Some slides to kick off an Introductory talk and discussion for OpenStack Toronto (http://meetup.com/OpenStackTO). Some of the slides (and the layout) were borrowed from various other community-building slide decks. Feel free to do the same.

1. OpenStack: An Introduction
Adin Scannell
CTO, Gridcentric
adin@gridcentric.com

2. Who am I?
• Co-founder & CTO, Gridcentric.
• Systems and virtualization guy.
• Responsible for technology vision at Gridcentric.
• Email: adin@gridcentric.com

3. What is OpenStack?
• OpenStack is an platform for building cloud infrastructure.
• If you wish to make cloud infrastructure from scratch, you
must first invent the universe….. what is the cloud, exactly?
•The cloud is AAS.

4. Bits over a network
• Users (human and machine)
• Gmail, salesforce.com
Application
• Heroku, django, J2EE
Platform
• EC2, Rackspace, Fred the sysadmin
Infrastructure
Hardware

5. Why IaaS?
• Enterprises are building clouds to…
• Meet departmental resource needs & timelines
• Control & monitor the entire environment
• Improve the flexibility and responsiveness of their infrastructure
• Here’s how they do it.
• 1) Steal underpants Virtualization
• 2) ?
• 3) Cloud infrastructure!

6. Infrastructure is…
• Servers
• Networking
• Storage
• Sometimes ….
• Load balancing
• Configuration management
• Monitoring
• Databases and Queuing
• Backup and Failover
• …. and more

7. The Pieces of OpenStack
OpenStack Compute (Nova)
OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)
OpenStack Image Service (Glance)

8. More Pieces of OpenStack!
• Dashboard (Horizon)
• Identity Management (Keystone)
• Networking (Quantum)
• Load balancers
• Database
• Queueing

9. Core Components
10

10. Horizon (Dashboard)

11. Nova (Compute)
12

12. Today
• 1,500+ active participants
• 200+ member companies
• 17 countries represented at Design Summit
• 60,000+ downloads
• Worldwide network of user groups
• Commercial distributions: Piston, Canonical, Redhat, Nebula…
• Commercial clouds on OpenStack: Rackspace, HP…

13. OpenStack Community

14. How You Can Participate
• Website: www.openstack.org
• Mailing Lists: http://lists.openstack.org
• Wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org
• Twitter: @openstack
• IRC: #openstack

15. Discussion
• Is anyone involved in OpenStack?
• Should you build your own infrastructure?
• Will OpenStack be around in three years?
• Which is more important: storage or compute?
• Will OpenStack enable “cloud compatability?”
• Would you use an OpenStack public cloud?
• (Instead of EC2 or a VMWare-based cloud?)
• What’s driving your interest in OpenStack?
• How do you think the ecosystem will evolve?

16. Meta Questions
• Interest in Hackathons?
• How often should this meetup be held?
• Other topics of discussion?