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EvolutionStack - USDA Building a Bazaar in the Cathedral Slide 2 The team Introductions. Slide 3 Who we support... Slide 4 USDA / NITC In the beginning NITC dates back to 1957 Primarily mainframe shop Grew into a traditional hosting center Slow and steady Slide 5 Shifting Customer Needs Customers wanted fast, flexible, agile and cheap hosting o Customer independence required! o Customers want Amazon but in Govt. space Slide 6 Not Keeping Up What customers got o Virtualized version of old Managed Hosting product o Lots of iterations o Long path to production o IT / Business processes dont align Slide 7 HopeStack The dream begins Hallway convos, smoke breaks What is this OpenStack thing? A few believe in the idea of a revolution Slide 8 All bets on the table... Zach shares idea o Wagers parking space for 5 min. with the ACIO Leadership vision o They can see beyond the red tape! Team is selected to evaluate idea o Non-conformists recruited Slide 9 Do or die in 90 days Charged to research private cloud o Greenfield opportunity o Given unlimited resources (with zero $$$) o Research and report back in 90 days Slide 10 GO! Day 1 Begins Slide 11 Do the impossible... Build a WORKING demo/POC o SDN + OpenStack + Ceph o Oh, and its got to do stuff that works... Slide 12 No Funding! Diverted gear destined for trash NO R&D capital to be found o Budget = 0$ Team doing two jobs Slide 13 AngryStack Endless possibilities in OpenStack o If you can make them work Feature Greed! o Over-ran the docs that were available o Current problem are always solved in the next release o I always have a current problem Slide 14 Mad Googling! Day 30 Slide 15 Sticky room (Cloud Cave) Burn through two scrummasters Whiteboards filled with ideas Whole team in one room Slide 16 Building a cloud They said it couldnt be done 500 ways not to build a cloud discovered Late nights Slide 17 Tech debt! Things breaking! Every service is a huge victory! Atmos clap is developed Slide 18 Inception Day 60 Slide 19 On the heels of dev... Literally 2 days behind Nicira developers during our Quantum build o We were begging for the next code bits o Plugins/integration with Open vSwitch o Scratching of heads Amazing support from Nicira Slide 20 AwesomeStack We got stuff to work! o Main feature collection working o VMs deployed successfully via Horizon o SDN to OpenStack successful! Deploy networks and routers - Yourself NO MORE VLANS! Self directed FWs! Slide 21 Additions Made... Because Open Source o Boot from volume o Instance deploy wizard o Monitoring - Atmos Monkey Slide 22 1 day left - Do or Die Day 89 Slide 23 Demo day... Security group errors (quick refresh) Ceph stable Crossing fingers the HW will hold out Slide 24 Winning! The Impossible is done! Executive mgmt was beyond impressed! Slide 25 A declaration is made... This OpenStack thing is our future o Mgmt said make it so! o The message is sent to the org. Wait There's no money o Found a customer that would invest o Pitched the dream and they bought in Slide 26 Schism... The Cathedral is completely freaked out!!!!!! o Those OpenStack guys are trying to kill the unicorn factory! o But.. But.. The customer can do whatever they want in the new thing! o Why would you build such a thing!? Slide 27 SolutionStack Build a world class cloud o Stable o Sustainable o Not able to hire like a RackSpace o Looked for companies that understand our vision o Long term support o Plan for FedRAMP Slide 28 I am Zachs Sleepless Nights Slide 29 Operationalizing... Piston o Provisioning o Impressed by operational philosophy VMware NSX o Maturity o Troubleshooting capabilities Silicon Mechanics o Amazing fulfillment Slide 30 Get what we want Slide 31 Questions? AMA