1. CO L L A B O R AT I O N
O P E N S O U RC E P ROJ EC T S W I T H YO U R
C LO U D STAC K E N V I RO N M E N T, A N D M Y
L ES S O N S L EA R N E D A LO N G T H E WAY

2. WHO AM I?
 Brian Bullard– Director of
IT/Systems Architect
 5th Planet Games
 Systems Engineer/Software
development background

3. 5 T H P L A N E T G A M ES
 Founded in 2010.
 5th Planet Games brings together
talent in an effort to produce fun
and addictive, immersive, engaging
social games (MMO,RPG,CCG’s)
for mobile and web

4. D ES C E N T I N TO AW S I A A S
Employees
 1 system admin/engineer
 1 Game designer/CEO
 1 Game developer/CEO
 Office =
May 2010 “Dawn of the dragons”
 2 ec2 servers
 1 RDS AWS MYSQL server

5. 2 ½ Y EA RS L AT E R A N D M A N Y L ES S O N S
L EA R N E D
Present day Games Resources
 Dawn of the dragons  25 EC2 servers
 Clash of the dragons  1 CDN endpoint
 Legacy of a thousand suns  10 Database servers
 3 Physical servers
 Legacy of heroes
Office:
 45 Employees
Platforms
 Armor Games
 Kongregate
 Facebook
 Kabam
 newgrounds

6. C LO U D STAC K TO T H E R ES C U E
 User controlled firewall with security groups.
 Private/public resource segregation
 Cost savings for our test/dev environments
 Local/shared storage on demand using opens source solutions with CS API.
 Backups using snapshotting
 Ability to consolidate zone resources.
 Scalable architecture
 HA
 Broad hypervisor support if needed
 Variety of configurations to scale
 Automating our private and public IAAS

7. C LO U D STAC K S E T U P
Zone-West Zone-East
1 Management server 1 Management server
2 host servers (32 GB 3 host servers – KVM
RAM 8 Core) – KVM 1 shared secondary
1 shared secondary and primary storage
and primary storage (5
TB RAID10)
(In progress)
Amazon RDS
RDS
MSQL database
Amazon

8. M O N I TO R I N G A N D AU TO M AT I O N
 Use event triggering, Chef/Puppet with monitoring environment. (Nagios-event-handlers,
Zenoss Triggers) along with Zenoss Cloudstack zenpack to monitor VM’s
A M A ZO N A N D C LO U D STAC K
 Amazon EC2 Compatibility for unified API calls
 Cloudbridge is now built into the management server in 4.0
 S3 Compatibility (Swift,Glusterfs) using s3 clients
 Migrate to and from EC2 with minimal effort

9. M A N AG I N G YO U R C LO U D S
Y O U C A N N O W M A N A G E M U LT I P L E C L O U D S – P R I V AT E A N D
PUBLIC
S C A L R F E AT U R E S
 Setup autoscaling for yours infrastructure based on CPU,RAM, IO or your own custom metric
 Chef support – Scalr fully integrates with chef
 Handles master-slave replicaion backups and failover for MYSQL, MongoDB, PostgresSQL and
Redis
 Manage your Cloudstack IAAS, plus any public cloud instances from one place
 Configure autoscale rules for your server farms that fits your need
 Broad server import support
 Openstack and Hp Cloud support soon

10. M A N AG I N G YO U R C LO U D S

11. M A N AG I N G YO U R C LO U D S

12. OW N C LO U D STO R AG E
O W N C L O U D L E T S Y O U E A S I LY V I E W & S Y N C Y O U R D ATA ,
C O N TA C T S , C A L E N D A R S A N D B O O K M A R K S A C R O S S A L L
DEVICES.
O W N C L O U D F E AT U R E S
 External Storage (Local filesystem, FTP, Webdav, Swift, S3, Dropbox, Google and SMB)
 File sharing and data syncing
 LDAP/AD support
 File versioning
 File password encyption
 Drag and drop functionality
 Calendar and tasks sharing

13. OW N C LO U D STO R AG E
U P C O M I N G F E AT U R E S
 Webmail client
 Overhauled encryption system (server side and client side)
 RSS reader app
 Desktop file management

14. H OW W E A R E U S I N G OW N C LO U D
 Scale out and append storage on demand as needed
 calendar and tasks sharing in one unified location
 Share multiple mount points to users/groups /projects
 Synced/versioning files make it easy to work in any environment and on the go
 Multiple Apps support using (IOS and Android)
 Looking into using S3 storage solutions and Owncloud

15. U LT EO
OPENSOURCE ENTERPRISE VIRTUAL DESKTOP AND
A P P L I C AT I O N D E L I V E R Y
U LT E O F E AT U R E S
 Split linux and/or windows application delivery
 Share local printers, drives, network shares, USB sticks, sound support, copy-paste.
 Seamless access to documents from both Linux & Windows applications!
 Easy to deploy and scale with Cloudstack
 User and group level control over applications and shares

16. OPEN SOURCE VDI
SOLUTION

17. OPEN SOURCE VDI
SOLUTION

18. LO O K I N G A H EA D
 Look into PAAS solutions such as Stackato and Cloud
Foundry for auto scaling application servers
 Build easier and better automation around monitoring
 Empower the developers to use the powerful API at their
fingertips
 Unify our API’s as well as we can on one layer to avoid
vendor lock in

19. L ES S O N S L EA R N E D
 Read the administrator guide
 Watch the management/agent/hypervisor logs to troubleshoot issues .
 Learn the role that the systemVM, SSVM and Virtual router play and how they communicate.
“http://xmodulo.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-to-log-in-to-system-vms-in.html
 Hang out in the #cloudstack irc channel and join the Cloudstack incubator list.
 Understand the virtual router and it’s role with cloudstack
http://blogs.clogeny.com/understanding-the-redundant-virtual-router-in-citrix-cloudplatform/
 Check out cloud podcasts, and follow companies on twitter to keep up on current events.
 Decide what works best for your environment and plan for the future growth.
 Devcloud is an awesome resource for testing and devlopment
http://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/develop/environment.html
 Attend BACD and related webinars. And check out the cloudstack youtube channel
http://www.youtube.com/user/cloudstack
 Build several configurations and test which one best fits your situation
 Check out the cloudstack IRC channel @irc.freenode.net is one of thebest resources available

20. CO N TAC T I N FO +
Brian Bullard
bbullard@5thplanetgames.com
Twitter: @bullardo 14 followers and growing
Bullardo MIRC #cloudstack
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