1. The Cloud Specialists
CloudStack Container
Service
ShapeBlue.com • @ShapeBlue
Paul Angus, VP Technology • @CloudyAngus
paul.angus@shapeblue.com
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ShapeBlue.com @ShapeBlue
“ShapeBlue are expert builders of public
& private clouds. They are the leading
independent global CloudStack services
company”
A b o u t S h a p e B l u e

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Paul Angus – VP Technology
• Global authority on CloudStack & cloud infrastructure design.
• 15+ years C-Level experience.
• Apache CloudStack project committer & PMC member
• Specialising in deployment of CloudStack
and surrounding infrastructure especially the user story
• USP, Georgian Ministry of Justice, Orange, TomTom,
PaddyPower, Ascenty, BSkyB, SAP, British Telecom
A b o u t m e

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S h a p e B l u e c u s t o m e r s

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Introduction

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• Introduction
• CCS Components
• Demonstration
• Roadmap
• Summary
A g e n d a

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A B r i e f ( L o n g ) H i s t o r y o f C o n t a i n e r s

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2017: Kubernetes Grows Up
• In 2017 the open-source project demonstrated great strides towards
becoming a more mature technology and the de-facto container technology
• At DockerCon in Copenhagen, Docker announced they will support the
Kubernetes container orchestrator.
• Azure and AWS fell in line, with AKS (Azure Kubernetes Service) and EKS, a
Kubernetes service to rival proprietary ECS.
• The first project adopted by the CNCF and commands a growing list of third-
party system integration service providers.
• ShapeBlue launch CloudStack Container Service 1.0 based on Kubernetes
A B r i e f ( L o n g ) H i s t o r y

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• Massive growth in cloud native applications
continues
• Containers are a key component of cloud native
applications
• Application level software delivery
• Lightweight (higher density)
• Faster start-up time
• Less ‘knowledge overhead’
• Multi-tenancy is an afterthought
• IaaS is a VM based business
W h y T h e C o n t a i n e r S e r v i c e ?

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• Based on the model offered by Google and Amazon
• CaaS offering within existing IaaS environments
• No disruption to user experience or business
• Users deploy and orchestrate containers within their
IaaS infrastructure
• Users pay for the underlying VM’s / infra.
• Built on established technologies
• Apache CloudStack
• Kubernetes
• CoreOS (Container Linux)
W h a t i s i t ?

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• We are not dictating ‘THE’ CloudStack container
solution.
• The architecture of the open sourced framework
will allow other container platforms to use it.
• The framework doesn’t even have to be used to
run containers - could be DaaS.
W h a t i t ’s n o t

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Components

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1. ‘Application Clusters’ framework adds the concept of a group or
cluster of VMs into CloudStack and enables the creation and
management of those VMs as a group at the API level.
2. Deploy Kubernetes onto a group of VMs, configure them as a
Kubernetes cluster and query the Kubernetes API to obtain and
return state information.
3. Automated deployment of Kubernetes Dashboard and basic services
4. Certificate Service to create CA for secure connection to dashboard
5. UI to simplify interaction with the clusters once created.
C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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New APIs
• createApplicationCluster
name: name of the application cluster
description: description of application cluster
type: service type - Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, Mesos etc
zoneid:
role: the name for this type of VM (within the Cluster Type i.e master or worker)
priority: used for starting order, lower numbers will be started sooner.
serviceofferingid: template: the template to use for VMs of this role
count: size of the cluster or number of VMs of this role to be provisioned
accountname: account for which application cluster shall be created
domainid:
networkid:
C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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New APIs
• deleteApplicationCluster
• startApplicationCluster
• stopApplicationCluster
• increaseRoleCount
(role: the name for the type of node to be added)
• decreaseRoleCount
• listApplicationClusters
• listClusterNodes
C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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Certificate Service
• Mgmt server(s) act as a Certificate Authority (CA)
• Mgmt server(s) can create client & server certificates
• Used to secure communications to the Kubernetes Master node
• Creates/manages a two way trust between Management Server and;
• KVM host agents
• Secondary Storage VMs
• Console Proxy VMs
C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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Plugin functionality for CloudStack
• Orchestrates the deployment of Kubernetes within
those VMs to manage the containers
• Creates secure access to the
Kubernetes API endpoint and dashboard
• Allows pass-through access to VMs
• Acts as a control plane only

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C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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C C S c o m p o n e n t s

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Installation

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• Create service account
• Create repo file
• sudo yum install cloudstack-ccs
[root@ref-trl-844-k-M7-pangus-mgmt1 ~]# ccs-template-install -m KVM
API url:http://10.2.2.91:8080/client/api/
API Key:
Secret:
Installing ShapeBlue CloudStack Container Service template across all zones.
Template for ShapeBlue CloudStack Container Service is still not available in zone:ref-trl-844-k-M7-
pangus. Status of the template is 51% Downloaded
Template for ShapeBlue CloudStack Container Service is still not available in zone:ref-trl-844-k-M7-
pangus. Status of the template is 99% Downloaded
Template for ShapeBlue CloudStack Container Service is still not available in zone:ref-trl-844-k-M7-
pangus. Status of the template is Installing Template
Template for ShapeBlue CloudStack Container Service is successfully installed in all zones.
I n s t a l l a t i o n

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Demonstration

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Creating container clusters using CloudStack
Container Service
• Creating the cluster
• Viewing metrics
• Understanding the VMs
• Accessing the Kubernetes dashboard
• Deploying a cloud native application
D e m o

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• Created a Container Cluster
• Viewed the auto-deployed dashboard
• Deployed two HA containerised applications
• Created firewall and load-balancing rules to expose
those applications
• Accessed those applications
S u m m a r y

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• Already in production for both private and public use
cases.
• Current evolution is for Apache Cloudstack 4.11 (as an
independent plugin)
• ‘Kubernetes Plugin’ opensource and available on Github
(https://github.com/shapeblue/ccs)
• Ongoing evolution in conjunction with current user-base
W h e r e a r e we n o w

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• Support for shared networks
• Support resizing/auto-scaling/auto-healing of clusters
• Upgrade of Kubernetes version
• Intelligent independent sizing of master node
• Optional HA for master nodes.
• Use of distributed etcd data store
• Optional use of anti-affinity groups
• Support for CloudStack volumes in Kubernetes for data persistency
• Support for baremetal deployments.
F e a t u r e r o a d m a p

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Q u e s t i o n s
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31. The Cloud Specialists
CloudStack Container
Service
ShapeBlue.com • @ShapeBlue
Paul Angus, VP Technology • @CloudyAngus
paul.angus@shapeblue.com
A n i n t r o d u c t i o n t o