an introduction to apache cloudstack
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Apache CloudStack
● What is CloudStack ?
● Hypervisor Support
● Terminology
● Integration
● Architecture
● How does it work ?
● Books
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CloudStack – What is it ?
● A top level Apache Project
● Deploys public / private / hybrid IAAS clouds
● Integrates with many virtual machine managers
● Highly scaleable
● Supports high availability
● Provides REST API and management GUI
● Automates cloud configuration management
● See cloudstack.apache.org
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CloudStack – Hypervisor Support
● Hypervisor = virtual machine manager
● Cloud may contain many Hypervisor types
● Currently supported
– BareMetal (via IPMI)
– Hyper-V
– KVM
– LXC
– vSphere (via vCenter)
– Xenserver
– Xen Project
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CloudStack – Integration
● Brookly supports CloudStack
– See other presentation● So create public / private / hybrid cloud
● Create releases using Brooklyn
● Go even further and use a big data stack
– That uses Brooklyn
– For application development
– And release to an architecture like this
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CloudStack – How does it work ?
● Can group cloud resources into geographic regions
● Regions can contain availability zones
● A zone contains one or more pods
● A pod represents a single rack
● A pod contains one or more clusters
● A pod contains one or more primary storage servers
● See next slide
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Available Books
● See “Big Data Made Easy”
– Apress / Springer Jan 2015
● See “Mastering Apache Spark”
– Packt Oct 2015
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