Why Open Source is key to the future of the Cloud, and how Cloud Foundry is growing an ecosystem to build an open PaaS

1. Breaking through
the clouds
Andy Piper
@andypiper

2. Hello I’m Andy

3. a few things about me
Developer Advocate @ Cloud Foundry
social web enthusiast
maker, educator, LEGO fan
OSS contributor
Eclipse Project Lead (Paho / MQTT)
excited by “what’s next”, Internet of Things, etc.
@andypiper
apiper@gopivotal.com

4. Developer Advocate? hell yeah!

5. 3 themes to consider
openness, cloud computing,
and where they intersect

6. 1. Why be / do / think Open?
2. What about Cloud?
3. Why is an Open Cloud Platform important?

7. 1. Why be / do / think Open?

8. An important year in software
1991
Hello everybody out
there using minix -
I’m doing a (free)
operating system
(just a hobby,
won’t be big and
professional like
gnu) for 386(486)
AT clones.
From:
torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI
Newsgroups:
comp.os.minix
Date:
25
Aug
91
20:57:08
GMT
Organization:
University
of
Helsinki

9. ~21 years later: Linux has won

10. Linux runs everywhere
(even old versions, on crashy
airline entertainment systems...)
#P0WN ALL
TEH
GADGETZ !

11. It runs on Windows Azure! Jun 2012, w. Canonical

13. The Penguin is
triumphant!
(maybe not this one…)

14. Linux is ubiquitous
(but often invisible)

15. It works.

16. 2. What about Cloud?

17. 3 layers IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Infrastructure
Platform
Software
Gmail, Salesforce,
Flickr, Google Docs...
Amazon EC2, Google CE,
OpenStack, vSphere,
Joyent, Rackspace, Cloud
Stack, Eucalyptus...
Google AppEngine,
Heroku, Cloud Foundry,
EngineYard, OpenShift,
Azure, Apprenda...

18. How did we get here?

19. Infrastructure Clouds
- consumer web companies built out according to
their own needs to support Software

20. But - still need to build
& manage Platform

21. Google AppEngine,
Heroku, Cloud Foundry,
OpenShift, Stackato,
Cloudbees, AppFog,
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk,
Apprenda, anynines...

22. Why is it so hard...? A real deployment flow (!)

23. An alternative approach...
Cloud Foundry can
make it simpler!
deploy
<my
cloud>
target
<my
cloud>
push
<my
app>
bind
<my
services>
scale
<my
app>
+100
add_capacity
<my
cloud>

24. 3. Why is an Open Cloud Platform important?

25. Platform risk: lock-in
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year, you can find it here
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
‘Relax,’ said the night man,
‘We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!’

26. Cloud Foundry - the Open PaaS
Open Source
Micro
Clouds
Private
Clouds
Public
Clouds
CUSTOM
SERVICES
CUSTOM
RUNTIMES

27. Architectural view

28. All about Choice
Private
Clouds
Public
Clouds
Micro
Clouds
Build your own from
github.com/cloudfoundry,
buy from Pivotal, or run a
compatible private version
Run in a local virtual
machine with identical
services and runtimes
(nise-bosh, cf-vagrant)
Run on run.pivotal.io or
any Cloud Foundry-
powered PaaS

29. All the pieces to make
your own!
“if you can’t open it, you
don’t own it” (O’Reilly/MAKE)

30. Open & public from the start Code all on Github

31. Not all PaaSes are
created equal...
Run on: AWS, OpenStack,
vSphere... more to come!

32. Learning how to be open What is Pivotal?

33. Pivotal’s Cloud vision:
Open by Default
Cloud Fabric is OSS

34. 4. Where are we, 18 months on?

35. version 2.0 all the shiny toys!

36. Welcome, IBM!
the Open PaaS of choice, on top
of OpenStack and Linux

37. Velocity growing community, moar
committers!

38. Build-it-yourself
use Vagrant to run a local
instance for testing

39. Join us!
... a pull request is all it
takes!

40. Platform -
platformcf.com
the Cloud Foundry conference,
Sept 8-9, Santa Clara

41. Connect
http://twitter.com/andypiper
http://andypiper.co.uk
http://slideshare.net/andypiper
http://thisweekincf.com

42. Image credits
• Cloud cover slide http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjkingo/3150155150/
• Happy Tux http://igloo.crystalxp.net/ZeNDaMs
• Signpost http://www.flickr.com/photos/16002150@N08/2006266695/
• IBM computer http://flickr.com/photos/killermart/34566562/
• Other images are author’s own, or royalty-free and CC-licensed works
from Wikimedia Commons
• Build your own Heroku video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0EprkBamvQ