Giles Sirett of ShapeBlue will give his view on why CloudStack remains to "secret man" of IaaS projects. He will talk through the history of the technology and how it ended up becoming an Apache FOSS project and why he still believes it is the best, most stable production IaaS technology available today. He will be open and frank in his views on what he would like to see change in order that CloudStack gets the attention it deserves

1. CloudStack – the best kept secret
in the cloud
Giles Sirett
CEO ShapeBlue
Twitter: @GilesSirett @ShapeBlue

2. #CloudStack
 CEO - ShapeBlue
 PMC member & Committer
- Apache CloudStack
 Chairman – European
CloudStack user group
 Declaration: I’m a business
guy
 Also: Physicist, ex-
programmer, husband,
runner, Dad, rugby coach
Who is this guy ?

3. #CloudStack
“ShapeBlue are expert builders of public &
private clouds. They are the leading global
Apache CloudStack integrator &
consultancy”
About ShapeBlue

4. #CloudStack
About ShapeBlue
IaaS design & build | CloudStack Consulting
CloudStack Infrastructure support
CloudStack Software Engineering
CloudStack training

5. #CloudStack
“CloudStack –
Never heard of
it!”
Architect at unnamed
company that now runs a
200 host production
Cloudstack production
environment

6. #CloudStack
Apache CloudStack is a
scalable,
multi-tenant,
open source,
purpose-built,
cloud orchestration platform
for delivering turnkey
Infrastructure-as-a-Service
clouds

7. #CloudStack
CloudStack History
• 2008 – Vmops launches (rebrands Cloud.com)
• April 2010 – Cloud.com Releases CloudStack under GPLv3
• July 2011 - Citrix acquires CloudStack
• April 2012 - CloudStack donated to Apache Software
Foundation
• November 2012 – First Apache CloudStack Release (4.0)
• March 2013 - CloudStack becomes a top-level Apache
project
• 2014 – Majority of committers are not from Citrix

8. • Over 300 *known* clouds in production
• Production use for 6+ years
• Running major public clouds
• Running many enterprise private clouds
Zynga’s CloudStack powered “Z
Cloud” has over 40,000 physical
hosts

9. #CloudStack
CloudStack Users

10. #CloudStack
10
CloudStack Users 2.0

11. #CloudStack
11
CloudStack Users 3.0

12. #CloudStack
Apache CloudStack is
the most mature
the most scalable
the most proven
IaaS platform
available today
“We could see
CloudStack was a
game changer”
John Gillam, CTO,
BT Cloud

13. #CloudStack
So, why is it such a secret then ?
Proven software in widespread production use

14. #CloudStack
We have a very focused scope
Commodity
compute
StorageNetworking
Hypervisor
CMP - Orchestration layer
orchestration API
eCommerce Platform
Choice of Hypervisor (KVM, VMWare,
Xen, hyper-V)
Apache CloudStack
Ecommerce platform
CloudStack API
Billing
Config
Management
Networking compute Storage
PaaS
Developer
tooling
Multi-cloud
management

15. #CloudStack
CloudStack Use-Case’s
• Service Provider / public cloud
• Managed Public cloud
• Underpinning Devops
• AWS “insourcing”
• Traditional enterprise private-cloud
workloads

16. #CloudStack
Feature Highlights
• Broad Hypervisor support
• Easy plugin model
• Scalable architecture
• AWS API fidelity
• Networking as a Service (and it works )
• Choice of interfaces
— Web UI, command line, REST-based API

17. #CloudStack
• Apache CloudStack
is a “true”
opensource project
Easy to take &
contribute
Apache governance
model is proven….

18. #CloudStack
So, why is it such a secret then ?
So, a well-governed opensource project.

19. #CloudStack
“The mission of the
Apache Software
Foundation (ASF) is to
provide software for the
public good.”

20. #CloudStack
Our Community is great

21. #CloudStack
CloudStack Collaboration Conferences

22. • Since we became *Apache* Cloudstack
– C. 26 k commits
– Peaked at 2.5 Million lines of code
– 24k unique IP’s download our packages in
last 12 months

23. • Currently
– C.200 active code contributors
– 81 project committers
– 32 PMC members (20 organizations)
– Over 100 people working on translation
– C. 2500 mailing list msgs per month

24. #CloudStack

25. #CloudStack
So, why is it such a secret then ?
A VERY successful open-source project, with a
great community

26. #CloudStack
Wrong
place, wrong
time
間違った時に
間違った場所
で

27. #CloudStack
≠
梨とりんごを比較しません

28. #CloudStack
CloudStack is a defined, easy to integrate, IaaS
product.
It is not a toolkit

29. #CloudStack
So, why is it such a secret then ?
OK, so it’s different to OpenStack, but..

30. #CloudStack
Our community is driven by users
..not vendors

31. #CloudStack
CloudStack – the best kept secret in the cloud
• Proven product
• Strong Apache governance model
• User driven community
• Focused scope

32. #CloudStack
#CloudStackWorks

33. #CloudStack
 Try the software
 Join our community
 Participate in local user group
 Attend Collaboration Conferences
 Join the mailing lists (free support)
 Contribute
 File bugs
 Write code
 Write documentation
Get involved

34. #CloudStack
#CloudStackWorks

35. Giles.Sirett@ShapeBlue.com
Giles@apache.org
@GilesSirett @Shapeblue
www.ShapeBlue.com
www.cloudstack.org

36. #CloudStack