=VMware&serviceofferingid=89e3afd9-3ed6-4975-a9a9- 58953f94a9f2&iptonetworklist%5B0%5D.networkid=af048a31-f140-4907-b2ac- 85ae67767ff9&displayname=RootVM2&name=RootVM2&keyboard=uk&domainid=d30d22bf-6afd-11e8-aa6b- 06227e0108af&account=admin Note: for simplicity, thesecommands are beingrunover an unauthenticatedport (8096) - this is not recommendedfor productionuse andwould usually be disabled
- 17. C l i c k t o e d i t C l ou d m on k ey C L I
- 18. C l i c k t o e d i t C l ou d S t ac k t od ay • 3-4 releases per year • Widespread production deployment • Public cloud providers • Private cloud use-cases • LTS releases • Diverse user driven developer community…..
- 19. C l i c k t o e d i t C l ou d S t ac k t od ay • Governed by Apache Software Foundation • C.200 project committers • Diverse PMC • Last 4 weeks (to 25 February) • 450 mailing list msgs • 69 mailing list contributors • 57 Commits • 1520 package downloads • Lots of meetups & events
- 20. CloudStack News
- 21. 4.13.0 released (September 2019) 4.13.x is an LTS branch c. 200 new features, enhancements and fixes since 4.12 4.14.0 Release in process (as in right now!) 4.14 will be an LTS branch Should be in March Releases
- 22. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists • CloudStack Backup and Recovery Framework • CloudStack KubernetesService andCloudStack KubernetesProvider • KVM Rolling Maintenance • KVM DRS • VR Health-checks • SystemVM Management API • VM Ingestion • Direct Download for systemVM template (KVM) • Primary Storage AgnosticDirect Downloads(KVM) • Oh, and finally……. CloudStack 4.14 Release – Headline features
- 23. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists ...a new User Interface for Apache Cloudstack! C l ou d S t a c k 4 . 1 4 R e l e a s e – H e a d l i n e f e a t u r e s
- 24. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists KVM Rolling Maintenance • Select a zone, pod or cluster • Supply upgrade/patching scripts to KVM hosts • Instruct CloudStack to run scripts on the hosts one by one in a cluster, evacuating a host and putting it into maintenance mode where necessary C l ou d S t a c k 4 . 1 4 R e l e a s e – H e a d l i n e f e a t u r e s
- 25. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists KVM DRS (an enterprise feature, without the enterprise price tag ☺) • Iterative migration of guest instances to either: • Balance host • Pack hosts • DRS process simplified by • Calculating the most effect guest instance to move* • Live migrating it • Checking to see if DRS threshold has be satisfied • If not, calculate the most effect guest instance to move now C l ou d S t a c k 4 . 1 4 R e l e a s e – H e a d l i n e f e a t u r e s
- 26. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists VR Health-Checks • Router periodically running self checks • Management servers periodically polling to ensure checks have run and receive results • Configurable thresholds set to avoid false positives • Alerts raised when checks fail • Automatic VR restarts when specified checks fail (optional) C l ou d S t a c k 4 . 1 4 R e l e a s e – H e a d l i n e f e a t u r e s
- 27. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists VR Health-Checks • Basic connectivity from management server to virtual router • Basic connectivity to virtual router interfaces' gateways • Free disk space on virtual router's disk • CPU and memory usage • Basic VR Sanity checks: • dnsmasq/strongswan/haproxy/etc service running • DHCP/DNS config sanity check • Advanced VR Sanity checks: • DHCP/DNS configuration matches mgmt server DB • IPtables rules match mgmt server DB records • HAproxy config matches mgmt server DB records • VM network sanity checks C l ou d S t a c k 4 . 1 4 R e l e a s e – H e a d l i n e f e a t u r e s
- 28. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists System VM Management API • Enables granular management over systemVM templates Register many, change the “active” one at any time • Define systemVM template during zone deployment no more pre-seeding of the template required • Decouple ACS upgrades from systemVM upgrade • Allow for easy setup of new/customized systemVM template Security patches, port opening, other customizations C l ou d S t a c k 4 . 1 4 R e l e a s e – H e a d l i n e f e a t u r e s
