This document discusses Red Hat's cloud platforms, including Infrastructure as a Service (OpenStack), Platform as a Service (OpenShift), and container technologies. It notes that business demands are driving IT transformation toward cloud-based architectures using open source technologies. Red Hat is a top contributor to OpenStack and OpenShift and offers integrated products like Red Hat Atomic Enterprise and OpenShift Enterprise to help customers deploy and manage container-based applications at scale across hybrid cloud environments.

1. RED HAT
CLOUD PLATFORMS
Giovanni Galloro
Cloud Solution Architect, Red Hat
ggalloro@redhat.com

2. Cloud for Application Agility

3. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
BUSINESS DEMANDS DRIVE I.T. TRANSFORMATION
● Business wants agility, lower
cost, and new capabilities.
● IT is struggling with existing
legacy infrastructure
architecture and cost model.
● Cloud providers are using
next- generation IT built on
open source technologies.
● IT needs to adopt cloud
architectures and technologies
to close the innovation gap.

4. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS

5. Infrastructure as a Service:
OpenStack

6. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR APPLICATION AGILITY

7. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
CLOUD INFRASTRUCTURE FOR APPLICATION AGILITY
● Evolving from pure IaaS
● Modular - “Pluggable” Architecture
● Set of Integrated Projects

8. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
● Top OpenStack Priorities
● 44% Increased emphasis on
certified hardware
● 44% commercial OpenStack support
● 43% integration with open source
management initiatives
Source: IDC Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Management Survey, October 2014
Plan to use OpenStack APIs to enable
management integration across infrastructure
Expect vendors will leverage OpenStack in
next-generation products
Will implement a 100% OpenStack Cloud
Unsure
43%
27%
11%
12%
18%
WHAT ROLE DOES OPENSTACK HAVE IN YOUR
CLOUD STRATEGY?

9. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
RED HAT COMMUNITY CONTRIBUTION
Source: Bitergia http://activity.openstack.org/dash/browser/scm-companies.html?release=juno
Stakalytics http://stackalytics.com/?release=juno&company=red%20hat
● Top Contributor to Juno Release (incl. Inktank & eNovance)
Overall commits per
company (aggregated)
Red Hat community
contributions to projects
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
Red Hat
HP
IBM
Mirantis
Rackspace
SUSE
OpenStack
Foundation
VMware
20.92%
18.48%
23.98%
6.76%
24.86%
27.35%
7.38%
5.44%
15.78%
5.39%
Nova Horizon Heat Neutron Ceilometer
Sahara Keystone Cinder Swift Glance

10. Hybrid Cloud Management

11. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/cloud-management-platforms
Source: “Evaluation Criteria for Cloud Management Platforms,” 19 July 2012 (refreshed 10 February 2014), By Alessandro Perilli, Gartner
GARTNER REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE FOR IAAS
And the Role of a CMP Solution

12. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
CREATE AN OPEN HYBRID CLOUD
CloudForms Adds Heterogeneous Capacity

13. Platform as a Service:
OpenShift

14. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
PAAS CLOUD SERVICE MODEL

15. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
PAAS LETS YOU STREAMLINE APP DEV
With PaaS
How to Build an App:
1. Have Idea
2. Get Budget
3. Code
4. Test
5. Launch
6. Automatically Scale
How to Build an App:
1. Have Idea
2. Get Budget
3. Submit VM Request request
4. Wait
5. Deploy framework/appserver
6. Deploy testing tools
7. Code
8. Test
9. Configure Prod VMs
10. Push to Prod
11. Launch
12. Request VMs to meet demand
13. Wait
14. Deploy app to new VMs
15. Etc.
Virtualized
How to Build an App:
1. Have Idea
2. Get Budget
3. Submit hardware acquisition request
4. Wait
5. Get Hardware
6. Rack and Stack Hardware
7. Install Operating System
8. Install Operating System Patches
9. Create user Accounts
10. Deploy framework/appserver
11. Deploy testing tools
12. Code
13. Test
14. Buy and configure Prod servers
15. Push to Prod
16. Launch
17. Order more servers to meet demand
18. Wait…
19. Deploy new servers
20. Etc.
Physical
“The use of Platform-as-a-Service technologies will
enable IT organizations to become more agile and
more responsive to the business needs.” –Gartner*

16. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
DEVOPS / CONTINOUS DELIVERY THROUGH
PLATFORM AS A SERVICE

17. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
REGISTRY / CONTAINER
DISCOVERY
CONTAINER FORMAT
WITH DOCKER
ISOLATION WITH LINUX
CONTAINERS
ORCHESTRATION WITH
KUBERNETES
OPENSHIFT:
DRIVING AND ADOPTING STANDARDS

