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“Automating Cloud Factories w/ new opensource software” An open source story

@mike_ainsworth

PRESENTATION TOPICS

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Intro1

Open… for business!2

Open Scalability 3

Wait a minute…

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Who is Mike Ainsworth?

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I started as a hobbyist

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Career Snapshot…

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15 yrs Enterprise Information Systems & Security Educator, Consultant, Researcher, & Evangelist !

Altiris, Symantec, AppSense, Venafi !

SaltStack !

(wait… I’m starting to see a pattern here)

Career Snapshot…

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Open Opportunity

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A different business perspective

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ValueClosed Source

Open Source

A different business perspective

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Value

Software License

Closed Source

Open Source

A different business perspective

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Value

Software License

Utility + Exclusivity

Closed Source

Open Source

A different business perspective

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Value

Software License

Utility + Exclusivity

Subscription License

Closed Source

Open Source

A different business perspective

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Value

Software License

Utility + Exclusivity

Subscription License

Utility + Enablement

Closed Source

Open Source

!• Tuned and curated software release !• “Hand-in-glove” relationships

• Delivering real value to customers

• Helping them solve real problems

Open for Business

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Some Background on the Project

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• Project Officially Launched February 2011

Some Background on the Project

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• Project Officially Launched February 2011

• Massive Development Community Backing

Some Background on the Project

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• Project Officially Launched February 2011

• Massive Development Community Backing

• #8 2012 GitHub Octoverse behind OpenStack Nova

Some Background on the Project

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• Project Officially Launched February 2011

• Massive Development Community Backing

• #8 2012 GitHub Octoverse behind OpenStack Nova

• SaltStack already established player in Cloud Management / Config Management market

Some Background on the Project

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Open Building Blocks

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• Python

Open Building Blocks

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• Python

• ZeroMQ

Open Building Blocks

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• Python

• ZeroMQ

• M2Crypto

Open Building Blocks

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• Python

• ZeroMQ

• M2Crypto

• YAML

Open Building Blocks

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• Python

• ZeroMQ

• M2Crypto

• YAML

• Jinja

Open Building Blocks

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• Python

• ZeroMQ

• M2Crypto

• YAML

• Jinja

• MsgPack

Open Building Blocks

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Harnessing the Power of Community

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#8 2012 GitHub Octoverse

Harnessing the Power of Community

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#8 2012 GitHub Octoverse

Everybody Wins

Salt manages both State (configuration)…. ….and Flow (orchestration)

For context… a little about Salt

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• Web-scale application stack deployment • Continuous deployment, release automation, application healing • Configuration management:

o Language agnostic o Simple & flexible: YAML default & Jinja templates o Data driven, extremely fast o Declarative or imperative o Configure packages, services, files and users o More than 100 built-in state modules, or easily create them o State modules wrap execution modules

SALT STATE

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• Fast infrastructure mgmt & remote system automation

• Real-time system data and status monitoring • Any cloud provisioning and orchestration • Private cloud deployment and management • Virtual machine automation • IT process automation • Asynchronous, parallel execution • More than 200 built-in execution modules

available, or easily create them

SALT FLOW

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Defining the Problem

• Agile Dev cycles faster than ever

• Operations accruing “Technical Debt”

• Need for automation to improve efficiency

• Minimize Learning Curve

• Need for Agnostic System Administration

Public/Private cloud diversity…

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…and application stacks like snowflakes

Modules and Drivers, the power behind Salt’s data-driven execution….

Execution Modules, State Modules & Cloud Drivers… Oh My!

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Modules and Drivers, the power behind Salt’s data-driven execution….

Execution Modules, State Modules & Cloud Drivers… Oh My!

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Modules and Drivers, the power behind Salt’s data-driven execution….

Execution Modules, State Modules & Cloud Drivers… Oh My!

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Build, Maintain and QA Leverage

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How to Build, and Maintain Module and Driver libraries? !Hire an army of developers, qa engineers and product managers…. Or…

Build, Maintain and QA Leverage

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Tap the power of the Community

SaltStack: Speed & Scalability

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Open Source: ideas that Scale

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@mike_ainsworth

Thank You