Celpax.com has recently deployed Apache CloudStack on Hetzner+Premises with full metal to service automation. In this talk, Rafael del Valle, Co-Founder of the company, will present the story of success. Furthermore, he will share why they chose open-source technologies and what advantages they got. About Rafael del Valle Rafael del Valle is a Computer Scientist with over 2 decades of experience creating software products and ventures. After launching products for companies such as Reuters or TIBCO Software, Rafael co-founded 2 software ventures. Rafael is a married father of 3, enjoys mountain biking, sailing and tinkering. ------------------------------------------ CloudStack European User Group Virtual happened on May 27th. The first CSEUG Virtual proved to be a huge success. It collected people from 23 countries – Germany, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, India, Bulgaria, Greece, Poland, Serbia, Brazil, Chile, Russia, USA, Canada, Japan, France, Uruguay, Korea … We also had a record number of registrations and attendees for a CloudStack User Group Event. The physical distance was not a stopper for our speakers, who joined the event from 6 different countries. ------------------------------------------ About CloudStack: https://cloudstack.apache.org/

1. Metal to Service
100% Automation
15:10 CEST

2. Context
1Who?

3. Tiny Global Venture
IOT:
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Freemium
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~700 installations
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~65 Countries
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~3000 IOT Devices
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~1-10 People Bracket
Intrastructure.
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~10 Hosts
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x10s VMs
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x100s Containers
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~100% Private Cloud
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0 Cloud Engineers

4. Full Automation
2Why?

5. Digital Autonomy
Independence
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Public Clouds are not Decentralized Infra.
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Cloud as Software Defined Infra. Pattern.
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Handing great power to public clouds.
Deplatforming
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Growing phenomenon
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Elected Ministers
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Companies / Startups
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No due process

6. Economics
Value for Money
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x10 vs Public Cloud
Competence
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Required

7. Joy
Tech Enthusiasts
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We just like it

8. Goals:
Metal + CMD => Running Services
Malfunction => Redeploy
Enablement: Able to run Private Cloud

9. How did it go?
3How?

11. Complex
Software Project:
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Long Lived Project
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Many Loose Dependencies
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OS, ACS, Ansible, Collections, PlugIns, Services, etc.
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High Development Pace
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Unclear Project Owner
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Not a Complex Puzzle but Clockwork
Poor Quality / Project Convergence

12. Lesson Learned
4Lesson

13. Solid Dependencies
Best in Class
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CloudStack
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ACS Ansible Modules
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Docker

14. Layered Automation
Well defined Layers
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Clear Interfaces
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Minimize dependence
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Rely only on lower layer
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Avoid cyclic dependencies
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Demarcation

15. Inmutable Deliverables
Like any Software Product
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Inmutable deliverables
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Automatisation Toolkit

16. Continuous Delivery
Like any Software Product
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Deploy and Test a new Cloud
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On Commit
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Nightly
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Regression
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Matrix Testing

17. Metal 2 Service
5Results

19. Gitlab Pipelines
1000+ Runs
30% passed

21. Takeaways
5Results

22. Metal 2 Service Automation
Feasable
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Solid Core Dependencies
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Good Practice
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Implement as Software Product
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Automate with Confidence
Enablement Tech.
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Able to run a private cloud
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Economic incentive
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Fun

23. OpenSource Metal 2 Service Automation Toolkit, Community

24. Q&A
rvalle@privaz.io
rvalle@celpax.com