The team Introductions Who we support USDA NITC In the beginning NITC dates back to 1957 Primarily mainframe shop Grew into a traditional hosting center Slow and steady Shifting Customer Needs ID: 670557
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EvolutionStack - USDA
Building a Bazaar in the CathedralSlide2
The team
Introductions….Slide3
Who we support...Slide4
USDA / NITC
In the beginning…
NITC dates back to 1957
Primarily mainframe shop
Grew into a traditional hosting center
Slow and steadySlide5
Shifting Customer Needs
Customers wanted fast, flexible, agile and cheap hosting
Customer independence required!
Customers want Amazon but in Govt. spaceSlide6
Not Keeping Up
What customers got…
Virtualized version of old Managed Hosting product
Lots of iterations
Long path to production
IT / Business processes don’t alignSlide7
HopeStack
The dream begins…
Hallway convos, smoke breaks
What is this “OpenStack” thing…?
A few believe in the idea of a revolutionSlide8
All bets on the table...
Zach shares idea
Wagers parking space for 5 min. with the ACIO
Leadership vision
They can see beyond the red tape!
Team is selected to evaluate idea
Non-conformists recruitedSlide9
Do or die in 90 days
Charged to research private cloud
Greenfield opportunity
Given unlimited resources (with zero $$$)
Research and report back in 90 daysSlide10
GO!
Day 1 BeginsSlide11
Do the impossible...
Build a
WORKING
demo/POC
SDN + OpenStack + Ceph
Oh, and its got to do stuff that works…………...Slide12
No Funding!
Diverted gear destined for trash
NO R&D capital to be found
Budget = 0$
Team doing two jobsSlide13
AngryStack
Endless possibilities in OpenStack
If you can make them work
Feature Greed!
Over-ran the docs that were ‘available’
Current problem are always solved in the next release
I always have a current problemSlide14
Mad Googling!
Day 30 Slide15
“Sticky” room (Cloud Cave)
Burn through two scrummasters
Whiteboards filled with ideas
Whole team in one roomSlide16
Building a cloud…
They said it couldn’t be done
500 ways not to build a cloud discovered
Late nightsSlide17
Tech debt!
Things breaking!
Every service is a huge victory!
Atmos clap is developedSlide18
Inception
Day 60Slide19
On the heels of dev...
Literally 2 days behind Nicira developers during our Quantum build
We were begging for the next code bits
Plugins/integration with Open vSwitch
Scratching of heads
Amazing support from Nicira Slide20
AwesomeStack
We got stuff to work!
Main feature collection working
VM’s deployed successfully via Horizon
SDN to OpenStack successful!
Deploy networks and routers - Yourself
NO MORE VLANS!
Self directed FW’s!Slide21
Additions Made...
Because Open Source
Boot from volume
Instance deploy wizard
Monitoring - Atmos MonkeySlide22
1 day left - Do or Die
Day 89Slide23
Demo day...
Security group errors (quick refresh)
Ceph stable
Crossing fingers the HW will hold outSlide24
Winning!
The Impossible is done!
Executive mgmt was beyond impressed!Slide25
A declaration is made...
This OpenStack thing is our future
Mgmt said make it so!
The message is sent to the org.
Wait… There's no money
Found a customer that would invest
Pitched the dream and they bought inSlide26
Schism...
The Cathedral is completely freaked out!!!!!!
Those OpenStack guys are trying to kill the unicorn factory!
But.. But.. The customer can do whatever they want in the new thing!
Why would you build such a thing!?Slide27
SolutionStack
Build a world class cloud
Stable
Sustainable
Not able to hire like a RackSpace
Looked for companies that understand our vision
Long term support
Plan for FedRAMPSlide28
I am Zach’s Sleepless NightsSlide29
Operationalizing...
Piston
Provisioning
Impressed by operational philosophy
VMware NSX
Maturity
Troubleshooting capabilities
Silicon Mechanics
Amazing fulfillment Slide30
Get what we want…Slide31
Questions?
AMA