3. Disclaimer
• Prognostications
– From experience
– But feel free to disagree
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4. Disclaimer
• Prognostications
– From experience
– But feel free to disagree
• Not laying out a roadmap
– Or timeline
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5. Disclaimer
• Prognostications
– From experience
– But feel free to disagree
• Not laying out a roadmap
– Or timeline
• I reserve
– The right to change my mind
– The right to be wildly optimistic
– The right to be biased (to AWS)
– The right to make a fool of myself
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6. Not covered
• In the long run
…we are all dead
• In the very short term
… point features, critical bug fixes
… important but
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7. Not covered
• In the long run
…we are all dead
• In the very short term
… point features, critical bug fixes
… important but
• Consult jira and the wiki and mailing list
– https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLOUDSTACK/CloudStack
+Next+Release
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18. Outside Influences
OTHER STACKS
Other clouds
(GCE)
AWS
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19. Outside Influences
Secular Trends
OTHER STACKS
Other clouds
(GCE)
AWS
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20. Secular forces
• Moore’s Law
• DevOps / Developer as kingmaker
• OSS ecosystems
• Mobility
• Power / green computing
• etc
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21. Secular forces
• Moore’s Law
• DevOps / Developer as kingmaker
• OSS ecosystems
• Mobility
• Power / green computing
• etc
Can’t impact, but:
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22. Secular forces
• Moore’s Law
• DevOps / Developer as kingmaker
• OSS ecosystems
• Mobility
• Power / green computing
• etc
Can’t impact, but:
• Benefit from it
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23. Secular forces
• Moore’s Law
• DevOps / Developer as kingmaker
• OSS ecosystems
• Mobility
• Power / green computing
• etc
Can’t impact, but:
• Benefit from it
• Anticipate it
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25. End-users
• Features, Features, Features
– Clear roadmap
– Well documented guides
– Fast pace of delivery
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26. End-users
• Features, Features, Features
– Clear roadmap
– Well documented guides
– Fast pace of delivery
• What does the future hold?
– More features, quicker delivery
– Javelin refactor should help
– https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/
CLOUDSTACK/Javelin
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31. End-users
• Smooth upgrades
– Zero – to – limited – downtime (API availability)
during upgrades
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32. End-users
• Smooth upgrades
– Zero – to – limited – downtime (API availability)
during upgrades
• What does the Future hold?
– Javelin branch: Modular architecture implies
individually upgradable components
– Separate api endpoints and orchestration
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34. End-users
• Principle of least surprise
– Looks like a cloud they are used to
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35. End-users
• Principle of least surprise
– Looks like a cloud they are used to
• What does the Future hold?
– More AWS API fidelity
• Access control like IAM
• Multiple AZ per region
– CLI mode fully supported
– GCE module anybody?
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57. Database Services
• Dynamo DB (NoSQL)
– Apache Cassandra, Riak, Apache HBase
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58. Database Services
• Dynamo DB (NoSQL)
– Apache Cassandra, Riak, Apache HBase
• RDS
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59. Database Services
• Dynamo DB (NoSQL)
– Apache Cassandra, Riak, Apache HBase
• RDS
• ElastiCache
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60. Database Services
• Dynamo DB (NoSQL)
– Apache Cassandra, Riak, Apache HBase
• RDS
• ElastiCache
• What does the Future Hold?
– RDS and ElastiCache could be subprojects?
– Or new Apache projects
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61. Application Services
• CloudFront
• Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
• CloudSearch
• Simple Email Service (SES)
• Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
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62. Application Services
• CloudFront
• Elastic MapReduce (EMR)
• CloudSearch
• Simple Email Service (SES)
• Simple Queue Service (SQS)
• Simple Notification Service (SNS)
• Simple Workflow Service (SWF)
• CloudStack will enable other projects / vendors
that provide this
– Like S3
– IAM a key enabler
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63. Deployment and Administration
• CloudWatch
• IAM
• Management Console
• CloudFormation
• Elastic Beanstalk (PAAS)
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64. Deployment and Administration
• CloudWatch
• IAM
• Management Console
• CloudFormation
• Elastic Beanstalk (PAAS)
• What does the Future hold?
– New subprojects for CloudWatch and CloudFormation ?
– Better UI/UX experience
– IAM:
• Who, what, from where, when, for how long
• Expand to include more Governance:
– Call-out to governance service, e.g., approval, verify tickets
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67. Developer Needs
• Add new features faster
– Continuous integration
– Modular / loosely coupled architecture
– Well documented interfaces
• Principle of least surprise
– Use well-known libraries / frameworks
– Use best tool / language for task at hand
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68. Developer Needs
• Add new features faster
– Continuous integration
– Modular / loosely coupled architecture
– Well documented interfaces
• Principle of least surprise
– Use well-known libraries / frameworks
– Use best tool / language for task at hand
• What does the future hold?
