This document discusses how OpenStack can support mobile applications by providing scalable infrastructure and services. OpenStack provides storage, compute resources, and messaging that mobile apps require. It offers scalability, elasticity, resiliency and security. OpenStack components like Swift, Glance, Nova, Neutron, Heat, and Zaqar help meet the needs of mobile apps for storage, compute, orchestration, and messaging. Mobile backend as a service (MBaaS) platforms can also be implemented using OpenStack to provide user management, push notifications, and analytics for mobile apps.

1. Bridging OpenStack and
Mobile Cloud
Gene Mullis
Storage Strategist/CTO
Endist, LLC
August 23, 2016

2. Why Mobile?
What drives the adoption of
Mobile Applications?
Time to market
Speed of delivery and
Mobile First
Ubiquitous Availability
Always available to customers
and employees
Competitive Advantage
Improvements to Business Process and
simplification of transactions

3. What OpenStack Brings to Mobile
Mobile
Applications...
Are key to Enterprise
Cloud Strategy
Driving Cloud Platforms
Need Scalable & Elastic
Infrastructure
Complement OpenStack

4. Top 4 use
Cases
Transaction
Entertainment Process
Social
Facebook
SnapChat
Instagram
Kik
Banking, Point of Sales
Orders & Order tracking
Reservations, Bookings
Medical appointments, tracking
Event Management
Concur
Sales Force
Health care
Collective Sensing
IoT
Spotify
HBO Now
Pokemon Go
Netflix
Shazam

5. Example Use Case
Customers can
• Browse, reserve and purchase
• Manage their own cellar inventory
with auto updates for purchases,
manually add purchases and usage
• Receive product suggestions based
upon past purchases and usage
Details
• Concurrent users vary from 20-2000
• Integrates with Point of Sale system
• Support UPC and label scan capabilities
• Predictive Analytics on aggregate
information
•
Employees can
• Reserve, transfer, sell and ship
• Offer product suggestions tailored to
customer past purchases and current
habits
• Offer auto replenish options
•
Simplified Wine Sales & Inventory Application

6. Putting it together
Tiers of Mobile Architecture
Cloud Compute
& Apps
API & Services
Mobile
Application
Cloud Data
Storage

7. What Mobile requires from Cloud
 Storage: Making persistent information available to both mobile applications and cloud services
 Compute: Ability to consume cloud compute resources and leverage cloud hosted applications
• Scalability: Meet the increasing resource and performance demands for services without up-front investment
• Elasticity: The infrastructure can dynamically adapt resources to meet varying levels of demand
• Resiliency: Meeting Enterprise availability standards by ensuring continuity of service during component failure
• Security: Preventing unauthorized access, providing data protection, encryption and integrity
• Agility: Enabling rapid testing and deployment, ensure device coverage and collaboration with cloud services
• Analytics: Ability to extract insight from mobile behavior and extract value from corporate information silos
What does OpenStack bring to mobile applications?

8. Information needs of Mobile Apps
• Access across multiple devices and in the cloud simultaneously
• Object, image & streaming
• Off-line caching and sync
• Key-Value and JSON storage
• Authorization & access control
• Transactions (CRUD operations)
Persistent vs. Ephemeral

9. Persistent Storage for Mobile
Leveraging REST APIs
to deliver information
at Web Scale
Object Storage
image upload, download and
streaming.
External Information
Systems
Commercial SaaS systems and traditional IT cal also be
bridged via REST API interfaces
DBaaS
Relational and NoSQL solutions to
support queries and associative
information storage

10. Compute and Application Resources
Compute Resources
Nova, Glance & Neutron
support cloud applications
and search
Orchestration
Heat supports component
orchestration and deployment
Messaging
Zaqar provides secure
communication between cloud,
web and mobile devices
External Applications
Third party applications,
SaaS providers
Providing on Demand access to...

11. Scalability and Elasticity
They are not the same
Scalability
Ability to grow to accommodate expanding
workload
Elasticity
Ability to dynamically add and remove
resources to adapt to changing demand
Autoscaling
with Heat
LBaaS
Swift
Glance
Nova
Neutron
Heat

12. Resiliency and Security
Maintaining Service Levels
• Load Balancing
• Auto Scaling
• Telemetry with Ceilometer
• Availability with Senlin
• Swift for data durability
•
Deploying with confidence
• Keystone for authentication, authorization,
and role management
• Tenant isolation with Nova and Neutron
• Usage Analytics
High availability requires that
you plan for failure

13. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS)
Why MBaaS
• Simplified Application Development
• Reduce time to market
• Focus on end user experience
• Promise of write once for Mobile &
web
Several Models
• Open Source
• Public Cloud
• Hybrid Enterprise
•
“BaaS Market size to grow from USD $1.32B in 2015 to USD $28.10B by
2020, at a CAGR of 84.2%”
*Research and Markets (Feb 2016). Cloud/Mobile Backend as a Service Market Forecast to 2020 ID:3617261.
http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/8hqfrk/cloudmobile
Mobile Backend as a Service (MbaaS)
and Backend as a service (BaaS) are
often used interchangeably.

14. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS)
Standard services
• User Authentication, Authorization and role management
• Connecting mobile applications to persistent cloud storage
• Push Notifications
• Analytics
Currently over 30 Open Source projects
Many OpenStack Partners have offerings

15. Public Cloud MBaaS Options
Public PaaS vendors have proprietary solutions
• Google FireBase
• Azure Mobile Services
• Amazon Mobile SDK (Cognito, Mobile Analytics, SNS Push)

16. Looking forward
Mobile
Applications...
Are key to Enterprise
Cloud Strategy
Driving Cloud Platforms
Need Scalable & Elastic
Infrastructure
Complement OpenStack

17. Thank you!
Bridging OpenStack and Mobile Cloud