opennebulaconf 2014 - practical experiences with opennebula for cloudifying a saas - tim verhoeven

Practical experiences

with OpenNebula for

cloudifying a SaaS

Tim Verhoeven – [email protected]

December 4th 2014

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Introduction

My world before OpenNebula

My world today (with OpenNebula)

My world in the future (hopefully)

Contents

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Infrastructure Architect

• Starting playing with Linux & Open Source in school

• Made my job out of it

• Specialized in IT Infrastructure

Introduction

Tim Verhoeven

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Deloitte

• One of the big 4

• Belgium: +/- 2500 employees

• Consulting division

• Information Management

Introduction

Deloitte Consulting


Introduction

AMS for Analytics


ERP CRM HRM Misc

ETL

Data

mart

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mart

Data Warehouse

Semantic Layer

Reporting Dashboarding Forecasting

Application Management Service for Analytical Applications

• Manage complete Analytics application stack for customers

• Only technical aspects, not functional

• Upgrades, bugs, performance issues, monitoring, maintenance, …

• Small team

• At a customer or …

Introduction

AMS for Analytics


My world before

OpenNebula



Deloitte Analytics Platform


DMZ

Data Warehouse storage

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Issues with this static setup

• Does not scale

• Not efficient in its use of resources

• Not flexible

• No automation

New customers and applications

New hardware

• New DWH database cluster

• New “big” Blades


Change is in the air…


My world today


Deloitte Analytics Platform 2.0 – Our vision

My world today


Planning

(TM1)

Customer Data Sources

Managem

ent

Stuctured data warehouse(SQL, Excell, CSV, …)

Unstuctured data warehouse(Hadoop, Shares, …)

Reporting

(Cognos)

Mining

(SPSS)

Vizualize

(Qlikview)

Analytics

(…) …

Secured Internet Access + Portal

DLP ETL

Clie

nt D

irect A

ccess

•Flexible

•Secure

•Automated

•Scalable

•Monitored

•Redundant

Datawarehouse DB

• PostgreSQL

• Big Data?

Security

• OpenLDAP

• SELinux

Networking

• OpenvSwitch

• OpenFlow

My world today

Selection of tools

Management

• Puppet

• Foreman

• OpenNebula

Storage

• GPFS

DMZ

• Haproxy


My world today

Why OpenNebula?

Open Source

Enterprise minded

CentOS packaging

Not enforcing an platform

Works with stock CentOS hosts

Flexible & Extensible

Easy to hack & debug


Interface to public clouds

State/Automation engine (OneFlow)

Fancy GUI

OpenvSwitch support

Broad storage support

Stable release cycle

Deloitte Analytics Platform 2.0 – The Reality

My world today


My world in the future


Replace by new?

Move to a public cloud?


Forces driving change


Hardware End-of-Life

At customer

To reduce latency

Cross-datacenter

Multiple DAP Instances

Analytics Lab

Innovation client center

More focus on Analytics

Company internal opportunities

Deloitte Analytics Platform 3.0


Further automation

Orchestration

Scale out

Black box

Host other environments

• Sandboxes

• Demo’s, PoC

• Other teams not specialized


Build Dev & Prod environments (for everything)

Test new releases

• Changes in behaviour

• New features

Read the release notes

Do no directly build your production setup

Do not forget acpid



Lessons learned

Online scaling of VM resources (with KVM)

PostgreSQL support

OpenvSwitch rules blocks VIP’s

Support of Virtual/Service IP address concept

Still missing, issues, …

Questions?


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