TDC2018SP | Trilha Cloud - Why Apache CloudStack

1. Why Apache CloudStack
Rafael Weing¨artner – rafael@apache.org
July 20, 2018
The Developers Conference, S˜ao Paulo – Brazil

2. Agenda
Cloud computing orchestration
Comparison between cloud orchestratos
Open source cloud IaaS communities
Cloud orchestration market
Why choose Apache CloudStack
Conclusion
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3. Bio-ish – Full disclosure
Me
• Major, academic titles, certifications... Who cares?!
• I do not have social networks of any sorts ...
Disclosure
• Do you know Apache?! Not just the web server...
• I am a committer and PMC member of some Apache projects
(CloudStack is one of them)
• We do work with both OpenStack and CloudStack though
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4. Cloud computing orchestration

5. Cloud computing orchestration – IaaS perspective
Cloud IaaS definition
• Storage systems
• Virtualization systems
• Networking systems
Definition
• The process of creating, maintaining, and developing a cloud
computing environment
• Creates the cloud abstraction for both users and administrators
• Has to link together the most different devices
• Deal with distinct versions of devices
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6. Cloud computing orchestration
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7. Comparison between cloud
orchestratos

8. Orchestrators comparison
Orchestrator
Supported
hypervisors
Storage
systems
Programming
language
Maintainer
Apache
CloudStack
LXC, Hyper-V, KVM,
XenServer, Oracle VM,
VMware vCenter,
Bare metal
Ceph/RBD, SMB/CIFS,
NFS, iSCSI,
local storage
Java (58%),
Python (21.2%)
Apache
OpenStack
LXC, Hyper-V,
KVM, XenServer,
VMware vCenter,
Bare metal (Ironic*)
Block storage,
object storage,
shared FS storage
Python OpenStack
OpenNebula
KVM, Xen hypervisor,
VMware ESX e vCenter
LVM, dev, Ceph,
VMFS, file system,
System, Images, Files
C++ (34%),
Ruby (26%),
JavaScript(20%)
OpenNebula
HP Helion
Eucalyptus
KVM Walrus, local file systems
Java (72%),
C (16%)
HP
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9. Features comparison
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10. Open source cloud IaaS
communities

11. Number of participants
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12. E-mails volume
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13. Participation rate
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14. Cloud orchestration market

15. Private cloud systems survey – 2015
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16. Private cloud systems survey – 2017
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17. Why choose Apache CloudStack

18. Why Apache CloudStack seems to be behind
A recurrent question
If it is the same as (or better than) others, why does it have a low
adoption level?
Reasons
• Marketing
• The community
• The Apache Way
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19. Why you should consider Apache CloudStack
Apache
• Well-known and consolidated maintainer/owner
• The Apache way
Apache CloudStack
• Excellent installation guide
• Small, but active, friendly and productive community
• Simplified deployment, use of well-known technologies/terminologies
• It supports a broad range of technologies (hypervisor, network and
storage systems)
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20. Why you should consider Apache CloudStack
Latest release (4.11.1.0) – 02/07/2018
• Over 483 PRs merged (485 commits)
• More than 197 bugs fixed
• 30 New features (User configdrive for userdata, metadata &
password, Limit user login to specific subnets, Physical Networking
Migration, New Network Type (L2), and many more!)
• 59 PRs to tackle code improments (cleans ups and refactoring)
• And there is CloudStack 5.0 coming for the next year!
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21. Conclusion

22. Conclusion
CloudStack in a nutshell
• Mature, easy-to-deploy open source cloud computing system
• CloudStack includes an intuitive user interface and rich APIs
• Adopted by major players worldwide (Apple, LeaseWeb, Exoscale,
PCextreme, Globo.com, University of S˜ao Paulo and many others
large, medium and small companies
(http://cloudstack.apache.org/users.html))
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23. Conclusion
Takeaways
• The Cloud stack war is far from over
• Apache CloudStack is alive and kicking
• We may be a smaller community, but very active
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24. The end
Thank you all!
Any questions?
For further inquiries:
rafael@apache.org
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