1. Apache
CloudStack
and
Cloud
Standards
Sebas4en
Goasguen
OWF
2012
Oct
12th
Paris,
France

2. Info
Apache
incubator
project
hCp://www.cloudstack.org
hCp://incubator.apache.org/cloudstack/
#cloudstack
on
irc.freenode.net
@CloudStack
on
TwiCer
hCp://cloudstack.org/discuss/mailing-­‐lists.html
Welcoming
contribu/ons
and
feedback,
Join
the
fun
!

3. A
bit
of
History
• Original
company
VMOPs
(2008)
• Open
source
(GPLv3)
as
CloudStack
• Acquired
by
Citrix
(July
2011)
• Relicensed
under
ASL
v2
April
3,
2012
• Accepted
as
Apache
Incuba4ng
Project
April
16,
2012
• First
Apache
(ACS
4.0)
release
expected
Sept
26th

4. Apache
Process
• 100%
community
driven
• New
ideas,
decisions
only
taken
on
mailing
lists.
• Votes
taken
by
community
• Project
led
by
Project
Management
CommiCee
(PMC):
• hCp://www.apache.org/dev/pmc.html
• hCp://incubator.apache.org/guides/commiCer.html
• Non
commiCers
get
invited
as
commiCers:
• hCp://community.apache.org/newcommiCer.html

5. Apache
Processes

6. Cloud
Standards

7. OCCI

8. OCCI
implementa4on

9. A
very
extensive
API
• CloudStack
orchestrates
your
network:
• Provisioning
• Configura4on
• Updates
• For
mul4-­‐tenants
isola4on
• Using
hardware
and
soaware
devices

10. API
issues

11. Networking
standards:
OpenFlow
• Leading
SDN
protocol
• Decouples
control
and
data
plane
by
giving
a
controller
the
ability
to
install
flow
rules
on
switches.
• Hardware
or
soaware
• Google
achieved
95%
switches
can
use
u4liza4on
of
WAN
OpenFlow
backbone
by
using
SDN
• Spec
driven
by
ONF

12. Conclusions
CloudStack
is
fully
Open
Source
and
Community
Driven
We
can
expect
to
see
CIMI/OCCI
implementa4ons
integrated
in
the
CloudStack
code
base
Other
standards
(ONF)
are
being
used
Apache
CloudStack
4.0
first
release
being
voted
on
as
we
speak.