Transforming your product to be OpenStack Native: OpenStack is an open source cloud infrastructure, unlike typical cloud environment it was built to allow deeper integration with the underlying infrastructure services such as security, metering, networking etc. In this talk i wanted to share the experience of what it takes to transform an existing enterprise product into OpenStack and why we have chosen to take a native OpenStack approach which include integration with the networking, security etc.

1. Becoming Native to
OpenStack
Musings from Our
(not Yet Completed) Journey
Uri Cohen
Head of Product @ GigaSpaces
@uri1803
Barak Merimovich
Cloudify Group Leader
@barakme
#openstackil

2. Some
Background

3. First Leap:
From Closed
to Open
Source

4. Some
Insights We
Gained, One
Year into It

5. Some
Insights We
Gained, One
Year into It

6. Some
Insights We
Gained, One
Year into It
100s of servers
1000s of servers

7. Then Came
OpenStack

8. We Needed
a New
Architecture!

9. Best of
Breed
vs.
Homegrown

10. Python All
(Well, Most
of) the Way

11. From
Windows First
to
Linux First

12. From Dev
Only Team to
Dev+Ops

13. Becoming
Devops
Oriented

14. What It
Means for Us
to Be
OpenStack
Native
• Primary target cloud
• Tight integration with
most APIs (Nova,
Neutron, Cinder,
Keystone, soon also Heat
and Ceilometer)
• Community Involvement

15. Key
Takeaways
• It takes time… and
it’s never a one-
off
• Never be religious
about a language
/ tool / technology

16. Thank You!
https://github.com/cloudify-cosmo/cloudify-nodecellar-openstack
getcloudify.org