What can be expected if we talk about OpenStack?

Demystification of the buzz around OpenStack

Jan VandenneuckerBusiness & Innovation Technologist 02/12/2014

GSE OpenStack event

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Open-source framework of components designed to build a cloud IaaS platform

Started with Nova (Amazon EC2 clone for NASA) and Swift (Amazon S3 clone for Rackspace)

Schedule with a new release every six months

Expanded to many projects

Source: OpenStack.org

What is OpenStack?

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OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of

compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all

managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while

empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface

Source: OpenStack.org

OpenStack: The Open Source Cloud Operating System

4Source: OpenStack.org

OpenStack components

Function Project code name Released

Compute Resource Manager Nova October 2010 (Austin)

Object Storage Resource Manager Swift October 2010 (Austin)

VM Library Glance February 2011 (Bexar)

IAM Keystone April 2012 (Essex)

Web-based Administrative UI Horizon April 2012 (Essex)

Block Storage Resource Manager Cinder September 2012 (Folsom)

Network Resource Manager Neutron September 2012 (Folsom)

Performance Management Ceilometer October 2013 (Havana)

Service Catalog/Templates Heat October 2013 (Havana)

Database Service Trove April 2014 (Icehouse)

Data processing Sahara October 2014 (Juno)

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New capability in Juno release:Data Processing (Sahara): automates provisioning

and management of big data clusters

What’s on the roadmap:

Bare Metal (Ironic)

Cloud Messaging / Queue Service (Zaqar)

Shared File System (Manila)

DNS Service (Designate)

Key Management (Barbican)

Kilo release foreseen for April 2015

Source: OpenStack.org

OpenStack components

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OpenStack is under the governance of the OpenStack

Foundation which is a non-profit consortium sponsored by

numerous IT vendors, including Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM,

Rackspace, Red Hat and VMware

Technical leadership on projects is elected by the contributors

Unlike the Linux kernel, there is no "benevolent dictator"

OpenStack Foundation

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Hype versus Reality

Massive press coverage & vendor marketing

OpenStack alone is not (yet) a turnkey enabler for private clouds

Evaluation of the risks & rewards of adopting OpenStack

in its current maturity state

OpenStack as a low cost alternative to mainstream

cloud management platforms

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Open source does NOT equal:

Open standards

Broad interoperability

Freedom from commercial interests

There is no lower degree of lock in right now for OpenStack

than for commercial alternatives

There are still interoperability issues even between

OpenStack distribution versions

Some personal thoughts on portability

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OpenStack User Survey Insights: November 2014

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H2 2014 shows breakthrough in production usage Growth in Hosted & Public Cloud – decline in On-Premise

Source: http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-user-survey-insights-november-2014

OpenStack deployment stage & type

11Source: http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-user-survey-insights-november-2014

OpenStack industry representation

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Web services are still leading but increase in other workloads Focus is on the basic cloud IaaS functionalities

Source: http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-user-survey-insights-november-2014

Workloads on the platform & OpenStack project usage

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Over 80% are based on KVM & run mostly Ubuntu, CentOS & RHEL

Source: http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-user-survey-insights-november-2014

For which hypervisors & operating systems?

14Source: http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/openstack-user-survey-insights-november-2014

Business drivers for OpenStack

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Thank you for your attention!