Easy applications

deployment on
OpenStack clouds
Giovanni Toraldo, lead developer @ ClouDesire

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Who we are
ClouDesire is a tech startup based in Pisa, that
has developed a Cloud Application
Marketplace.
Giovanni Toraldo is the lead developer of
ClouDesire, an Open Source Enthusiast with
Super Cow Powers, PHP/Java/whatever
developer, #devops
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Once upon a time waterfall model

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Sequential process
Manual testing
Scheduled releases
Hard to deploy
Physical
infrastructures

Nowadays lean, agile, #buzzword

Rapid-changing
requirements
Faster iterations
Automated testing
Disposable cloud
resources
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Focus on infrastructure risks

A jungle of IaaS providers, multiple API
dialects.
Different environments for each application:
development, staging, production.
Environments grow fast as the app
requirements.
Server configurations should be tested, too.
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Lets start to aim the target

We need to...
manage infrastructure with code
define infrastructure as code
version infrastructure as code
test infrastructure as code
do it faster and more often. Continuously.
Automate all the things!
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Universal Cloud API

JClouds is a Java/Clojure open-source library
that provides an abstraction layer between
multiple cloud resources.
http://jclouds.apache.org/

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Hate Java?
Dont worry, similar OSS projects exists:
Fog.io (Ruby) http://fog.io/
Libcloud (Python) https://libcloud.apache.
org/
Deltacloud (agnostic) http://deltacloud.
apache.org/

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Automated Infrastructure
Stop thinking about servers and start to
model services and resources
Infrastructure as a code
Build reusable components to manage
resources
Integration Testing

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Automated Infrastructure - Opscode Chef

Opscode Chef http://www.getchef.com/
Chef relies on reusable definitions known as
cookbooks and recipes that are written in
Ruby.
Cookbooks and recipes automate common
infrastructure tasks.
Chef applies those definitions to servers to
produce an automated infrastructure.
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Lets merge things together...

Deployer
+
JClouds

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VM

Configure app stack

VM

Provisioning
Lifecycle

OpenStack API

Deploy
Web
Panel

JSON REST API

Chef
recipes

VM
VM

Try ThreeHops!
http://threehops.cloudesire.com
5 active deployments free
Compatible with multiple OpenStack cloud
providers:
Enter Cloud Suite
HP Cloud
Rackspace (coming soon!)
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Thank you!
Follows us on Twitter: @cloudesire @gionn

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