OpenCloudware, An Infrastructure platform for Building, Maintaining and Operating Enterprise Distributed Applications in the Cloud. Towards a PaaS management stack over multiple clouds

1. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
The OpenCloudware
collaborative project
An Infrastructure platform for Building, Maintaining and
Operating Enterprise Distributed Applications in the Cloud
Towards a PaaS management stack
over multiple clouds
Alban Richard, UShareSoft CEO

2. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
One slide on UShareSof
The Hybrid Cloud Software Management Platform
Making it easy to …
ON-BOARD, BUILD, REPLICATE & RUN Applications to Cloud
Easy Self-Services Software Automation Factory & App Store Platform for Hybrid Cloud

3. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
OpenCloudware
Towards a PaaS management stack over multiple clouds
Summary
The main way to “go cloud” has proved to be, for security and economic
reasons, hybrid: mixing private with public.
Moving to Cloud Software Management then requires to manage the
lifecycle of applications over different cloud providers: mask the
heterogeneit,; automate the deployment whatever the application
technology and execution environment, etc.
This is what tackles OpenCloudware, which aims at enabling flexible
multi-cloud applications thanks to a full automated think-build-run chain.

4. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
What is OpenCloudware?
 French collaborative research project
 Development of software modules for building a IaaS agnostic
Dev to PaaS Enterprise Grade Infrastructure platform
 Enables to easily build, generate and operate enterprise
distributed applications for deployment on any cloud
 Their Modeling, Assembly and Build
 Their Deployment and Operation (PaaS)
 On Multiple Infrastructure (Multi-IaaS)
 3 years (Jan 2012 – Dec 2014)
 Supported by the French FSN (Fonds National pour la Société
Numérique), aka Grand Emprunt

5. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
OpenCloudware partners
 Corporations
 Bull
 France Télécom
 Thalès Com
 Thalès Services
 SMEs
 ActiveEon
 eNovance
 eXo Platform
 Linagora
 UShareSoft
 Academic
 Armines/Ecole des Mines de
Nantes
 IRIT – INP Toulouse
 Télécom Paris Tech
 Télécom Saint Etienne
 Univ. Joseph Fourier
 Univ. Savoie - LISTIC
 INRIA
 Open Source organisation
 OW2  A consortium of 18 partners
 http://opencloudware.org

6. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
OpenCloudware: enabling flexible multi-cloud
applications thanks to an automated think-build-run chain

7. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
OpenCloudware goals
 Produce an infrastructure platform, open platform for cloud
software engineering
 for collaborative development of Cloud applications
 targeting primarily enterprise applications
 for IaaS Agnostic provisioning and deployment, orchestration
and operation (self-service management, elasticity, green IT
optimisation)
 with interoperable execution on multiple major Cloud IaaS
(incl. hybrid)
 This platform will be available as a SaaS online platform

8. CloudForce – Cloud Expo Europe, 25 January 2012
VM Building
Services
Service Plan
Factory Services
PaaS Platform
Multi-IaaS
3rd
party build
environment
3rd
party
IaaS Cloud environment
(incl. open source)
Self-Service Portal
application
Templating
Image Gallery
(BI, eGov, eHealth,
eCommerce,
load test, …)
other collaborative
projects
OpenCloudware Scope
projects

9. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
Multi IaaS Layer
OpenCloudware - building blocks

10. CloudForce – Cloud Expo Europe, 25 January 2012
Example : Service Plan Builder
vApp Creation & Configuration
Blueprint: “Meta-data describing one or more instances and
resources to deploy a complete solution”

11. CloudForce – Cloud Expo Europe, 25 January 2012
Example : Service Plan Builder
vApp Creation & Configuration
 Blueprint contains one or more layers
 Layers contain a set of cloud resources:
> Reference to a template (meta-data used to create a machine image)
> H/W settings (cores, memory)
> Security Groups
> Access (SSH settings etc)

12. CloudForce – Cloud Expo Europe, 25 January 2012
Example : Service Plan Builder
vApp Creation & Configuration
Layer #1
Layer #2
H/W Settings + # instances to be deployed
Click to edit layer
Boot order

13. CloudForce – Cloud Expo Europe, 25 January 2012
Technologies for CloudForce
 OpenCloudware Open Source Projects
 Portal : eXo
 Security : AuthzForce
 PaaS : JOnAS, JASMINe, Petals, JORAM
 Performance : CLIF
 Multi-IaaS : Sirocco, ProActive, Entropy
 Use of other open source software
 Hudson, Maven, Jenkins, sunxaclm ...
 UshareSoft's UForge for cloud image template
Mgt. & VM generation

14. CloudForce – Cloud Expo Europe, 25 January 2012
Technologies for CloudForce
 OpenCloudware Open Source Projects
 Portal : eXo
 Security : AuthzForce
 PaaS : JOnAS, JASMINe, Petals, JORAM
 Performance : CLIF
 Multi-IaaS : Sirocco, ProActive, Entropy
 Use of other open source software
 Hudson, Maven, Jenkins, sunxaclm ...
 UshareSoft's UForge for cloud image template
Mgt. & VM generation

15. CloudForce – Cloud Expo Europe, 25 January 2012
Expected results
 Open platform for cloud software engineering
 accessible to cloud architects and developers for easy cloud
solutions Build, Deployment and Operation for multi-IaaS
 through a Self-Service portal
 Open and integrated software components for
 end to end modeling (THINK)
 development and server template factory (BUILD)
 multi-IaaS compatible PaaS platform (RUN)
 application tests (fonctional, performance)
 OpenCloudware results are disseminated in open source
 context of the Open Source Cloudware initiative (OSCi) of OW2

16. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
Technological challenges
 End-to-end Modeling : Full stack from OS to applications and
configurations incl. SLA, PaaS services and IaaS services
 End-to-end Automation : Life cycle automation from Dev to Cloud to
Cloud orchestration
 Build vApps (OVF) : Service Factory for visual design and automated
generation of multi-tier server templates
 Autonomic management : Dynamic cloud software (VMs) evolutions,
allowing elasticity, Green IT optimisation, reliability...
 Multi-IaaS : Portability at the IaaS level, IaaS Agnostic services
 Security: Isolation of applications and security, identity and access
control management
 Links with other open source cloud projets such as FUI CompatibleOne, FP7 Contrial, …
(Other identified projects: ANR/FUI SelfXL, ANR MyCloud, ITEA EasiCloud, FP7 4Caast, FUI
CoolIT, FUI Energetic, FUI AGOS, ANR OMD2)

17. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
CloudForce Working Groups
 WG1 : Virtual Infrastructure Modeling ; Virtual Machines to to
IaaS Services modeling
 WG2 : Service Plan Builder ; creation of distributed server
templates (OVF, IaaS agnostic)
 WG3 : PaaS management Middelware : Enables Autonomic
Optimization and VM Management
 WG4 : Multi-IaaS Interoperability & Orchestration
 WG5 : Multi-Tenant Portal Services with RBAC support
 WG6 : Enterprise Grade Multi-tenant PaaS Runtime
 WG7 : Use Cases

18. OpenCloudware – Cloud Expo Europe, 27th February 2014
OpenCloudware
Q&A
Dev@Cloud -
Enterprise PaaS to Multi-IaaS
Alban Richard, UShareSoft CEO