Apache CloudStack is a scalable, multi-tenant, open-source cloud orchestration platform that provides infrastructure as a service. It has been in widespread production use for over 6 years, powering major public clouds and enterprise private clouds. Despite its proven track record and growing user community, CloudStack remains relatively unknown compared to other open-source cloud platforms.

1. CloudStack – the best kept secret
in the cloud
Giles Sirett
CEO ShapeBlue
Twitter: @GilesSirett @ShapeBlue

2. #CloudStack
 CEO - ShapeBlue
 PMC member & Committer
- Apache CloudStack
 Chairman – European
CloudStack user group
 Declaration: I’m a business
guy
 Also: Physicist, ex-
programmer, husband,
runner, Dad, rugby coach
Who is this guy ?

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“ShapeBlue are expert builders of public &
private clouds. They are the leading global
Apache CloudStack integrator & consultancy”
About ShapeBlue

4. #CloudStackDayBrasil
About ShapeBlue
 IaaS design / build
 CloudStack Consulting
 CloudStack Infrastructure
support
 CloudStack Software
Engineering
 CloudStack training

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“CloudStack –
Never heard of
it!”
Architect at unnamed
company that now runs a
200 host production
Cloudstack production
environment

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Apache CloudStack is a
scalable,
multi-tenant,
open source,
purpose-built,
cloud orchestration platform
for delivering turnkey
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
clouds

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CloudStack History
• 2008 – Vmops launches (rebrands Cloud.com)
• April 2010 – Cloud.com Releases CloudStack under GPLv3
• July 2011 - Citrix acquires CloudStack
• April 2012 - CloudStack donated to Apache Software Foundation
• November 2012 – First Apache CloudStack Release (4.0)
• March 2013 - CloudStack graduates from ASF Incubator
• 2014 – Majority of committers are not from Citrix
• 2016 – Citrix leave CloudStack

8. • Over 300 *known* clouds in production
• Production use for 6+ years
• Running major public clouds
• Running many enterprise private clouds
• Adoption increasing Zynga’s CloudStack powered “Z
Cloud” has over 40,000 physical
hosts

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CloudStack Users

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CloudStack Users 2.0

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CloudStack Users 3.0

12. #CloudStack
So, why is it such a secret then ?
Proven software in widespread production
use

13. #CloudStack
We have a very focused scope
Commodity
compute
StorageNetworking
Hypervisor
CMP - Orchestration layer
orchestration API
eCommerce Platform
Choice of Hypervisor (KVM, VMWare,
Xen, hyper-V)
Apache CloudStack
Ecommerce platform
CloudStack API
Billing
Config
Management
Networking compute Storage
PaaS /
containers
Developer
tooling
Multi-cloud
management

14. #CloudStack
CloudStack Use-Case’s
• Service Provider / public cloud
• Managed Public cloud
• The foundation for Devops
• AWS “insourcing”
• Traditional enterprise workloads

15. #CloudStack
Feature Highlights
• Broad Hypervisor support
—XenServer, KVM, VMware, OracleVM
• Scalable architecture
—Support thousands of hosts and virtual machine guests
—AWS API fidelity
• Virtual Networking Ability to define service level definitions
with specific resource footprints
• Choice of interfaces
— Web UI, command line, REST-based API

16. #CloudStack
• Apache CloudStack is a
“true” opensource
project
Easy to take &
contribute
Apache governance
model is proven….

17. #CloudStack
So, why is it such a secret then ?
So, a well-governed opensource project.

18. #CloudStack
“The mission of the
Apache Software
Foundation (ASF) is to
provide software for the
public good.”
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

19. #CloudStack
200+ active contributors,
7o+ organisations
Now 72 86 committers
Our Community is great

20. #CloudStack
• CloudStack European User Group
• Geneva CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack - Romania
• Australian CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack Brazil User Group
• Vancouver CloudStack Meetup
• Japan CloudStack User Group
• CloudStack India Bangalore Chapter
• CloudStack India Hyderabad Chapter
• CloudStack Pune Meetup
• CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group
• CloudStack NYC User Group
• CloudStack Boston User Group
• CloudStack DC and NoVA User Group

21. • Since we became *Apache* Cloudstack
– 25,300 commits
– Peaked at 2.5 Million lines of code
– 24k unique IP’s download our packages in
last 12 months

22. • Currently
– C.200 active code contributors
– 104 project committers
– 35 PMC members (20 organisations)
– 3 commercial distributions
– C. 2500 mailing list msgs per month

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So, why is it such a secret then ?
A VERY successful open-source project, with a
great community

24. #CloudStack
Wrong
place, wrong
time
falschen Ort ,
falsche Zeit

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≠
es ist unmöglich, Äpfel mit Birnen zu vergleichen

26. #CloudStack
CloudStack is a defined, integrated, IaaS
product.

27. #CloudStack
So, why is it such a secret then ?
OK, so it’s different to OpenStack, but..

28. #CloudStack
Our community is driven by users
..not vendors

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32. #CloudStack
CloudStack – the best kept secret in the cloud
• Proven product
• Strong Apache governance model
• Widespread and growing usage
• User driven community
• Focused scope

33. #CloudStack
#CloudStackWorks

34. #CloudStack
 Try the software
 Join our community
 Participate in local user group
 Attend Collaboration Conferences
 Join the mailing lists (free support)
 Contribute
 File bugs
 Write code
 Write documentation
Get involved

35. Giles.Sirett@ShapeBlue.com
Giles@apache.org
@GilesSirett @Shapeblue
www.ShapeBlue.com
www.cloudstack.org