Trystack.org: The Free, Public OpenStack Sandbox

Will FosterSr. DevOps MonkeyOpenStack R&D Infrastructurehttp://hobo.house / @sadsfae

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TryStack?What is

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✔ Free, Public OpenStack Sandbox

✔ Incepted in 2011, revamped/moved in 2015

✔ Sponsored by OpenStack Foundation

✔ Hardware/Resources Donated by Corporate Sponsors

✔ Volunteer/Community Operated

What

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✔ Try OpenStack without any commitment

✔ Remove complexity of deployment

✔ Increase usage/adoption of OpenStack

✔ Showcase latest OpenStack features

Why

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✔ Old Equinix datacenter deployment dissapeared

✔ Complete revamp/re-deployment in new DC

✔ New hardware, version (Kilo at the time)

2015 Revamp

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Oops, better hustle

• Colo hosting payment moved from Rackspace to OpenStack Foundation• Bill wasn't paid :(

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✔ Hosted in East Coast U.S. Datacenter

✔ /24 Public IP address space

✔ ½ Rack of Dell C6105 Servers

✔ Netapp FAS2552 (C-Mode)

✔ Cisco Catalyst 2948G Switches

✔ 9 x Nova Compute✔ 144 vCPU✔ 864G Memory

Where and How

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I think this one fixed Neutron once

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‣ Devstack

‣ Academia/Education

‣ Cloud App Testing

‣ RDO CI

‣ Manila Upstream Development (Netapp)

TryStack Use Cases

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AVG DAILY INSTANCES AVG MONTHLY INSTANCES Current Active Networks

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Usage and MetricsAs of 2016-02-05 @ 20:00 CET

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Usage and Metrics

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✔ Puppet (config mgmt)

✔ Graphite / Grafana / Collectd(graphing/trending)

✔ ELK Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana

(log aggregation)

✔ Nagios (monitoring)

Common Ops Tooling

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Custom Nagios Monitoring

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✔ Floating IPs ● Purged every 12hrs

✔ Network Gateways● Cleared every 24hrs

✔ Cinder Volumes● Purged every 48hrs

✔ Instances● Deleted every 24hrs

House Cleaning

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House Cleaning

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✔ Trystack.org Website Content ● Managed via upstream CI & Gerrit processes● Automatically merged once reviewed

✔ Service Alerting● Tied into IRC bots for notifications

Further Automation

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Demand and Growth

Dozens of people sign up every day, small volunteer effort

Security

Free, public cloud can lead to some 'interesting' usage

Rationing of Resources

We never seem to have enough resources to keep up with demand, e.g. floating IP space, so culling is needed

Open Bugs with Facebook Auth

Workarounds in place, small percentage of user accounts won't be auto-created correctly – hasten move to openstackid auth

Challenges Cloud be hard, pal

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Nextgen Auth Switch to openstackid as primary auth

Better Monitoring

Extend monitoring to cover all internal utility services

More Public Service Info

Expose usage graphing externally for more transparency

Networking Expand current public address pool to /23 or larger

Hardware Expand the hardware footprint significantly

Volunteer Community

Develop framework to expand volunteers and contributions to the project

More Improvements Underway

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More Routine Updates‣ Strive to upgrade on every RDO OpenStack release

Expand Hardware in Q1-Q2 FY17‣ Upgrade to Juniper EX4300 switches‣ Expand Server Footprint (+6-10 compute nodes)‣ Expand Floating IP Pool (move to a /23)

Expand Authentication Options‣ Move to openstackid (oath2) for primary auth‣ Facebook Auth as fallback/secondary

TryStack Roadmap

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Founders/Alumnus‣ Dan Radez @radez‣ Nachi Ueno @nati

Current Team ‣ Kambiz Aghaiepour @kaghaiepour‣ Will Foster @sadsfae‣ Ben Swartzlander (Manila PTL) @bswartzlander

‣ #trystack on irc.freenode.net

TryStack Devs/Operators

OpenStack Demo(using humans)

Questions?

https://github.com/trystack/trystack-utilshttps://github.com/trystack/trystack-collectdhttps://github.com/trystack/python-django-horizon-facebook

IRC: #trystack on irc.freenode.nethttp://trystack.org