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Build A Cloud Day London - Introduction
1. Build a Cloud Day
Sebastien Goasguen
Open Source Office, Citrix
Apache Committer and PMC member of Apache CloudStack
@sebgoa
Oct 10th 2013
London, England
3. BACD
• http://buildacloud.org
• #build_cloud
• Blogs, events, slides,
videos
• Open Source News in
Cloud Computing
• Focused on CloudStack
but not only
• A resource for an “Open
Cloud” strategy
4. BACD Agenda
• CloudStack Basics
– Paul Angus
• Business Use Cases
– Giles Sirett
• CloudStack Networking
– Geoff Higginbottom
• Lunch
5. BACD Agenda
• “Hi” from Control Circle
– Len Bellemore
• User Group News
– Giles Sirett
• Ceph in CloudStack
– Wido Den Hollander
• RiakCS in CloudStack
– John Burwell
• Getting Involved
– Sebastien Goasguen
• Beers
6. A bit of History
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Original company VMOPs (2008)
Open source (GPLv3) as CloudStack
Acquired by Citrix (July 2011)
Relicensed under ASL v2 April 3, 2012
Accepted as Apache Incubating Project April
16, 2012
• First Apache release ACS 4.0 in November
2012
7. • CloudStack basics
Apache CloudStack is a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation.
Apache CloudStack, CloudStack and CloudMonkey are registered trademarks
of the ASF.
9. IaaS is really:
• A Data Center Orchestrator
– Data storage
– Data movement
– Data processing
• That can:
– Handle failures
– Support large scale
– Be programmed
10. What is CloudStack ?
• Open source Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
solution.
• “Programmable” Data Center orchestrator
• Apache Software Foundation Top Level
Project (TLP)
11. Data Center Orchestrator
API (EC2 & CS)
Image Mgmt.
Self-service Portal
Dashboard
Load Balancers
Storage
Metering
Identity Mgmt.
FWs & VPNs
Compute
Network
18. • CloudStack
“The Web Server of the Cloud”
Apache CloudStack is a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation.
Apache CloudStack, CloudStack and CloudMonkey are registered trademarks
of the ASF.
20. Why ASF ?
• Citrix Open Sourced CloudStack to:
– Build a community
– Facilitate the building of an ecosystem
– Faster time to market
• ASF highly recognized OSS foundation.
• ASF clear processes
• Individual contributions, companies have no
standing
24. Multiple
Contributors
Sungard: Announced last
week that 6 developers
were joining the Apache
project
Schuberg Philis: Big
contribution in
building/packaging and
Nicira support
SolidFire: New storage
backend with QoS
backend
ShapeBlue: User support
Basho: Support for
RiackCS
25. • Build your Cloud with ASF
software
Apache CloudStack is a top-level project at the Apache Software Foundation.
Apache CloudStack, CloudStack and CloudMonkey are registered trademarks
of the ASF.
26. Libcloud
• Python module that
provides a Cloud
Provider API abstraction
• Ability to write apps
using multiple providers
• Now with an improved
CloudStack driver
27. CloudStack + libcloud
from libcloud.compute.types import Provider
from libcloud.compute.providers import get_driver
Driver = get_driver(Provider.CLOUDSTACK)
conn=Driver(key=apikey,secret=secretkey,secure=Tru
e,host=host,path=path)
34. Whirr
Apache
• Big Data Provisioning
tool
• Deploys Hadoop, cdh,
Hbase, Yarn, etc in the
Cloud
• Use jclouds
• Works with multiple
cloud providers
including CloudStack
35. Cloud
An ASF
• Build your Open Cloud with Apache Software
Foundation software
PaaS ?
37. you and Info
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Thank
Sebastien Goasguen
@sebgoa
Apache Top Level project
http://cloudstack.apache.org
#cloudstack on irc.freenode.net
@cloudstack on Twitter
http://www.slideshare.net/cloudstack
http://www.slideshare.net/sebastiengoasguen
http://www.youtube.com/diycloudcomputing