- 29. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists System VM Management API C l ou d S t a c k 4 . 1 4 R e l e a s e – H e a d l i n e f e a t u r e s
- 30. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists VM ingestion • Take existing VMs from vSphere and “import” them into CloudStack • More in Andre’s talk C l ou d S t a c k 4 . 1 4 R e l e a s e – H e a d l i n e f e a t u r e s
- 31. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists • CloudStack Kubernetes Service Allows easy creation of CaaS service on top of Cloudstack A plugin to create and manage Kubernetes cluster • CoreOS templatesfor nodes, kubeadm for cluster provisioning • Offline installation of k8s and docker binarieson cluster nodes for selected k8s version via ISO (uploaded by admin) • Gracefully scale up or scale down • Access kube.config for cluster for accessing k8s dashboard • Delete cluster while removing nodesand k8s service C l ou d S t a c k 4 . 1 4 R e l e a s e – H e a d l i n e f e a t u r e s
- 32. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists • Cloudstack Backup and Recovery Framework • Modular framework • Can exploit any 3rd party backup platform • Provider created for Veeam C l ou d s t a c k B a c k u p a n d R e c ov e r y F r a m e wor k
- 33. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlueThe Cloud Specialists Specifically: • Support for: • Operator created ‘policy based’ backups (RPOs) • Scheduled backups (similar to snapshot scheduling) • Ad hoc backups • Backups as first class citizens • ‘In-place’ restoration of entire VM including data disks • Restoration of VM backup after original VM is destroyed • Restoration of individual VM volumes (can then be attached to another VM) • Full integration into the CloudStack API, UI, usage service (recording both protected and on-disk data metrics) C l ou d s t a c k B a c k u p a n d R e c ov e r y F r a m e wor k
- 34. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists @ShapeBlueShapeBlue.comThe Cloud Specialists C l ou d s t a c k B a c k u p a n d R e c ov e r y F r a m e wor k ‘Policy Based’ Backups • listBackupPolices external=true Returns ‘template’ jobs. • importBackupPolicy Creates a policy (with a name and description) in CloudStack and maps it to a Veeam template job. ie. GOLD – 6hr RPO SILVER – 24hr RPO BRONZE – 7 day RPO
- 35. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists @ShapeBlueShapeBlue.comThe Cloud Specialists C l ou d s t a c k B a c k u p a n d R e c ov e r y F r a m e wor k ‘Ad-hoc’ & Scheduled Backups • CloudStack will send command to carry out an ad-hoc run of the policy based job or create one as required. • Ad-hoc and scheduled jobs will be driven by CloudStack • One VM to one Veeam job mapping allows for simpler accounting and unified incremental backups
- 37. C l i c k t o e d i t C om m u n i t y n ew s • Special Interest Group (SIG) created for Primate UI Provided effective way of accelerating development Has proved successful, although lessons learnt • Sig currently being setup for SDN • New VP/Chair of Apache Cloudstack Currently being selected by PMC
- 39. Next meeting of CSEUG: 4 June 2020 – Ticketmaster, London Registration open soon - Eventbrite European Cloud Infrastructure Day 2020 14 June 2020, Sofia Hosted by Storpool Upcoming events
- 40. CloudStack CollaborationConference2020 New Orleans 28 September – 2 October 2 x Cloudstack talk tracks Cloudstack Hackathon Co-located with Apachecon More Information http://cloudstackcollab.org http://apachecon.org
- 41. If you’re new: join the Users@ mailing list Get your organisation to be public about their use of ACS Get on the “known user” list* Offer to do a case study with PMC/ASF Go and talk about it ! *Known user list: http://cloudstack.apache.org/survey.html Specific calls to action
- 42. Our first speaker(s) Andre Paul Itelligence Importing VMware infrastructures into CloudStack