1. May 5th, 2016
Javier Guillermo
V 1.3
April 2016
Austin OpenStack
Summit
Hightlights and
Analysis
2. Openstack 2016 Austin
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• Back to ‘roots’ to Austin, where it all started with just 75 attendees, now 7500
• Launched certification effort
• Many IoT applications, Like Smart city on Pisek (Czech Republic)
• Traction in Telco / NFV space – AT&T and Verizon on stage
• Big companies using Openstack in production: Wolkswagen, eBay, Best Buy,
Paypal, etc…
• Traction in ISV Space – SAP presented, Workday mentioned
• Mitaka (newest release) Focus: User Experience, Manageability, Scalability
• Vibrant ecosystem, tons of startups and new services offerings
• First Multi-Regional Openstack Public Cloud presented (Mellanox)
• Collaboration: 2,336 developers, operator and users plus 293 organizations
• Run OpenStack in containers – may solve know how issue
Summary: Great keynotes, more of an enterprise conference, more
VIPs and execs, many events at once, OpenStack is all grown up.
4. Keynotes 1/3
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Openstack is a flexible framework that
can tie into any of these layers:
Openstack implementation:
Top Emerging Technologies
(April 2016 survey)
7. AT&T Cloud Journey 1/2
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Speaker: Sorabh Saxena
AT&T Vice President, IT Architecture,
Technology & Platforms
Summary:
• AT&T is fully committed to
OpenStack and Open Source
• Only through virtualization,
automation and innovation
AT&T can stand up to the
challenge of %150,000 data
growth since 2007
• Automation is Key
• ECOMP showed in the middle
of the overall Domain 2.0
Strategy
• AT&T believes OpenStack is
the de-facto standard for
Private clouds
You can watch the video Here
8. AT&T Cloud Journey 2/2
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Speakers: Amit Tank, Greg
Stiegler, Ryan van Wyk and
Andrew Leasck.
Summary:
• Thanks to Automation AT&T was
able to deploy 54 zones in two
months vs 20 zones in 10 months
(January-October)
• DevOps and automation (puppet,
ansible and Heat Templates) key
• AT&T won super user award
• AT&T showed its homemade
solutions: ORM (Openstack
Resource Manager), OpsSimple
(DevOps), AIC (AT&T Integrated
Cloud) Automation is Key
• Multi-Hypervisor
• Many lessons learned, still finding
ways to better deployment
• AT&T want to avoid vendor lock-in
You can watch the video Here
9. Verizon User Story
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Speakers: Harshad Tanna, Mehul
Shah, sharat nellutla, Fred Oliveira
and Daniel Newman
Summary:
• 3 pillars: Automation, Virtualization
and SDN over Commodity
hardware (same as AT&T)
• Many work to do in NFV,
applications are not yet well turned
to run in a cloud environment
• Verizon want to avoid vendor lock
in, same as AT&T
• Dynamic scaling and Load
balancing is very limited
• Orchestration is still in infancy,
multiple orchestrator needed to
manage all network
• Infrastructure teams become
service providers
You can watch the videos Here
And Here
10. SmartCity IoT
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Speakers: Jakub Pavlik and Adam
Skotnicky
Summary:
• Smart city project in
collaboration with Big
Companies, Universities and
Open Source
• IaaS (OpenStack), SDN
(OpenContrail), Big Data
(Hadoop and Graphite), REST
API for management, emphasis
on Automation
• DCI between multiple EU cities
• Many Applications: Traffic flow
(cars and pedestrians), parking,
monitoring, energy saving,
environment analysis, security,
social services, etc..
Data samples available here Here
Video, available here Here
11. Volkswagen
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Speaker: Mario Muller
Summary:
• Volkswagen spent over 11.5
billion Euros in R&D! (Not IT)
• Volkswagen is using Cloud for
the Next Generation Website,
WeDrive, Smart Production
Analytics, 3D rendering, etc…
• They have partnered with
Mirantis
• Huge Data center!
