OpenStack is open source software for building public and private clouds. It provides software for provisioning virtual machines (OpenStack Compute) and reliably storing objects (OpenStack Object Storage) on commodity hardware at massive scales. The software is distributed under an Apache 2.0 license and uses an open design process to produce a ubiquitous open source cloud platform that can meet the needs of all cloud providers regardless of size.

1. OpenStack
Open source software to build public and private clouds.

3. What is OpenStack?

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8. creating open source software to build
public and private clouds

9. Software to provision virtual machines
on commodity hardware at massive
scale
OpenStack C o m pute
creating open source software to build
public and private clouds
Software to reliably store billions of
objects distributed across commodity
hardware
OpenStack
O bjec t S to ra g e

10. OpenStack Mission
‣ “To produce the ubiquito us open source
cloud computing platform that will meet
the needs of public and private cloud
providers regardless of size, by being
s im ple to im plem ent and m a s s ively
s c a la ble.”

11. Why is OpenStack important?

12. OpenStack Founding Principles
‣ Apache 2.0 license, no paid ‘enterprise’ version
‣ Open design process, 2x year public Design
Summits
‣ Publicly available source code repository
‣ All community processes documented and
transparent
‣ Commitment to drive and adopt open standards
‣ Modular design for deployment flexibility via
APIs

13. Architect for in- Re-Architect for s ervic e
ho us e pro vider
N o Standards
W ith OpenStack
Architect onc e
Deploy
a nyw here

14. OpenStack History
2010
March May June July
Rackspace NASA Open OpenStack Inaugural Design
Decides to Open Sources Nebula formed b/w Summit in Austin
Source Cloud Platform Rackspace and
Software NASA

15. OpenStack History
2011
July October November February
OpenStack First ‘Austin’ code First public Second ‘Bexar’
launches with release with 35+ Design Summit in code release
25+ partners partners San Antonio planned

16. Founding
members
operate at NAS A
massive scale

17. OpenStack Community
Today

18. HOW TO: Turn Racks of
Commodity Hardware
Into a Cloud with
OpenStack

19. Start with an open, scalable platform
C LOU D OS
OpenStack C o m pute OpenStack O bjec t S tora g e
OpenStack I m a g e S ervic e

20. E C OS Y S TE M
U s er T ic k eting N etw o rk M onito ring H o s t S erver
C o ntro l P a nel S ys tem M a na g em ent S ys tem s M a na g em ent
C LOU D OS
OpenStack C o m pute OpenStack O bjec t S tora g e
OpenStack I m a g e S ervic e

21. E C OS Y S TE M
U s er T ic k eting N etw o rk M onito ring H o s t S erver
C o ntro l P a nel S ys tem M a na g em ent S ys tem s M a na g em ent
C LOU D OS
OpenStack C o m pute OpenStack O bjec t S tora g e
OpenStack I m a g e S ervic e
A c c o unt A dm in C L I L ive C ha t A c c o unt
B illing T o o ls S uppo rt M a na g em ent
P U B LIC C LOU D

22. E C OS Y S TE M
U s er T ic k eting N etw o rk M onito ring H o s t S erver
C o ntro l P a nel S ys tem M a na g em ent S ys tem s M a na g em ent
C LOU D OS
OpenStack C o m pute OpenStack O bjec t S tora g e
OpenStack I m a g e S ervic e
A dm in C o ntrol D ept. A c c o unting U s er E nterpris e S oftw a re
P a nel C ha rg eba c k M a na g em ent I nteg ra tio n S ys tem s
PR IV A TE C LOU D

23. OpenStack Compute Details
Software to provision virtual machines on commodity hardware at
massive scale.

24. OpenStack Compute Key Features
R E S T -ba s ed A P I
A s ync hronous eventua lly
c ons is tent c om m unic a tion
H orizonta lly a nd m a s s ively
s c a la ble
H ypervis or a g nos tic :
support for Xen ,XenServer,
KVM, UML and Hyper-V is
coming
H a rdw a re a g nos tic : commodity
hardware, RAID not required

