Magnum is an API service developed by the OpenStack Containers Team for OpenStack to make container management tools such as Docker and Kubernetes available as first class resources in OpenStack.

2. OpenStack Magnum: Containers as a Service
Steven Dake
Principal Engineer, Cisco Systems, Inc.

3. OpenStack Magnum Vision
Containers as a First Class Resource in OpenStack

4. Thriving Community

5. Kilo Status and Statistics
released
680 105,9962106
commits
19
affiliations
42engineers
patch sets
2015-05-20
lines of code
6months

6. Magnum Differentiators
Magnum is First
HTTP/1.1 201 Created
Not Re-Implementing Orchestration
SSO Experience for Cloud Users
Multi-Tenant Control and Data Planes
Asynchronous API
Uses OpenStack Orchestration (Heat)
Uses OpenStack Identity (Keystone)

7. Magnum Architecture

8. • Make Magnum Deployable by Operators
• Native Client Support
• TLS client/server authentication & encryption
• Native Neutron port support
• Horizon Integration
• Horizontal Scalability
• High Coverage Functional Gating
• Full OpenStack Style Documentation
Community Defined Roadmap for Liberty

9. Thank you