OpenStack - The History (Nasa and Nova, Rackspace and Swift) - The Community (structure and contribution process)

1. The History - The Community
Paris – February 2014
@CedricSoulas

2. “How to host and process
high-res Moon and Mars images?”

3. Host on…
Amazon?
Google?
Microsoft?

4. No.

5. Nasa built
Nova

6. Nova
A cloud computing fabric controller
(like Amazon EC2)
On demand virtual resources
A project started by

7. Rackspace was building Swift…

8. Swift
A highly available and distributed file store
(like Amazon S3)
Transparent file storage
from everywhere
A project started by

9. Rackspace and Nasa discovered they
had taken a strikingly similar technical approach.
And shared the same vision.

10. Swift
Nova
In July 2010, Rackspace and NASA jointly
launched OpenStack under Apache License 2.0

11. 400
300
200
100
Monthly Contributors
2010
2011
2012
0
2013

14. 1

15. What is the community structure
and contribution process
for such a large project?

16. Compute
Telemetry
Infrastructure
Object Storage
Orchestration
Documentation
Image Service
Database Service
Quality Assurance
Identity
Bare metal
Deployment
Dashboard
Queue service
Devstack
Networking
Data processing
Block Storage
Common Libraries
Release cycle
management

17. One project is
Maintains milestone plans
Approve code for merging
Anyone can submit blueprints and bugs
Anyone can commit and review code

18. Block storage
Network
Virtual networks
Orchestration
Telemetry

19. Thank you!
Cloudwatt is hiring python developers
(OpenStack team)
cedric.soulas@cloudwatt.com
Credits
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Mars by nikki rodriguez from The Noun Project
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Servers by Jaime Carrion from The Noun Project
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Lightning by Ryan Oksenhorn from The Noun Project
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Explosion by Bohdan Burmich from The Noun Project
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Rocket by Benni from The Noun Project
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Cloud by Paul Philippe Berthelon Bravo from The Noun Project
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Fonts: Lato and Bebas Neue
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Some screenshots from
http://www.sebastien-han.fr/blog/2013/09/06/openstack-heat-and-ceilometer-got-their-dashboard-panel/
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Git contributors data from http://www.qyjohn.net/?p=3373