Building Clouds on Apache CloudStack: An Introduction
summary
Apache CloudStack is an installable IaaS that orchestrates network, compute and storage with broad hypervisor support (KVM, VMware, Xen, Hyper-V coming) and an API compatible with AWS EC2/S3 so existing tooling and scripts work. A tiny HA pair of management servers controls very large clouds (a cited deployment manages 35,000+ hosts managed by two HA management servers), using zones/pods/hosts, primary/secondary storage, snapshots copied to secondary, VPN/VPC and load‑balancing; the virtual router is a Debian wheezy system VM and automation uses tools like cloudmonkey and the REST API.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction to CloudStack
- 1:42CloudStack core concepts
- 4:43IaaS market landscape
- 8:06History and adoption
- 11:59Use cases and benefits
- 15:10Architecture overview
- 17:04Deployment and networking
- 20:49User interface demonstration
- 34:14Advanced networking features
- 37:31VPC functionality and API
- 42:14Q&A session
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