An introduction to Apache CloudStack

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Apache CloudStack

• What is CloudStack ?
• Hypervisor Support
• Terminology
• Integration
• Architecture
• How does it work ?
• Books

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CloudStack What is it ?

• A top level Apache Project
• Deploys public / private / hybrid IAAS clouds
• Integrates with many virtual machine managers
• Highly scaleable
• Supports high availability
• Provides REST API and management GUI
• Automates cloud configuration management
• See cloudstack.apache.org

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CloudStack Hypervisor Support

• Hypervisor virtual machine manager
• Cloud may contain many Hypervisor types
• Currently supported
• BareMetal (via IPMI)
• Hyper-V
• KVM
• LXC
• vSphere (via vCenter)
• Xenserver
• Xen Project

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CloudStack Terminology
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CloudStack Integration

• Brookly supports CloudStack
• See other presentation
• So create public / private / hybrid cloud
• Create releases using Brooklyn
• Go even further and use a big data stack
• That uses Brooklyn
• For application development
• And release to an architecture like this

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CloudStack Architecture
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CloudStack How does it work ?

• Can group cloud resources into geographic
  regions
• Regions can contain availability zones
• A zone contains one or more pods
• A pod represents a single rack
• A pod contains one or more clusters
• A pod contains one or more primary storage
  servers
• See next slide

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CloudStack How does it work ?
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Available Books

• See Big Data Made Easy
• Apress / Springer Jan 2015
• See Mastering Apache Spark
• Packt Oct 2015

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