Kyle MacDonald

Vice President – Cloud & Director, OpenStack

Canonical / Ubuntu

What is OpenStack?

What is OpenStack?

What is Linux?

What is Linux?

What is Linux?

What is Linux?

Linux is not DEAD

Linux has commoditized computing as we know it

‣ Unix to Linux Migration

‣ Web Infrastructure

‣ Cloud Guests

‣ Scale out Storage

Cloud Guest Market Today: A view of the Future

OpenStack: NEXT platform of consolidation

‣ Infrastructure as a Service

‣ Software Defined Networking

‣ Block and Object Storage

‣ Service Orchestration

OpenStack: Customers Are Choosing

Without OpenStack? Without OpenStack?

A World Without OpenStack

An unstoppable force might dominate

Do not stray from the path: A story of Lock In

Technolgy Evolution

Time

OpenStack to the Rescue

"To produce the ubiquitous Open Source cloud computing platform that will meet the needs of public and private cloud providers regardless of size, by being simple to

implement and massively scalable."

Mission Statement

OpenStack Cloud Operating System

OpenStack Capabilities Project Name

Compute: Provision and manage large pools of on-demand computing

resources

Nova Compute

Block Storage: Volumes on commodity storage gear, and drivers for more

advanced systems like NetApp, Solidfire, and Nexenta

Cinder Block Storage

Object Storage: Petabytes of reliable storage on standard gear Swift Object Storage

Networks: VLAN or Flat Network, automation coming with Quantum project

Folsom release Fall 2012

Quantum Networking

Web Dashboard: Self-service, role-based web interface for users and

administrators

Horizon Dashboard

Shared Services: Multi-tenant authentication system that ties to existing

stores (e.g. LDAP) and Image Service

Keystone Identity,

Glance Image Service

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Established Marketing Reach

OpenStack.org 150k/visits month:

Software: 300K downloads

Membership: 6000, Over 90% subscribe to newsletter

Relationships with Tier 1 publications and analysts

Why OpenStack?

‣ Control. Open source, no vendor lock in.

‣ Flexibility. Modular design integrates legacy and third party

technologies.

‣ Emerging Industry Standard. More than 180 technology industry

leaders backing it including support from all major Linux

distributions.

‣ Proven. Originally built for scale and redundancy at NASA and

Rackspace. More than 100 deployments worldwide.

‣ Compatible and Connected. Enables portability.

Users all over the world deploying OpenStack

OpenStack.org/User-Stories

OpenStack Foundation Established Sept 2012

The Foundation will provide a set of

independent, shared resources to

further the OpenStack Mission. Key

priorities include:

‣ User adoption, globally and across

all industries

‣ Growing and enabling the

ecosystem and tools vendors

‣ Enabling the delivery of the best

cloud software

Membership of the Foundation: Three types

Individual Members participate in the community on their own or as part of

their paid employment. It’s free to join as an Individual Member and Individual

Members have the right to run for, and vote for, a number of leadership

positions.

Platinum Members are companies that make a significant and strategic

commitment to OpenStack in funding and resources. Each of the eight

Platinum Members each appoint a representative to the Board of Directors.

AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, and SUSE

Gold Members are companies that provide funding and resources, but at a

lower level than Platinum Members, and fees are on a sliding scale according

to revenue. Gold Members as a class elect eight representatives to the Board

of Directors.

Cisco, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, ITRI, Mirantis, Morphlabs,

NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing and Yahoo! are Gold Members,

with Intel, NEC and Vmware joining in September

What does an Individual Member do?

• Run for an elected position such as Project Technical Lead,

Technical Committee Member, or Board of Directors

• Vote in elections such as for the Board of Directors or major

revisions to Foundation bylaws and structure

• Stay informed of the latest OpenStack news through member

updates, and talk to your Individual Member representatives about

issues that are important to you

• Advocate for and contribute to the OpenStack community

• Be respectful, wear your “OpenStack Hat” when handling

community issues, and abide by the OpenStack community code of

conduct

• Individual membership is free – openstack.org/join

Corporate Members

Join the Community & Get Started

‣ How to Get Started with OpenStack:

openstack.org/start

‣ Welcome Guide:

http://openstack.org/assets/welcome-guide/openstack-

welcome-guide.pdf

‣ How to Contribute:

http://wiki.openstack.org/HowToContribute

‣ Join the Mailing Lists:

https://launchpad.net/~openstack

‣ Find an Upcoming Event:http://openstack.org/community/events/

Ubuntu + OpenStack: Cloud Delivered Today