Extending Openstack Horizon for multi cloud management
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This document discusses customizing the Horizon dashboard to manage multiple cloud environments from a single pane of glass. It provides an overview of Horizon and multi-cloud management tools. The requirements of managing multiple OpenStack environments, public/private clouds, tenants with granular access controls are covered. A demo is shown of a customized Horizon dashboard that supports these requirements along with branding and security customizations. The document also discusses related OpenStack identity federation and cascading features.
Extending Openstack Horizon for multi cloud management
- 1. Extending Horizon for Multi-Cloud Mgmt Krishnakumar Narayanan (Kk), 19/05/2015
- 2. Speaker Profile • Krishnakumar Narayanan (Kk) • Co-Founder & COO at Cloudenablers – a Cloud Technology Services Company based at Chennai, India • At Cloudenablers, take care of Program Management for Cloud Projects/Products • 15+ years of experience in IT Industry • Worked on various domains including Telecom, Retail, Banking & Education
- 3. Agenda 3 • Horizon Overview • Multi-Cloud Environment • Cloud Management Tools • Why Customize Horizon? • Requirements • Brief Demo • How we did it? • Related OpenStack Features • Q & A
- 4. Horizon Overview • Self-Service portal for OpenStack • Provides Management Functions for OpenStack Services – Default: Compute, Storage, Network, Images, Identity – Other Services can be enabled • Provides summary of resources & their states – And lets user to perform actions on resources • Technology – Django framework, Python, AngularJS
- 5. Multi-Cloud Environment in a typical Enterprise ENTERPRISE USERS ON-PREMISE INFRASTRUCTURE CLOUD BROKERAGE PLATFORM Public Cloud Service Provider 1 MANAGEMENT WITH ENTITLEMENTS COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK Public Cloud Service Provider 2 COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK Private Cloud 1 COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK Private Cloud 2 COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK Orchestration Automation Configuration Mgmt Management Provisioning Life Cycle Mgmt Scaling rules Security policies Public Cloud 1 COMPUTE STORAGE NETWORK Monitoring Event Management Log Management
- 6. Multi-Cloud Management Tools •SaaS solution only •Private: OpenStack, CloudStack •Public: AWS, RS, Azure, GCE, HP, IDCF (Japan), DataPipe RightScale (2006) •Hosted and On-premise installation •Private: OpenStack, CloudStack, Nimbula, vCloud •Public: AWS, BL, CS, GoGrid, HP, Joyent, DD, RS, Tata, Verizon, TM DELL Cloud Manager (2013) •OpenSource, SaaS, On-premise installation •Supports: OpenStack, CloudStack, AWS, GCE Scalr (2007) •Private: OpenStack, CloudStack, vCloud •Public: AWS, RS, Azure, Scale Xtreme (2010) •Private: OpenStack, CloudStack, vCloud, Eucalyptus •Public: AWS, AzureService Mesh
- 7. Why Customize Horizon? • Simplicity • Consolidation – Eliminate isolated resources, data – Avoid Context switching – Single pane of glass to manage all infrastructure • Standardize UI to suit your Enterprise needs • Security – Granular control of access across multiple Apps / Regions • Powerful architecture, designed for extensibility
- 8. Horizon – Framework & Components • Django Model-View-Template Framework • UI Components – Dashboard – Panel Group – Panel – Tabs – Workflows – Data Tables – Actions • Software Repository – Horizon Base – OpenStack Dashboard
- 10. Horizon – Request Flow
- 11. Requirements • Manage multiple OpenStack environments • Manage multiple Clouds – Platform agnostic – Public / Private Clouds • Support Multiple Tenants • Granular control over Security – Manage multiple Roles & its Entitlements – Manage Users and access policies across Clouds • Branding
- 13. How did we do it? • Branding • Custom Login Page with Sign-Up Feature • Custom-built layer for AuthN & AuthZ • By-pass Identity Service – Route Authentication to Custom – Remove Access to Admin Dashboard – Add custom Authorization for all default actions • Adding Platforms – Created new Dashboards for each Platform – Integrated with the Platform APIs – Registered new Dashboards in Installed Apps • Created a Dashboard to Manage Clouds, Roles, Users • Page to enable switching between accounts in same platform
- 14. Few Snippets – urls.py
- 15. Few Snippets – views.py
- 16. Few Snippets – settings.py
- 17. Related Features in OpenStack • Identity Federation https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Keystone/Federation/Blueprint • Cascading OpenStack (https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_cascading_solution)
- 18. Questions? 19
- 19. Thank you • Contact Info: – Booth # T-19 @ Vancouver Summit – Kk.narayanan@cloudenablers.com – Skype: kk.narayanan 20 Other sessions from our team Date, Time Speaker Location Orchestration Across multi cloud platforms using Heat 20/05/2015 3:30 pm Saba 121/122