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With scale comes complexity. CloudStack and SaltStack are no strangers to either. SaltStack provides scalable and secure orchestration to automate as many elements of CloudStack configuration and deployment job as possible. In this tutorial, Tom will walk through the use of various SaltStack components to simplify CloudStack management. He will dive into Salt formulas and state files for CloudStack configuration and show how the Salt remote execution capabilities provide a full management stack for CloudStack environments. Tom will also share various lesser-known Salt tips, tricks and best practices gained through real-world implementations and practical experience.
Thomas Hatch is the creator, principal architect and CTO of SaltStack. His years of experience as principle cloud architect for Beyond Oblivion, software engineer for Applied Signal Technology, and systems admin for Backcountry.com provided real-world insights into requirements of... Read More →
Wednesday April 9, 2014 9:00am - 12:00pm PDT
Curtis
Artifacts such as templates, ISOs and snapshots are kept in storage which CloudStack refers to as secondary storage. To improve scalability and performance, as when a number of hosts access secondary storage concurrently, object storage can be used for secondary storage. Object storage can also provide built-in high availability capability. When using object storage, access to secondary storage data can be made available across multiple zones in a region. This is a huge benefit, as it is no longer necessary to copy templates, snapshots etc. across zones as would be needed in an NFS-only environment.
In this presentation Sanjeev will demonstrate on how to quickly setup Object storage and how to use it as a Secondary storage in CloudStack .
Senior Software Test Engineer, Citrix India R&D Ltd.
Sanjeev is a Senior Software Test Engineer at Citrix India R&D Ltd., and has around 8years of extensive experience in testing and test automation. Sanjeev is an expert in testing network,security, telecom and IaaS cloud products using manual and automation tests. Sanjeev did his Masters... Read More →
Wednesday April 9, 2014 1:15pm - 2:15pm PDT
Platte River
In this tutorial we will cover the various CloudStack clients and tools available to developers and cloud operators to configure and manage their cloud. This will be a hands-on tutorial where attendees will clone git repositories, install packages, and use them to interact with CloudStack. We will cover tools like Apache libcloud, CloudMonkey, Clostack, stacker-bee, Apache whirr and Vagrant cloudstack plugins. The tutorial will be a walk through of https://github.com/runseb/cloudstack-books/blob/master/en/clients-ccc.markdown with hands-on experience.
Sebastien Goasguen is a twenty year open source veteran. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he worked on Apache CloudStack and Libcloud for several years before diving into the container world. He is the founder of Skippbox, a Kubernetes startup acquired by Bitnami where... Read More →
Wednesday April 9, 2014 1:15pm - 5:00pm PDT
McCourt
CloudStack State of the Code will present the current state of the code and architecture and the changes made in the last two years since CloudStack joined Apache foundation. It will also go over the things that remains to be done.
Alex Huang is a co-founder of CloudStack and currently serves on the PMC for the Apache CloudStack project. He works as the architect for CloudPlatform, a commercial product based on CloudStack, at Citrix. He's been to various CloudStack Collaboration Conferences and meetups to talk... Read More →
Thursday April 10, 2014 10:30am - 11:00am PDT
Molly Brown
Managing and deploying applications on CloudStack (or any other cloud for that matter) can be a daunting task. Resource provisioning, software installation and configuration, failure detection and handling, scaling and continuous delivery are just some of the processes that should be performed (read: automated) in order to do it properly. There are multiple tool chains that tackle some of these processes, each with its own focus and level of control. These can range from pure CM tools such as Chef or Puppet, which focus on repeatable and consistent configuration of servers, all the way to full blown PaaS environments that focus on developer productivity and hide many of the complexities of the underlying infrastructure. In this session Uri will present the problem domain of application deployment and management on the cloud, the benefits and shortcomings of common approaches to it.