25. User Manager
Cloud Cont roller: Global state of
system, talks to LDAP, OpenStack
Object Storage, and node/storage
workers through a queue
ATAoE / iSCSI
API: Receives HTTP requests,
converts commands to/from API
format, and sends requests to
cloud controller
Host Machines: workers
that spawn instances
Glance: HTTP + OpenStack Object
OpenStack Compute Storage for server images

26. Example OpenStack
P ublic N etw ork
Compute Hardware
S erver G roups
1 GigE
Connectivity
Dual Quad Core
RAID 10 Drives
P riva te N etw ork
(intra data center)
M a na g em en
t

27. OpenStack Object Storage
Details store billions of objects distributed across commodity
Software to reliably
hardware

28. OpenStack Storage Key Features
REST-based A P I D a ta dis tributed evenly
throughout system
S c a la ble to multiple
petabytes, billions of
objects
A c c o unt/C onta iner/O bjec t
structure (not file system, no
nesting) plus R eplic a tion (N
copies of accounts, containers,
objects)
N o central
database
H a rdw a re a g nos tic : commodity
hardware, RAID not required

29. System Components
‣ T he R ing : Mapping of names to entities (accounts,
containers, objects) on disk.
‣ Stores data based on zones, devices, partitions, and replicas
‣ Weights can be used to balance the distribution of partitions
‣ Used by the Proxy Server for many background processes
‣ P rox y S erver: Request routing, exposes the public API
‣ O bjec t S erver: Blob storage server, uses xattrs, uses
binary format
‣ Recommended to run on XFS
‣ Object location based on path from name hash & timestamp

30. System Components (Cont.)
• C onta iner S erver: Handles listing of objects,
stores as SQLite DB
• A c c ount S erver: Handles listing of containers,
stores as SQLite DB
• R eplic a tion: Keep the system consistent, handle
failures
• U pda ters : Process failed or queued updates
‣ A udito rs : Verify integrity of objects, containers,
and accounts

31. Software Dependencies
Object Storage (Swift) development currently targets Ubuntu
Server 10.04, but should work on most Linux platforms with
the following software:
‣ Python 2.6
‣ rsync 3.0
And the following python libraries:
‣ Eventlet 0.9.8
‣ WebOb 0.9.8
‣ Setuptools
‣ Simplejson
‣ Xattr
‣ Nose
‣ Sphinx

32. Example Network Deployment

33. Evolution of Object Storage
Architecture
Version 1: Cent ral DB Version 2: Fully Dist ribut ed
(Rackspace 2009) (OpenStack Object Storage 2009)

34. Example OpenStack
Object Storage
P ublic I nternet
Hardware
L oa d B a la nc ers
5 Z ones
2 Proxies per 25
Storage Nodes
10 GigE to
Proxies
1 GigE to
Storage Nodes
24 x 2TB Drives
per Storage Node

35. Planning an OpenStack
Deployment
Requirements & Technology
Choices

36. Hardware Selection
‣ OpenStack is designed to run on industry standard
hardware with flexible configurations
‣ C om pute
‣ X86 Server
‣ Storage flexible (Local, SAN, NAS)
‣ O bjec t S tora g e
‣ X86 Server (other architectures possible)
‣ Do not deploy with RAID (can use controller for case)

37. Bootstrapping Your Physical Nodes
Physical Remote Host Host Seed Host OS Post OS
Hardware Management Networking OS Install Install Configuration
Rack Dell DRAC DHCP BOOTP / TFTP Preseed Puppet
Cable HP iLO Static GPXE Kickstart Chef
IPMI YAST CFEngine
1 2 3 4 5 6

