USENIX LISA14 Talk: Deploy and Scale OpenStack

I had the great pleasure to deliver a 90 minute talk at the USENIX LISA14 conference, in Seattle, Washington.

During the course of the talk, we managed to:

• Deploy OpenStack Juno across 6 physical nodes, on an Orange Box on stage
• Explain all of the major components of OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Swift, Cinder, Horizon, Keystone, Glance, Ceilometer, Heat, Trove, Sahara)
• Explore the deployed OpenStack cloud's Horizon interface in depth
• Configured Neutron networking with internal and external networks, as well as a gateway and a router
• Setup our security groups to open ICMP and SSH ports
• Upload an SSH keypair
• Modify the flavor parameters
• Update a bunch of quotas
• Add multiple images to Glance
• Launch some instances until we max out our hypervisor limits
• Scale up the Nova Compute nodes from 3 units to 6 units
• Deploy a real workload (Hadoop + Hive + Kibana + Elastic Search)
• Then, we deleted the entire environment, and ran it all over again from scratch, non-stop

Slides and a full video are below.  Enjoy!

Cheers, Dustin