Uri Cohen leads the product team at GigaSpaces, and is interested in everything cloud, scalability and devops. He’s a spare time coder and proud father of 3. During the weekend, Uri masquerades as an all-mountain and occasionally downhill bicycle rider, trying his best to keep his... Read More →
Thursday April 10, 2014 11:05am - 11:35am PDT
Horace Tabor
Apache CloudStack does a number of things but does a few things very well: compute, storage and networking. While other services such as monitoring, auto scaling are available, they are either rudimentary or not flexible enough. One way to enhance CloudStack is to provide these services outside of CloudStack but use the same API services (including authentication). StackWatch is a prototype service that behaves similar to AWS CloudWatch using open source monitoring systems as its backend. It integrates with Apache CloudStack by re-using the API credentials in CloudStack and makes it possible to provide an autoscale service in conjunction with CloudStack.
Chiradeep Vittal is a Distinguished Engineer at Citrix Systems where he works on Cloud, Networking and Distributed Systems technologies. His current interests are micro services and containers -- including security, networking, orchestration and hypervisor integration. Chiradeep is... Read More →
Thursday April 10, 2014 11:40am - 12:10pm PDT
Molly Brown
A case study on how one of the largest betting sites in the world brought agility and better ROI to their online gaming initiatives, from the development cycle and initial concept to revenue generation, by phasing out old cultural processes, combined with a new tooling to bring about an app-centric DevOps revolution within the organization, all this on top of Cloudstack.
A large UK enterprise found themselves struggling with known DevOps pain points from slow and laborious provisioning of infrastructure, lack of consistency between and within environments, through inconsistent tooling with no standardization - that often times affected the rollout of releases and updates. This session will present this organization's journey toward application-centric DevOps, and how they achieved consistency and continuous delivery by deploying their apps to Cloudstack, using Chef and Cloudify.
Uri Cohen leads the product team at GigaSpaces, and is interested in everything cloud, scalability and devops. He’s a spare time coder and proud father of 3. During the weekend, Uri masquerades as an all-mountain and occasionally downhill bicycle rider, trying his best to keep his... Read More →
Thursday April 10, 2014 1:45pm - 2:15pm PDT
Horace Tabor
Organisations looking to build Cloud services on Apache CloudStack need to be able to either monetize their offerings and charge for usage or monitor and report on their Cloud's consumption.
Majority of such organisations already have existing billing or business support systems and do not require an integrated billing or reporting system, provided the usage data can be exported from CloudStack in a standard and structured format such as XML, JSON, or CSV. CloudStack includes a Usage Server that creates summary usage records for the various resources consumed in CloudStack. Tariq will start with a review of how usage of such resources is metered in CloudStack and will then cover: · What usage metrics are recorded · Configuration of the Usage Server · Creation of the Usage Data · Explore various methods of accessing the Usage Data (API, CloudMonkey, SQL) · Overview of solution
Tariq is a Senior Consultant at ShapeBlue - the leading CloudStack Systems Integrator and a center of excellence in the design and implementation of cloud platforms using Apache CloudStack. He has been involved in the CloudStack project since before it’s donation to Apache and specializes... Read More →
Thursday April 10, 2014 1:45pm - 2:15pm PDT
Confluence A
RadialPoint's IT team has invested a lot of energy over the years to automate the deployment of their development environment, in order to standardize the builds and reduce the manual labor involved in this process from the IT team. With the help of CloudStack and other tools, the team has streamlined the process and is now redefining their role as a true service providers to their developers.
The best way to describe myself is to think of an IT Swiss Knife. I'm primarily skilled in Unix/Linux system administration, network administration, production support, server consolidation/virtualization, application/web server administration and infrastructure/architecture proj... Read More →
Francois Gaudreault has been working with CloudOps as a Cloud Solutions Architect since 2012. In this role he's been mostly focused on CloudStack-based private cloud technologies and Citrix NetScalers. He has deployed CloudStack in multiple customer environments for both dev/test... Read More →
Thursday April 10, 2014 2:20pm - 2:50pm PDT
Horace Tabor
There's been a renewed debate recently over the various layers of cloud computing stacks. At stake is a fight for cloud computing market share and mind share -- and possibly, the future of cloud platforms.
