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Server provisioning: What Network Admins and IT Pros need to know
Contents
Executive summary 05
Conclusion 18
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Executive summary
As Larry Ellison, founder of Oracle, once This shift has forced data centre operators to Big Software is the key driver forcing
famously said of cloud All it is, is a computer look to alternative methods of operation that Organisations to focus on tools and models to
attached to a network. Larry and Oracle have can deliver huge scale while reducing costs. deploy and manage workloads and applications
since embraced cloud technologies such as spread across scaled-out environments, including
OpenStack yet the basic premise that it starts As the pendulum swings, scale-out represents disparate data centre and cloud environments.
with a physical server and a network still holds a major shift in how data centres are deployed All the while, optimising components within
true. Organisations wishing to run a cloud on today. This approach presents a more agile and distributed, often hyper-converged hardware
premises need to master bare metal servers flexible way to drive value to cloud deployments environments.
and networking and this is causing a major while reducing overhead and operational costs.
transition in the datacenter. Scale-out is driven by a new era of software
(web, Hadoop, Mongodb, ELK, NoSQL, etc.)
Big Software, IoT (Internet of Things), and Big that enables Organisations to take advantage
Data are changing how operators must architect of hardware efficiencies whilst leveraging
and deploy and managed servers and networks. existing or new infrastructure to automate
The traditional Enterprise scale-up models of and scale machines and cloud-based workloads
delivering monolithic software on a limited across distributed, heterogeneous environments.
number of big machines are being replaced by This next generation of software brings new
scale-out solutions that are deployed across automation and deployment tools, efficiencies,
many environments on many servers. and methods for deploying distributed systems
in the cloud.
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Hardware has always been an expensive and Organisations are looking for more efficient MAAS is trusted by
difficult resource to deploy within a data centre, ways to balance their hardware and infrastructure
but is unfortunately still a major consideration investments with the efficiencies of the cloud.
for any organisation moving all or part of their Canonicals MAAS (Metal As A Service) is such
infrastructure to the cloud. a technology. MAAS is effectively a hardware
API that turns bare metal servers into its own
To become more cost-effective, Organisations cloud, without virtual machines. MAAS is
hire teams of developers to cobble together designed for devops at scale, in places where
software solutions that solve functional bare metal is the best way to run your app.
business challenges while leveraging existing Big data, private cloud, PAAS and HPC all
legacy hardware in the hopes of offsetting thrive on MAAS.
the need to buy and deploy more hardware-
based solutions. VMs require a hypervisor,
which enables streamlined operations through
software, but managing the hardware itself
remains a painful journey through proprietary
APIs and often incompletely-implemented
specifications like Distributed Management
Task Forces IPMI (intelligent platform
management interface).
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MAAS is much like any XaaS business model MAAS is the fastest way
dedicated to a specific tenant, but the main
difference is customers choose the type of
to deploy operating systems
compute configuration they want in their servers
(e.g. x86, single dual, quad core processors)
combined with applicable storage, memory,
and other functionality. Applications and
workloads are deployed onto servers that
have the sufficient compute power, storage,
and an operating system that allows for
optimal performance and efficiency.
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MAAS Region Controller (regiond)
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Smart Data Centers automatic an orchestration tool is required, their infrastructure via private cloud. However,
but MAAS ensures the reallocation is done during peak demand times they require
Servers installed within a data centre typically quickly. extra support via public cloud providers like
serves a single purpose for the duration of its Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and
life. Smart data centres enable the full utilisation Google Cloud Platform. Canonicals Juju works
Hybrid Cloud
of hardware, thus improving the total cost of seamlessly between each environment to
ownership (TCO). With MAAS, smart data centre ensure communications between public cloud
In a hybrid cloud environment, which is an
operators like Walmart and Box can quickly APIs and the organisations private cloud (i.e
environment that leverages on-premise
power off a server and install a different OS for OpenStack). In some cases, the private cloud
or private cloud infrastructure with public
a few hours to perform different tasks. MAAS needs to run from bare metal servers (i.e.
cloud utilising orchestration tools or service
enables multi purpose server usage which Hadoop). In those cases, the only possible way
modeling solutions, MAAS optimises and
improves efficiency and doesnt let servers to interface at that level is with MAAS, which
unifies operations. MAAS exposes bare-metal
go underutilised. provides an API that allows administrators
server provisioning operations and an API
and users to provision solutions like a VM.
(application programming interface) that can
For example, banks typically use full server be consumed by service modeling solutions
power during their normal work hours, taking Each of these examples demonstrates how
like Canonicals Juju as the building blocks for
in requests from customers (e.g. web banking). forward-thinking Organisations are using
an optimised hybrid cloud.
During low volume traffic, unutilised server MAAS and other technologies to take full
power can be redeployed dynamically to do advantage of their infrastructure investments.
As an example, many large enterprises that
perform other tasks e.g. fraud detection, batch rely on transactions as a major part of their
processing, etc. To make this process completely business model (retail, airlines, etc.) manage
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Systems must be configured to ensure maximum for transcoding video 20 minutes ago is now a Further, by complementing MAAS with Juju, IT
throughput and service delivery. Because each Kubernetes worker node, later a Hadoop Map- Organisations can leverage bundles of Charms
application has different demands and resource Reduce node, and tomorrow something else (sets of encapsulated code for deploying and
utilisation, many Organisations tend to over-build entirely. managing services) to automatically deploy
to compensate for peak-load, or they will over- and configure various server software stacks
provision VMs to ensure enough capacity years One of the often overlooked components and applications functionality. Juju integrates
out. With MAAS, todays IT Pros no longer have to scale-out are the tools and techniques seamlessly with MAAS, making it possible to
to perform capacity planning five-years out. for leveraging bare metal servers within the centrally deploy software to the hardware nodes
Instead, they can develop strategies for creating environment. What happens in the next 3-5 in a server cluster. Using MAAS and Juju together
differently configured hardware and cloud years will determine how end-to-end solutions can significantly reduce the difficulty deploying
archetypes to cover all classes of applications are architected for the next several decades. an OpenStack private cloud, thereby increasing
within their current environment and existing OpenStack has provided an alternative to time to market.
IT investments. public cloud. Containers have brought new
efficiencies and functionality over traditional
MAAS makes it possible for Organisations to VM models, and service modeling brings new
make the most of their hardware by enabling flexibility and agility to both enterprises and
hardware to reprovision systems for the needs service providers, while leveraging existing
of the data centre. For example, a server used hardware infrastructure investments to deliver
application functionality more effectively.
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