BEING TRUEA journey to OpenStack and MidoNet

Cody Herriges• Went to business school

• In the field trained *nix Systems Administrator

• A focus on developing and building my way out of problems

• Joined Puppet Labs in 2010

PUPPET LABSManaging more than 10 million systems and devices

Puppet Labs• Founded in 2005

• Writes and maintains automation software

• Including the industry leading configuration management software Puppet

• Headquartered in Portland, OR

• Partnered with Networld in Japan

SysOps supports• Public facing web applications

• Enterprise infrastructure for end-users

• Continuous Integration compute and storage resources

SysOps is• Enterprise IT, with a twist

• A bunch of hackers

• Engineering

• Community advocates

• Generalists

SysOps is not• A "VMware shop"

• Windows admins

• A diehard fan

• Attracted to shiny things

Challenges• Current system

• The vSphere API and UI

• Visibility

• Automation

• Performance

Challenges• Migrating

• Tightly coupled tools

• Never ending release cycle

• We are self supporting

• Automating it all

• Users

For OpenStack• Opensource

• Built from known and proven components

• Strong ecosystem

• Familiar architecture

• Flexibility

Finding Midokura• Ran into Dan Conde

• Were ridiculously helpful and good to work with

• Similar challenges in the market

For Midonet• A solution SysOps can manage and NetOps

can approve

• Opensource

• Distributed

• Simply automated

Goals• Provide an interface users love to use

• Improve availability

• Scale horizontally

• Greater visibility

• Decrease MTR

Hiring

http://jobs.puppetlabs.com

(SysOps is behind on our yearly hiring plan...)