How Open Source will win in Cloud Computing platforms - talk given at Cloud East, Cambridge, May 24th 2013

1. Breaking through
the clouds
Andy Piper
@andypiper

2. Happy Geek Pride Day! (where day ~= date + 1)

3. Hello I’m Andy

4. a few things about me
Developer Advocate @ Cloud Foundry
social web enthusiast
maker, educator, LEGO fan
OSS contributor
Eclipse Project Lead (Paho / MQTT)
excited by “what’s next”, Internet of Things, etc.
@andypiper
apiper@gopivotal.com

5. Developer Advocate? hell yeah!

6. 3 themes to consider
openness, cloud computing,
and where they intersect

7. 1. Why be / do / think Open?
2. What about Cloud?
3. Why is an Open Cloud Platform important?

8. 1. Why be / do / think Open?

9. An important year in software
1991
Hello everybody out
there using minix -
I’m doing a (free)
operating system
(just a hobby,
won’t be big and
professional like
gnu) for 386(486)
AT clones.
From:&torvalds@klaava.Helsinki.FI
Newsgroups:&comp.os.minix
Date:&25&Aug&91&20:57:08&GMT
Organization:&University&of&Helsinki

10. ~21 years later: Linux has won

11. Linux runs everywhere
(even old versions, on crashy
airline entertainment systems...)
#P0WN ALL
TEH
GADGETZ !

12. It runs on Windows Azure! Jun 2012, w. Canonical

14. The Penguin is
triumphant!
(maybe not this one…)

15. Linux is ubiquitous
(but often invisible)

16. It works.

17. 2. What about Cloud?

18. What the heck is
“The Cloud”?
Citrix study (1,006 person survey)
29% an actual cloud
51% believe affected
by weather
54% say they never
use (but 95% turn out
to do so)
20% pretend to know
...
16% know it means
computer services
68% say it’s good,
when explained...

20. 3 layers IaaS, PaaS, SaaS
Infrastructure
Platform
Software
Gmail, Salesforce,
Flickr, Google Docs...
Amazon EC2, Google CE,
OpenStack, vSphere,
Joyent, Rackspace, Cloud
Stack, Eucalyptus...
Google AppEngine,
Heroku, Cloud Foundry,
EngineYard, OpenShift,
Azure, Apprenda...

21. How did we get here?

22. Infrastructure Clouds
- consumer web companies built out according to
their own needs to support Software

23. But - still need to build
& manage Platform

24. Google AppEngine,
Heroku, Cloud Foundry,
OpenShift, Stackato,
Cloudbees, AppFog,
Amazon Elastic Beanstalk,
Apprenda...

25. Why is it so hard...? A real deployment flow (!)

26. An alternative approach...
Cloud Foundry can
make it simpler!
deploy'<my'cloud>
target'<my'cloud>
push'<my'app>
bind'<my'services>
scale'<my'app>'+100
add_capacity'<my'cloud>

27. (pause)

28. KITTEH BREAK!

30. 3. Why is an Open Cloud Platform important?

31. Platform risk: lock-in
Welcome to the Hotel California
Such a lovely place
Such a lovely face
Plenty of room at the Hotel California
Any time of year, you can find it here
Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before
‘Relax,’ said the night man,
‘We are programmed to receive.
You can checkout any time you like,
But you can never leave!’

32. Cloud Foundry - the Open PaaS
Open Source
Micro&
Clouds
Private&
Clouds
Public&
Clouds
CUSTOM
SERVICES
CUSTOM
RUNTIMES

33. Architectural view

34. All about Choice
Private
Clouds
Public
Clouds
Micro
Clouds
Build your own from
github.com/cloudfoundry,
buy from Pivotal, or run a
compatible private version
Run in a local virtual
machine with identical
services and runtimes
(MCF, Vagrant)
Run on cloudfoundry.com
or any Cloud Foundry-
powered PaaS

35. All the pieces to make
your own!
“if you can’t open it, you
don’t own it” (O’Reilly MAKE)

36. Open & public from the start Code all on Github

37. Not all PaaSes are
created equal...
Run on: AWS, OpenStack,
vSphere... more to come!

38. Open Source… FTW! extensible and flexible

39. Open Source… FTW! extensible and flexible

40. former CTO, VMware, 11 April 2012
Steve Herrod
“We really are
aspiring for this
to be the Linux
of the cloud.”

41. Learning how to be open What is Pivotal?

42. Pivotal’s Cloud vision:
Open by Default
Cloud Fabric is OSS

43. multi-OS, multi-IaaS, multi-
language... multi-cloud
Partners continue to build
new tools and integrations

44. All about the ecosystem

45. “Let a thousand <open>
clouds bloom”

46. 4. Where are we, 18 months on?

47. Build-it-yourself
use Vagrant to run a local
instance for testing

48. Join us!
... a pull request is all it
takes!

49. Connect
http://twitter.com/andypiper
http://andypiper.co.uk
http://slideshare.net/andypiper

50. Image credits
• Cloud cover slide http://www.flickr.com/photos/sjkingo/3150155150/
• Star Wars Cookies http://www.flickr.com/photos/betsyweber/4961703633/
(Geek Pride Day, May 25 - http://readwrite.com/2013/05/23/geek-pride-day-celebrate)
• Happy Tux http://igloo.crystalxp.net/ZeNDaMs
• Signpost http://www.flickr.com/photos/16002150@N08/2006266695/
• Other images are author’s own, or royalty-free and CC-licensed works
from Wikimedia Commons
• Build your own Heroku video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0EprkBamvQ