LINE's Journey: Road to 4 Million Cores in the Private Cloud

Explore LINE Corporation's journey in scaling their private cloud, Verda, to 4 million cores over a 5-year period. Delve into the challenges faced, lessons learned, and innovative solutions implemented during the cloud's evolution. Gain insights into the infrastructure scale, service stack, and key development phases of Verda. Discover the requirements for bare metal server management and learn about the new architecture, including the bare metal compute driver. Examine the Verda Dashboard's features, such as stock management and HA Group support with failure domain. Understand the deployment procedures and how LINE overcame various obstacles to achieve significant growth in their OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure.

Intro
Verda Private Cloud
Verda & LINE infra scale
Service stack in the Verda
Start up period
Expansion period
New infra period
Lesson learned from the 7 years journey
Background
Requirements for baremetal server management
What can be done to archive requirements
What is baremetal compute driver
New architecture
Verda Dashboard - VM / Baremetal server management
Deep dive to features
Stock management
HA Group support with failure domain
Deployment procedure