building the open source cloud community

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Open Innovation with Eucalyptus

Greg DeKoenigsberg VP, Community 12 July 2012

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A little about me.

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What shall we talk about today?

"Why private cloud?" and, "why AWS compatibility?" and,

finally, •"why does open source matter so

much for innovation?"

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Why Private Cloud?

(or, "The Sysadmin's Lament")

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Sometimes your users just need cloud.

Even if you need to provide it to them.

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Being a private cloud means: •Dynamic •Self-service •Metered •Private (duh) •FIXME: Nist definition

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Why AWS Compatibility?

(or, "why APIs do actually matter, a lot")

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blah blah blah APIs blah blah blah

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AWS Compatibility ...means having access to the

overwhelmingly dominant public cloud ecosystem,

and all of its tools.

Oh, and not having AWS Compatibility means building your own ecosystem.

Which is crazy hard.

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Sharing the same ecosystem ...means that hybrid cloud becomes a real possibility instead of a pipe dream.

The same APIs, same machine image formats, same management tools -- all this makes it easier to move workloads

from public to private, or vice versa.

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How compatible are we with AWS?

euca2ools is a python client for talking to the Amazon API.

We wrote it.

It's so good that Amazon hired

the guy who wrote it.

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AWS-Eucalyptus partnership

We now work together to continue to improve

API compatibility between AWS and Eucalyptus.

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Why does open source matter?

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1. Open source allows users to help improve the code.

"With many eyes, all bugs are shallow." (Eric S. Raymond)

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Why open source actually works

defects

developers

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0 a few a few more a good many hundreds!

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Why open source actually works

defects

developers

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0 a few a few more a good many hundreds!

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the open source advantage: users who improve the product

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2. Open source is a development model

for user-driven innovation.

Not consortium driven. Not industry driven.

User driven.

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Read this book. It's free on the internet. (Google the title.)

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Innovative users need more than what we give them

"Why do so many users develop or modify products for their own use? Users may

innovate if and as they want something that is not available on the market and are able and willing to pay for its development. It is likely

that many users do not find what they want on the market." (von Hippel)

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Thus, the most innovative users care the most about open source...

because they can shape it

to their needs.

(Google, Amazon, Apple, and you)

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The BIG accomplishment for Eucalyptus 3.1

We have always been the most mature on-premise cloud product.

We are now also running like a

true open source project.

Thus, we are ideally positioned to innovate with our users.

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Open innovation in the Eucalyptus Community

1. Use the product! 2. Follow the repository 3. Ask demanding questions publicly 4. Fork, hack, commit, merge 5. Be careful in the critical path 6. Be bold outside of the critical path 7. Innovate on your own, on top of us

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Open innovation in the Eucalyptus Community: Use the Product

Get the bits: eucalyptus.com/download/eucalyptus

Get the docs:

eucalyptus.com/eucalyptus-cloud/documentation

Get help: engage.eucalyptus.com

No innovation happens without power users.

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Open innovation in the Eucalyptus Community: Follow the Repository

Watch us at:

github.com/eucalyptus

(Click the little eyeballs)

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Open innovation in the Eucalyptus Community: Ask Demanding Questions Publicly

engage.eucalytpus.com (message board, knowledge base)

lists.eucalyptus.com (project mailing lists)

webchat.freenode.net?channels=eucalyptus

(chat with us in real time!)

The questions you have are usually the same questions others have

but will not ask.

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Open innovation in the Eucalyptus Community: Fork, Hack, Commit, Merge

The Github workflow:

Fork the code. Hack it to do what you what.

Commit your changes so all can see. Merge them back upstream.

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Open innovation in the Eucalyptus Community: Be Careful in the Critical Path

If engineers are actively building a feature, the code is often changing too quickly

to accept contributions usefully.

(eucalyptus.atlassian.net)

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Open innovation in the Eucalyptus Community: Be Bold Outside of the Critical Path

Remember:

We can't evaluate a new idea if we never see any code.

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Open innovation in the Eucalyptus Community: Innovate on your own, on top of us

Your best idea is the one we know nothing about.

Cut out non-differentiating value,

so that we can share the cost

of getting you there.

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Eucalyptus Projects of Note

github.com/eucalyptus/silvereye (the next generation installer)

github.com/eucalytpus/recipes

(stuff to do with your cloud)

github.com/eucalyptus/eutester (the best testing suite in the cloud world)

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Sysadmins are great innovators

users

(Example: Apache... and Eucalyptus!)

potential developers

contributors!

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Thank you, Q+A

gregdek@eucalyptus.com

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