This document summarizes Ubuntu's role in OpenStack clouds. It notes that Ubuntu is the most popular operating system for OpenStack, being used by many large companies running OpenStack clouds. It also discusses Ubuntu's LTS release schedule and how it aligns well with OpenStack releases. Finally, it highlights enterprises and carriers that use Ubuntu OpenStack in production environments and notes Ubuntu's focus on quality, interoperability, and managing OpenStack at scale.

2. Production
Test & Dev
Pilot
2012
2013
2014

3. They use OpenStack on Ubuntu
HP, IBM SoftLayer, Dell, Rackspace, Bloomberg, AT&T,
Deutsche Telekom, France Telecom, British Telecom,
Korea Telecom, Chungwa Telecom, China Mobile, China
Unicom, Turk Telecom, Numergy...
Samsung, NEC, Cisco, Virgin Media, SONY, Shaw
Communications, Intel, Cogent, Comcast, Wikipedia,
Snapfish, MIT, CMU, EBay, Merck, Guardian, Allegro, Tata...

4. OpenStack: The kernel of “Linux at scale”
Applications
Memory
Disk
CPUs
Kernel

5. OpenStack: The kernel of “Linux at scale”
Applications
Memory
Disk
CPUs
OpenStack
hundreds, or thousands, of servers

6. Most OpenStack clouds use Ubuntu
Source:
Official OpenStack Survey 2013

7. Ubuntu + OpenStack release cadence
16.04 LTS
14.04 LTS
12.04 LTS

8. Ubuntu is the #1 “scale out” OS
Ubuntu overtakes CentOS
on top 10 million sites
Ubuntu is #1 OS on the
top 10,000 sites by load

9. ⇛ Ubuntu is the reference OS
for OpenStack development

10. Enterprise Linux. Disruptive Price.
Small AZ
<100 nodes
$75,000
Medium AZ
<500 nodes
$180,000
Large AZ
>500 nodes
$350,000
24/7 support.
Better focus, better support, better engineering.
http://ubuntu.com/cloud/management

11. Rigorous Quality
CI
CD

12. OIL: OpenStack Interop Lab
Server x
Network x Storage x Hypervisor
Dell
HP
IBM
Lenovo
OCP
NSX
Cisco NX1K
Flat
OVS
Ceph
LVM
iSCSI
Gluster
EMC
Fusion-IO
KVM
LXC
Docker
ESX
Hyper-V

13. Build. Test. Benchmark.
Repeat.
3000x / month

14. Carrier Grade OpenStack
“Deutsche Telekom is developing and deploying many
new cloud applications on Ubuntu OpenStack – as part of
its secure and highly scaleable public cloud Business
Marketplace ecosystem for SMB customers.”
-- Phil Zamani, SVP Business Unit Cloud @ DT

15. Carrier Grade OpenStack
NTT, Deutsche Telekom, AT&T,
China Telecom, Comcast
Korea Telecom, Cogent Communications, Bourges Telecom, China Unicom,
Bharti, British Telecom, France Telecom, Verizon, Yandex, Turk Telecom
telco @ ubuntu.com

16. Interop.
● VMWare ESX
● Microsoft Hyper-V & Windows
● Benchmarks and tests

17. Architecture matters

18. Operational Challenges
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Live upgrades of host machine kernels
Live upgrades of OpenStack versions
Windows & Ubuntu guest images
Update management & monitoring

19. OpenStack changes your life

20. Ubuntu is the #1 cloud workload OS
Source:
Very Large Public Cloud, USA

21. Looking across all the public clouds we are involved with,
Ubuntu has 70% of all Linux guest images. Ubuntu is almost
three times more popular than the next platform, CentOS.
-- Sebastian Stadil

22. Scale out innovation

23. “We are thrilled to deliver
a turn-key Cloud Foundry
solution on OpenStack, in
collaboration with
Canonical.”
James Watters, Pivotal

24. The most important
picture in this
presentation.
You
Google

25. 1st
"This particular combination is becoming
the "modern" stack over nagios and
others. Wiring all the bits together has
been troublesome in the past. Looks like
Paul has done an awesome job here."
-- John Vincent

26. Juju Bundles
Build and share orchestrations. Of anything.
Puppet, Chef, Docker, Salt, Ansible, Perl, Bash.
Glue them all together with Juju.

27. Focus
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger,
more complex, and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to
move in the opposite direction."
-- Albert Einstein

28. Trust us with your cloud.
scale, reliability, performance, interop.
openstack @ ubuntu.com

29. “Ubuntu is by far our most commonly used distro,
with over triple the number of instances as the
runner-up.”