exoscale at the CloudStack User Group London - June 26th 2014
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The document provides an overview of exoscale, a cloud computing company based in Switzerland. It summarizes that exoscale offers open cloud computing, including compute instances, object storage, and platform services to deploy applications easily. It also notes that exoscale's datacenters are located in Geneva and offer a tier 3+ infrastructure with ISO certifications for quality and security. Pricing is provided on an hourly basis for compute instances and monthly for storage.
exoscale at the CloudStack User Group London - June 26th 2014
- 1. CloudStack European User Group -‐ London June 26th, 2014
- 2. Short Bio ! Antoine Coetsier – CEO of exoscale – OperaEons of datacenters and websites at scale – 10+ years in service provider business
- 3. ... a IaaS provider and beyond ! Cloud hos5ng based on latest technology § Flexible server and storage infrastructure § Trimmed for performance, intuiEve usability and tooling ! Market place for value added applica5ons § One-‐stop-‐shop to reduce infrastructure complexity for developers and sysadmins exoscale in a nutshell... The safe home for your cloud applicaEons ... with a solid background ! Trust rela5onship with the cloud provider § Started 2011 within VelEgroup § Access to know-‐how, resources and clients ! Swiss company § Proximity to EMEA clients § Swiss data privacy standards 3 99.95% Pla$orm availabilty
- 4. exoscale: a VelEgroup company All over Switzerland 100% ICT needs covered 470+ ICT professionals Cloud Services ICT specialized companies ConsulEng
- 5. exoscale offering overview A one-‐stop-‐shop for developers/sysadmins and business IT 5 Open Cloud Open Cloud Compute Open Cloud Storage Managed Cloud Swiss Support Virtual data center Zones & Networking Market place / add-‐on services ! Vendor backed ! TransiEon product for business IT migraEng to the cloud – Hybrid Cloud ! One-‐stop-‐shop for SaaS companies ! Pure-‐play cloud offering (web-‐based purchase) ! Worldwide market pricing
- 6. Datacenters locaEon: swiss based ! Geneva downtown ! Tier 3+ class ! Interna5onal Carrier hotel ! ISO 9001 quality management and ISO27001 secure access procedure ! Physical hosEng capabiliEes ! Geneva surroundings ! Tier 3+ class ! ReplicaEon site or acEve/acEve ! ISO 9001 quality management and ISO27001 secure access procedure ! Physical hosEng capabiliEes Datacenter 01 Datacenter 02 Summer 2014: new zone in Zurich area
- 7. Open Cloud -‐ Compute
- 8. Open Cloud compute: instances for Devs and Sysadmins ! Direct, simple to use cloud instances for Devs and Sysadmins ! Open – Open source based – Standard API – MulE OS: ! Ease of use – Direct console – Integrated support ! Performance – KVM – Persistent storage and IP – 10 GB networking ! Security features – Security groups – SSH keypair management
- 9. Open Cloud compute: a unique portal ! One comprehensive portal for instance management, support, documentaEon and billing informaEon
- 10. Scalable security Your tenant Internet public IPpublic IP Security group A public IPpublic IP Security group B Controlled Inbound and Outbound traffic
- 11. Open Cloud compute: key Features Topic Open cloud compute Cloud Control System Apache CloudStack Hypervisor KVM Storage Local SAS Storage Admin interface Own provisioning interface Network Security Groups / Public IPs Billing and pricing Hourly aggressive pricing Online payment
- 12. Open Cloud Storage Open Cloud Storage Unique Swiss object storage offering currently in private beta 12 ! Unique object storage offering in Switzerland ! AWS S3 compliant ! Each object is stored in 3 copies ! Focus on performance Object Storage background S3 API unlimited Buckets Objects or files ! Object storage unlike file storage focuses on high performance and unlimited scalability of storage ! Open Sourced under hfp://pithos.io
- 13. Open Cloud -‐ Apps
- 14. Open Cloud apps Rapid applicaEon integraEon and deployement 14 ! PaaS*: Plahorm as a service – Languages – First in Switzerland ! Databases and cache via addons: – SQL – Memcache – .... ! Commit your code – git commit –m –c ‘ready for prod’ ! Push your applicaEon to exoscale apps – exoapp default/myapp push ! Deploy applicaEon – exoapp default/myapp deploy ! Rollback, push new version, a branch ... – Without losing a single user connecEon Standard Typical workflow From development to testing to production right from developer tools
