A talk filled with war stories from designing and building a multi site public cloud service on OpenStack with all the bells and whistles expected, including a custom control panel. And keeping the beast running and up to date.
Thoughts on design - going with community or propriatary vendor solutions.
Due to hysterical reasons - from manual installation to Ansible Openstack and the path between
A bewildering story of networking.
Handling hardware
Around the world in 80 ms - coping with multiple locations and making them cooperate.
The sad state of billing.
Minor bugs, issues and and live patching.
Vendor support - or the lack thereof.
The API and coding against it.
The importance of test and development systems.
Supporting the mess, from customer input to fix in production.
