Use Rackspace’s proven approach for fleet management, with inventory and audit/remediation workflows. And stop spending your evenings and weekends to fix day-to-day operational issues in your OpenStack deployment! With the new Craton project, we may have new ops tools that can help you. Come see a presentation and demo of the Craton fleet management framework and working solution for OpenStack clouds, which we plan to become part of the OpenStack big tent.
Craton combines two key elements, while integrating with your existing environment. First, an inventory fabric to manage your inventory of hosts/devices, along with corresponding configuration variables; and the ability to wrap seamlessly existing inventory/asset management sources. Second, Craton enables running audit and remediation workflows across the fleet to help operate your cloud. Integration APIs complete the solution with other tooling you have in place, including CI/CD, governance, logging, monitoring, and alerting.
Attendees will get the inside story on what it takes to operate a large public cloud. Hint: being systematic is extremely important! But this also means that this talk will be helpful if you’re operating a small private cloud, and you want to offer similar SLAs - perhaps the biggest difference is how often problems happen in the underlying fleet.
In particular, we will walk through some typical automation scenarios, such as applying an OpenStack Ansible security audit and remediation; Nova compute restarts; live migrations; storage capacity reallocations and the like. We will look at the opportunities in integrating with tooling like Walmart’s OneOps.
We also will talk about not only the strengths of Rackspace’s current solution, but also its weaknesses, such as being tightly coupled to Rackspace’s asset management system; and what prompted us to develop Craton as the next generation platform for fleet management.
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