At the center of the cloud platform debate is a new reality: Cloud consumers no longer need to manage or worry about the underlying infrastructure. The question of platform occurs only when you ask who or what controls operating systems, storage, deployed applications, and networking components. Platform as a service (PaaS) focuses not on the infrastructure pieces, but on the deployment of applications and configuration settings for the application-hosting environment. For most PaaS offerings, the preponderance of infrastructure features has been removed, and the focus is on deploying a composable set of application components rather than controlling the lower-level components.
Reuven is recognized as an early innovator in the cloud computing space, as the founder of Enomaly in 2004 (Acquired by Virtustream in 2012). Enomaly was among the first to develop a self-service infrastructure as a service (IaaS) platform (ECP) circa 2005, as well as SpotCloud (2011... Read More →
Thursday April 10, 2014 3:45pm - 4:15pm PDT
Confluence A
Pierre-Luc Dion has been with CloudOps since 2009 and has held various roles in operations before recently taking on a cloud architecture role. His areas of expertise include:- Cloud Building and architecture with Cloudstack.- Infrastructure automation with Chef, kickstart.- Architecture... Read More →
Thursday April 10, 2014 3:45pm - 4:15pm PDT
Horace Tabor
The CloudOps/Palo Alto Networks team have been working on a new feature for CloudStack to support the Palo Alto Networks firewall natively in CloudStack.
By leveraging CloudStack extension points, this project will allow configuring a Palo Alto Networks firewall as a service provider to override services typically offered by CloudStack’s virtual routers, such as Ingress/Egress Firewall rules, Source NAT, Static NAT & Port forwarding. Orchestration of the CloudStack features implemented by the Palo Alto Networks firewall are handled entirely through the CloudStack UI/API. This includes the automation of the build up and tear down of isolated guest networks and IP management for the associated network.
Since 2005, CloudOps has enabled hundreds of enterprises and web-based companies to build their businesses in the cloud. We provide private, public and hybrid cloud solutions for businesses seeking scalability, and for enterprises making their move to the cloud. Our best-in-class... Read More →
Thursday April 10, 2014 4:20pm - 4:50pm PDT
Molly Brown
The CloudOps team has been working on a new feature for CloudStack to support SSL certificates in load balancing natively from CloudStack.*
NetScaler is a popular load balancer in the makring, offering SSL off-loading support. Although the NetScaler is supported in CloudStack, the SSL off-loading feature is not enabled and has been a widely requested feature. We will provide this functionality by leveraging the existing APIs for configuring load-balancers and adding few other new APIs for certificate management. We are building this for Netscaler but the API will be extensible to be used with other load-balancers which provide this service as well.
The presentation will outline the project objectives, approach, solution overview, demo and use cases.
Since 2005, CloudOps has enabled hundreds of enterprises and web-based companies to build their businesses in the cloud. We provide private, public and hybrid cloud solutions for businesses seeking scalability, and for enterprises making their move to the cloud. Our best-in-class... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 10:00am - 10:30am PDT
Molly Brown
Whether you are a service provider looking to deliver cloud services or an enterprise looking to build a shared infrastructure/private cloud, the topic of storage is likely one of your top design challenges. There are quite a few approaches to building cloud storage and numerous point solutions to consider. So, where do you start and what questions should you be asking? In this session we will cover architectural topics including:
Accommodating multiple workloads Building a scalable infrastructure Data protection strategy impact on overall design Monitoring and management needs
Mike Tutkowski develops software for the Apache Software Foundation's CloudStack project to help drive improvements in its storage component and to integrate SolidFire more deeply into the product.SolidFire develops software that clusters standard SSD-based storage nodes together... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 10:00am - 10:30am PDT
Confluence A
XenDesktop is a workload that is traditionally run on baremetal or server virtualization infrastructure. Just like any workload, the advantages of the Cloud for the XenDesktop workload are obvious: elasticity, scale, self-service and on-demand capacity. This presentation describes how we adapted XenDesktop to run on Apache CloudStack — what worked well, the pitfalls and the changes necessary in XD as well Apache CloudStack for a smooth deployment.
