At OpenStack Day CEE 2015, we discuss the latest user survey results, some real-world OpenStack case studies and how new users and cloud operators can get involved with the community.
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Real-World Use Cases and Production Deployment Examples of OpenStack
1. Real-World Use Cases
Who are the OpenStack users, and what
resources do you need to get started?
Lauren Sell @laurensell
Jonathan Bryce @jbryce
OpenStack Foundation
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Broad & Diverse Community
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ECOSYSTEMCOMPANIES
(Members+Sponsors+Supporters)
PRODUCTS IN
MARKETPLACE
CUMULATIVE
CONTRIBUTORS
76 750 3,654
507Members: 24
Sponsors: 113
Supporters: 365
27,398
COMMUNITYMEMBERS
AVERAGE MONTHLY
CONTRIBUTORS
602
TRACKED
DEPLOYMENTS
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“From April 2014 to April 2015, the
percentage of production deployments
counted by the community user survey
jumped from 1/3 to 1/2”
superuser.openstack.org
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500MM Unique Users/Month worldwide, 1 Trillion annual requests,
millions in public cloud spend
5x-10x capacity/performance in private cloud for same price on data
science applications
TapJoy Saves Money with OpenStack
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I want to build or operate an
OpenStack cloud…
22. Explore Products & Services at the
OpenStack.org/Marketplace
• Find a provider based on your business needs & geography
• Interop test results now available for distributions & public clouds
• New community app catalog to share images, templates & apps
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Join the Operators Community
• OpenStack Operator’s mailing list
• http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-
bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators
• User Committee with new monthly meetings (June 18)
& work groups, for example:
• Enterprise, Telco Working, Large Deployments…
• Ops Summit & Mid-Cycle meetups
• Take the User Survey!
• openstack.org/user-survey
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Documentation & Internationalization
• OpenStack treats documentation like code. Can make
contributions in the same way
• Translation team provides internationalization support
for projects and interfaces
• https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/I18nTeam
32. More Resources
• TryStack: free OpenStack instances for 24 hours
• Documentation: API guide & new first app guide
• Community Working Groups: Consider joining Application
Ecosystem working group to help contribute back
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There are many ways to get involved in the
OpenStack community, whether you want to
contribute code, help with translation efforts,
or share your operations experience.
Glen talked about how for him, OpenStack was the line between the his users in the business and his ability to make the choices he wanted based of vendor relationships, cost, capabilities, security requirements. Because OpenStack supports such a broad set of technologies it provides choice on both sides of the line
Think like a product company. Your audience is no longer a captive audience, you have to be appealing to them
Old appliance couldn’t complete the task. OpenStack environment did the job in 40 minutes for 1/10 the cost
One of the most obvious ways to get involved in the community is to become an active technical contributor, which means you are registered in the community have have committed code or documentation to the project.