OpenStack Overview

Shannon McFarland CCIE #5245

Principal Engineer Cloud and Virtualization Group
@eyepv6

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Agenda

9:009:30 a.m. - Registration and Tech Expo

9:3010:30 a.m- Introduction to SDN
10:3011:30 a.m.- SDN Protocols and Controllers Part One
11:30 a.m.12:00- p.m.- Lunch and Tech Expo
12:001:00 p.m.- SDN Protocols and Controllers Part Two
1:001:45 p.m.- SDN and Splunk
1:452:45 p.m.- What's New with OpenStack
2:453:00 p.m.- Wrap Up

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 What is OpenStack?
Common Use Cases
OpenStack Participation
Deployment Summary
OpenStack + SDN

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What is OpenStack?

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OpenStack is a collection of open source

technologies delivering a massively scalable
cloud operating system - openstack.org

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Icehouse April 2014

Havana October 2013
Grizzly April 2013
Folsom Sept 2012

2012

2011

2013

2015

2014

Essex April 2012

Diablo September 2011
Catus April 2011

Kilo April 2015

Bexar Feb 2011

Austin Oct 2010

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Core Projects Shown

Compute

Storage

Dashboard

Identity

Networking

Nova

Image, Object, Block

Horizon

Keystone

Neutron

- Houses VMs
- API driven
- Support for multihypervisors

Glance, Swift, Cinder

- Web app for controlling

OpenStack resources

- Instance/VM image storage

- Cloud object storage

- Self-service portal

- Persistent block level

storage

- Networking as a service
- Multiple models

- RBAC
- Ext. integration (LDAP)

- IP address mgmt.
- Plugins to external HW

Telemetry

Orchestration

Database

Ceilometer

Heat

Trove

- Central collection point

- Metering and monitoring

- Centralized policies
- Tenant mgmt.

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- Template-based
orchestration engine
- More rapid deployment of
applications

-DBaaS
-Single-tenant DB within
instance

Data Processing
Sahara

New!

- Fast provisioning of
Hadoop clusters

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Reference

PTL Juno Summary:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKqaoAnDyfgqpX5f3PCuOgsDm-_UJu2aU
Nova

NFV

Improvements in live upgrades (introduced in Icehouse)

http://blog.russellbryant.net/2014/07/07/juno-preview-for-openstack-compute-nova/

Heat

Rollback

non-Admin resource creation

http://www.zerobanana.com/archive/2014/07/10#heat-juno-update

Neutron

Distributed Virtual Router

L3 HA

New LBaaS API

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Common Use Cases

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 OpenStack, at least today, is targeted at hosting modern day distributed applications written for the cloud
This isnt your grandpas server virtualization platform built for individual VM HA/Mobility
Proof-of-Concept environment to work out CI/CD

A place to research, learn and test CI/CD processes

PoC web applications along with practicing the new DevOps methodology

A place to learn the whole cloud deployment framework, document, train, move to production

Host traditional development environments

Using the lessons learned in the sandbox phase:

Build Dev, QA and production environments
Apply CI/CD processes
Slow-role Web application deployment either on standard OpenStack or in conjunction with a PaaS deployment

Data Processing environments Big Data clusters, etc..

Training systems Cheap and fast to build and tear down for each class
Revenue generating applications Vertical applications (only if the app doesnt care much about VMlevel HA)
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http://docs.openstack.org/userguide/content/user-data.html

Boot the
Instance

nova boot --user-data ./cloud-config-puppet.txt --image

precise-x86_64 --flavor m1.tiny --key_name ctrl-key -nic net-id=42823c88-bb86-4e9a-9f7b-ef1c0631ee5e salesweb-01!

- Cloud-init for Puppet/Chef/etc..

- Image already has agent/script

Rinse &
Repeat

Config
Management

# Nodes for web server instances

node 'sales-web-01' {
include lamp
}

root@build-server:~# tree /etc/puppet/modules/lamp/

/etc/puppet/modules/lamp/
files

App is
Deployed

apache2.conf

index.php

php5.conf

manifests
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init.pp
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Heat provides you a way to deploy resources (network, router, loadbalancer, VM and applications) all from a template
Today, Heat orchestrates resources inside a tenant space
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Heat
http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/
OpenShift_Origin_Heat_Deployment_Guide
http://blog.scottlowe.org/2014/05/01/an-introduction-to-openstack-heat/
https://github.com/shmcfarl/my-heat-templates
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OpenStack
Participation

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 Choice
There

is no one-size fits all option for cloud computing Amazon or VMware are cool but not the
be all/end all solution

There

is no single vendor who can fill all needs of a cloud stack You will likely engage with
multiple partners

Community
Open

Source

Community
Better

driven Individual, organizational

time-to-market and faster feature velocity

Commercialization
Start

with the baseline OpenStack components

Vendor

opportunities for value-add integration on top of OpenStack baseline

Design, deployment, automation, operation, high-availability, applications, etc

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Engineering

Community

Neutron Network Service

Horizon Dashboard

Cisco Product Integration

Keystone Identity

Nexus Plugins Neutron

Swift Object Storage

UCS

Ceph/Cinder Block Storage

CSR/ASR

Automation PuppetLabs

HA Design

Co-developed solutions (Red

Hat, Canonical, SUSE)

Cisco Designs on specific releases in beachhead

accounts
Start simple, build from there Focus on automation and
HA
Evangelization of what Cisco is doing - Thought Leadership
Help customers know What, When, Where & How
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Reference

Cisco.com OpenStack: http://www.cisco.com/web/solutions/openstack/index.html

Red Hat:

