IT Automation as a Service

- Infrastructure as Code -

Daniel Bartz, CEO

daniel.bartz@comodit.com

+32 4 372 93 15

Workshop

Focus on your business

Leave your

IT infrastructure

to the cloud

February 11 – 2014

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Cloud Computing Providers – IaaS

Workshops

But you should consider others international providers

Google CloudSigmaHPcloud Terremark (Verizon)OVH OpSource (Dimension Data)Linode SavvisGoGrid LeaseWebJoyent ...

And many many local players

Amazon – AWS IBM – SoftLayer

Rackspace – OpenStack CSC – BizCloud

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Maturity of the Cloud Providers

The 4 Cloud Providers

● Focus on “Business First”, Security, SLA, Enterprise Support

● Big infrastructure / DC : > 100 000 servers and PB of data

● Global presence around the world

● Resources on demand and elasticity with an OPEX model

● Segregated resources : dedicated servers or private clouds

● Standardization

● Pretend reduce costs & increase agility ( IDC pretends up to 70% )

What are the key Features - Differentiators ?

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How to compare Cloud Providers ?

Some criteria

● Typical Target Customers● Big Companies● Small and Medium Enterprises● Startup / Innovators

● Completeness of the solution < > Lock-in ?

● Service Level or Enterprise Support

● Innovation enabler

● Agility enabler (RoA)

● Used Technologies

● Costs (TCO) and price transparency – Pricing Model

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Some examples

Customer or business Target

● CSC & IBM started their Cloud journey with Big Companies

● Amazon started with innovators

● Rackspace is somewhere in between

“Today “20% innovators and 80% cost reduction, we would love the opposite”

Enterprise Support

● IBM & CSC provide comprehensive solutions, obviously for Enterprise

● But

- AWS and the $600M CIA deal in competition with IBM

- Rackspace provides “Fanatical Support”

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Some more examples

Used Technologies

● Virtual < > Physical Servers, Network & Storage

● Virtualization & Cloud technologies (Xen, KVM, VMware, OpenStack)

➢ Does (should) it matter in the cloud ?

Resources & Management Tools● “BASIC”

● Resources : instances, storage & network● Management : start, stop, save, restore

● “ADVANCED”● Archive, object storage, SQL, NoSQL, CDN, Streaming, VPN, queuing, mail, DNS,

Direct Connect, ...● Load-balancing, auto-scaling, automatic deployment, monitoring, ...● Completeness of the API

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First electric clock ...

... used electricity to move the pendulum

[#]ec2-run-instance ami-CB813A9B

[#]ssh ...

Use the AWS API

But then log in and dothe OPS the “old” way

platform = { "name" : "AWS Cloud", "settings" : { "ec2.instanceType" : "m1.small", "ec2.securityGroups" : "comodit", "ec2.keyPair" : "comodit", "ec2.zone" : "cluster1" }}

application = { "name" : "MySQL", "settings" : { "password" : "secret", "databases" : ["wordpress"], "users" : [{"name": "wordpress", "password": "secret", "host": "%"}], "grants" : [{"tab": "*", "db": "wordpress", "user": "wordpress"}] }}

What about using an APIto completely describeyour infrastructure ...

... up to the most detailedconfigurations

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Infrastructure as Code [ IaC ] – with ComodIT

● Innovation initiated by AWS

● Manage your Infrastructure and compliance via an API

➢ From instances to applications, including all the configurations

● Agility on steroid, reduce sysadmin labor hours and errors.

Examples of IaC use cases

● Orchestrate the deployment of a complete workload

● DRP (remember, with the help of on-demand & elasticity)

● Duplicate your environment for testing purpose

● Extend Unit Testing and UAT with infrastructure deployment (DevOps)

● Monitored KPI triggering orchestration such auto-scaling

IT Automation as a Service

- Infrastructure as Code -

Daniel Bartz, CEO

daniel.bartz@comodit.com

+32 4 372 93 15

Workshop

Focus on your business

Leave your

IT infrastructure

to the cloud

February 11 – 2014