OPENSTACK – AN INTRODUCTION

Tristan Goode CEO and founder, Aptira

Board Director, The OpenStack Foundation

Co-founder and organizer of the Australian OpenStack User Group

Supporter and sponsor of the Indian OpenStack User Group

Agenda…

• What is OpenStack?

• Who is behind OpenStack

• Phenomenal growth of the project

• Relevance in Australia and internationally

• Massive job demand

• Q & A

OpenStack?What is

More than…

…cloud infrastructure software

…a global open source community

…a collaboration among technology vendors

The platform ecosystem for the cloud

‣ Different than other cloud software or services

‣ Creates the most value for users

So let’s start with the software

‣ What’s it all made of?

THE FUNDAMENTAL OPENSTACK CLOUD PLATFORM

IT’S COMPLICATED!

ComputeProvision and manage large pools of on-demand computing resources

Object Storage Petabytes of reliable storage on standard hardware

Block StorageVolumes on commodity storage gear, and drivers for more advanced systems like IBM, EMC, HP, Red Hat/Gluster, Ceph/RBD, NetApp, SolidFire, and Nexenta

NetworkingSoftware defined networking automation with pluggable backends

DashboardSelf-service, role-based web interface for users and administrators

Shared ServicesMulti-tenant authentication system that ties to existing stores (e.g. LDAP), Image Service

OpenStack Core Capabilities

•Time-Based Release Cycle

•New software release every six months, with interim milestones

•Twice Yearly Design Summits

•Immediately following software release to plan next version

Sessions led by developers and Project Technical Leads

•Broad Contributions

•1000 developers, from over 50 companies worldwide

•Elected Leadership

•Developers elect their own Project Technical Leaders

Open Development Process

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Fastest Growing Open Source Community

(as of July 2013)

COMPANIES

TOTAL CONTRIBUTORSAVERAGE MONTHLY

CONTRIBUTORSCODE CONTRIBUTIONS

1,036 238 70,137

231

10,149INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS

COUNTRIES

121

‣ Every datacenter

‣ Every server

‣ Every network device

‣ Every storage system

OpenStack Use Cases: IT Transformation

‣ Every datacenter‣ Every server‣ Every network device‣ Every storage system‣ Every silly cat photo

OpenStack’s Goal: Change IT

Diverse Use Cases

Bloomberg, Comcast, Best Buy

http://www.openstack.org/user-stories/

What’s the Mission?

To produce the

ubiquitous open source cloud computing platform

that will meet the needs of public and private clouds

regardless of size, by being simple to implement and

massively scalable.

OpenStack?Who is behind

Extremely Brief OpenStack History

Protecting, Empowering, and Promoting OpenStack software and the community around it, including users, developers and the

entire ecosystem.

• Over 12,000 Individual Members, up from 5,600 at launch

• The leading Global IT companies as Gold & Platinum Members

Three key components

• Board of Directors - sets strategic direction

• Project Technical Leads and a Technical Committee - elected

from among the contributors

• User Committee - ensures the users voices are heard

The OpenStack Foundation

• Technical people making technical decisions based on merit

• Dedicated resources building the community and ecosystem

• A strong ecosystem of companies making money

• Encouraging and rewarding contribution in all forms

Foundation Approach

Platinum & Gold Members

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OpenStack Summit Attendee Growth

Developer Interest & Commitment to Platform

Average of 230+ unique contributors per month

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http://www.ohloh.net/p/compare?project_0=OpenStack&project_1=Apache+CloudStack&project_2=Eucalyptus

Developer Interest = Rapid Innovation

All the lines go up, including job demand

(more on that later)

• Open platform

‣ Community-driven innovation

‣ Technology accessible in many ways: hourly, appliance, distribution, DIY

‣ mandatory interoperability between all OpenStack clouds

• Empowered users and developers

‣ Deep engagement from our users and developers

‣ Users have more control of their destiny

• Broad, global support from companies

‣ Not driven by a single company; no single source;

‣ Aggregate investment is huge

OpenStack Goals

Expanded scope from Compute and Object Storage to Compute,

Storage, Networking and Shared Services, with rich ecosystem of

Integrated projects emerging, LBaaS, DBaaS, metering and billing

etc

OpenStack has public clouds in more cities than Amazon has

regions, and they are interoperable!

Major user adoption

OpenStack has become the centre of cloud innovation

3 years in – Report Card

AustraliaRelevance in

and internationally

• We are the most virtualised country in the world, but our cloud

adoption is still pedestrian (we can cut costs, compete globally)

• Build clouds free of proprietary (read US dominated) constraints

• It provides the “primordial soup” which entrepreneurs feed on

• Develop cloud computing technologies here and export skills

• Reverse the “brain drain”

• Organizations are realizing OpenStack is the only way forward to

“glue” their infrastructure together

• Perfect for Government adoption & compliments Open

Government initiatives

• No more puppies – just them cows – no more clickfails

OpenStack in Australia

• “Cloud for the rest of the world”

• Lowers barriers of entry for emerging and developing nations

• Democracy beats dictatorship in the Cloud!

• Internationalisation helps level the cloud playing field

• Data ownership worries (NSA etc), build your cloud on sovereign

soil, always retain control of your data!

• October Summit was the first outside of the US (in Hong Kong)

• November Summit in Paris

• Huge surge in code contribution from outside the US

• Most use cases are now outside the US massive deploy in China

• Creating jobs all over the world http://openstack.org/jobs

(More on jobs later)

The global impact of OpenStack

Dr. Liu Ming keynoted the inaugural APAC OpenStack conference in

Beijing last August….

He is the “Deputy Director of the Ministry of Industry and

Information Technology Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion

Centre”

“OpenStack will smash the monopoly of the western cloud

providers!”

Possible future news headline…

“China and USA sign peace accord at the 2016 OpenStack Summit”

China loves OpenStack!

A great analogy comes from the early days of the Internet…

…the transition away from fractured, proprietary flavours of UNIX

toward open-source Linux.

An open cloud will provide the same benefits to cloud computing

that the Linux standard provided to the server.

Why OpenStack will become predominant

Plus… it’s a lot of fun to be involved!

MASSIVEjobs demand

OpenStack eco-system has 0% unemployment!

http://openstack.org/jobs

How you can get involved

We are looking for:DevelopersTestersCode ReviewersBug ReportersSupportersWritersTranslatorsSystem Administrators andEvangelists

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/HowToContributehttps://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/MailingListshttps://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Teams

How it works: resources

General

• Openstack.org/community

• OpenStack Newsletter

• Join your local user group

• Join as an individual member of the foundation

• Read our blog

• Find an event

Technical

• ask.OpenStack.org

• IRC

• Mailing Lists

• Wiki

• Docs

Come to the Summit in Atlanta USA in May

• OpenStack is at http://openstack.org

or follow @openstack

• I am at tristan@aptira.com

or follow me @tristangoode

• Aptira is at http://aptira.com

or follow @aptira

Questions