Cloud Computing

Jumping into the PoolParty

Ari Lerner @ CitrusByte

Why cloud compute?
• Distributed

• Flexible

• Centralization

• Minimization of capital expenditure

• Performance

• Multitenancy

• Shared resourcing
Cool!
What?
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Scalable flexibility
Cool
Enter
PoolParty
What?
• Not ruby-specific
• Easy cloud computing
• High-level configuration
• DRY
• Extensible
 Provisioner

• Simple DSL for designing clouds

• Hassle-free installation
• Write once, use again and again
 Maintainer

• Monitors the cloud

• Auto-heals the cloud
 Scaler

• Monitors load on the cloud

• Expands the cloud
• Contracts the cloud
• Highly extensible
• Highly configurable
• Plugin-based recipes
History
Open-sourced just under 2 months ago
Overwhelmingly positive response
3 core iterations
Growing number of contributers
Granular-ization of code
Highly extensible
Cool!
How?
➡ Install

➡ Setup

➡ Configure

➡ Deploy

➡ Smile
 Install

sudo gem install auser-poolparty

 Setup

(sign up with aws at aws.amazon.com)

rake dev:init
(follow instructions)
rake dev:setup
 Configure

Options:
a) Create your config/config.yml
b) Write the config on the command-line
 Deploy

Deployment is not poolparty specific

Plugins are available now for deployment:
git deploy plugin
cap deploy plugin - coming soon
 Smile (DSL)

instance ssh
pool -v clouds_list
pool list
...
Demo
What’s happening now?

• Large core-rewrite
• Expert system, machine learning scaling
• New core cloud-speak DSL
 Coming soon

solution :myapp do
cloud :db do
mysql :master => 1, :max_slaves => 4
end
cloud :web do
rails ...
end
cloud :indexing
sphinx ...
end
end
 Coming soon

:myapp:
:db:
:mysql:
:master: 1
:max_slaves: 4
:web:
:rails:
...
:indexer:
:sphinx:
...
 Get involved

• irc.freenode.net / #poolpartyrb
• http://poolpartyrb.com/resources
• http://groups.google.com/group/
poolpartyrb
• ari.lerner@citrusbyte.com
Questions?
Thank you