OpenStack Open Source Cloud Computing Software

OpenStack

Open Source Cloud Computing Software

Alexandru Coman | Cloud Engineer

Agenda

Windows hypervisor (Hyper-V) OpenStack

Windows as a guest Rude Questions

OpenStack

An open source IaaS project (Apache 2 license) Managed by the OpenStack Foundation

• More than 150 companies joined it including:

• AMD, Intel, Canonical, SUSE Linux, Red Hat, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, NEC, VMware

• Second largest OSS foundation after Linux

Portable (Mostly used on Linux) Written in Python

Contribution Summary (Liberty)

• Commits: 1278 • LOCs: 282293

• Looks good for core (+2): 468 • Approve: 291

• Patch Sets: 5177

• Resolved Bugs: 275

Releases

Essex: April 2012 Hyper-V removed)

Folsom: October 2012 (Hyper-V re-included) Grizzly: April 2013 Havana: October 2013 Icehouse: April 2014 Juno: October 2014 Kilo: April 2015 Liberty: October 2015

Reasons for success

Most cloud providers want a platform to embed and extend (E.g. Rackspace, HP)

Most cloud engineers want a platform which is easy to maintain and troubleshoot

• Python, due to it’s dynamic nature, fits the role and is widely known by Linux admins

Great scalability

Great support for multiple hypervisors

• Nowadays hypervisors are “simple” components in the global architecture, not the focal point anymore

Great support for virtual networking (OpenVSwitch is becoming the “standard de facto” in SDN)

Compatibility with EC2 and S3 API

Drawbacks

Terrible setup experience

• Lack of unified deployment tools • Lack of proper documentation

Some “youth” issues

• The project is anyway maturing really fast The UI is not at the level of the competition

Components

Object Storage (Swift) Block Storage (Cinder) Image Service (Glance) Networking (Quantum)

Dashboard (Horizon) Identity (Keystone)

Metering (Ceilometer) Orchestration (Heat)

file cloud service Access Control Virtual Network VHD storage blob

Portal

Network

Block

Blob

Image

Compute

Identity

Component interaction

• Any Python SQLAlchemy provider • Mostly MySQL

Gerrit

Originally developed by Google for Android Stand-alone patch review system

Manages:

• Git Repositories • Code Review

• Event Stream

Gerrit checks

• Pep8 / Flake8 tests • Unit tests

• Integration tests with multiple environments (e.g. Nova):

• KVM

• Hyper-V • VMWare • XenServer • etc

Integration tests

• Each CI results can vote +1 / -1 or be neutral

• At the moment both errors and failures account for -1

• Hard to distinguish between them

Windows as a guest

Can be executed on any hypervisor used in Nova

No differences compared to Linux for image handling (glance etc) Images are typically sysprepped

Synthetic drivers

Modern Hypervisors provide drivers to replace emulated devices with synthetic ones (Network adapters, etc)

Hyper-V > Integration components / LIS

KVM > VirtIO

VMWare > VMWare Tools

Cloudbase-Init

Wrapped in a Windows service Plugin based architecture:

• Each plugin can be executed once or more times at boot • Status for each plugin is maintained in the registry

Plugin modules

WinRM

Licensing

User Data (PowerShell, Heat, etc) NTP, MTU, LocalScripts and more

Multi-cloud support

Supported Windows versions

Windows Server 2008 / 2008 R2 / 2012 / 2012 R2 x64

Windows Server 2016 (TP) NanoServer 2016 (WiP)

OpenStack WS2012 R2 eval

images

• Complete with:

Drivers / Tools (VirtIO, etc.) Cloudbase-Init

Sysprepped

• Eval edition can be upgraded with a simple uder_data script:

DISM /online /Set-Edition:ServerStandard /ProductKey:XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX /AcceptEula

How to build an image?

• https://github.com/cloudbase/windows-openstack-imaging-tools • We get lots of questions about how to build those images

Does Microsoft support Hyper-V in

OpenStack?

• Yes!

• Microsoft supports Hyper-V regardless of the management stack!

• Any supported licensing model works (Volume Licensing, SPLA, etc)

Windows Openstack components

• Neutron agent (Hyper-V SDN, OVS) • Cinder Volume drivers (iSCSI, SMB3) • Manila SMB3 driver

• Windows Cloud-Init • Ceilometer Agent

Hyper-V

• Setup is very easy

• Our Nova driver is at it’s 7th release!

• Folsom, Grizzly, Havana, Icehouse, Juno, Kilo, Liberty

• Support for Hyper-V 2012, 2012 R2, 2016 • VHDX support

• Ceilometer support • Much more…

Hyper-V 2012 R2 / 2016

availability

• FREE edition

• Full Hypervisor

• You need to license Windows guests only!

• Windows Server 2012 / 2012 R2 / 2016

• Just enable Hyper-V

• Windows 8.1 / Windows 10

• For workstation / testing / development usage • Nested Hyper-V available today

Hyper-V Nova Compute

• Seamless OpenStack experience, just like on Linux

• OpenStack compute utilizes key features baked into the Hyper-V Virtualization Platform

• Some key differentiators:

• Shared nothing live migration out of the box • RemoteFX (amazing VDI experience)

• Shielded VMs (2016)

CI

• Hyper-V is fully CI tested with Tempest tests reporting to Gerrit • One of the largest CI contributors with 10 active CIs!

• Nova

• Neutron (Hyper-V SDN, OVS - coming soon) • Networking-hyperv, Compute-hyperv

• Cinder (iSCSI, SMB3 - Windows, SMB - Linux) • Manila (Linux, Windows)

Neutron

• Hyper-V plugin is part of Neutron since Jan 2013

• Project originally called Quantum, renamed Neutron since Havana

• Supported network types:

• VLAN

• NVGRE • Flat

Neutron

• Plugin / agent model

• ML2 Plugin runs in neutron-server (controller) • Agent runs on each Hyper-V compute node

Neutron OVS interop

• Neutron ML2 mechanism driver is compatible with OpenVSwitch! • You can use the OVS with Hyper-V agents

• Limited to compatible protocols: Flat / VLAN • Possible NVGRE support

• You can use the L3 and DHCP agents with the Hyper-V plugin

Hyper-V

OpenVSwitch

Cinder

• iSCSI Windows Server driver

• SMB3 / SoFS Windows Server driver

• Great companion for Hyper-V

Manila

• SMB3 driver

• Included in Liberty

Dashboard integration

• Hyper-V uses RDP for accessing the console instead of VNC • By default it accepts connections on port 2179

 Not the RDP connection on 3389

 Access to any guest: Windows, Linux, FreeRDP etc.

• The VM id is provided as part of an RDP protocol additional buffer called PCB (Pre Connection Buffer)

Puppet, Chef, Salt, etc

Hyper-V compute nodes can be installed via Puppet or Chef as well

Puppet:

https://github.com/openstack-hyper-v/puppet-openstack_hyper_v

Chef:

Nano Server

• Windows without windows 

• Very small footprint

• Fast deployment and boot

Orchestration

• Heat templates

• Juju charms

Heat

• Heat and Windows are a great mix • Templates for:

• Active directory

• Exchange (multi server) • Sharepoint (multi server) • SQL Server

• IIS

Cloudbase

Windows

Juju charms

Active Directory

Nova – Hyper-V Exchange SharePoint

Failover Clustering

VDI Windows Server Update Services

Skype for Business (coming soon) Windows File

Server (SMB) SQL Server Express SQL Server AlwaysOn Cinder – Windows

Support

• [email protected]

• http://ask.cloudbase.it

Q&A

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