This presentation is a basic overview of the OpenStack Cloud. It was presented on September 23, 2015 in Orlando Florida at the Downtown UCF Incubation Office. The session provides a hi level overview of the OpenStack and a list of training resources to get up to speed on OpenStack.

1. Intro to Open Stack
Central Florida Open Stack User Group
Donnie Hamlett
http://www.meetup.com/Orlando-Central-Florida-OpenStack-Meetup/

2. What is OpenStack
 Open source cloud computing platform
 OpenStack is the largest open source project in the world
 RackSpace acquired a company SliceHost they were working on way to
automate the build out of cloud resources
 NASA scientist developed a technology called Nova that could spin up
virtualized servers and make them available
 The two companies merged the two projects and created OpenStack in
2010
 OpenStack is written in Python

3. Why is OpenStack a big deal?
 OpenStack is a cloud platform that is technology agnostic
 It allows open source technologies as well as proprietary technology
solutions to be plugged into the various services that make it up
 Its openness simplifies the process of building IaaS Private Clouds, Public
Clouds and Hybrid Clouds
 Rapid release cycle new release every 6 months

4. Who uses OpenStack?

5. Who Supports OpenStack (just a few)

6. OpenStack Projects
 Nova – Compute
 Keystone – Identity Management
 Neutron – Networking
 Cinder – Block Storage
 Glance – Image Service
 Swift – Object Storage
 Horizon – Dashboard
 Heat – Orchestration
 Ceilometer – Telemetry (Tracking and Billing)

7. Architecture

8. Resources
 youtube.com – subscribe to OpenStack.org channel
 openstack.org website – documentation
 ubuntu.com – documentation of OpenStack on Ubuntu
 redhat.com – documentation of OpenStack on Red Hat and Centos
 Packstack – all the openstack compenents in a simple single server installation
 devstack.org – similar to packstack a single server installation of OpenStack
 ebay.com – devstack and packstack are great but to get proficient at setting up
OpenStack from scratch you will need two physical servers. Selllers on ebay sell used
servers for less than $130.

9. What’s Next?
 We are off to a great start!
 In the process of setting up future meetings
 Feel free to contribute in any way that works for you
 Stay in touch with what's happening the group via the meetup site