OSCON preso: how Dell Crowbar brings DevOps to OpenStack Cloud (“No Soup for You!”) July 28, 2011
Posted by Rob H in DevOps, OSCON.Tags: DevOp, OSCON, presentation, sandwich, Soup
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Today I presented about how Crowbar + DevOps + OpenStack = CloudOps. The highlight of the presentation (to me, anyway) is the Images vs Layers analogy of Soup vs Sandwiches. I hope it helps explain why we believe that a DevOps approach to Cloud is essential to success.
I’ll add a link to the videos when they are available.
[...] Hadoop solution relies on the same core principles (CloudOps) and technologies (Crowbar) as our OpenStack solution. Like our other cloud solutions, we are [...]
[...] 22:02 – RAH “Crowbar started from our frustration of bringing up a cloud quickly … so we took a DevOps approach.” [...]
[...] 22:02 – RAH “Crowbar started from our frustration of bringing up a cloud quickly … so we took a DevOps approach.” [...]
[...] in embracing DevOps as an operational model for maintaining clouds. That meant building up cloud deployments in layers from pieces that we call barclamps (extensions of Chef cookbooks). Our first version, centered on [...]
[...] Crowbar started out simply as an installer for the “Dell OpenStack™-Powered Cloud Solution” with the objective of deploying a cloud from unboxed servers to a completely functioning system in under four hours. That meant doing all the BIOS, RAID, Operations services (DNS, NTP, DHCP, etc.), networking, O/S installs and system configuration required creating a complete cloud infrastructure. It was a big job, but one that we’d been piecing together on earlier cloud installation projects. A key part of the project involved collaborating with Opscode Chef Server on the many system configuration tasks. Ultimately, we met and exceeded the target with a complete OpenStack install in less than two hours. In the process of delivering Crowbar as an installer, we realized that Chef, and tools like it, were part of a larger cloud movement known as DevOps. [...]
[...] the open source Crowbar project. I believe that our vision for sustainable open operations based on DevOps principles is the most complete strategy for production cloud [...]