It has long been debated whether OpenStack is production ready. In this session you will learn how a major bank has gone to production with more than 5000 VMs that delivered the results of a 40% decrease in cost, reduced deployment time to hours not weeks, 56 new technologies introduced, 7 new platforms launched - all in under a year. Learn how their platform built on Rackspace and RHEL, coupled with best of breed open source tooling - SaltStack, Jenkins, Cloudify, and Nexus are the enablers for production-grade OpenStack. http://sched.co/7fH1

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Running In Production

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Introduction..
• Open Source advocate for the past 10 years.
• Actively involved with OpenStack since its
inception..
• CTO & Founder GigaSpaces
The leading Hybrid Cloud
Orchestration by
OpenStack users

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What we're not here to discuss..
Is OpenStack
ready for
production?

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But rather discuss...
How to plan your hybrid cloud strategy with OpenStack.
How to manage your application on a hybrid OpenStack
environment.
The lessons are based on real enterprise customer
experience:
● 5000 VMs delivered
● Reduced deployment time to hours not weeks,
● Enabling the introduction of 56 new technologies
● Enabling the launch of 7 new platforms launched
All in under a year!

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Agenda
● Expectation vs. reality of a typical
enterprise cloud journey
● Walkthrough the specific use case of
large bank
● Walkthrough of a typical enterprise app
through a live demo

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Typical Drivers for Enterprise Cloud
Drivers
❑ Multiple Businesses
❑ Aggressive Growth
❑ Transactional Focus
Consequence
❑ Vendor Centric
❑ Very Diverse
❑ Highly Custom
❑ Little Re-use
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Objective
❑ Commodity / Standard
❑ Self-serve / Automation
❑ Increased Agility
❑ Lower Cost
Faster, Better, Cheaper

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Typical Start of An Enterprise Cloud Journey..
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Often Starts with
High Ambitions

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The Reality Is Far More Complex
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Your apps
sucks,
rewrite!
No More
VMware!
Dockerize
your entire
data center
Private Cloud
is Dead!
We’ll Solve
all Your
problems..

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Lessons 1: You’re Not Google or Facebook
Set your expectations to fit your organization’s reality.

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Facing the IT Silos Reality
The OpenStack Silo
OpenStack is part of a bigger hybrid
cloud environment but there’s no
common way to manage them
The Application Silo
Each application stack is managed
differently
IaaS

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The Orphan Child Phenomenon
Most cloud strategy is
centered around the new
and cool stuff e.g.
containers ...
REALITY CHECK: The
majority of the enterprise
workloads are being
ignored!

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The Cloud Native Stack Dilution
The future isn’t going to be
any brighter...
IaaS

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Lessons 2: Embrace Change
It’s a world of plenty
The technology stack is going
to keep on changing at an
even faster pace.
You need a way to keep up
with the change and adopt
new technologies fast.

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Learning from the Amazon Approach
Amazon learned how to offer any software stack fast!

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Orchestration To The Rescue
Provision
ConfigureMonitor
Manage
Orchestration Engine
Hybrid Stack Hybrid Cloud
IaaS

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Which Orchestration Tool Fits Best?
Provision
ConfigureMonitor
Manage
Orchestration Engine

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The Bank Choice
Provision
ConfigureMonitor
Manage
Orchestration Engine

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So, What Did
the Bank End
Up Doing?

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The Bank Architecture Principles
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■ Componentized
– Best of Breed
– Iterative
– Works on-cloud and off-cloud
■ Open Source
– Searchable
– Community
■ Standards Based
– TOSCA

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Cloud Strategy Goes Beyond a Technology Choice
Technology keeps on
changing.
Cloud strategy also
involves:
- Culture change
- Vendor/partner
relationships
- Getting rid of (many)
old habits...
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Clouds on average per
enterprise
The technology stack shifted dramatically between 2015 and 2016

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Those Days Are Long Gone

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Rely on a Big Vendor ?
Disruption is everywhere!
Big vendors are fighting for their right to exist...

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Lesson 3 - Partnership vs. Outsourcing
Outsourcing comes with a high toll
• There's isn’t a single vendor solution
• Outsourcing comes with vendor
lock-in and lack of agility!
• Conclusion:
• You still need to be at the driving seat
• Manage partnership vs. outsourcing
Partnership
• Best of breed approach
• Learn to partner with many
• Learn to work with startups
Partner

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The Selected Partners
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Dedicated, Forward Thinking.
Open, Pure Play Orchestration.
Maturing TOSCA Tools.
Biggest Hosting Provider.
Creators of OpenStack.
Changed their Business Model for us, x3
RHEL OSP Service.
Canadian Marketplace.
On-premises Private Cloud.
Very Niche, Very Technical
Injection of Expertise; Culture Change

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Start
It’s not as hard as it may sound...

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Demo Time..
● LAMP/Java Application
on Hybrid OpenStack
VMware
● Cloud Native Stack with
Kubernetes on a Hybrid
Cloud
Hybrid Stack on Hybrid Cloud
Orchestration To The Rescue
Provision
ConfigureMonitor
Manage
Orchestration Engine
Hybrid Stack Hybrid Cloud
IaaS

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Hybrid Cloud Deployment of LAMP and Java Stack

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Deploying Legacy Applications
Drush
CLI
REST
Web UI
Manager
• Deploy, configure, monitor, heal
and scale a CMS or any other
legacy application.
• Perform Day-2 Operations on any
live environment and any live
legacy application.
• Examples: Apply patches, invoke
security updates etc.

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Deploying an App on OpenStack and VMware
• Managing the same
application across VMware
and OpenStack
• Node.js on OpenStack
• MongoDB on VMware
• Runs Nodecellar
NodeCellar App

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Managing Cloud Native Apps/Hybrid Stack
• Deploy Kubernetes on any cloud
• Auto-scale Kubernetes
(Between Private/Public)
• Orchestrate microservices and
non-microservices applications
• Service composition and
deployment

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Summary - The Bank Cloud Strategy
■ Transform
– Clear Strategy and Roadmap
– Focused Service Execution
– Cloud First Policy
■ Partner
– Sell the Benefits
– Train Federated Technology Team
– Enable Teams
■ Sustain
– Sponsor
– Portfolio Analysis
– Measured Migration
● 5000 VMs
● 40% decrease in cost
● Reduced deployment time to hours
not weeks
● 56 new technologies introduced
● 7 new platforms
● Fully implemented in under a year.

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Final Quiz
• How did we get to 40% cost
reduction?
• Convert everything to containers?
• Move all our apps to public cloud?
• Focus on greenfield apps only?
• Automate your existing and cloud
native apps on private or public cloud?

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“It is not the strongest
of the species that
survives, It is the one
that is most adaptable
to change.”
-Charles Darwin

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Where Do I Go From Here?
Academy
Try Hybrid Cloud in Practice Through
the Cloudify Academy..

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