Paul is a senior engineer with Citrix, based in the UK and working on virtual Desktops and Applications. His career with Citrix began in 2010. Since 2012 he has served as the technical lead on a project to integrate the Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp products with CloudStack.
Friday April 11, 2014 10:35am - 11:05am PDT
Molly Brown
Paul will give examples of real public and private CloudStack use cases, describing elements such as the network design, the infrastructure design and the hardware used as well as the features of CloudStack which have been leveraged to achieve the client’s objectives.
Paul is VP Technology / Cloud Architect for ShapeBlue and an Apache CloudStack Project Management Committee member . He consults to a number of large service providers and enterprises. In is responsible for ShapeBlue's technical strategy. Paul has spoken at every CloudStack Collaboration... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 10:35am - 11:05am PDT
Horace Tabor
Several major pain-points of the old model are discussed, these pain-points drive the major motivation for CloudStack to look for a more loose-coupled model for future evolutions. A job-oriented processing model is presented, the new model decouples the in-place monolithic synchronization process into individual job-oriented context-aware synchronization processes, which provides an eventually consistent VM state picture between CloudStack and underlying hypervisors in a loosely-coupled fashion. The necessary underlying supporting facilities on message bus, job scheduling, how to make the switch with minimal impact to large legacy code base and future work for performance optimization are also discussed.
I'm one of the early members of the engineering team at Cloud.com before the acquisition of Citrix, have been working on various areas of CloudStack development, including works on a client-less AJAX console solution, VMware integration to CloudStack, CloudStack management server... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 11:10am - 11:40am PDT
Molly Brown
In the past, using GlusterFS as the backend storage for CloudStack, Xen or other cloud technologies was fairly simple, although difficult to scale. The operator would simply mount GlusterFS, and then direct their virtualization or cloud management platform to the mount point, just as they would to any local filesystem.
However, this method, while simple, proved not to scale for virtual block storage workloads. Over the past year, Gluster engineers have been developing an integration layer that would allow GlusterFS to perform better in these situations. This talk is about the result of that effort, libgfapi, and how it has been used to enable integration with the Xen hypervisor, CloudStack, OpenStack Nova, and a number of other software stacks. Learn how to benefit from this library as a developer and operator.
John Mark is the ManageIQ Community Leader. For three years prior to his ManageIQ role, he was the Gluster Community Leader and is a long-time Open Source community advocate and strategist.
Friday April 11, 2014 11:10am - 11:40am PDT
Confluence A
Currently CloudStack provides very limited identity and access management (IAM) services with three major drawbacks. First, there is no way to create additional roles with customized permissions except those out-of-box account types with pre-baked access control. Second, some resource types like network, affinity group, project have hard-coded access control logic in the code. Third, we have to create specialized dedicated APIs to grant resource permission. In this presentation, Prachi and Min will discuss the IAM plugin currently under development using a standard IAM service architecture. This new IAM plugin will address above mentioned limitations and allow CloudStack to securely control access to resources for your users while accounting for their domain hierarchy. In addition, it also provides flexibility to integrate with other third-party IAM implementations.
Min Chen is a committer of Apache CloudStack project and has been working on CloudStack since joining Citrix late 2012. Her development work mainly focuses on API, database schema and orchestration layer, specifically, API entity modelling and view representation, storage controller... Read More →
Prachi Damle is a committer on the CloudStack project and works at Citrix. She has been working on CloudStack since 2010 and loves to work with this great community. Her development mainly focuses on the API and business layer of CloudStack, especially the CloudStack orchestration... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 11:45am - 12:15pm PDT
Molly Brown
Not every application workload is created the same. Different application workloads demand different underlying infrastructure designs. Mixing the wrong application workload with an improperly designed infrastructure zone can lead to less than ideal performance or worse, unexpected downtime. In this presentation Aaron will cover common application demands and the corresponding matching infrastructure required in an Apache CloudStack Zone design. A lab demonstration will also be included so there is always the possibility this could go horribly wrong.
