As OpenStack turns 5 this year, we thought it would be a good time to take a look back at the evolution of OpenStack. We start with a quick overview of what OpenStack is, how OpenStack came to be and describe the OpenStack Foundation. Next we describe the problem that OpenStack helps to solve, the components of OpenStack and the timeline for when these components came to be. Last, we outline the current features and benefits that make OpenStack ready for the enterprise with supporting Enterprise use case examples. Blog can be found here (
https://developer.rackspace.com/blog/evolution-of-openstack-from-infancy-to-enterprise/) and webinar can be found here (https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/11427/138613)
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OpenStack Community:
Broad Support and Contribution
ECOSYSTEMSIZE
(Members+Sponsors+Supporters)
CUMULATIVE
CONTRIBUTORS
AVERAGE MONTHLY
CONTRIBUTORS
CODE
CONTRIBUTIONS
2,424 >400 110,019
466Contributing
Companies
18,929
INDIVIDUALMEMBERS
Rackspace, Red Hat, HP, IBM,
Mirantis
Top 5 Contributors
FOUNDATION STARTED IN SEPTEMBER 2012
20M+
LINES OF CODE
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OpenStack Project Timeline
Bexar Release
Feb 2011
Cactus Release
Apr 2011
Diablo Release
Sep 2011
Essex Release
Apr 2012
Folsom Release
Sep 2012
Austin Release
Oct 2010
Juno Release
Oct 2014
Havana Release
Oct 2013
Grizzly Release
Apr 2013
Icehouse Release
Apr 2014
Kilo Release
Apr 2015
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Someone Has a Birthday Coming Up!
OpenStack turns 5 years old this year…
Keystone
Horizon
Neutron
Cinder
Heat
Ceilometer
Trove
Sahara
Nova
Swift
Glance
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OpenStack Features and Benefits
Add OpenStack control
plane nodes to handle
needed capacity
Availability Zones
provide compute
isolation
Scale horizontally using
commodity hardware to add
additional compute resources
Multi-Tenancy Isolation
provided by robust
RBAC
OpenStack meets High
Availability
requirements for its
own infrastructure
services
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Built to fit numerous
High Availability
requirements:
• Multiple data centers
• Across single data
center Regions
and/or
Availability Zones
OpenStack BCP/High
Availability
17. The most important cloud acquisitions last year have one thing in
common: OpenStack
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Industry Focus on OpenStack
Source: www.Itworld.com - Nancy Gohring - http://www.itworld.com/article/2836991/2014s-most-significant-cloud-deals-have-openstack-at-heart.html
Traditional IT Vendors making
significant investments in OpenStack
• EMC acquires Cloudscaling
• HP buys Eucalyptus
• Cisco acquires Metacloud
• Red Hat buys eNovance and InkTank
Key Message:
OpenStack is a open source cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.
Modular and distributed platform
Can utilize commodity hardware, as well as OEM hardware
Key Message:
July 2010- Rackspace sought out to create an open source cloud platform, initially focused on fully distributed object storage.
January 2011 - NASA was empowered by the US Government to assist in the Open Government Initiative, instructing all Federal agencies to break down barriers to enable transparency, participation, and collaboration between the federal government and the American public.
Key Message:
Milestones: OpenStack founded in July 2010
High-level timeline of the OpenStack history
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Milestones: OpenStack Foundation created in Sept. 2012
After almost one year of discussion, the OpenStack project was launched in the October of 2010. For the first two years, until September 2012, the project was closely managed by Rackspace and its 25 initial partners before transferring the intellectual property and governance of OpenStack project into the non-profit member run OpenStack Foundation which since then manages the software and its community.
The OpenStack community collaborates around a six-month, time-based release cycle with frequent development milestones. During the planning phase of each release, the community gathers for the OpenStack Design Summit to facilitate developer working-sessions and to assemble plans.
Key Message:
These stats prove that OpenStack is very much an ‘active’ community platform with improvements happening daily, by the people who actually use and believe in the system. Still showing how Rackspace is one of the leading code contributors.
Key Message:
Massive IT Data Center sprawl gave birth to Virtualization
Key Message:
Then after Virtualization hit main stream, the idea of having to manage this ever growing Virtualization ecosystem slowly became an administrators nightmare.
Key Message:
Then after Virtualization hit main stream, the idea of having to manage this ever growing Virtualization ecosystem slowly became an administrators nightmare.
Key Message:
This is where OpenStack provided value, a means of adding an orchestration layer on top of the many hypervisors in your DC.
Provides efficiency of hardware and the ability to distribute your workloads based on demand.
Key Message:
Bring familiarity to the OpenStack ecosystem
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Walk thru the OpenStack project progression, highlighting how each additional project added a rich feature set to OpenStack.
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Highlight that OpenStack turns 5 years old this year and “as you can see” has come a long way in those 5 years. "It is now ready for Enterprise production workloads” and then transition to the next section.
Key Message:
Highlight the features in OpenStack that make it “Ready for the Enterprise”
Key Message:
Shows OpenStack is designed for high availability and can be accomplished in more than one way (per your requirements).
Key Message:
OpenStack has gained the attention of many traditional IT vendors
Key Message:
UND
heterogeneous high-performance computing environment where faculty, students and others can conduct scientific research. From simulating hurricanes to digging into the makeup of molecules, our researchers must have the computational resources to try new, inventive things
infrastructure must be quick and agile. Our scientists need to be able to write software and have it up and running in days versus the months or year it could take in a traditional enterprise environment. Our priority for agility and speed is much higher than an enterprise’s
1,600 to 1,750 users and about 1,500 servers, 21,000 cores and 2 PB of spinning disk storage
OpenStack gives our users a self-service model – they can run it themselves and create highly agile systems that they can bring up and bring down
Walmart Labs – ecommerce innovation and development group for Walmart
100K cores of compute running on OpenStack
the technology that ran the parent company’s Cyber Monday and holiday season sales operations
Started with OpenStack a year and a half ago
3.6K employees worldwide
Private cloud at public cloud scale
could be molded and modified to fit its specifications