38. Server Vendor Support
Find out how much configuration your hardware can
provide
‣ B a s ic N eeds
‣ BIOS settings
‣ Network boot
‣ IP on IPMI card
‣ A dva nc ed S upport
‣ Host OS installation
‣ Still get management network IP via DHCP

39. Network Device Configuration
‣ Build in a manner that requires minimal change
‣ Lay out addressing in a block-based model
‣ Go to Layer 3 from the top of rack uplink
‣ Keep configuration simple
‣ More bandwidth is better than advanced QoS
‣ Let the compute host machines create logical zones

40. Host Networking
‣ DHCP for the management network
‣ Infinite leases
‣ Base DNS on IP
‣ Ex. nh-pod-a-10-241-61-8.example.org
‣ OpenStack Compute handles IP provisioning for all
guest instances – Cloud deployment tools only need
to setup management Ips

41. Host OS Seed Installation – Choosing a
Method
‣ BOOTP / TFTP – Simple to configure
‣ Security must be handled outside of TFTP
‣ Host node must be able to reach management
system via broadcast request
‣ Top of rack router can be configured to forward
‣ GPXE
‣ Not all hardware supports
‣ Better concurrent install capability than TFTP

42. Options to Automate Host OS
Installation
‣ Building a configuration based on a scripted installation
is better than a monolithic “golden image”
‣ KickPreseed for Ubuntu / Debian hosts
‣ start for Fedora / CentOS / RHEL hosts
‣ YaST for SUS / SLES hosts
‣ Scripted configuration allows for incremental updates
with less effort

43. Post OS Configuration
‣ Choose a configuration management solution
‣ Puppet / Chef / Cfengine
‣ Create roles to scale out controller infrastructure
‣ Queue
‣ Database
‣ Controller
‣ Automate registration of new host machines
‣ Base the configuration to run on management net IP

44. OpenStack Release Process: Four
Phases
‣ Design: Starting the day of the release to one
week after the summit (when the Blueprints are
accepted and prioritized)
‣ Development: until Feature Freeze date
‣ QA: until Final Freeze date
‣ Release: final testing and development tasks in
the last week

45. OpenStack Releases
Cactus:
April/May
2011
Bexar:
February
•OpenStack Compute
2011 ready for large service
Austin: provider scale
October 2010 deployments
• OpenStack Compute
ready for enterprise
private cloud deployments
and mid-size service
• OpenStack Object provider deployments
Storage production-ready • Enhanced documentation
• OpenStack Compute • Easier to install and
developer preview, ready deploy
for testing and proofs of
concept

46. OpenStack Compute ‘Austin’ Release
Features
‣ Multi-hypervisor support: KVM, QEMU, User-Mode Linux, Xen and
XenServer
‣ Introduces official OpenStack API, while maintaining EC2 API option
‣ New image registry and delivery service, called the Glance project
‣ Support for two network models on compute nodes: VLANs with DHCP
and flat with either static IP pools or DHCP
‣ Addition of base scheduling service
‣ Implements WSGI to create a standard API layer with reusable
components
‣ Support for user-friendly naming
‣ Refactored ORM and networking code for simpler code that is easier to
understand
‣ Addition of SQLAlchemy Database toolkit so users can leverage
existing SQL infrastructure

47. Object Storage ‘Austin’ Release
Features
‣ Addition of a stats system that produces per-account
hourly summaries of system usage
‣ Ability for users to set ACL’s and grant public access to
containers
‣ Support for API access to account and container
metadata
‣ Rate limiting was extended to allow requests to be
slowed down and support stair stepped rate limits
based on container size
‣ WSGI support was improved and pulled into middleware

48. Join Us
‣ General Information: http://openstack.org
‣ Developers & Testers
‣ http://launchpad.net/openstack
‣ http://wiki.openstack.org
‣ Writers: http://wiki.openstack.org/Documentation
‣ Blog: http://openstack.org/blog
‣ Twitter: http://twitter.com/openstack
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Jobs: http://openstack.org/jobs