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Open Cloud FrameworkOpen Standards for the Cloud Community

Thijs MetschSoftware Engineer Cloud, Grid and VirtualizationSun MicrosystemsGridKa School 2009, 02.09.2009 Karlsruhe

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“Do not worry if you do get a little bit lost. This is a talk about Cloud Computing – being lost is normal”– Simon Wardley

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http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/2008/05/simply-explaine.html

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Open Framework

Project RESERVOIR

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Resources

Services

Virtualization

Resources and Services Virtualization without Barriers

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

Hardware

Network

Storage

Software

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Geographical

Security

Trust

Different environments

Different platforms

Political

Type of Service

Payment

Licenses

Barriers

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Partners

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http://infreemation.net/cloud-computing-linear-utility-or-complex-ecosystem/

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Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service Software as a Service

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Patterns

Increase compute resources

Write extensions for sites

For testing and development

Hosting of services

Storage

Write your thesis

Power savings

Licensing issues

“netbooking”

To follow the hype

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Diversity Kind of Service

Virtualization technology

Usage pattern

Business models

Environment

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Elasticity Migration

Consolidation

Hybrid-Clouds

SLA-based 'cloud bursting'

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Resource Resource

VEE VEE

Service Provider

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VEE-Manager

Service Manager

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Elastic environmentDemonstrating the Framework

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VirtualVirtualJavaJava

ServiceServiceContainerContainer

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Open Standards

Open Cloud Computing Interface

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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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Interoperability ability to let different system interoperate (Hybrid & Federated Clouds)

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

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Integration wire up cloud computing with (legacy) resources

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Infrastructure as a Service

Platform as a Service Software as a Service

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“In the great mass of our people there are plenty individuals of intelligence from among whom leadership can be recruited.”– Herbert Hoover

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Chairs & Members

Chairs

Members

Industry

Academia

End-Users

Providers

190+ Members

ca. 30 active membersIncluding Providers

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Timeline

OGF 25 OGF 26 OGF 27

Create a slim, extensible RESTful API ASAP (and document it)

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Deliverables Use Case and

Requirements for a

Cloud API (OGF27)

Open Cloud

Computing Interface

Specification

(OGF27)

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Create – HTTP POST

Retrieve – HTTP GET

Update – HTTP GET & HTTP PUT

Delete – HTTP DELETE

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Provider

Compute

Storage

Network

Attributes

Operations

Instance

Links

GET http://abc.com/compute/uid123foobar/(request)

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OCCI

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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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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