This document discusses why OpenStack is gaining traction. It provides 3 key reasons for OpenStack's momentum: 1) OpenStack supports multiple cloud APIs, which provides comfort around preventing lock-in for workloads; 2) Having an open source project as the underlying platform for clouds allows an entire ecosystem of startups to develop and allows enterprises to experiment more easily; 3) OpenStack has fostered discussions between business and IT leaders about cloud computing opportunities.

1. OpenStack:
Why Is It Gaining So
Much Traction?
Kyle Mestery (@mestery)
Technical Leader, Office of the Cloud CTO, Cisco
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2.  Minnesota OpenStack Meetup
 http://www.meetup.com/Minnesota-OpenStack-Meetup/
 We meet every 4-6 weeks and discuss all things OpenStack
 Growing community, not limited only to the Twin Cities
 Have members from all over the US (CA, MA, NC, TX) and all
over the world (China, France, India)
 We are looking for presenters!
 Get in touch with me to schedule your own presentation!

3.  The audience:
• Work for AMD, Best Buy, Cisco, Dell, Enstratius, Huawei, IBM,
Kroll Ontrack, Lifetouch, Qlogic, Raytheon BBN, Super Go
Faster, Target, UnitedHealth Group, and others
• Are OpenStack/DevOps developers, OpenStack deployers,
and/or OpenStack newbies

5.  What is OpenStack?
 What’s the community like?
 What’s the software like?
 Why Is OpenStack Getting So Much Traction?

6. “OpenStack is a global collaboration of developers and cloud computing
technologists producing the ubiquitous open source cloud computing
platform for public and private clouds. The project aims to deliver
solutions for all types of clouds by being simple to implement, massively
scalable, and feature rich. The technology consists of a series of
interrelated projects delivering various components for a cloud
infrastructure solution.”
-- openstack.org
 Basically, it’s software to run cloud
services and the community behind
that software.

7.  Founded in July 2010 by Rackspace Hosting, NASA, and partners.
• Nasa and Rackspace contributed the beginning code
• 7th release (Grizzly) due out in April
• OpenStack has a 6-month time-based release cycle
• Over 169 companies have now joined the community
• OS/Hypervisor makers
• Public cloud/service providers
• Equipment Vendors
• OpenStack Software & Services

8.  The OpenStack Foundation
 Board of Directors
• Technical Committee
• User Committee
• More details here.

9.  IRC Channels and Mailing Lists
 User/Meetup Groups
 Social Networking
 Code on GitHub, Bugs/Milestones in Launchpad
 Two Annual Design Summit/Conferences (coinciding roughly
w/releases)
 Want to contribute? Start here.

10.  OpenStack is written primarily in Python
 Licensed under the Apache Public License 2.0
 Has traits typical of cloud OS’s:
 Can be used to build public, private, or hybrid clouds

11. Horizon
AWS Management Console
Quantum
Nova Swift (Object Storage)
VPC
EC2 S3
Cinder (Block storage)
EBS
Glance Keystone
(VM Image Service) (Identity Service)

12. Supporting Projects Incubated Projects
(may become core
Documentation
components in the future)
CI & Infrastructure Ceilometer
(metering/billing/monitoring)
Library Projects
Heat (AWS CloudFormation
compliant resource
Client libraries templating)
Oslo (common code libraries)
Gating Projects
DevStack (deployment script)
Tempest (integration test)

13.  Deployment & Configuration Management
• Puppet
• Chef
• Juju
• Crowbar
 Multi-cloud abstraction layers
• jClouds
• Dasein-cloud
• Deltacloud

14.  Packaging, distributing, productizing:
 Red Hat, Canonical, SuSE, Fedora, Debian, Piston,
StackOps, Cloudscaling, SwiftStack, others
 Services and Training:
 Mirantis, Rackspace, Cloudscaling, Grid Dynamics, Hastexo,
StackOps, others
 Deploying:
 Rackspace, HP, DreamHost, Cisco, Mercado Libre,
Canonical, AT&T, eNovance, San Diego Supercomputer
Center, Argonne National Lab, NeCTAR, eBay, Paypal,
Comcast, CERN, Intel, Deutsche Telekom, Sina, ISI, many
more
 User stories: http://www.openstack.org/user-stories/

15.  Developers can get started fast with DevStack.
 Most major Linux distributions and some vendors offer
packages.
 Start using an OpenStack-powered public cloud immediately.

16.  Putting your best foot
forward means
putting your code
where your mouth is.
 Ideas are more
readily accepted
when there’s effort to
back them up.

17.  Don’t be intimidated.
• HolycrapthingsmovereallyreallyfastinOpenStack
• Jump in feet first: be agile and flexible.

19. Today’s Architectural
Web Battle Enterprise
Approach Approach
Scale-out Vertical scaling
Architecture
HA failover model
Design for Failure
Transactional
Information-
centric Application
specific
Commodity Infrastructure
systems
Commercial
Open Source Software
Innovation

20. 3 Reasons for OpenStack
Momentum

22.  Whether you’re a developer, deployer, or a user, there’s a place
for you in OpenStack
 Ask a question, get many answers!
 Have some code, contribute it upstream!
 Most importantly: Have fun!

23. You are here

24.  OpenStack Supports multiple
cloud API sets
 Provides a comfort level about
preventing lock-in for your
cloud workloads
 Perception is reality

25.  If everyone is offering the same cloud,
where is the value for the operator?
 If everyone offers extensions to the same
underlying cloud, does the customer feel
the threat of lock-in?
 Ultimately it’s a level of comfort compared
to vendor specific clouds

27.  Allowed an entire ecosystem of startups to
proliferate
 Allowed enterprise users to dip their toes
into this brave new world
 Opened people’s eyes to Commodity Web
Scale Compute
 …
• And Fostered Cloud Computing Envy!

28. • And most importantly
has caused many
conversations like this
to take place between
CxOs and their IT
departments

30. “We are all part of a community much
larger than each of us individually, all
creating a massively scalable cloud
operating system.”
Questions?
http://openstack.org/