UCSO:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/OpenStack/UCSO/Starter/1-0/
UCSO.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/solutions/Enterprise/Data_Center/OpenStack/RHEL-UCS/Red-HatOpenstack-Platform-UCS.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/ucs_rhos.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/products/collateral/switches/nexus-7000-series-switches/
wp_openstack.pdf

http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/unified-fabric/solution-briefc22-729865.pdf

Ubuntu:
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/td/docs/unified_computing/ucs/UCS_CVDs/
ucs_ubuntu.pdf
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Reference

Red Hat OpenStack (RHOS/RDO) PackStack and Foreman/Staypuft:

http://www.redhat.com/openstack/
http://openstack.redhat.com/Main_Page
Spinal Stack: http://spinal-stack.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

Canonical/Ubuntu MAAS and JuJu: http://www.ubuntu.com/cloud

SUSE: https://www.suse.com/products/suse-cloud/features/
Mirantis Fuel: http://software.mirantis.com/main/
Piston Cloud: http://www.pistoncloud.com/
Others

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Reference

Nexus 1000v:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/switches/nexus-1000v-kvm/products-installation-guides-list.html
Nexus 3000 and Higher:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/switches/ps9441/ps11541/data_sheet_c78-727737.html
Cisco Nexus + OpenStack Deployment: http://docwiki.cisco.com/wiki/OpenStack/ML2NexusMechanismDriver
Cisco CSR 1000v:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/routers/csr1000/software/configuration/csr1000Vswcfg/installkvm.html
Cisco ACI with OpenStack:
http://www.cisco.com/c/dam/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/unified-fabric/solution-briefc22-729865.pdf
Cisco APIC driver for OpenStack Neutron ML2:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infrastructure/
guide-c07-732454.html
Group-Based Policy (GBP) for OpenStack:
http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/data-center-virtualization/application-centric-infrastructure/
white-paper-c11-733126.html
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Deployment Summary

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Agg
Layer
Access
Layer

UCS B-Series

Its about the compute, storage

and orchestration/
management tiers

Core
Layer

UCS C-Series

Your existing DC, Internet

Edge and BN architecture
stays the same

Enterprise/ Internet

Services

OpenStack components live

South of the Top-of-Rack
switch

Your apps go largely

unchanged
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AIO
Controller/
Compute/Storage
AIO Controller:
- MySQL, MariaDB, etc
- RabbitMQ, Qpid, etc..
- API Endpoints:
- Keystone
- Glance
- Nova
- Neutron
- Cinder
- Heat
- Swift

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AIO

AIO

Controller

Controller

Compute/
Storage

Compute/
Storage

Compute

Storage

Compute

Storage

Compute

Storage

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Data Center Infrastructure

Spine/Agg Layer

TOR(s)

Infrastructure
Services
SLB

Spine/Agg Layer

OOB

AIO
Controller

TOR(s)

OOB

AIO
Controller

TOR(s)

OOB

AIO
Controller

Build/PXE
Compute

Compute

Compute

DNS

Network
Node(s)

Network
Node(s)

Network
Node(s)

DHCP

Block
Storage

Block
Storage

Block
Storage

Object
Storage

Object
Storage

Object
Storage

Automation

NTP

AIO Controllers:
- Galera/MySQL
- RabbitMQ
- API Endpoints:
- Keystone
- Glance
- Nova
- Neutron
- Cinder
- Heat
- Swift

Logging
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Reference
Data Center Infrastructure
Spine/Agg Layer

TOR(s)

OOB

Galera

TOR(s)

OOB

Galera

Spine/Agg Layer

TOR(s)

OOB

Galera

TOR(s)

OOB

Compute

TOR(s)

TOR(s)

OOB

Compute

OOB

Swift
Proxies

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ

RabbitMQ

Compute

Compute

Object
Storage

API
Endpoints

API
Endpoints

API
Endpoints

Compute

Compute

Object
Storage

Compute

Compute

Compute

Compute

Compute

Object
Storage

Block
Storage

Block
Storage

Block
Storage

Compute

Compute

Block
Storage

Object
Storage

Object
Storage

Object
Storage

Network
Node(s)

Network
Node(s)

Block
Storage

Service Cloud
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Reference

Its the underlay Cloud

Used as a hosting platform for tenant cloud services usually in a large cloud (1000s of instances
with 100-1000s of tenants)
It is an OpenStack deployment that will host (virtually) the OpenStack control functions used by
each tenant
Service Cloud

AIO
Controller

AIO
Controller

AIO
Controller

Tenant 1

Compute

AIO
Controller

AIO
Controller

AIO
Controller

Tenant 2

Compute

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OpenStack + SDN

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4. User Application Layer

Self-provision resources through APIs
Only see virtualized resources

DataBase

App

OS

OS

VM

VM

App
OS
VM

Virtual
Appliance
Virtual
Appliance

Cloud App Developer API

3. OpenStack Cloud Platform Layer

Presents compute and networking virtualization interfaces to
application developers in a multi-tenant environment

Compute
Service
Virtual Servers

Network
Service
Virtual Networks

Storage
Service
Virtual Disks

Plug-In Architecture

Network Mgmt/Cntl API

2. Network Resource and SDN Layer

Resource Virtualization Provisioning, and Management

NX-OS API

SDN API

Other

1. Physical Resource Layer

Networking, Storage and Compute resources
Hardware-based networking services

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 Trends include the movement to or back to private clouds with the design option to
link workloads between various clouds (Public<>Private)
Dont go down the path of OpenStack if your goal is a free alternative to another
server virtualization system Use OpenStack for what OpenStack was built for
OpenStack is for real, but immature in some aspects, especially networking and
upgrades Gaps are closing quickly
Real value-add is not in installation and the basic OpenStack components but
rather on overall system design, DevOps, optimization and scale-out above what a
baseline OpenStack system provides

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Thank you.