The Evolution of OpenStack Clouds John Igoe Executive Director Cloud and Big Data Solutions
Jan 15, 2015
The Evolution of OpenStack Clouds
John IgoeExecutive Director Cloud and Big Data Solutions
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It started with a discussion about open source software…
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Out of that, an initiative grew…
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And grew into a thriving community
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The Pieces of OpenStack
OpenStack Compute (Nova)
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)
OpenStack Image Service (Glance)
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The Pieces of OpenStack
• Dashboard
• Identity Management
• Networking
• Load balancers
• Database
• Queueing
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#3 Cactus:Service Provider(Apr 11)#2 Bexar:
Enterprise (Feb 11)
• Scale for Enterprise clouds• Objects of unlimited size
• Support for IPv6• Glance image registry
• Scale for Service Provider• Hypervisor agnostic
• Live migration• Multi-tenant accounting• Image integrity checks• Performance enhancements
• Storage as-a-Service• Networking as-a-Service• Unified authentication• Enhanced scheduling• Multi-network interface• Multi-region support• Network isolation
#4 Diablo:Integration(Sept 11)
Rapid Evolution
• Advanced schedulers for Nova
• Advanced networking (Quantum)
• @ milestone 2 (6 weeks iterations)
#5 Essex:Advanced
Cloud(Target 4/12)
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OpenStack is Real
• Real Investment
• Real Users
• Real Solutions
• Real Deployments
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Some Recent Stats
• Diablo has 12 major new features contributed by 8 different companies worldwide
• 1,500 active participants from 100+ companies
• 17 countries represented at Design Summit
• User groups in China, Japan, Korea, Europe, Africa, North America and South America
• 40,000+ downloads
• 1,700 visits a day to documentation
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• Massive scale-out capability
• Density for their infrastructure
• Operational excellence
• Manageable cost model
• Purchased Dell’s OpenStack-Powered Cloud Solution because they . . .
– Believe in the OpenStack community and the technology
– Crowbar’s capabilities to provision hardware
– Can add applications to their platform
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Media & entertainment
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• Migrating content delivery platform to OpenStack
• Incorporating the ability to provision & manage the environment
– Believe in the OpenStack community and the technology
– Crowbar’s capabilities to provision hardware
– Ability to add applications to their platform
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Boston Area OpenStack Users’ Group
• History– Fidelity hosted the first event – large participation, even larger
interest– Dell hosted in Austin and had great reviews with demand for more
• Why– Ongoing community of local experts– Discuss best practices, tools, hurdles futures.. all the goodness– MIT, Harvard, Northeastern, Tuffts, Brandeis… huge pool of talent
• How– Rotating between 128 and Boston– Aligned with Milestones? Regular Intervals?
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How You Can Participate
• Website: www.openstack.org
• Mailing Lists: http://lists.openstack.org
• Wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org
• Meetups: Openstack-Austin, Openstack-Boston… http://openstack.org/community/
• Twitter: @openstack
• Dell– www.Dell.com/OpenStack– [email protected]– Blogs
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