Tutorial: Building Secure and Scalable Private Cloud Infrastructure with OpenStack

Cloud computing has opened new horizons for organisation to meet increasing demand of computing and storage resources without huge upfront investment. Public and private Cloud infrastructures are two of the most common deployment models. Whilst public clouds led the trend of Cloud computing adoption, there is an increasing trend to build and manage private cloud infrastructures for several reasons with security, privacy, and data location management being the predominant concerns. However, there is not much guidance on building, operating, trouble-shooting, and managing a secure and scalable private cloud infrastructure, especially for public agencies. Drawing on our extensive research on architecting and implementing cloud-based systems and experience of building private cloud infrastructures using Open Source Software such as OpenStack technologies, this tutorial will discuss the architectural and technological challenges and solutions for designing and implementing cloud systems. This tutorial will provide the participants with important knowledge and understanding about the theoretical principles and practical techniques for implementing and managing secure and scalable private cloud infrastructures for business and mission-critical systems. The presenters will also describe the technical strengths and limitations of OpenStack cloud software and its related tools for designing and implementing a dynamically reconfigurable Cloud computing infrastructure. We will share our experiences from experimentally building and evaluating private cloud infrastructures using OpenStack cloud software (such as Rackspace, Mirantis Fuel, and DevStack), different virtualization software (such as KVM and VMware's ESXi), and baremetal provisioning tools (such as Razor and CloneZilla). The tutorial will also share some lessons learned from a recent completed Rd project aimed at building a private cloud infrastructures using OpenStack technologies, different hypervisors, and baremetal provisioning tools. The participants will have an opportunity to get involved in practical exercises for deploying and experimenting private cloud infrastructure with OpenStack.