Cloud orchestration stacks are an important component in completing the move to a private cloud. In this rapid fire session, speakers representing key cloud orchestration stacks will have 10 minutes each to present their responses to key questions about the functions, features and capabilities of each cloud stack. Questions include: services and capabilities offered; languages, operating systems, APIs and image formats supported; virtualization stacks supported; management tools; portability; hardware, capacity, performance and availability constraints, pricing and more. Presentations will be followed by an open Q and A discussion. This presentation covers the OpenStack cloud stack.

1. OpenStack
Cloud Orchestration Stacks Deep Dive
Cloud Connect Chicago - 2012
Wayne A. Walls
wayne@openstack.org
www.openstack.org

2. Service Library
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3. OS, language, and API support
OS Language API
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4. On what stack is it based?
(ESXi)
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5. Requirements & limitations
AIO
DISTRIBUTED
NODE
CLUSTER
x86
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6. Portability
OPENSTACK SERVICE DEPLOYMENT OPEN COLO
PROJECTS PROVIDERS TYPES SDKs SITES
Public
Private
f
Hybrid
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7. What standards or de-facto standards
does it support?
• OpenStack API
– Open API built by the community. Technical
meritocracy determines how it is constructed and
how it should be implemented.
• EC2 API via euca2ools
– Mandatory for some business models, offered as
an elective service for maximum coverage.
• http://wiki.openstack.org/Nova/APIFeatureComparison
• Open SDKs
– Community support around OpenStack and EC2
API
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8. How is it priced?
FREE ------- Flat Cost
--------- Do It --and/or--
Yourself Per Node
Professional Support
Services Contracts
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9. Included tools
Control SDKs/CLI
Installers
Panels Tools
• Horizon • Crowbar • Fog
• Service • Metal-as-a- • jClouds
Provider Service • Libcloud
Dashboards • StackOps • SimpleCloud
• Rackspace • Zend
Private Framework
Cloud
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10. Capacity, performance, availability
• What are the capacity, performance, and availability constraints?
– Horizontally & massively scalable
• Some of the largest deployments are thousands of nodes large
• Hypervisor agnostic – more hypervisors being added each release
• What high availability features are available to eliminate any single
points of failure?
– Modular Services
• API
• Compute
• Network
• Schedule
• Object Storage
• Block Storage
• Scheduler
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11. Global distribution
Quantum Nicira VMware Cisco Midokura Cedexis
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12. Technical Differentiators
• Python
• Apache 2.0
• Launchpad // Github // Gerrit // Jenkins
• 464 contributors (+107% from 12 mos ago)
• 550,000 lines of code
• Independent foundation with technical
leadership from elected corporate and individual
contributors
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13. @waynewalls
wayne.walls@rackspace.com
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