The document discusses some of the key challenges of operating in the cloud including: 1) Provisioning of machines and services is no longer centralized and static, as instances come and go frequently due to scaling. 2) Automated provisioning, configuration management, monitoring, and orchestration are foundational elements for cloud operations to address the dynamic nature. 3) Configuration management is needed to ensure correct configurations are consistently applied as instances come and go, but risks building up cruft if not done properly. 4) Monitoring at the instance level is less important due to scaling, and metrics need to be monitored at the application or service level to determine when alerts should be triggered.

1. Ops in the Cloud Puppetconf David Nalley [email_address]

3. Recovering sysadmin

4. Community Manager for CloudStack

6. Zenoss

7. Number of others to lesser degrees

9. A presentation about the cloud (hopefully you know what that is)

10. A detailed checklist of what to do to get it right.

12. Scaling means that machines come and go and come and go, and come and go.

13. You may or may not have the same level of access that you are used to.

14. Things happen MUCH faster

16. Config Management

17. Monitoring

18. Orchestration

20. No access to the typical things you'd likely have access to even with virtualization.

21. AMI, VHD, OVA, OVF, QCOW2, VMDK, oh my!

22. Have disk image, how to start? Multiple clouds?

27. Did the machine die, or did something magically decommission it? Or is it 'Cloud HA'?

29. Scheduling batch jobs, app deployment.

30. How do you know how many appservers there are at any given time that you should be orchestrating?