(Tutorial) Building a Test/Dev Cloud with Apache CloudStack
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Explains how to build a self‑service test/dev cloud with Apache CloudStack, showing zone/pod/cluster setup, networking choices (VLANs vs layer‑3 security groups), and storage options (local, shared, zone‑wide). Demonstrates the quick install path and automation with Cloud Monkey and knife‑cloudstack plus Chef/Puppet/Salt/Ansible hooks, and recommends local storage for fastest, cheapest Dev/Test. Calls out limits: 50,000 hosts with four management servers in production, VLAN scaling issues and AWS default 20 instance quota. Demo config runs and setup mostly works.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 4:10About me
- 5:06siloed view of the world
- 8:05IT operations is not what developers want
- 10:13Get rid of the waiting
- 10:51What is CloudStack
- 11:45CloudStack focus
- 12:21Architecture
- 12:58Regions
- 14:58Zones
- 23:11Network Deployment
- 23:30VLAN for Isolation
- 31:29Orchestration Allocation
- 34:18Network Allocation
- 39:19Virtual Router
- 41:22Virtual Console
- 42:28Secondary Storage VM
- 46:43SelfService
- 50:31Provisioning
- 51:20User Interface
- 51:55Tools
- 53:38Chef CloudStack
- 57:52Deploying CloudStack
- 59:09Jevons Paradox
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