OpenStack is an open source software platform designed to create and manage public and private clouds, enabling the provisioning of virtual machines and reliable storage across standard hardware. It emphasizes community collaboration, transparency, and eliminates vendor lock-in while supporting a modular architecture for flexibility in deployment. Founded by Rackspace and NASA in 2010, OpenStack has evolved to offer extensive features for cloud computing and aims to meet diverse cloud provider needs.

1. OpenStack Open source software to build public and private clouds Austin Cloud User Group, December 2010 Anne Gentle [email_address] Chuck Thier [email_address]

2. Rackspace Hosting Overview Founded in 1998 Publicly traded on NYSE: RAX 100,000+ customers $735M USD ($61.3B Yen) revenue in prior year Dedicated Managed Hosting Cloud Infrastructure & Apps (Servers, Files, Sites, Email) Primary focus on customer service ("Fanatical Support") 3,000+ employees 9 datacenters in the US, UK and Hong Kong 60,000+ physical servers

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 standard hardware at massive scale Software to reliably store billions of objects distributed across standard hardware OpenStack Compute OpenStack Object Storage creating open source software to build public and private clouds

10. OpenStack Mission “ To produce the ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to implement and massively scalable. ”

11. Why is OpenStack important? Open eliminates vendor lock-in Working together , we all go faster Freedom to federate, or move between clouds

12. OpenStack Founding Principles Apache 2.0 license (OSI), 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-house Re-Architect for service provider Architect once Deploy anywhere No Standards With OpenStack

14. OpenStack History Rackspace Decides to Open Source Cloud Software March NASA Open Sources Nebula Platform May June July OpenStack formed b/w Rackspace and NASA Inaugural Design Summit in Austin 2010 2005 Rackspace Cloud developed

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

16. But do we really have to choose? NASA Founding members operate at massive scale

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19. HOW TO: Turn Racks of Standard Hardware Into a Cloud with OpenStack

20. Start with an open, scalable platform OpenStack Compute OpenStack Object Storage CLOUD OS OpenStack Image Service

21. User Control Panel Ticketing System Network Management Monitoring Systems Host Server Management ECOSYSTEM OpenStack Compute OpenStack Object Storage CLOUD OS OpenStack Image Service Add 3 rd party tools from the ecosystem

22. User Control Panel Ticketing System Network Management Monitoring Systems Host Server Management Account Billing Admin CLI Tools Live Chat Support Account Management ECOSYSTEM PUBLIC CLOUD OpenStack Compute OpenStack Object Storage CLOUD OS OpenStack Image Service

23. User Control Panel Ticketing System Network Management Monitoring Systems Host Server Management ECOSYSTEM Admin Control Panel Dept. Accounting Chargeback User Management Enterprise Software Integration Systems PRIVATE CLOUD OpenStack Compute OpenStack Object Storage CLOUD OS OpenStack Image Service Integrate with existing enterprise systems

24. OpenStack Compute Details Software to provision virtual machines on standard hardware at massive scale.

25. Asynchronous eventually consistent communication REST-based API Horizontally and massively scalable Hypervisor agnostic : support for Xen ,XenServer, Hyper-V, KVM, UML and ESX is coming Hardware agnostic : standard hardware, RAID not required OpenStack Compute Key Features

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

27. Server Groups 1 GigE Connectivity Dual Quad Core RAID 10 Drives Public Network Private Network (intra data center) Management Example OpenStack Compute Hardware (other models possible)

28. OpenStack Object Storage Details Software to reliably store billions of objects distributed across standard hardware

29. REST-based API Data distributed evenly throughout system Hardware agnostic: standard hardware, RAID not required OpenStack Object Storage Key Features No central database Scalable to multiple petabytes, billions of objects Account/Container/Object structure (not file system, no nesting) plus Replication (N copies of accounts, containers, objects)

30. 5 Zones 2 Proxies per 25 Storage Nodes 10 GigE to Proxies 1 GigE to Storage Nodes 24 x 2TB Drives per Storage Node Public Internet Example OpenStack Object Storage Hardware Load Balancers (SW) Example only – many configurations possible

31. Hardware Selection OpenStack is designed to run on industry standard hardware with flexible configurations Compute X86 Server Storage flexible (Local, SAN, NAS) Object Storage X86 Server (other architectures possible) Do not deploy with RAID (can use controller for case)

32. OpenStack Release Process: Four Phases Design* Development QA Release *Design phase and Design Summit occur every other release, 2x per year

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

34. 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

35. 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

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