Building and Operating an OpenStack Cloud with a Small Team

ScaleUp has been running a public cloud infrastructure in Germany for a couple of years now. Initially, this cloud was built and operated by a single person. He did spend roughly 10 months on implementing the first installation. In this presentation we will talk about our best practices and lessons learned, building and operating a public cloud with a team of only two people. We will talk about our setup in general, how we automated adding new nodes, how we accomplished upgrading the infrastruct