Audience Level Intermediate Synopsis Hostworks is a part of the Inabox group and an Australian based Managed Hosting and Services Provider with a strong background in management of infrastructure, servers, and applications following Traditional Enterprise management practices. 2 years ago, we began our transition to adopt and deploy cloud technologies and mindsets with an on On-Premises OpenStack platform as part of a larger hybrid cloud offering. This presentation details how we did it, what went wrong, and what went right, important lessons and recommendations for other businesses who wish to follow the same path. Speaker Bio: Daniel is Platform Engineer at Hostworks and specialises in their On-Premises OpenStack cloud offering.

2. ABOUT ME
DANIEL RUSSELL
Platform Engineer
9 Years at Hostworks
2.5 Years OpenStack
Sys Admin

3. HOSTWORKS
“TRADITIONAL ENTERPRISE”
COLO TO FULL STACK RACI
SLA
ITIL
OLA

4. DRIVE TO CHANGE
Guerrilla programmers in the midst
Cost of disposable cloud less after initial pain

5. THE START
Price control
Easier integration to existing tools
Flexible colo for our customers
CloudStack vs. OpenStack

6. THE COMPLETION BEER
Stone Imperial Russian Stout
Brewed by Stone Brewing
Style: Imperial Stout (Top 50)
Escondido, California USA
Serve in Snifter
Overall
Style100
99
BA SCORE
96
World-class
8,359 Ratings
THE BROS
93
Outstanding

7. VENDORS
Vendors are keen
Pre-sales catching up on OpenStack
Be suspicious. Check the detail
Stick with OpenStack ‘defaults’ unless you need a feature

8. CODE MANAGEMENT
You will need to integrate code from upstream to fix bugs
Do not make your own patches (unless you push it upstream)
Features are merged to master quickly

9. MINDSET SHIFT
Pets vs Cattle
Traditional vs OpenStack
Servers vs Functions
Role blending

10. Systems
Virtualisation
Network
App
O/SVirt
Network

11. Systems
OpenStack
Network
App
O/SVirt
Network

12. OPERATIONS
Automate!
Non-PROD environments!
Docker + ELK
OSOps maybe in the future

13. THE LAUNCH

14. HOW WAS THE BEER?
No idea
Critical to keep up to date

15. WHERE ARE WE NOW?
Time from customer idea to customer have gone
from 1 week to 5 minutes
More customers interested all the time
We trigger our own DDoS detectors

16. QUESTIONS