1.
“It turns out that an eerie type of chaos can lurk just behind a
facade of order - and yet, deep inside the chaos lurks an even
eerier type of order.”
– Douglas Hofstadter

2.
OpenStack 101
An Introduction
Joshua McKenty
Director, OpenStack Foundation
Member, Python Software Foundation
Chief Technology Officer, Piston Cloud
@jmckenty
josh@openstack.org

3.
“Computers have enabled people to
make more mistakes faster than
almost any invention in history, with
the possible exception of tequila and
hand guns.”

4.
In the spring of 2010, Rackspace
and NASA formed an alliance…

5.
We had a mandate.

6.
The National Aeronautics
and Space Act of 1958

7.
Section 102 (d)(8)
• The most effective utilization of the scientific
and engineering resources of the United
States, with close cooperation among all
interested agencies of the United States in
order to avoid unnecessary duplication of
effort, facilities, and equipment;

8.
We had a plan.

9.
"A committee is a creature with
three or more legs and no brain.”
- Robert Heinlein

10.
" The world’s leading open source cloud framework
" Founded by NASA and Rackspace in 2010
" Global collaboration of companies
" Massively scalable compute, storage and networking

11.
Piston Cloud Computing, Inc.

12.
The ecosystem

13.
“The difference between effectiveness
and efficiency is the same difference
that you have between wisdom and
knowledge. We need far more wisdom.
We suffer from too much knowledge.”
– Russell Ackoff

14.
2 Types of Cloud

15.
3 Interfaces
1.
2.
3.
> curl http://mycloud/v2.0/glance/image007

16.
4 resources
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17.
Compute
Project: Nova
Schedule and launch all the things.

18.
Objects
Project: Swift
• Durability
• Availability
• Concurrency
Infinitely scalable blob storage.

19.
Block
Project: Cinder
• POSIX
• Portable
• High
Performance
Hard Drives without the USB cables.

20.
Project: Quantum
Network
Software defined networking.
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21.
Shared Services
Registry
Identity
Common
“Glance”
“Keystone”
“Oslo”

22.
MELISSA
But they're all following you.
RUBBER DUCK
No, they ain't. I'm just in front of them.

23.
Thank you.