1. OpenStack
A Common Platform For Service
Providers and Enterprises
Stefano Maffulli
Technical Community Manager

2. Agenda
●Mission of the project
●History of OpenStack
●Current status
●Participate to the community

3. Enterprises are building clouds to...
1. Virtualization
Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

4. Datacenters are being virtualized, Servers are first
HYPERVISORS PROVIDE ABSTRACTION BETWEEN APPS AND HARDWARE (SERVERS)
HOST 1 HOST 2 HOST 3 HOST 4, ETC.
VMs
Hypervisor:
Turns 1 server into many “virtual machines” (instances or VMs)
Server Virtualization
1. Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

5. Next: Storage, Network…
the building blocks
ABSTRACTION BETWEEN APPS AND HARDWARE
Server Virtualization
1. Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

6. But questions arise as the environment
grows...
“VM SPRAWL” CAN MAKE THINGS UNMANAGEABLE VERY QUICKLY
APPS USERS ADMINS
+
Server Virtualization
1. Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

7. But questions arise as the environment grows...
“VM SPRAWL” CAN MAKE THINGS UNMANAGEABLE VERY QUICKLY
APPS USERS ADMINS
Server Virtualization
1. Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

8. OpenStack, The Cloud Operating System
A NEW MANAGEMENT LAYER THAT ADDS AUTOMATION AND CONTROL
APPS USERS ADMINS
CLOUD OPERATING SYSTEM
1.Server Virtualization
Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

9. In Summary, the Cloud
Operating System enables
enterprises to:

10. What’s next?
Server Virtualization
1. Server Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

11. Common Platform
Server Virtualization
1. Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

12. A common platform is here.
OPENSTACK IS OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
POWERING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOUDS.
Private Cloud: Public Cloud:
Server Virtualization
1. Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

13. Top 3 Benefits of a
Common Platform
Server Virtualization
1. Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

14. OpenStack enables
cloud federation
CONNECTING CLOUDS TO CREATE GLOBAL RESOURCE POOLS
Washington
Common software
platform making
federation possible
Texas California Europe
Server Virtualization
1. Virtualization 2. Cloud Data Center 3. Cloud Federation

15. What is OpenStack?
OpenStack is a community of open source
developers, participating organizations and
users who are building and running the open
source cloud operating system.

16. History of OpenStack

17. June 2010

18. Mission
“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.”

19. Open
● Open source (Apache Software License)
● Liberal copyright agreement
● Open design (blueprints)
● Open development (branches)
● Open community (tech leads)

20. Pieces of OpenStack
OpenStack Compute (Nova)
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)
OpenStack Image Service (Glance)
OpenStack Network (Quantum)
OpenStack Dashboard
OpenStack Identity (Keystone)

21. Rapid Evolution
#5 Essex:
#2 Bexar: (Mar 12)
(Feb 11) • Stability
#4 Diablo: • Upgradability
• Scale for Enterprise clouds
• Objects of unlimited size (Sept 11) • Operational
• Support for IPv6 • Storage as-a-Service improvements
• Glance image registry • Networking as-a-Service (monitoring, deployment,
• Unified authentication admin api/cli …)
• Enhanced scheduling • Usability
#3 Cactus: • Multi-network interface • Scalability
• Multi-region support • ...
(Apr 11)
• Network isolation
• Scale for Service Provider
• Hypervisor agnostic
• Live migration
• Multi-tenant accounting
• Image integrity checks
• Performance enhancements

22. Community

23. Some Stats
● 1,200+ active participants
● 17 countries represented at Design Summit
● 40,000+ downloads
1,700 visits a day to documentation
●
Worldwide network of user groups (North
●
America, South America, Europe, Asia and

24. How To Participate
●Website: www.openstack.org
●Mailing List:
http://launchpad.net/~openstack
●
● Wiki:
http://wiki.openstack.org
●
●Twitter: @openstack
●Planet:
http://planet.openstack.org
●
● IRC (freenode): #openstack

25. Setting the foundation for the next generation of
computing.

26. Questions
Stefano Maffulli
Technical community manager, Rackspace
stefano@openstack.org
Follow @smaffulli

27. Why OpenStack?
Control and Flexibility. Open source platform means
you’re never locked to a proprietary vendor, and
modular design can integrate with legacy or third-party
technologies to meet your business needs.
Industry Standard. More than 60 leading companies
from over a dozen countries are participating in
OpenStack, including Cisco, Citrix, Dell, Intel and
Microsoft, and new OpenStack clouds are coming
online across the globe.
Proven Software. Run the same software that today
powers some of the largest public and private clouds in
the world.
Compatible and Connected. Compatibility with

28. More About source cloud
Open OpenStack
operating system
worldwide
community of developers
Over 80
companies, including leaders like
Cisco, NTT, Dell, Citrix, &
“OpenStack is a Cloud Operating System, that takes resources such as
Canonical
compute, storage, network, virtualization technologies and controls those
resources at a data center level”