OpenStack Update Infrastructure as a Service May 23nd 2012 Rob Hirschfeld, Dell & • Dell has been a part of OpenStack since inception • We have had an OpenStack-powered Cloud solution in market for nearly a year. • We are seeing substantial field interest with installed OpenStack clouds in the teens with a backlog of orders. • Our solution includes: – hardware, software, consulting, – operations best practice (DevOps), – and ecosystem partners. What is Cloud Infrastructure Software (like Amazon Cloud) • Apache 2 Open source – Community developed: International, Multi-Vertical – Dedicated Foundation overseeing governance • Delivers software, control panels, and APIs required to securely orchestrate a massive-scale cloud – Virtual workloads (like “EC2”) – Object Storage (like “S3”) – Coming: Block & Networks • Multiple Integrated Components ? Use Cases • Markets – – – – Hosting & Telco Financial Academic & Government (NASA was a founder) Web & SaaS • All Geographies • Reasons for Adoption – – – – License Avoidance (open source) Scale Architecture (no SANs, no clusters) Pace of innovation Market Buzz – expectation of ecosystem Investment Risk & Return • Risks – Fast Development Cycle (drives upgrade treadmill) – Security (due to lack of maturity) – Evolving/Missing Components (e.g.: network, block store) • Safest Path – Private Cloud with Static Networks – KVM & Ubuntu getting heaviest developer focus – Object Store (Swift) is most stable & scalable • Return on Investment – License costs (offset by needed expertise) – Uses “cloud optimized hardware” – Leverage growing ecosystem (hybrid cloud, tools portability, etc) Community Health OpenStack’s community is remarkably vibrant, well funded and rapidly expanding. It is no longer lead by any single vendor. • Prominent Adopters – Private Cloud Solutions (Dell, Nebula, Piston) – Large public clouds & hosting companies (Rackspace, ATT, NTT, Dreamhost, HP, Deutsche Telecom) – Web & SaaS Providers (eBay, Wikimedia, ) – Government (NASA) – Major Linux Distributions (Ubuntu, Suse, RedHat) – Hardware Vendors (Dell, HP, IBM, Cisco) • Substantial Contributors – Dev: Rackspace, HP, RedHat, Citrix, Nebula, Cisco, Canonical, Piston … – Ops: Dell has lead here with Opscode. Puppet joining. Graphical Roadmap Folsom Cactus Austin Formation Bexar Community Forming First Shared Code Working Prototypes Essex Platform for Innovation Diablo Production Ready Core Platform for Innovation Workable Foundation Stable Foundation Network aaService Block Storage API Included in Ubuntu 12.04 Solidify Community Loses VMware & HyperV Incubated/Partial: Network & Block Storage 2012 2011 Nov 2010 Nov 2010: Austin Release Dec Public Adoption Multiple Scale Deployments Feb Feb 2011: Bexar Release Apr Apr 2011: Cactus Release Jun Oct Aug Sep 2011: Diablo Release Dec Feb Mar 2012: Essex Release Apr Jun Aug Oct 2012: Folsom Release Readiness Today • Current Release: Essex – April 2012 • Strengths • Stability • Integrated Authentication (Keystone) • User Interface Dashboard (Horizon) • Cutting Edge Opportunities – Networking Service Incubation (Quantum) • Risks – Block Storage Futures / Roadmap • Next Release: Folsom – October 2012 • Major Trends – Networking Innovation – Block Storage – Deployment Standardization • Areas to Watch – Ecosystem Growth – Distributions from New Operating Systems & • Dell mission for OpenStack – Shorten customers time-to-value on OpenStack – Contributed open source “DevOps” installer • What is Crowbar? – Dell lead Open Source Cloud Deployer Project – Not limited to Dell Hardware – Brings in “operations as code” approach – Supports multiple Operating Systems – Supports multiple Hadoop, OpenStack & others