devops summit 2014 - swiss private school chooses openstack for security and sovereignty

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Myles Steinhauser - @masteinhauser – Booth 711

November 4th, 2014

Swiss Private School Chooses OpenStack for Security and Sovereignty

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Hi, I’m Myles I work at Blue Box building PCaaS

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OpenStack Software Engineer Hi, I’m Myles

§ Autodidact § Passionate About:

§ Distributed Systems § DevOps § Feedback Loops § Learning

§ Twitter § @masteinhauser

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What is Private Cloud as a Service?


What is private cloud as a service?

Public Cloud

§ Pros § Virtually unlimited resources §  Infrastructure as a Service § Pay as you go, expand when you need

§ Cons § Multi-Tenant all the way down § Security can be complex § Compliance can be expensive § Variable performance § When it goes down, many are impacted

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Private Cloud

§ Pros § On premises

§  highly controlled environment and access § Dedicated staff or consulting firm for support § Full control over hardware and infrastructure

§ Cons § On premises

§  Associated overhead and knowledge needs § Usage forecasting § Expense modeling § Compliance can be expensive

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Private Cloud as a Service - PCaaS

PCaaS is the best of both worlds § Pros

§ Dynamic infrastructure § Single-tenant with multi-tenant support, controlled by you § Single contact point for all concerns § Consume similar to Public Cloud but with more control

§ Cons § Dynamic is not the same as Instant §  It might be more difficult to watch all of the blinking lights

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What is Leysin American School?


What is leysin American school?

§ Private boarding school in French-speaking Switzerland § 400 students - 8th-12th grade level § ‘American’ - founded to service ex-pats who had relocated to

Switzerland who need a English-speaking school for children § Clientele has shifted to more world-wide student body over the

last few years

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What problem is Leysin solving?


What problem is leysin solving?

Problems and Mindset

§ Experiencing unreliable infrastructure § Compute § Networking

§ Started focusing on innovation while solving these problems § Hired a DevOps engineer

§  “With the innovations that we anticipate, how do we automate things and make it so it’s faster, consistent and resilient?”

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What options did leysin consider?

Existing Solution

§ 3 bare metal nodes § ESX cluster § Expensive VMware licensing § Service provider is also providing network architecture

§ Core strength as ISP and colocation provider

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Existing Solution - Problems

§ ESX not providing a cost-effective approach § VMware contracts § Dell contracts

§ Chef and other automation not greatly supported § Service provider “not great at customer support” § Trying to move into a new data center § Already going to pull in a third party vendor to handle

OpenStack § Seemed unnecessarily complicated and an internal burden

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New Solution - Goals

§ Find a Managed Services Provider (MSP) that was a better support match

§ Cloud design and technology §  Instant provisioning and de-provisioning § Highly automation driven § Deep insight when needed § As Self-Service as possible

§ Switzerland data and support locality

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New Solution – Options

§ Public Cloud § AWS § Rackspace §  “Never occurred to us to consider private cloud or PCaaS”

§ OpenStack § Appealing because no vendor lock-in § Open Source § Seeing the Community at work within OpenStack and supporting tools

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Why did Leysin choose Blue Box?

§ Impressed by communication § Shown high importance during sales and outreach § Others conveyed fanatical support

§ Already experiencing that with Blue Box §  “When I have a question, it’s really great to be able to ask someone.

It’s a huge help.”

§ Blue Box § OpenStack and attractive price point § Met our need and size easily § Already had a Switzerland data center

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Educational and security-focused


Educational and security-focused

§ Data Locality and Protection Laws § Customer data breaches and alerting § Data encryption and privacy § Access controls § Safe Harbor Certification

§ Healthcare Compliance § HIPAA § HITECH

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OpenStack Advantages


Openstack advantages

§ Not all Sunshine and Rainbows § Difficult to deploy § Many moving pieces and complex relationships § Fast paced development cycle and bi-annual releases

§ Huge Community of contributors § Many organizations and corporate backing § Many individual contributors

§ Market data shows OpenStack has won Open Source cloud race

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Openstack advantage

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Why Blue Box?


Why blue box?

§ Contributing upstream to OpenStack § LBaaS (Octavia) § Cross vendor validation (RefStack) § Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic) § Many other supporting tools

§ Eleven years of experience § Operating data centers § Managed Hosting customers § OpenVZ Containers § Dedicated hosting § Support always available

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