rightscale overview and why i find it elegant

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Giri Fox@girifox

gfox@rightscale.com

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What is RightScale?Why I joined in Australia.

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RightScale• ~250 staff

• October: opened office in Australia• HQ in Southern California• 25% of our people are “cloudies”• Founded 2006

• $47M venture capital invested

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Customers

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ConceptualAbstracts the architecture to above the IaaS.

Abstracts cloud specifics.

Provision servers with dynamic inputs such as addresses (e.g. DNS, load balancer), processes (e.g. monitoring), user names and locations (e.g. logs, applications, databases)

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my network

my serversmy storage

CONFIGURATION AUTOMATION GOVERNANCE

Private CloudsPublic Clouds

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Abstraction with Customisation

AutomationMassively scalable and agile applications

Choose Your Own Clouds

Visibility and ControlOne place for management and cost

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RightScale defined Cloud Management• World’s #1 public cloud management platform

• Managing cloud deployments globally for 6 years• 45,000+ users• More than 4.6M servers launched

• 12 supported cloud providers and counting

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Amazon Web Services

Datapipe

Google Cloud Platform

HP Cloud

Singapore

Hong Kong

Tokyo

Dallas

DC Area

NYC AreaSF Area

Seattle

Chicago

Dublin

London Amsterdam

Seoul

Beijing

Hyderabad

Private CloudsPublic & Managed

Clouds

Oregon

São Paulo

SoftLayer

Tata

UnGeo

Windows Azure

Las Vegas

IDCF / Yahoo! Japan

Korea Telecom

Logicworks

Rackspace

Southeast

Midwest

soon

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Clients

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Hybrid Cloud at Zynga

• 1,000 servers launched in 24 hours• 100x increase in infrastructure in 2 years• From 20% to 80% of workloads in

zCloud in 1 year

Zynga manages their public and private/hybrid cloud (zCloud) with RightScale – through a ‘single pane of glass’

“zCloud also integrates with the operational and management tools that have proven critical to our business, such as RightScale and CloudStack.”

Allan Leinwand, Zynga CTO Infrastructure Engineering

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IT at Scale at PearsonRequirements: • Large scale, 3M+ students• Single-tenant SaaS• Multi-cloud• Fast customer POC & onboarding

Solution:• Clone-able, customizable

environments• Consistent dev and production

environments• AWS and Rackspace• Ability to easily pilot and test

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Running Rackspace at Behance

Built an Activity Feed feature in weeks on MongoDB. Process images using RackConnect."We don't have to spend a lot of time or money to experiment with new applications.”

CTO and 1 developer manages RightScale + Rackspace “We have not had to look for systems administrators because of RightScale.” - Chris Henry, CTO, Behance

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More detail

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IaaS

Bridging Apps and Infrastructure

Dashboard

Governance Controls – Access, Security, Reporting

MultiCloud Platform – Provisioning

Automation Engine – Monitoring, Alerting, Scaling

Configuration Framework – ServerTemplates, RightScripts

Hardware

Hypervisor

Cloud IaaS software

API

Private Clouds Public Clouds

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MultiCloud PlatformDeployment-level abstraction• Abstracts resources such as:

• Virtual machines (instances)• Storage (object storage, block volumes)• Virtual networks (firewalls, subnets, VPNs, etc)

• Abstracts providers:• 9 public cloud providers• 3 private cloud technologies

Self-service provisioning• Click to launch or clone fully configured

servers and deployments

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Configuration FrameworkConfiguration Management• ServerTemplates™, RightScripts, hosted Chef • Reproducible: Predictable deployment• Dynamic: Configuration from scripts at boot time• Multi-cloud: Cloud agnostic and portable• Modular: Role and behavior abstracted from

infrastructure

Service Catalog• Edit and customize to specific use cases• Limit usage to certain users and

sub-accounts

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Application stack store• Published by RightScale, partners, and users• Images, scripts, recipes, and macros• Versioned and supported

License management• ISV single billing and pay-per-hour billing • Open source

MultiCloud Marketplace

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App & Web Servers

Community

ISV Partners

RightScale

MultiCloud MarketplaceCloud-ready stacks Pre-built by our ecosystem

Databases & Caches

And more…

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Automation EngineResource monitoring• Server and application monitoring• Alerts and escalations

Capacity management• Auto-scaling with complex launch

rules

Deployment orchestration• Database backup, failover, recovery• Script execution• Code deploys and patches

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Governance ControlsIdentity and access management• Authentication, roles, permissions• Umbrella accounts and sharing

Policy management• Infrastructure audits and tracking• Event and user audit events

Usage and cost management• Cost tracking and quotas• Real-time run rate projections

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Try it out free: rightscale.com

• Provision, monitor, and automate across 8 public clouds• 1 Account with 5 Users and Community Support• Free account for 60 days — no credit card required• Enjoy free monthly usage of up to ~5 small servers (c1.medium)

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Thank you!

Awesome level of abstractionAchieve new levels of resiliency & automationGain visibility and controlFree trial at rightscale.com

Giri Fox@girifox

gfox@rightscale.com