OpenStack Kolla Introduction

Kolla IntroductionDaneyon Hansen, Software Engineer

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Background

• Deploying OpenStack is difficult

• Operating OpenStack is even more difficult

• Until recently, deployment options consisted of bare metal or VM’s

• A little-known technology called Docker is becoming a household name

• No tool has emerged as the leader

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What is Kolla?

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What is Kolla?

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What is Kolla?

• “Kolla” is Greek for glue

• An open source project hosted on Stackforge

• ASL2 licensed

• Mission Statement:Kolla provides production-ready containers and deployment tools for operating OpenStack clouds that are scalable, fast, reliable, and upgradable using community best practices.

Kolla

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How Does Kolla Help?

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How Does Kolla Help?

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How Does Kolla Help?

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How Does Kolla Help?

Images, Versioning, App-Centric

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How Does Kolla Help?

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How Does Kolla Help?

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How Does Kolla Help?

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Kolla Architecture

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Docker Pro’s

• Immutable

• Portable

• Fast

• App focused experience

• Massive community

• Branding

• Growth

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Docker Con’s

• Green

• Kolla is even greener

• Additional complexity

• Difficult to audit

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Kolla

Summary

OpenStack Inside Containers =

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Parting Thoughts

• The time is now

• Take advantage of the mid cycle

Thank you

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