PRIVATE CLOUDS IN RETAIL MAY 8, 2017 AGENDA MY HISTORY @ GAP, INC. A STORY YOU HAVE PROBABLY HEARD BEFORE HOW WE USE OPENSTACK OPENSOURCE & PARTNERSHIPS PUBLIC CLOUD, DEVOPS, AND BEING AN IAAS PROVIDER Q&A A BRIEF HISTORY… AND USE CASE. Eli J. Elliott CLOUD DOMAIN ARCHITECT @ GAP, INC. HOW WE USE OPENSTACK NOW 1. 5 private clouds Multi-Datacenter Next-Gen functionality 2. Multi-tenancy CI/CD Millions served 3. Ecommerce! SFS/RFS/OIS Lots more to come INFRASTRUCTURE Infrastructure delivery can be accelerated by an order of magnitude or more on day 1. PIPELINE CI or ISO testing pipelines live here. All the cattle all the time. CHALLENGES Cattle vs Pets, Networking, Adoption, and DevOps BENEFITS Cattle vs Pets, Networking, Adoption, and DevOps FINDING PARTNERS AKA HOW A RETAIL COMPANY CAN GIVE BACK TO THE OPENSOURCE COMMUNITY… AND DRIVE VENDORS NUTS. PUBLIC/PRIVATE/HYBRID CLOUDS DEVOPS & IAAS AS A PROVIDER SUBHEAD • I heard Boris this morning talking about Vertical integration. • What did Gap learn about integrating multiple vendors? • Why not put everything in the public cloud? • What would a hybrid model get us? • I hear the term DevOPs used a lot. • If this is what I’m enabling will it put us out of a job? • Infrastructure as a Service as a service • Am I doing it with openstack? • What else can/should I do? • What is the end game? [email protected] | TWITTER: @ELIELLIOTT Q&A | IRC: EFNET #LINUX – GRAYWOLF FREENODE - GRAYWOLF
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