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A Premium Bare Metal Cloud Built for Automation
● Fully dedicated servers, no co-tenancy● Billed by the hour & available in minutes via API
● No hypervisor, no virtualization● Backed by our global, IPv6 network
Wait, no virtualization at all?
Nope.(unless you bring your own)
Which, when building a cloud platform, presents some unique challenges...
Public clouds (AWS, Digital Ocean, GCE) all rely on a hypervisor or containers to automate the provisioning of virtual machines to end users.
THE CHALLENGE
In order to automate “Layer 0” for developers, we we had to build core infrastructure components from the ground up.
But first we tried to do it with OpenStack.
THE FAILURE
( our now infamous blog post about this available here: https://www.packet.net/blog/how-we-failed-at-openstack/ )
Learning from the limitations in OpenStack, we decided to start over with an api-driven microservices framework strategy. This meant developing purpose-built services for each requirement.
Micro services for each component of the physical datacenter.
PACKET PLATFORM
➢ Built in golang and Ruby
➢ Everything in Docker and CoreOS
➢ Orchestrated and managed with Rancher
➢ Testing with shippable, image builds with quay.io
Micro services for each component of the physical datacenter.
PACKET PLATFORM
Power and Boot Control
PB&J
EC2 Style Metadata
Kant
iPXE Server & Imaging
Tinkerbell
Netflow Agg & Analysis
Soren
Multi-Tenant IPAM
Magnum IP
Physical Switch SDN
Narwhal
Device, Project, Billing, Token Management
Client Portal
Internal and External Services
API
Accessed by End Users
Serial ConsoleOut of Band
Access
SOS
Security challenge: IP based authentication, no hypervisor, our layer 3 acl solution
KANTEC2 Compatible Metadata Service
EC2 has a problematic url structure / IP address (eg: http://169.254.169.254/latest/meta-data/ )
Available at https://metadata.packet.net from all hosts
API driven DHCP and iPXE server
TinkerbelliPXE Server & Imaging
Handles delivery and selection of both end user operating system images, and also our deprovision images
Replacement for cobbler, provides massive stability and speed improvements as well as better diagnostic data and visibility in every stage of provisioning
NarwhalPhysical Switch / Router SDN
apparently there aren’t any entertaining public domain pictures or gifs of narwhals. apologies.
Overcomes one of the biggest limitations of OpenStack for us, which is very vlan oriented
Configures the network ACLs and handles our elastic IP addressing, batches thousands of operations an hour
NarwhalPhysical Switch / Router SDN
Built to be “pluggable” to accommodate other vendors in the future, like Cisco and Arista
Ingests all of our network flow data and tags it
Allows us to do things like destination based bandwidth billing and tiered bandwidth
SorenNetflow Aggregation & Analysis
Gives us the ability to expose much more network intelligence to end users, such at top talkers and last mile reachability
PB&JPower and Boot Control (IPMI / DRAC)
this is our favorite result in google image search for “fucking ipmi”
Abstracts much of the ugliness of IPMI and DRAC from our API
Gives us access to health and other hardware monitoring as well
PB&JPower and Boot Control (IPMI / DRAC)
Roadmap to support redfish and potentially open source the library in the future
NO OVERLAYSFrom network to host, we provide elastic control without adding network or hardware abstraction.
MICROSERVICE BASEDShippable, immutable independent services that are easy to use, scale and troubleshoot.
REPRODUCIBLE & DEPENDABLE99% of our 25k monthly installs succeed with an average provision time of ~8 minutes.
MODERN & SCALABLE
CURRENT CONFIGS
We Also Offer High Performance Block Storage and Elastic IP Addressing. Our Arm64 “Type A” is coming soon.
INTEGRATIONSWe offer developers a consistent infrastructure experience that
integrates with leading platforms and dev tools - but with the firepower and flexibility of bare metal.
FEATURE ROADMAPView our roadmap online and vote up your features: http://baremet.al/2016-roadmap
Key features in 2016 are a spot market for bare metal, BY-OS support, RexRay + Flocker drivers, custom gateway for VPC, capacity API, Windows/ESXI/FreeBSD support
THANKS!Any questions?You can find us at @packethost & [email protected]