– Javelin branch for loose coupled architecture
– Well known components for DI, messaging,
packaging, build
– Jenkins improvements – continuous automated tests
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70. Developer Needs
• Fast code-debug-test cycle
– DevCloud
– Bare minimum moving parts (no system vms)
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71. Developer Needs
• Fast code-debug-test cycle
– DevCloud
– Bare minimum moving parts (no system vms)
• What does the Future Hold?
– Improvements to DevCloud
– Deployment without system vms
• Enable new hypervisors
• Laptop-based hypervisors (vbox, v. workstation,
v.fusion)
– System VM and virtual router will be decoupled/
separate modules
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73. Developer Needs
• Process
– Visibility into roadmap
– Code submission criteria needs to be easy
and non-onerous
– Clear guidelines on what belongs in
CloudStack
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74. Developer Needs
• Process
– Visibility into roadmap
– Code submission criteria needs to be easy
and non-onerous
– Clear guidelines on what belongs in
CloudStack
• What does the Future Hold?
– Process improvements
– Release managers to keep on top of things
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77. Cloud operator needs
• Easy install
– #1 predictor whether the POC goes forward
– System VMs are boon or bane?
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78. Cloud operator needs
• Easy install
– #1 predictor whether the POC goes forward
– System VMs are boon or bane?
• What does the Future Hold:
– Optional System VMs
– More forgiving install methods
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80. Cloud operator needs
• Scalable
– Already proven in # of hypervisors
– Need scalable networking (SDN)
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81. Cloud operator needs
• Scalable
– Already proven in # of hypervisors
– Need scalable networking (SDN)
• What does the Future Hold:
– Optional System VMs
– Productize native SDN (GRE-based)
– IPv6
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83. Cloud operator needs
• Flexibility
– Choice of hypervisors, networking providers,
storage providers
– Flexibility in orchestration
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84. Cloud operator needs
• Flexibility
– Choice of hypervisors, networking providers,
storage providers
– Flexibility in orchestration
• What does the Future Hold:
– More hypervisors supported
• Hyper-V, Oracle VM, PowerVM, Solaris Zones
– Choice of SDN and networking providers
– Choice of storage backends (volume and object)
– Customizable orchestration flows?
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86. Cloud operator needs
• Resilient
– Occam’s razor. Should not be more complicated than
necessary.
• Enterprise needs different from SP needs
– Handle zone failures
– Automated, semi-automated and manual recovery
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87. Cloud operator needs
• Resilient
– Occam’s razor. Should not be more complicated than
necessary.
• Enterprise needs different from SP needs
– Handle zone failures
– Automated, semi-automated and manual recovery
• What does the Future Hold?
– Modular architecture means components are optional
– Databases are split
– Per-zone orchestration layer
– Well documented upgrade procedures
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89. Cloud operator needs
• Adaptive
– Graceful degradation and admission control
– Easy well-defined upgrades
– Continuous deployment?
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90. Cloud operator needs
• Adaptive
– Graceful degradation and admission control
– Easy well-defined upgrades
– Continuous deployment?
• What does the Future Hold?
– Independently scaled stateless API endpoints
– Well documented zero-downtime upgrades
– Individual service upgrade
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92. Cloud operator needs
• Monitoring
• Secure
• What does the Future Hold?
– Well documented attack surface so that it can
be defended.
– Informative logs
– Lots of instrumentation
– Well integrated monitoring backends
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93. Cloud operator needs
• Supportability
• Chargeback and usage
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94. Cloud operator needs
• Supportability
• Chargeback and usage
• What does the Future Hold?
– Troubleshoot / replicate end-user problems
– Override automated recovery processes when
required
– Powerful end-user GUI
– Basic admin GUI
– Alerts
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95. Cloud Operator Needs
• Support for more hypervisors
• Integrate existing virtualization
deployments into CloudStack
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96. Cloud Operator Needs
• Support for more hypervisors
• Integrate existing virtualization
deployments into CloudStack
• What does the Future Hold:
– Optional system vm means support for
• LXC, PowerVM, LPAR, Solaris Zones, Baremetal
• Laptop hypervisors (Workstation, Fusion,vBox)
– Virtualization Import
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101. Vendors
• Strong community
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102. Vendors
• Strong community
• Well-documented integration points
– Plugins – vs – services
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103. Vendors
• Strong community
• Well-documented integration points
– Plugins – vs – services
• Testability outside of full-fledged CS
deployment
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104. Vendors
• Strong community
• Well-documented integration points
– Plugins – vs – services
• Testability outside of full-fledged CS
deployment
• What does the Future hold?
– More documentation
– Integration test suites that can run without CS
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105. AWS Virtuous Cycle
Reduced
Prices
Lower
More
Infra
costs Customers
More
Economie AWS
s
of
Usage
More
Infrastruct
ure
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106. What is CloudStack’s Virtuous
Great
So>ware
More
More
features operators
More
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107. What is CloudStack’s Virtuous
Great
So>ware More vendors
Expanding ecosystem
More
More
features operators
More
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