OpenStack Magnum, Containers-as-a-Service for OpenStack clouds. This talk explains how Magnum fits among other OpenStack projects, and what abstracts are available in the Magnum API. Learn how Magnum is different from other Container management software.

1. Containers-as-a-Service for OpenStack
Magnum

2. Magnum Vision
Containers as a First Class resource in OpenStack

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Status and Statistics
released
680 105,9962106 commits
19affiliations
42engineers
patch sets
2015-01-20
lines of code
6months

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Thriving Community

5. • LXC (libvirt) virt driver for Nova
• Nova-Docker virt driver for Nova
• Heat Resource for Docker
Prior Art

6. Magnum Rationale
Containers
Nova
Instances
Create
Delete
Resize
Restart
Attach Vol
Kill
Start
Set Env Var
Bind Volume
Attach Term
Exec
Processes Machines
Different
Lifecycle
Different
API

7. OpenStack Kubernetes Flannel Docker Magnum
Magnum
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API Resources
Container
Service
Pod
Bay
Node

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Magnum API Resources
Node
Bay
(Docker Swarm Cluster)
NodeNode (minion)
Bay
(Kubernetes Cluster)
Node (minion)
Pod Pod
Service
Container
Container
Container
Container
Container
Container
Container
Container
Replication Controller

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Differentiators
Magnum is First
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Not Re-Implementing Orchestration
SSO Experience for Cloud Users
Multi-Tenant Control and Data Planes
Asynchronous API
Uses OpenStack Orchestration (Heat)
Uses OpenStack Identity (Keystone)

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