devops summit 2014 - swiss private school chooses openstack for security and sovereignty
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Myles Steinhauser - @masteinhauser – Booth 711
November 4th, 2014
Swiss Private School Chooses OpenStack for Security and Sovereignty
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Hi, I’m Myles I work at Blue Box building PCaaS
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OpenStack Software Engineer Hi, I’m Myles
§ Autodidact § Passionate About:
§ Distributed Systems § DevOps § Feedback Loops § Learning
§ Twitter § @masteinhauser
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What is Private Cloud as a Service?
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What is private cloud as a service?
Public Cloud
§ Pros § Virtually unlimited resources § Infrastructure as a Service § Pay as you go, expand when you need
§ Cons § Multi-Tenant all the way down § Security can be complex § Compliance can be expensive § Variable performance § When it goes down, many are impacted
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What is private cloud as a service?
Private Cloud
§ Pros § On premises
§ highly controlled environment and access § Dedicated staff or consulting firm for support § Full control over hardware and infrastructure
§ Cons § On premises
§ Associated overhead and knowledge needs § Usage forecasting § Expense modeling § Compliance can be expensive
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What is private cloud as a service?
Private Cloud as a Service - PCaaS
PCaaS is the best of both worlds § Pros
§ Dynamic infrastructure § Single-tenant with multi-tenant support, controlled by you § Single contact point for all concerns § Consume similar to Public Cloud but with more control
§ Cons § Dynamic is not the same as Instant § It might be more difficult to watch all of the blinking lights
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What is Leysin American School?
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What is leysin American school?
§ Private boarding school in French-speaking Switzerland § 400 students - 8th-12th grade level § ‘American’ - founded to service ex-pats who had relocated to
Switzerland who need a English-speaking school for children § Clientele has shifted to more world-wide student body over the
last few years
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What problem is Leysin solving?
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What problem is leysin solving?
Problems and Mindset
§ Experiencing unreliable infrastructure § Compute § Networking
§ Started focusing on innovation while solving these problems § Hired a DevOps engineer
§ “With the innovations that we anticipate, how do we automate things and make it so it’s faster, consistent and resilient?”
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What options did leysin consider?
Existing Solution
§ 3 bare metal nodes § ESX cluster § Expensive VMware licensing § Service provider is also providing network architecture
§ Core strength as ISP and colocation provider
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What options did leysin consider?
Existing Solution - Problems
§ ESX not providing a cost-effective approach § VMware contracts § Dell contracts
§ Chef and other automation not greatly supported § Service provider “not great at customer support” § Trying to move into a new data center § Already going to pull in a third party vendor to handle
OpenStack § Seemed unnecessarily complicated and an internal burden
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What options did leysin consider?
New Solution - Goals
§ Find a Managed Services Provider (MSP) that was a better support match
§ Cloud design and technology § Instant provisioning and de-provisioning § Highly automation driven § Deep insight when needed § As Self-Service as possible
§ Switzerland data and support locality
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What options did leysin consider?
New Solution – Options
§ Public Cloud § AWS § Rackspace § “Never occurred to us to consider private cloud or PCaaS”
§ OpenStack § Appealing because no vendor lock-in § Open Source § Seeing the Community at work within OpenStack and supporting tools
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What options did leysin consider?
Why did Leysin choose Blue Box?
§ Impressed by communication § Shown high importance during sales and outreach § Others conveyed fanatical support
§ Already experiencing that with Blue Box § “When I have a question, it’s really great to be able to ask someone.
It’s a huge help.”
§ Blue Box § OpenStack and attractive price point § Met our need and size easily § Already had a Switzerland data center
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Educational and security-focused
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Educational and security-focused
§ Data Locality and Protection Laws § Customer data breaches and alerting § Data encryption and privacy § Access controls § Safe Harbor Certification
§ Healthcare Compliance § HIPAA § HITECH
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OpenStack Advantages
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Openstack advantages
§ Not all Sunshine and Rainbows § Difficult to deploy § Many moving pieces and complex relationships § Fast paced development cycle and bi-annual releases
§ Huge Community of contributors § Many organizations and corporate backing § Many individual contributors
§ Market data shows OpenStack has won Open Source cloud race
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Openstack advantage
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Why Blue Box?
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Why blue box?
§ Contributing upstream to OpenStack § LBaaS (Octavia) § Cross vendor validation (RefStack) § Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic) § Many other supporting tools
§ Eleven years of experience § Operating data centers § Managed Hosting customers § OpenVZ Containers § Dedicated hosting § Support always available
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