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Open Cloud Computing InterfaceThe need for standards in the Cloud

Thijs MetschSoftware Engineer Cloud, Grid and VirtualizationSun MicrosystemsCCA09, Chicago, October 20, 2009

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What is Cloud Computing?

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Resources

Services

Virtualization

Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers

http://www.reservoir-fp7.eu - The research leading to these results has received funding from the European

Community's Seventh FrameworkProgramme (FP7/2007­2013) under grant agreement n° 215605.

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BarriersSecurity

Trust

Geographical

Platform

Virtualization

XX-67-HT License

Money

Political /Enviroment

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Virtualization An umbrella term describing how a computer can enhance the ability to do work.

Crossbow

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Service

Service

Description

Service Level Agreements

Interface

Can be any kind of software with a demand for resources

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SchedulerScheduler

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Queue size over threshold

A service with a 'SLA' example...

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Patterns, Patterns, Patterns...

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Model-View-Controller Pattern (T. Reenskaug)

Controller

View Model

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Another view...

Services

Virtualization Resources

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So what about a Service orientated Cloud approach?

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Service Ae.g. Sun Grid Engine Cluster

Service Be.g. Globus Toolkit

Spare Pool-

Private CloudPublic Cloud

Resource assignment based on

need

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Service Ae.g. Sun Grid Engine Cluster

Service Be.g. Globus Toolkit

Spare Pool-

Private CloudPublic Cloud

Service Domain Manager

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More things which are demanded (by users e.g. to prevent vendor lock-in)...

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Interoperability ability to let different system interoperate

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Interoperability ability to let different system interoperate

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Integration wire up cloud computing with (legacy) resources (Hybrid & Federated Clouds)

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Portability ability to move services and port them as easy as possible

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Portability ability to move services and port them as easy as possible

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So Services have a demand for Resources...Smells like 'Infrastructure as a Service'

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“If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.”– Henry Ford

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Our focus

Infrastructure as a Service

Platform asa Service

Software as a Service

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How it all began

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How it all began

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Members

0 OGF25 OGF26 OGF270

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OCCI – a quick look

Create – HTTP POST

Retrieve – HTTP GET

Update – HTTP GET & HTTP PUT

Delete – HTTP DELETE

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OCCI – a second look

Provider

Compute

Storage

Network

Attributes

Operations

Instance

Links

GET http://abc.com/compute/uid123foobar/

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OCCI

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Today – The Specification

OCCICore Specification

OCCIInfrastructure

'A' R

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Your Extension?

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What about Storage?

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Cloud Data Management Interface

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Cloud Data Management InterfaceThanks to Mark Carlson and SNIA-Cloud TWG

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CDMI & OCCI Whitepaper

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http://cloud-standards.org/

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Public Cloud

Private CloudHybrid Cloud

ProprietaryAPIs

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http://socialsignal.com/

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Wrap-up: My line of argumentation

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Conclusions & QuestionsThijs MetschSun Microsystems

mailto:thijs.metsch@sun.com

http://blogs.sun.com/intheclouds

http://www.twitter.com/befreax

RESERVOIR websitehttp://www.reservoir-fp7.eu

OCCI working group websitehttp://www.occi-wg.org

SGE & SDM websitehttp://www.sun.com/sge