This document outlines Sean Winn's experience and credentials working with OpenStack as a cloud delivery specialist. It then provides an agenda for discussing OpenStack 101, the Juno update, contributing to OpenStack, and building a career in OpenStack. The bulk of the document consists of slides on these topics, providing overviews of OpenStack components, new features in Juno, ways to contribute to OpenStack, and skills needed for a career with OpenStack.

1. Sean Winn
Cloud Delivery Specialist w/ EMC
Twitter: @seanmwinn
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2. About Me
• Cloud Delivery Engineer for Cloudscaling - now an EMC company
• Network and systems engineer for 20+ years
• Co-author of “OpenStack Architecture Design Guide” by OpenStack
Foundation
• Technical reviewer for “OpenStack Cloud Computing Cookbook -
2nd Edition” by Kevin Jackson and Cody Bunch
• Contributor to OpenStack since Folsom release
• Candidate in 2015 OpenStack Foundation Board of Directors election
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3. Agenda
•OpenStack 101
•OpenStack Juno Update
•Contributing to OpenStack
•Building a Career in OpenStack
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4. OpenStack 101
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5. What is OpenStack?
• Collection of open source projects
• Managed and overseen by The OpenStack Foundation
• Provides basic Infrastructure as a Service
• Compute
• Network
• Storage
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6. OpenStack Foundation
•Non-profit “Owner of OpenStack”
•Controls Trademark and Legal
•Consists of Individual and Corporate members
•Membership is FREE
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7. Dev Growth by Git Contributors
Qingye Jiang (John) - Open Source IaaS Community Analysis CY13 - Q4
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http://www.qyjohn.net/?p=3432
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8. OpenStack Logical Architecture
• Loosely coupled inter-connected systems accessible via REST API
• No shared state synchronization
• Abstraction of lower layer architecture
• Multiple configuration options
• Support for 3rd party plugin drivers
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9. OpenStack Identity Service
• Centralized token-based authentication service used by all
OpenStack components
• Can be integrated with other authentication systems such as
LDAP (Active Directory), Pluggable Auth Modules (PAM)
• Newly added support for Federation of multiple OpenStack
cloud environments
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10. OpenStack Image Service
• Repository to upload and
download data assets used by
OpenStack services
• Virtual Machine Images
• Disk Images
• Metadata Definitions
• Supports various backend
storage types
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11. OpenStack Compute Service
• Provides on-demand access to compute
resources
• Support for virtualization, containers and
bare metal
• Feature support highly dependent on
virtualization layer
• HA
• Live Migration
• Backup
• Compatible with AWS EC2 API
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12. OpenStack Block Storage
• Persistent block storage for long-term data storage
• Attach and detach from instances on-demand
• Plugin support for a variety of backend storage systems
• Support for snapshot management
• Compatible with AWS EC2/EBS API
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13. OpenStack Object Storage
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• Massively scalable object storage system
• Accessible via REST API
• Based on the CAP Theorem to support
Availability and Partition Tolerance over
Consistency
• Supports front-end scaling via additional
proxies
• Supports back-end scaling via additional
storage nodes
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14. OpenStack Networking Service
• Provides network connectivity to virtual machines
• Plugin support for 3rd party drivers
• Allow users to create and model networks/subnets
• Support for higher level services:
• Firewall-as-a-service
• Load-balancing-as-a-service
• VPN-as-a-service
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15. OpenStack Telemetry Service
• Aggregates cloud metrics and resource data
• Provides a real-time view into cloud resource utilization
• Allows for capacity planning
• Used for metering and billing solutions
• Provides metrics to allow for automatic scaling of applications
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16. OpenStack Orchestration
• Provision entire application stacks using a REST API
• Single source to provision compute, network and storage
• Support for using existing AWS CloudFormation templates
• Integrates with Telemetry service to allow for auto-scaling
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17. What’s new in OpenStack Juno?
• Compute - New Instance features, enhanced networking
support, Instance Evacuation, Resource Tracking
• Networking - Distributed Virtual Routing, HA Support, IPv6
Network Modes
• Block Storage - QoS
• Object Storage -
• Image - Metadata Catalog, Asynchronous Processing
• Identity - Federation support, enhanced PKI support
• New Projects - Database (Trova), Data Processing (Sahara),
Bare Metal (Ironic)
• Full release notes available at http://wiki.openstack.org
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18. How to Contribute to
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OpenStack
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19. Join the Foundation
• The OpenStack Foundation is free to join
• Contributing gives you a FREE pass to the OpenStack
Developer Summit which happens twice per year
• Joining gives you the right to vote for Board members and
other issues
• More information available at https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/
How_To_Contribute
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20. Ways to Contribute
• Assist in the early planning stages of projects
• Provide technical guidance
• Contribute code
• Create documentation
• Provide code review
• Report bugs
• Get involved in your local meetup group
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21. Build a Career in
OpenStack
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22. OpenStack Skills are In Demand
• There is a shortage of OpenStack skills in the industry
• Searching ‘OpenStack’ on LinkedIn jobs returns 1,232 listings
• There is no single certification path for OpenStack training
• Many companies are developing skills internally
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23. Key Skill Sets Required
• Understanding of Linux Operating System
• Familiarity with virtualization and various hypervisors
• Experience with scripting and/or programming
• Understanding of Network architectures and protocols
• Knowledge of cloud computing principles
• Understanding of application design principles
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24. Where to go from here?
• Download and install an OpenStack server in a VM at http://
devstack.org
• Online Resources:
• Documentation - http://docs.openstack.org
• FREE Training Guides - http://docs.openstack.org/training-guides/
content/
• Bug Tracker - http://launchpad.net/openstack
• Code - https://github.com/openstack
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