Aaron Delp is the Director of Technology Solutions for SolidFIre specializing in the creation of OpenStack, CloudStack, and VMware based cloud solutions. Prior to SolidFire, Aaron was the Sr. Director of Technical Marketing for the Citrix Cloud Platforms Group where he led the generation... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 1:15pm - 1:45pm PDT
Confluence A
Over the past year we have developed and deployed a SaaS Cloud Mobility platform that enables OEMs and Cloud operators to reduce the friction of onboarding Enterprise customers at scale: by using our Open API users can migrate large volumes of servers 'as-is' to any cloud target (we currently support vCloud and vSphere, AWS, Openstack and Cloudstack as targets - and any combination of physical, virtual and cloud source servers).
In this talk, we'd like to share the challenges that we have faced in developing our system, how we've solved some of them and what opportunities this opens to both developers (who can build third-party clients against our API) and operators (who can use our SaaS to accelerate Cloud adoption).
We are also planning to open-source our core Model software and we'll be seeking feedback from the community as to the best way to do so.
Marco Massenzio is VP of Engineering at RiverMeadow Software and is responsible for development of the RiverMeadow Cloud Migration SaaS.Before joining RiverMeadow, Massenzio was Vice President of Engineering at SnapLogic where he led the team responsible for developing the first truly... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 2:25pm - 2:55pm PDT
Horace Tabor
Apache Cloudstack is a high-availability Infrastructure as a Service cloud management platform. Because of the complex architecture and various components involved, troubleshooting can be challenging. This talk helps administrators understand, troubleshoot, and solve common issues they may face during implementation and maintenance of CloudStack, especially in networking-related areas such as VLANs and Security Groups. Since troubleshooting frequently requires analyzing log files, this talk will also help make sense of the logs and include real-world examples.
Kirk has worked professionally with Linux for nearly a decade in capacities including systems administration and support. For the last five years he has focused on cloud computing. He is a committer and active community member for the Apache CloudStack project, and until recently... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 2:25pm - 2:55pm PDT
Confluence A
TOSCA (Topology and Orchestration Specification for Cloud Applications) is an emerging standard for modeling complete application stacks and automating their deployment and management. In this session we’ll discuss what TOSCA is all about, why it makes sense in the context of CloudStack, and how we can take it farther up the stack to handle complete applications, both during and after deployment, on top of CloudStack.
Yaron Parasol is the VP of Product Management at GigaSpaces, managing Cloudify . He has more than seven years of experience in enterprise software product management with special interest in IT management and monitoring, DevOps, cloud computing as well as in-memory and grid compu... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 2:25pm - 2:55pm PDT
Molly Brown
CloudStack has an EC2 interface within it's source code. It is written in Java and closely tied to the native API server. It causes issues in terms of build and packaging. In this talk we will present a new CloudStack EC2 interface written in Python that can be installed separately from CloudStack. It is lightweight, easily hackable and extendable. We will demo the new interface and propose that the current CloudStack EC2 API be removed from the source and that this new interface be used instead.
Sebastien Goasguen is a twenty year open source veteran. A member of the Apache Software Foundation, he worked on Apache CloudStack and Libcloud for several years before diving into the container world. He is the founder of Skippbox, a Kubernetes startup acquired by Bitnami where... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 3:15pm - 3:45pm PDT
Horace Tabor
This talk is about the word done to support OpenDaylight in CloudStack. In this talk i will discuss the technical hurdles that we had to overcome, but mainly focus on how two emerging project can work together in the true open source spirit to get something like this done.
The talk will be about: Technical implementation of the OpenDaylight plugin Changes made in open daylight to accommodate the plugin Community interaction with the open daylight community Where to go from here.
The power of open source communities lies in the willingness to share knowledge: when people with different backgrounds work together, the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. As a mission critical engineer I have been working for Schuberg Philis for the past seven years. My... Read More →
Friday April 11, 2014 3:50pm - 4:20pm PDT
Confluence A
