OpenStack Summit May 2014 Atlanta

To promote innovation within IBM, the presenters set out to create the CloudFirst Factory, a one of a kind large multi-cloud OpenStack-based environment . Running on a total of 168 physical servers, the clouds received a substantial amount of use from the Cloud Foundry-based IBM BlueMix. The presenters will describe their experiences operating the environments with OpenStack Folsom and Grizzly releases as well as a production Folsom to Grizzly upgrade. This session also covers initial architecture decisions, the evolution of the same and the challenges in overcoming shortcomings in the original deployment.