
Kenneth Hui @rubrikInc HQ71































Le's start with our 1st question 4 everyone:
How much and where have you seen progress in terms of OpenStack being more operator friendly?
How much and where have you seen progress in terms of OpenStack being more operator friendly?

John Furrier
I didn't go to Paris but I heard that was the focus

Scott Carlson
At the beginning there was so much to the command line that you needed to know. From a pure "L1" operator standpoint, the advances in the 'GUI' have helped tremendously!

cloud foreign
while in the early days Ops was clearly an afterthought, I do like the work being done in the last year or so to engage ops: full days at the summits, mid-cycles, etc. Chance to share war stories/best practices.

cloud foreign
also it seem that most (if not all) of the projects are taking a hard(er) look at what it means to run this thing.

cloud foreign
sat in on a design session about logging for instance: we know it is broken, and we want to get it fixed.

Shamail Tahir
@craig_tracey @relaxed137 Any upcoming changes in Kilo+ that you are looking forward to as operators?

Scott Carlson
Unless your average 'NOC' person can run and support your cloud, it won't penetrate fully. integration into common DC tooling for logging/monitoring needs to continue. It's come a ways, but needs more.

Tim Bell
Upgrade experience has significantly improved in the last release. Since we went production in July 2013, we've done two upgrades without impact on running VMs.

Sean Winn
It's gotten easier to manage over time but still a long way to go especially in the areas of logging and monitoring. Menesca introduces some good ideas, but I'm not sold yet.

cloud foreign
@ShamailXD looking forward to better logging, more robust policy management and a common CLI.

Mike Onsing
Many people are skeptical of openstack based upon the social networks but I'm not an expert

Mike Onsing
I don't understand EMCs connection to openstack? Can you explain for me who is in tech but not in the deep insider #openstack #cloud world

Tyler Britten
@noggin143 what would you say are 'must have' tools in your ops toolchain?

John Furrier
@mikeonsing They make storage and own VMware and IT enterprises all want openstack not pure AWS cloud

Evan Powell
OpenStack is loosing / has lost the hyperscale folks who one w/d think w/d want the 100% API driven infrastructure of OpenStack. And is too tough for mainstream enterprise. Or am I off base?

David Pollack
Defiinition of mainstream enterprise? Which customers driving this? Finance, hyper-enterprise, retail, Operators?

Tim Bell
@vmtyler There are lots of options. The user survey at http://superuser.ope... gives the common ones.

OpenStack User Survey Insights: November 2014
Results from the latest user survey are revealed at the OpenStack Summit in Paris.
Results from the latest user survey are revealed at the OpenStack Summit in Paris.

Scott Carlson
@epowell101 there are enterprises who need to build their own and enterprises who want to buy it "in a box" which IMHO is why we see a lot of "in a box" players right now. It does need to "JUS WORK" for your average enterprise.

Rodrigo Gazzaneo
@mikeonsing #EMC first contributed to help integrate leading storage platforms to #OpenStack releases

John Furrier
@epowell101 I am hearing tons of FUD on openstack and hearing great stuff. Someone is getting signals crossed.

Rodrigo Gazzaneo
@mikeonsing leading enterprise storage platforms like @EMCVMAX and @EMC_VNX are fully integrated with #cinder #openstack storage driver

Evan Powell
@relaxed137 Maybe... I think there is a moving target. If we converge OpenStack towards today's enterprise operations we will miss the shift towards "real" DevOps which is a real (and complicated) trend.

Evan Powell
@noggin143 How do you wire together the components? mCollective plus scripts plus Puppet and so forth? Very useful info.

Scott Carlson
@epowell101 Dev ops though is iterative and requires infrastructure that allows you to iterate. Code based 'Dev ops', dynamic security controls, and dynamic 'cloud' updates are all required. but it must all work

Evan Powell
@relaxed137 Agreed. DevOps = far bigger trend than simply cloud X or Y imo. Cloud X or Y or tool Z are just enablers for actually achieving step function agility boost.

Rodrigo Gazzaneo
@mikeonsing case you haven't seen https://www.emc.com/...

Tim Bell
@epowell101 We use the puppetlabs OpenStack modules and rpms based on the RDO packages. some care is needed to avoid all the cloud upgrading at once so we stage updates through QA and cell by cell.

Rodrigo Gazzaneo

What EMC Is Up To With OpenStack Cloud Solutions
Today, EMC is announcing the availability of a family of EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solutions, including engineered IaaS solutions based on VMware, Microsoft, and OpenStack technologies. The offi...
Today, EMC is announcing the availability of a family of EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solutions, including engineered IaaS solutions based on VMware, Microsoft, and OpenStack technologies. The offi...

Sean Winn
@vGazza @mikeonsing #EMC announced solutions that will span the VMWare, OpenStack and Microsoft cloud solutions! Hybrid cloud is evolving.

Randy Bias
@epowell101 You're off base. OpenStack has no value for the true hyper scale folks. Just smaller web/tech outfits.

Randy Bias
@epowell101 OpenStack and devops are only indirectly related. Mostly orthogonal.

Randy Bias
@noggin143 What about the significant changes you made in the networking stack?