Episode 4. OpenStack

Please ensure you arrive before 6:30pm. Due to security on the building, entry afterwards is extremely unlikely

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Agenda:

18:00 - Networking / Pizza / Beer
18:30 - Running 1000 application deployments a day on OpenStack at Paddy Power Betfair by Steven Armstrong
19:30 - What the OpenStack by Dougal Matthews
20:30 - One for the road (Slug & Lettuce)

What the OpenStack

OpenStack promises you a full open source private cloud. This talk
will cover OpenStack at a high level and introduce you to the project.
As one of the largest and most active open source projects around it
can be quite bewildering - so hold onto your hats for a whirlwind
tour.

About Dougal

OpenStack hacker at Red Hat. Pythonista and skier. Python Glasgow organiser.

Running 1000 application deployments a day on OpenStack at Paddy Power Betfair

At Paddy Power Betfair we started our OpenStack jouney in late 2015. In 2017, we now run over 100 micro-service customer facing applications on OpenStack in production, and have migrated 25% of our estate onto OpenStack so far. The number of applications we run is growing daily as we migrate all our apps onto OpenStack, with the target end state of 1300 KVM compute nodes, split over 2 datacenters, which will make up 100,000 cores and 2.08 petabytpes of storage. We run a continuous delivery self-service model against our OpenStack API's, where we do over 1000 deployments a day to test and production environments using Ansible -- this deployment figure is growing each day. Running OpenStack at such a scale has challenges which need to be addressed as the platform is scaled out. In this session we will walk the audience through our OpenStack reference architecture and share info on the configurations and services we had to change to solve each problem we encountered.

About Steven

A DevOps solution architect, process automation specialist, author of DevOps for Networking and honours graduate in Computer and Electronic Systems, with a proven track record of streamlining companies development architecture and processes so they can deliver software at pace. Specialising in agile, continuous integration, infrastructure as code, networking as code, continuous delivery and deployment, who to date has worked for 10 years for leading consulting, financial services, benefits and gambling companies in the IT sector.
Steven is currently working as the technical lead for Paddy Power Betfairs i2 project, which has created a new greenfield private cloud platform for Paddy Power Betfair using OpenStack and Software Defined Networking in order to support continuous delivery of all Paddy Power Betfair micro-service applications.