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RightScale overview for AWS User Group
RightScale is a startup cloud management platform provider with 250 employees. It provides tools to manage deployments on multiple public clouds through a single control plane that abstracts differences between clouds. This allows for remote control of configuration, automation, and governance. RightScale has various clients such as Zynga and PBS that use its tools to scale workloads, achieve high availability, and gain visibility into their cloud infrastructure.
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RightScale overview for AWS User Group
- 1. Giri Fox @girifox gfox@rightscale.com Cloud Management
- 2. What is RightScale? CloudManagement
- 3. 3# RightScale a startedup • ~250 staff • October: opened office in Australia • HQ in Southern California • 25% of our people are ―cloudies‖ • Founded 2006 • $47M venture capital invested Cloud Management
- 4. 4# Credible Cloud Management
- 5. 5# RightScale defined CloudManagement • World’s public cloud management platform • Managing cloud deployments globally for • • More than launched supported cloud providers and counting Cloud Management
- 6. 6# Conceptual Abstracts the architecture to above the IaaS. Abstracts cloud specifics. Provision servers with dynamic inputs such as addresses (e.g. DNS, load balancer), processes (e.g. monitoring), user names and locations (e.g. logs, applications, databases) Cloud Management
- 7. 7# Once abstracted, you gain remote control CONFIGURATION AUTOMATION GOVERNANCE ® Public Clouds Private Clouds my network my storage my servers Cloud Management
- 8. 8# Midwest Chicago London Amsterdam Beijing Seattle Dublin Oregon Seoul NYC Area SF Area Tokyo DC Area Las Vegas Southeast Hong Kong Hyderabad Singapore Dallas São Paulo Sydney Public & Managed Clouds Private Clouds Amazon Web Services IDCF / Yahoo! Japan SoftLayer Datapipe Korea Telecom Tata Google Cloud Platform Logicworks UnGeo HP Cloud Rackspace Windows Azure Cloud Management
- 9. 9# RightScale Cloud Management Governance Controls Automation Engine Control access and security, track Monitor, alert, auto-scale, and usage, and access logs automate operations MultiCloud Marketplace™ Configuration Framework Access cloud-ready, customizable Provision servers and execute scripts ServerTemplates™ with consistency MultiCloud Platform Manage public, private, and hybrid clouds Cloud Management
- 10. RightScale is aSaaS
- 12. 12# Cloud cost forecasting Cloud Management
- 14. 14# planforcloud.com Cloud Management
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- 16. 16# Example RightScale clients • Animoto • PhotoMerchant (Australian company) • PBS broadcaster • Zynga Cloud Management
- 17. 17# “RightScale helped usscale from 40 servers to 4,000 servers in only 3 days! Without EC2 and RightScale, it would have been impossible to meet our processing requirements. "We got the architecture right at the beginning." Scaling control by RightScale. Compute by AWS. Cloud Management
- 18. 18# Reliability, Scalability, Visibility Cloud Management
- 19. 19# Key Technical Challenges 5k– 10k High res images/hr 2 million requests/hr Zero unscheduled downtime Speed Cloud Management
- 20. 20# 5k – 10kHigh Res Images/hr Generate 20 previews per image Do it all in seconds Auto Scaling Queue based Automatic spot instance bidding Cloud Management
- 21. 21# 2 Million Requests/ hr Load balancing Auto scaling Load based Completely automated Cloud Management
- 22. 22# Hybrid Cloud atZynga Zynga manages their public and hybrid cloud (―zCloud‖) with RightScale 1,000 servers can be launched in 24 hours 100x increase in infrastructure in 2 years Shifted from 20% to 80% of workloads in zCloud in 1 year > 1.4 petabytes of data in their entire database > 10000 servers (the figure isn't public) 24.5 trillion rows in their data warehouse (in 2011) Cloud Management
- 23. 23# PBS (the USbroadcaster) Unique visitors: 18M /mo Page views: 367M /mo Video streams: 93M /mo Mobile Apps • 27% of hours watched, 11% of streams Cloud Management
- 24. 24# PBS — currentinfrastructure • ~270 EC2 machines • 75 ELBs • 260 Elastic IPs • 5 AWS accounts • 52 RDS databases • 608 EBS volumes and many S3 buckets Cloud Management
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- 26. James Hamilton ofAWS, at re:Invent Not a RightScale talk, yet many of these issues are problems we solve
- 27. 27# For newer AWSusers • Outage mitigation and continuity • Billing and chargeback • Security and compliance • Pre-built AWS environments to get started quickly: • Deploy from a catalog of pre-built, tested, and proven architectures • Access entire solutions, that include fully functioning open source and ISV architectures and software stacks • Out-of-the-box HA templates for MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL Cloud Management
- 28. 28# Marketplace Application stack store • Published by RightScale, partners, and users • Versioned and supported License management • ISV single billing and pay-per-hour billing • Open source Cloud Management
- 29. 29# MultiCloud Marketplace Cloud-ready stacks Pre-built by our ecosystem App & Web Servers RightScale Databases & Caches ISV Partners And more… Community Cloud Management
- 30. 30# More experienced AWSusers • Structure and Visualise Systems • Organize AWS resources and visualize cross dependencies • Manage and monitor AWS resources in the context of the applications they support by organising groups into a ―Deployment‖ • Control Diverse Environments • Manage many AWS accounts • Logically organise multiple AWS accounts and users in groups. Cloud Management
- 31. 31# More experienced AWSusers • Operate Efficiently • Lifecycle management from development to production • Develop in an environment that looks like production, cloning systems • Orchestrate large and complex environments • Take bulk actions on AWS instances and volumes, including setting alarms and auto-scaling, running scripts, and applying patches. • Orchestrate resources within a deployment to enable custom launch sequences, backup and failover, code pushes, and more. Capacity management • Auto-scaling with complex launch and decommision rules Cloud Management
- 32. 32# Automation and MonitoringEngine • Application-level and server monitoring • Alerts and escalations Cloud Management
- 33. 33# Mature user • Survivestaff turnover: • Self-documenting with modular components you to share standards as users change • Achieve Security and Compliance: • Audit change history, audit security groups, and control configuration versions to help ensure accountability. Cloud Management
- 34. 34# Governance Controls Identity andaccess management • Authentication, roles, permissions • Umbrella accounts and sharing Usage and cost management • Cost tracking and quotas • Real-time run rate projections Cloud Management
- 35. 35# Try it outfree: rightscale.com • 5 Users and Community Support • Free account — no credit card required • Enjoy free monthly usage of up to ~5 small servers (c1.medium) Cloud Management
- 36. Come to atalk Get some swag in adult sizes too
- 37. Thank you! Giri Fox @girifox gfox@rightscale.com Awesome level of abstraction Achieve new levels of resiliency & automation Gain visibility and control Free trial at rightscale.com Cloud Management
Editor's Notes
- #4 RightScale is based in southern CAWe are now up to 250 employees including software development contractors contractors. We have steadily and quickly growing since RightScale got started in 2006.The business went global from the start, and we now have offices in London, Tokyo, Singapore, and Seoul
- #8 From technical sys admin to the business userIT can maintain control, developers can customize, and operations can automate. Everyone can get the agility of the cloudBusiness is agile, efficient, and innovative.Enabling the basic benefits, that is what this platform is about.RightScale make the power of cloud accessible to everyone with automated solutions that are easy to use.Great technology is invisible.RightScale takes care of the annoying but critical details for operational excellence.
- #24 Image is PBSkids
- #25 Image is their producer websiters