Sco$ Sanchez, Director , Strategy Niki Acosta, Cloud Evangelist Intro to OpenStack®
Jul 16, 2015
Sco$ Sanchez, Director , Strategy Niki Acosta, Cloud Evangelist
Intro to OpenStack®
Sco$ Sanchez Director, Strategy @sco$sanchez
Niki Acosta Cloud Evangelist @nikiacosta
What Users/Developers Want
1 Predictable 2 Easy 3 Fast
What Administrators Want
1 Control 2 Reliability 3 Visibility
True or False? OpenStack is…
• A VMware replacement • Great for every applicaTon and problem • A product • Easy to operate at scale • PaaS • A way to make cheap infrastructure amazing • Delicious with Bacon • ... ?
§ Moved from AWS and SoWLayer
§ Data and analyTcs powering billions of daily requests
§ Grew capacity by “over 5x for the same cost”
§ Moved from VMware
§ Enabled DevOps and rapid app development
§ “Increased efficiency of hardware uTlizaTon by over 60%”
§ Moved from VMware and AWS
§ Hadoop/analyTcs and streaming media
§ “Much more cost effecTve than AWS” and saved 6 months versus DIY OpenStack
To Build and Operate it yourself:
• “Trunk” code -‐-‐ roll your own
• Free or licensed soWware packages (Ubuntu, Red Hat, MiranTs)
To “just use it”:
• Public cloud (Rackspace, HP)
• Hosted private cloud (Rackspace, Bluebox)
• “As a Service” in your data center (Cisco via Metacloud team)
How to Get OpenStack
Design, Engineer Architect
Plahorm InstallaTon
24X7 Monitoring
Problem MiTgaTon
Maintenance CoordinaTon
Plahorm Updates
Capacity Planning
Sco$ Sanchez Director, Strategy @sco$sanchez
Niki Acosta Cloud Evangelist @nikiacosta
DISCUSS.