2. Setting the Scene
What is ‘The Cloud’?
Why use The Cloud?
Who uses Clouds?
What is CloudStack?
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3. About Me
Who am I
Cloud Architect with ShapeBlue
Worked with CloudStack since 2.2.13
Specialising in deployment of CloudStack
and surrounding infrastructure
Orange, TomTom, PaddyPower, Ascenty, BSkyB
I view CloudStack from ‘What can cloud
consumers practically do with it’ point-of-view
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4. About ShapeBlue
“ShapeBlue are expert builders of public &
private clouds. They are the leading global
independent CloudStack / CloudPlatform
integrator & consultancy”
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6. What is The Cloud?
“Cloud computing is a general term for anything that involves
delivering hosted services over a network. These services are
broadly divided into three categories:
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).”
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7. What is The Cloud?
Technospeak decryption:
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS)
I want a load of servers connected to each other
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS)
I want a web server connected to an app server and a database
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
I want 5 exchange mailboxes
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8. What is The Cloud?
What makes these services Cloudy?
On-demand self-service
Elasticity
Scalability
API integration
Resource accounting
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9. Who Uses Clouds?
Public clouds (SPs/MSPs)
General public can create or log into instances themselves
Private Clouds (Enterprises)
Anyone who wants to be able to orchestrate their environment
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10. What is CloudStack
CloudStack is a hypervisor agnostic open source IaaS
platform.
CloudStack orchestrates hypervisors and network appliances
to give control simple to complex tasks
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11. What can you do with CloudStack?
Lots
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12. More Specifically…
Create, start & stop virtual machines
Create virtual machines from templates
Create networks (normal or multi-tiered)
Create/manage firewall rules
Create/management network services such as load
balancing, static NAT, VPNs, and auto scaling
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17. How does CloudStack do it
Abstraction of Networks, Compute and disks so you don’t
have to worry about it.
It orchestrates the hypervisor layer
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