- 15. ApplicaEon scaling Containers can scale horizontally and verEcally 15 ! Advanced features – Custom domain names – hfps or websockets load balancer – SSH connecEon – Log viewing – Buildpacks support
- 16. Open Cloud Compute Open Cloud pricing Flexible and clear pricing structure 16 1) Some extreme combinaEons not possible 2) Memory Hours (128MB container for one hour) Type RAM CPU Monthly price micro 512 MB 1 CHF 14.98 Eny 1’024 MB 1 CHF 26.46 small 2’048 MB 2 CHF 52.38 medium 4’096 MB 2 CHF 82.08 large 8’192 MB 4 CHF 164.16 extra large 16’384 MB 4 CHF 282.42 huge 32’768 MB 8 CHF 552.96 Size Monthly price 10 GB CHF 1.44 50 GB CHF 7.20 100 GB CHF 14.40 200 GB CHF 28.80 400 GB CHF 57.60 Detailed Instance Pricing1 Detailed Root Disk Pricing1 Windows License Pricing Monthly price CHF 18.72 Open Cloud Storage Monthly price: CHF 0.10 / GB Detailed Object Storage Pricing Networking Detailed Network Pricing Type Price in CHF 0.00 / GB out CHF 0.0765 / GB (first 100 GB free) inter-‐zone CHF 0.00 / GB Market place Hourly price CHF 0.01 / MeH Detailed Added Value Pricing PaaS ! Easy and clear pricing structure ! All services are charged on a per minute rate ! Highly compeEEve prices
- 18. Cloud OperaEons at Scale ! service ! infrastructure ! sonware ! people ! Excellence in Datacenter management ! Excellence in OrchestraEon Sonware Development Building blocks Success factors
- 19. Service: Simplicity and Scalability ! Cloudstack based – Great extensibility, easy to plug into – Less clufered than compeEEon ! Basic networking ! Local storage ! KVM hypervisor: SmartOS inspired – Best in class hypervisor. – Diskless and netboot approach. – Avoids resource waste, facilitates upgrades.
- 20. Infrastructure ! ConfiguraEon management ! Visibility ! Build factory ! Remote execuEon ! new machines have roles ! role defines converged configuraEon as sum of components ! each component has an expected normal state and reports it ! no local intervenEon needed Requirements The “Good Ci5zen Contract”
- 21. ConfiguraEon management, why ? ! RepeEEve tasks are boring and cost Eme ! Adding & managing more and more – Quickly if required ! ! Deploy & maintain the same configuraEon everywhere ! Adjust conEnuously ! bafle tested tool ! simple declaraEve DSL to express configuraEon ! fits our component approach well “It is only infrastructure, it does not change” FALSE Puppet Over 3000 commits !
- 22. Therefore we need “good ciEzens” ! A machine should: AutomaEcally deploy itself (Almost) Find its idenEty setngs (name, networks,...) Install the necessary packages for which it was intended Register itself to all tools Live along its peers and respect regulaEons Report to city hall if anything goes wrong
- 23. Visibility vs monitoring ! Monitoring is part of visibility – TradiEonally: service up, CPU, RAM, network & disk I/O ! Are we generaEng business value ? – Need more insight into applicaEon behavior (who using what, ...)
- 24. Trends ! If it moves, graph it ! If it doesn't move, graph it in case it starts moving ! If it breaks once, monitor it ! QuesEon, adapt and modify thresholds conEnuously
- 25. What is different in the cloud ? ! Distributed systems ! Lots of moving parts ! Scale ! Easy tools to quickly assess producEon status required
- 26. Visibility stack: logs, metrics, alerts ! Collectd: light metric generator ! Logstash: Open Source Log collector ! ElasEcSearch: distributed indexing ! Kibana: log search and query ! Riemann: event streaming
- 27. BUILD FACTORY ! over 60 build jobs ! Ees into our code hosEng plahorm ! handled by jenkins ! generates valid and signed Debian repositories ! ensures fast upgrades ! simplifies configuraEon management con5nuous integra5on package repositories
- 28. Looking back 28 ! Cloudstack is a solid foundaEon for a IAAS plahorm – Beware of complex features – The virtual router is not opEmum – Concurrency issues can arise at scale ! There's a bit more to it than just installing cloudstack – Customer management – Real-‐Eme metering and billing – Integrated console – A few other things ... ! Building a sustainable and scalable plahorm on top of cloudstack is possible
- 29. And now?
- 30. My recommendaEons ! Be ready ! 1. Test even if you do not have a business case 2. Make a proof of concept 3. Rent a tenant PROACTIVE REACTIVE
- 31. Thank you for your afenEon ! Contact us +41 58 668 56 00 sales@exoscale.ch ! Follow us @exoscale exoscale code Head Office Lausanne Avenue de Provence 4 CH -‐ 1007 Lausanne Opera5ons: Geneva Rue du Pré de la Fontaine 19 CH -‐ 1217 Meyrin Bern Office Talstrasse 3 CH -‐ 3053 Münchenbuchsee Zurich Office Glaf Tower CH -‐ 8301 Glafzentrum