Operational Dashboard for Apache CloudStack (ODAC)

Who Am I?• Chip Childers• Work on Apache CloudStack• Previously with SunGard Availability Services• Now with CumuLogic• Background in Web Development and

Operational tool development

Question: Does the CloudStack UI Scale for large environments?

Key Issues• Visual scalability• Determining qualitative value of each potential

metric• No capacity trending

Zone View

• Uses D3.js• Decision Tree:

• Unmanaged / Maintenance - Gray

• Error - Red• Highest of Memory or

CPU allocation dictates color along green > orange > red linear scale

Project Components• cs-operator-dash - contains the Rails UI• cs_eventconsumer - a gem that can run a daemon

process to pull CloudStack events out of a RabbitMQ broker and push them into MongoDB

• cs_capacityretriever - a gem that can run a daemon process to periodically pull various capacity information from a CloudStack management server via my cloudstack_ruby_client gem, again pushing that data into MongoDB

Futures?• Take the experiment back into the Apache

CloudStack project? (not implementation, just ideas)

• Separate project long term?• Should there be a “cloud operator” dashboard

for multiple “stacks”?

Thanks!

(and go fork it!)

• https://github.com/chipchilders/odac