IGT2009 The Open Cloud Computing Interface

The OGFOpen Cloud Computing Interface
Shlomo Swidler
OGF OCCI WG Member
3December 2009

Agenda
Goal of OCCI
Who is OCCI
Current status
A quick look

OCCI Vision:Open Cloud Ecosystem
Open Formats
Open
Cloud
Open
Interfaces
Open
Data
Open Source

OCCI Vision:Open Cloud Ecosystem
Open Formats
Copyrights – free to use
Trademarks – compliance enforcement only
Patents – royalty-free, forever
Open
Cloud
Open
Interfaces
Open
Data
Implementations – multiple, complete,
interoperable, open license
Open Source

Goal of OCCI
Interoperability
Let different cloud systemswork together
Portability
Move services between clouds
Integration
Wire up cloud with legacy
At all levels of the stack

Who is OCCI
Open Grid Forum Working Group
OGF IP umbrella for copyrights, patents, trademarks
More than 200 participants
Industry: Rackspace, GoGrid, Sun, RESERVOIR, …
Academia: UCMadrid (OpenNebula), SLA@SOI w/Intel, …
Service providers: CohesiveFT, RabbitMQ, …
End users, developers

Current Status of OCCI
Infrastructure layer spec finalized, submitted for review
OpenNebula reference implementation underway
Other implementations in the works, too…
Working on Extensions (reservations, snapshots, etc.)
Researching Platform layer
Proposed Roadmap:
Draft Platform spec - March 2010
Draft Application spec – October 2010
Final – early 2011

20,000-foot Look at OCCI
Protocol
Lightweight, extensible
Format-agnostic
Built on HTTP, RESTful
Create: HTTP POST
Retrieve: HTTP GET
Update: HTTP GET & HTTP PUT
Delete: HTTP DELETE
OCCI Application
OCCI Platform
OCCI Infrastructure
HTTP Header
Rendering
XHTML5 + RDFa
Rendering
OCCI
Core
Extensions

5,000-foot Look at OCCI
GET http://abc.com/uid123foobar/
*
Provider
Instance
*
HTTP LINK header
Compute
*
Storage
*
Links
Network
*
Operations
*
Attributes
OCCI
Atom-like categories

REQUEST
Eye-level Look at OCCI
> GET /us-east/webapp/vm01 HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: occi-client/1.0 (linux) libcurl/7.19.4 OCCI/1.0
> Host: cloud.example.com
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:56:51 GMT
< Content-Type: application/ovf
< Link: </us-east/webapp/vm01;start>;
< rel="http://purl.org/occi/action/start";
< title="Start"
< Link: </us-east/webapp/build.pdf>;
< rel="related";
< title="Documentation";
< type="application/pdf"
< Category: compute;
< label="Compute Resource”;
< scheme="http://purl.org/occi/kind/"
< Server: occi-server/1.0 (linux) OCCI/1.0
< Connection: close
<
< <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
< <Envelope xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
< xmlns:ovf="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1"
< xmlns="http://schemas.dmtf.org/ovf/envelope/1"
< xml:lang="en-US”
<...
Get the resource,
in whatever format
RESPONSE
It’s in OVF
format
You can “start” it
Related “documentation”
It’s a “compute” resource
The OVF payload

Other APIs / Interfaces
Open
jClouds (Java)
libcloud (Python)
OCCI (HTTP)
Cloud::Infrastructure (Perl)
Zend Simple Cloud (PHP)
Dasein Cloud (Java)
deltacloud (RedHat)
Protocol
API
Amazon EC2
Microsoft Azure (.NET)
VMware vCloud
Proprietary

Thank you!
The OGFOpen Cloud Computing Interface
Shlomo Swidler
shlomo.swidler@orchestratus.com

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