Open Cloud Framework
Open Standards for the Cloud Community
Thijs Metsch
Software Engineer Cloud, Grid and Virtualization
Sun Microsystems
GridKa School 2009, 02.09.2009 Karlsruhe
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“Do not worry if you do get a little
bit lost. This is a talk about Cloud
Computing – being lost is normal”
– Simon Wardley
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http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2008/05/simply-explaine.html
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Open Framework
Project RESERVOIR
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Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers
Resources
Virtualization
Services
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Service Can be any kind of software
with a demand for resources
Interface Description
Service
Service Level
Agreements
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Virtualization An umbrella term
describing how a
computer can enhance
the ability to do work.
Hardware
Network
Storage
Software
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Geographical
Security
Barriers Trust
Different environments
Different platforms
Political
Type of Service
Payment
Licenses
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Partners
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http://infreemation.net/cloud-computing-linear-utility-or-complex-ecosystem/
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Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service Software as a Service
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Increase compute resources
Write extensions for sites
Patterns For testing and development
Hosting of services
Storage
Write your thesis
Power savings
Licensing issues
“netbooking”
To follow the hype
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Diversity Kind of Service
Virtualization technology
Usage pattern
Business models
Environment
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Elasticity Migration
Consolidation
Hybrid-Clouds
SLA-based 'cloud bursting'
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1...*
Service Provider
Service Manager
VEE-Manager
VEE VEE
Resource Resource ...
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Elastic environment
Demonstrating the Framework
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Virtual
Scaling
Java
Service
Container
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execd
VM
Scaling the # of Execd
execd
qmaster VM
Scheduler execd
VM
execd
VM
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Open Standards
Open Cloud Computing Interface
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“If you think of standardization as
the best that you know today, but
which is to be improved tomorrow; you
get somewhere.”
– Henry Ford
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Interoperability ability to let
different system
interoperate (Hybrid
& Federated Clouds)
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Portability ability to move services
and port them as easy as
possible
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Integration wire up cloud computing
with (legacy) resources
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Infrastructure as a Service
Platform as a Service Software as a Service
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“In the great mass of our people
there are plenty individuals of
intelligence from among whom
leadership can be recruited.”
– Herbert Hoover
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Chairs & Members
Chairs Industry
Academia
End-Users
Providers
Members 190+ Members
ca. 30 active members
Including Providers
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Timeline Create a slim,
extensible RESTful
API ASAP (and
document it)
OGF 25 OGF 26 OGF 27
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Deliverables Use Case and
Requirements for a
Cloud API (OGF27)
Open Cloud
Computing Interface
Specification
(OGF27)
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Create – HTTP POST
Retrieve – HTTP GET
Update – HTTP GET & HTTP PUT
Delete – HTTP DELETE
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GET http://abc.com/compute/uid123foobar/(request)
Provider * Instance
*
Compute
*
Storage
* Links
Network
Operations *
* Attributes
OCCI
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Proprietary
APIs
Private Cloud
Hybrid Cloud
...
Public Cloud
http://cloud-standards.org/
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http://socialsignal.com/
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Conclusions & Questions
Thijs Metsch
Sun Microsystems
mailto:thijs.metsch@sun.com
http://blogs.sun.com/intheclouds
http://www.twitter.com/befreax
RESERVOIR website
http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu
OCCI working group website
http://www.occi-wg.org
SGE & SDM website
http://www.sun.com/sge
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