The document summarizes the author's experience working on the OpenStack Compute project. It describes how the project started small with a few developers successfully launching VMs in a weekend. It then grew rapidly with over 70 active contributors and 100 companies involved within 1.25 years. Key features like ISCSI support and high availability networking were able to be prototyped and added to production quickly thanks to OpenStack's agile development process and Python codebase. The author concludes that OpenStack Compute was the best project to work on due to its agile and dynamic nature, high-profile technology, and active community.

2. My OpenStack Journey based on actual events OpenStack Compute Project Technical Lead Vishvananda Ishaya

3. The Heartland

4. The Heartland

5. The Heartland sili-corn valley

6. Movin’ on up (to the westside?)

7. Started as NASA.net Open source private cloud Existing solutions failed The Nebula Project

8. Cloud in a Weekend Started on Friday night at 6PM 6 Developers Python framework Successfully launching VMs by Monday Convinced NASA leadership to switch

9. 3 weeks later… Live switch Drop-in replacement for existing software Moved 40 beta customers Open sourced the project under Apache license

10. Courtship But do we really have to choose?

11. Engagement

12. Matrimony

13. Inlaws

14. Babies

15. Openstack Compute after a 1.25 years… > 70 Active Contributors > 100 Companies Involved > 1200 Commits per month

16. Why Work on Nova? Open Source Agile Roots Written in Python Pluggable System Shared Components

17. Which all means… New features can be prototyped quickly!

18. Case Study 1 ISCSi Support 3 Days to production Order of magnitude performance increase AOE

19. Case Study 2 High Availability Networking Multiple attempts Final prototype in 4 hours Removes SPoF on gateway node

20. Networking -- HA FlatDHCP br100 nova-compute nova-network nova-compute nova-network 192.168.0.1 10.0.0.3 eth1 eth0 private switch public switch nova-compute nova-network 99.99.99.128 99.99.99.2 192.168.0.2 10.0.0.2 eth1 eth0 99.99.99.3 192.168.0.3 10.0.0.4 eth1 eth0 vm vm vm vm vm vm vm eth0 10.0.0.5 --public_interface=eth0 --flat_interface=eth1 --fixed_range=10.0.0.0/8 --floating_range=99.99.99.128/25 --flat_network_dhcp_start=10.0.0.2 99.99.99.0/24 192.168.0.0/24 10.0.0.0/8 99.99.99.1 vm vm vm public/floating traffic dhcp traffic

21. Best. Project. Ever. Agile and Dynamic High-Profile Cutting-Edge Technology Active Community and…

22. Awesome Contributors