Explore a 14-minute conference talk that delves into the journey of managing and operating a production-level private cloud infrastructure using OpenStack and Kubernetes. Learn how a team successfully deployed and maintained a massive 4-million core private cloud environment over six years, offering managed services including Kubernetes, MySQL, DNS, and Load Balancers. Gain valuable insights into the challenges faced during the first year of implementation, understand the critical communication between various cloud components like network, processing, and memory, and discover how OpenStack serves as a comprehensive platform for cloud ecosystem management. Get practical advice on contributing to upstream projects as a beginner and benefit from the speakers' experience in making OpenStack adoption more accessible for newcomers.