18. Red Hat Strategy for
Linux Containers

19. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
WHAT ARE LINUX CONTAINERS?
Software packaging concept that typically includes an application and all of its
runtime dependencies.
● Easy to deploy and portable
across host systems
● Isolates applications on a
host operating system
● In RHEL, this is done through:
– Control Groups (cgroups)
– kernel namespaces
– SELinux, sVirt
– Docker
HOST OS
SERVER
CONTAINER
LIBS
APP

20. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
Traditional OS Containers
TRADITIONAL OS VS. CONTAINERS
HARDWARE
HOST OS
HARDWARE
HOST OS
CONTAINER
LIBS
APP A
LIBS A LIBS B LIBS LIBS
APP A APP B
CONTAINER
LIBS
APP B

21. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
LINUX DOCKER CONTAINER LAYERING
● New images can be created by adding
layers
● Layering model allows for specialization
● Base image and select number of
platform layers provided by Red Hat
● ISV images form the base of the RHEL
ecosystem
● Stack optimized for individual
application with minimal packaging per
layer

22. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
CONTAINERS DELIVER MANY BENEFITS
Base: 171 IT and Developer/programmer decision-makers at companies with 500+ employees in APAC, EMEA, and NA
Source: A commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Red Hat, January, 2015
Faster provisioning
Greater deployment flexibility
Ability to deliver/deploy applications faster
Greater application mobility/portability
69%
70%
72%
73%
How important are the following benefits of containers to your organization?
Critically or Very Important
73%
72%
70%
69%

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● Who built this image?
● What’s its purpose? Was
it created to support a
demo?
● Is it safe to consume?
● Who maintains it?
NEED FOR A “CHAIN OF TRUST”
DOCKER HUB
docker pull mongodb

24. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
WHAT'S INSIDE THE CONTAINER MATTERS
36% of official images in Docker Hub contain high priority
security vulnerabilities
● High vulnerabilities: ShellShock (bash),
Heartbleed (OpenSSL), etc.
● Medium vulnerabilities: Poodle
(OpenSSL), etc.
● Low vulnerabilities: gcc: array memory
allocations could cause integer overflow
All Images (n=962)
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
36%
28%
Low priority and no vulnerabilities Medium priority
High priority
Source: Over 30% of Official Images in Docker Hub Contain High Priority Security Vulnerabilities, Jayanth Gummaraju, Tarun Desikan, and Yoshio
Turner, BanyanOps, May 2015 (http://www.banyanops.com/pdf/BanyanOps-AnalyzingDockerHub-WhitePaper.pdf)

25. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
SECURING HOSTS AND CONTAINERS
RED HAT CONTAINER CERTIFICATION
UNTRUSTED
● How can you validate what’s in the host and
the containers? Will it compromise your
infrastructure?
● It “should” work from host to host, but can
you be sure?
CERTIFIED
● Trusted source for the host and the
containers
● Enterprise life cycle for container content
● Proven portability
● Container Development Kit
HOST OS
HARDWARE
CONTAINER
LIBS
APP
CONTAINER
LIBS
APP
HOST OS
HARDWARE
CONTAINER
LIBS
APP
CONTAINER
LIBS
APP

26. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
RED HAT ATOMIC
ENTERPRISE PLATFORM
Run and orchestrate multi-container based applications at scale
An integrated infrastructure platform powered
by Red Hat Enterprise Linux that is designed
to run, orchestrate, and scale container-based
applications and services
● Easily manage and scale applications and
infrastructure through a managed cluster
of container hosts
● Gain application resiliency and elasticity
via orchestration and service aggregation

27. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
OPENSHIFT ENTERPRISE
by Red Hat
An integrated hybrid cloud application
platform for application development and
deployment that facilitates DevOps
workflows and needs
● Develop, build, and manage container
based applications with application
lifecycle management and a rich
developer experience
● Easily turn source code into running
applications with source-to-image
capabilities
Integrated hybrid cloud application platform for application development and
deployment

28. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
RED HAT ATOMIC ENTERPRISE PLATFORM AND
OPENSHIFT 3
CONTAINER API
RHEL RHEL ATOMIC HOST
CONTAINER ORCHESTRATION AND MANAGEMENT
CONTAINER CONTAINER CONTAINER
PHYSICAL INFRASTRUCTURE
LANGUAGE RUNTIMES, MIDDLEWARE, DATABASES,
AND OTHER SERVICES
DEVOPS TOOL AND EXPERIENCE

29. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
SIMPLIFYING CONTAINER ADOPTION
FOR PARTNERS

30. RED HAT CLOUD PLATFORMS
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