• Big DC (almost 9,000 cores
and 260 TB)
• Future of Cloud application
(Self driving vehicles)
Video available here Here
12. Mirantis
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Speaker: Boris Renski
Summary:
• Pretty funny intro, they can
build clouds as well as Russian
drinks vodka, plus they have a
bear
• Most problems in Cloud
implementation boil down to
People and Process (example
on Jira tickets for IT support)
• Thinking on Clouds on just
Private vs Public is very
simplistic as mixed models will
prevail
• We are just at the beginning of
this disruption and Cloud is still
a small piece of total IT
spending
• DevOps is changing IT
Video available here Here
13. Redhat, Intel and Cisco 1/3
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Speakers: Karthik Prabhakar, Vish
Jakka
Summary:
• Joint solution with Cisco, NetApp and
Intel
• Solution focused on simplification and
faster deployment
• Fully validated solution, removed guess
work
• Enterprise ready components, providing
reliability, availability and cost-effective
• IaaS is the main use case
• Cisco Validated Designs are available for
both FlexPod and Ceph Storage
• Application policy-based infrastructure
with built-in plug-ins
• Plenty of coverage on NFV and NFVI,
Cisco commented the number of RFPs
on that area is growing exponentially.
• Cisco NFVI selling points? Carrier
Grade, Open Elastic, Cloud ready, Multi
Domain and Rich Partnerships
Video available here Here
14. Redhat, Intel and Cisco 2/3
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Speakers: Karthik Prabhakar, Vish
Jakka
Summary:
• Intent driven Model used on the solution,
hiding low level details and providing
reusable policies (like AT&T recipes)
• Automation and programmability are key
features, simpler automation scripts with
fewer places to update
• Automatic tracking and updates for
dependencies captures through policy
• APIC offers 3rd party commercial device
integrations and a framework for
describing services
• Solution come on three flavors:
• Private Cloud
• Bare Metal as a service
• Openstack and SDN
• Cisco Metapod offered as a service
Video available here Here
16. Nokia 1/2
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Speakers: Iris Finkelstein-Sagi, Ohad Shamir,
Gerald Kunzmann
Summary:
• Nokia Solution is developed over OpenStack and Nuage Networks
(previously acquired by ALU, now part of Nokia after the ALU
adquistion)
• Automation and programmability are key features
• Claim to have the first NFV ecosystem with CloudBand (over 60
companies building apps, testing and validating VNFs)
• Nokia has embraced Open Source, big change from the “good old
days” where Brand diferenciation with proprietary code and IP was
key.
• Bell Labs and its 30K+ patents are now part of Nokia
• Lean Ops, provided demo of virtual infrastructure through Vitrage
on a visual 3D environment, showed NTT Docomo use case
• Big Focus on reliability, notification on recovery on NFV use cases
• Vitrage GUI looked light years away from
traditional OSS/BSS systems
• Vitrage provides Deducted alarms and states,
root cause analysis and Holistic view of the
system
Video available here Here
18. Ericsson
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Speakers: Swamy Vasudevan,
Fred Oliveira, Greg Stiegler,
Francisco-Javier Ramón Salguero
Summary:
• Presentation focused in Openstack
orchestration and automation on Telco
Networks.
• Telefonica explained some of the
limitation and pain points of current NFV-
SDN Applications:
• Uneven modeling of VNFs &
Network services
• Openstack not yet ready for Data
Plane workloads
• Ericsson focused on DevOps, Hybrid
Cloud, Compliance and application
centric approach
• Ericsson cloud solution based on the
acquisition of the IT cloud Company
Apcera in 2014
Video available here Here ,
second video not available yet
Dream vision
vs Reality
19. Juniper 1/2
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Speakers: Rudra Rugge
Summary:
• Presentation focused around
OpenContrail
• Some features:
• Interoperates with different
orchestration systems like
VMWare, AmDocs, IBM, etc.
(REST API)
• Secure multi-tenancy, complete
isolation of tenant and POD traffic,
Overlay with Network Policy,
Seamless migration between
Private and Public Clouds
• Multi-Vendor VNFs can run on the
same platform
• Integrates with different Linux
hosts and Hypervisors
• Bi-Direcctional real time message
bus using XMPP
• Data Plane: Overlay Tunnels
MPLSoGRE, MPLSoUDP and
VXLAN
• Service Chaining V2, ports are now
abstracted of the underlying physical
device, VM or Container
20. Juniper 2/2
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Speakers: Rudra Rugge
Summary:
• cSRX value proposition based on:
• Elasticity, small footprint and no
resource reservation requirement,
easy to scale
• Agility, bootup/restart times under
1 second
• Cost-Savings, customers can
choose the features they require,
at a price point they can afford
• Plenty of Use cases showed, emphasis
on Cloud CPE and Micro-Segmentation
Video available here Here
21. RackSpace
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Speakers: Darrin Hanson, Justin
Shepherd and Jim Tricarico
Summary:
• Presentation focused in safety,
scalability, complexity and talent gap.
