Transcript Taking OpenStack into Production: Code Readiness - Mil-OSS

OpenStack Update
Infrastructure as a Service
May 23nd 2012
Rob Hirschfeld, Dell
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• Dell has been a part of OpenStack since inception
• We have had an OpenStack-powered Cloud
solution in market for nearly a year.
• We are seeing substantial field interest with
installed OpenStack clouds in the teens with a
backlog of orders.
• Our solution includes:
– hardware, software, consulting,
– operations best practice (DevOps),
– and ecosystem partners.
What is
Cloud Infrastructure Software (like Amazon Cloud)
• Apache 2 Open source
– Community developed: International, Multi-Vertical
– Dedicated Foundation overseeing governance
• Delivers software, control panels, and APIs required to
securely orchestrate a massive-scale cloud
– Virtual workloads (like “EC2”)
– Object Storage (like “S3”)
– Coming: Block & Networks
• Multiple Integrated Components
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Use Cases
• Markets
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Hosting & Telco
Financial
Academic & Government (NASA was a founder)
Web & SaaS
• All Geographies
• Reasons for Adoption
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License Avoidance (open source)
Scale Architecture (no SANs, no clusters)
Pace of innovation
Market Buzz – expectation of ecosystem
Investment Risk & Return
• Risks
– Fast Development Cycle (drives upgrade treadmill)
– Security (due to lack of maturity)
– Evolving/Missing Components (e.g.: network, block store)
• Safest Path
– Private Cloud with Static Networks
– KVM & Ubuntu getting heaviest developer focus
– Object Store (Swift) is most stable & scalable
• Return on Investment
– License costs (offset by needed expertise)
– Uses “cloud optimized hardware”
– Leverage growing ecosystem (hybrid cloud, tools portability, etc)
Community Health
OpenStack’s community is remarkably vibrant, well funded and
rapidly expanding. It is no longer lead by any single vendor.
• Prominent Adopters
– Private Cloud Solutions (Dell, Nebula, Piston)
– Large public clouds & hosting companies (Rackspace, ATT, NTT,
Dreamhost, HP, Deutsche Telecom)
– Web & SaaS Providers (eBay, Wikimedia, )
– Government (NASA)
– Major Linux Distributions (Ubuntu, Suse, RedHat)
– Hardware Vendors (Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco)
• Substantial Contributors
– Dev: Rackspace, HP, RedHat, Citrix, Nebula, Cisco, Canonical, Piston …
– Ops: Dell has lead here with Opscode. Puppet joining.
Graphical Roadmap
Folsom
Cactus
Austin
Formation
Bexar
Community
Forming
First
Shared
Code
Working
Prototypes
Essex
Platform for
Innovation
Diablo
Production
Ready
Core Platform for
Innovation
Workable
Foundation
Stable Foundation
Network aaService
Block Storage API
Included in Ubuntu
12.04
Solidify
Community
Loses VMware
& HyperV
Incubated/Partial:
Network & Block
Storage
2012
2011
Nov 2010
Nov 2010:
Austin
Release
Dec
Public Adoption
Multiple Scale
Deployments
Feb
Feb 2011:
Bexar
Release
Apr
Apr 2011:
Cactus
Release
Jun
Oct
Aug
Sep 2011:
Diablo
Release
Dec
Feb
Mar 2012:
Essex
Release
Apr
Jun
Aug
Oct 2012:
Folsom
Release
Readiness Today
• Current Release: Essex
– April 2012
• Strengths
• Stability
• Integrated Authentication (Keystone)
• User Interface Dashboard (Horizon)
• Cutting Edge Opportunities
– Networking Service Incubation (Quantum)
• Risks
– Block Storage
Futures / Roadmap
• Next Release: Folsom
– October 2012
• Major Trends
– Networking Innovation
– Block Storage
– Deployment Standardization
• Areas to Watch
– Ecosystem Growth
– Distributions from New Operating Systems
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• Dell mission for OpenStack
– Shorten customers time-to-value on OpenStack
– Contributed open source “DevOps” installer
• What is Crowbar?
– Dell lead Open Source Cloud Deployer Project
– Not limited to Dell Hardware
– Brings in “operations as code” approach
– Supports multiple Operating Systems
– Supports multiple Hadoop, OpenStack & others