open source cloud alternatives

Open Source Cloud Alternatives.

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• Atul Jha, Developer Evangelist, minio.io

• OpenStack contributor in Past

• Community coordinator OpenStack India

Agenda

• Analysts take on Cloud

• Ventures capitalists & public market

• Why Open Source cloud

• Business advantages with Open Source cloud

Agenda

• Innovation & Open Source cloud

• Challenges

• Key components of your cloud

• Open Source cloud, real world examples.

Analysts take on Cloud.

• Gartner: 50% Of Enterprises Use Hybrid Cloud By 2017

• Gartner: Cloud IaaS is a $16.5 billion market [2015]

Venture capitalists & public market

• Over $ 1 billon funded to companies building service around OpenStack cloud platform.

• Hortonworks, Red Hat.

• Docker, MongoDB [Unicrons]

Why Open Source cloud?

• Code for all.

• More eyes/stakeholders

• Trust/maturity

• Ecosystem

Business Advantages

• Interoperability

• Scalability

• Less vendor dependent

• Longevity [Product exists, backers change]

Innovation & Open Source cloud.

• Accelerate Delivery [Significant reduction in instance association/procurement]

• Modernize Development [DevOps, CI/CD, Containers, microservices]

Challenges

• Mindset [Since we are so used to old process]

• Hiring Talent

Key Components

• Compute [OpenStack Nova, CloudStack]

• Object Storage [OpenStack Swift, Minio]

• Orchestration [OpenStack Heat, Kubernates]

• Containers [Rkt, LXC, Docker]

• DevOps [Puppet, Ansible, Chef]

Organizations using it.

• CERN

• Paypal

• Many other public & government clouds

Thanks

• Atul Jha

• @koolhead17 [Twitter]