• Rackspace solution is 99.99% SLA,
eliminating the complexities of delivering
Openstack as a service
• Founders of OSIC (Openstack
Innovation Center) with Intel
• James Denton, autor of Learning
Openstack Neutron was at the booth
signing book copies
• Rackstack customers claimed to be 2-3
years ahead of other Openstack
providers in technology and reliability
Video available here Here
22. Oracle
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Speakers: Dave Miner
Summary:
• Oracle Solaris strategy:
• Security (ZFS encryption), Speed, Simplicity
• Secure Openstack IaaS under one
engineering team
• Integrated, tested, signed Openstack
package
• Oracle M7 (Highest security cipher)
Performance 4X faster x86 for AES 128-
SCB and 18X faster compared to Intel
X86E5 for SHA 512-1024
• Comprehensive cloud monitoring and
reporting, compliance checking automation
• Multiple configuration/deployment options
available to customers
Video available here Here
23. Huawei
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Speakers: Dennis Gu and Leo Li
Summary:
• Huawei presentation focused on Hybrid Cloud
• Auto scaling the application into Public Cloud to
solve the “Cloud Burst” challenge & enable
Dev&Test in public cloud instead of Private
cloud, easy to migrate between Private cloud
and Public Cloud without changing user
configuration
• Some other benefits:
• Offere better user experience of
interactive cloud services to remote
Cloud tenants
• Seamless moving workload from non-
Openstack public cloud or Private cloud
to Openstack Public
• Satisfy temporary traffic bursts
• Unified Openstack API
• Seamless workload movements between
clouds
• Huawei is collaborating with Tricircle
Project
Video available here Here
24. HPE
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Speakers: Tom Howley
Summary:
• HPE presentation was focused on lifecycle
management of Openstack using Ansible,
automating operations and Continues operation
testing
• HPE aim to deploy clouds of many shapes and
sizes
• Focus not only on first time deployment, tip of
the iceberg, but on the full Lifecycle
• Use standard APIs for re-use and consistency
• Lifecycle manager objectives:
• Flexible cloud deployment
• Lifecycle management for Helion
Openstack (HOS)
• Extensibility
Video available here Here
25. EMC
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Speakers: Jason Sturgeon and William
Guyton
Summary:
• EMC presented SCALEIO, some key features:
• All major Hypervisors support (KVM, Hyper-V, Xen, ESXi,
Xen)
• All major OS support
• Multi media support
• Very flexible, infrastructure agnostic
• Integrated with Openstack since Havana version
• Plugins for Mirantis Fuel, Charms for Canonical, Ansible
and Puppet (Great for automation)
• Full support of QoS
• Options to bring existing ScaleIO volumes under
Openstack management
• EMC claim ScaleIO is useful in building any cloud
Video available here Here
26. VMware
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Speakers: Trevor Rovers Jr, Sr. Technical
Marketing Manager
Summary:
• Openstack for VMWare admins:
• VMWare has been contributing to Openstack since they
adquired Nicira in 2012, example: support for Vcenter
Nova driver and Neutron NSX driver
• Pets (Traditional Apps) and Cattle (Cloud Native Apps)
• Deployment strategies:
• In House OpenStack Dev
• Working with Consulting agencies
• Distributions like VMWare integrated Openstack
(VIO), RedHat, Mirantis, etc…
• VMware claims that VIO deploy from a single OVA file in
less than 30 minutes
• Some benefits of VMware integrated cloud: Easier to use,
simplified Openstack Operations, admin tools, loginshight
integration for diagnostics, single vendor support,
hardened and tested software
• Partnership with Tesora(Database as a service Platform)
Video available here Here
28. My Closing Thoughts
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• Over 7500 attendees, more senior, sponsors and exhibitors
• OpenStack has overcome the HP exit well (HP abandoned Openstack for
Public Cloud at end of 2015 but remained commited to OS Private Cloud)
• What works: NFV / SDN for Telco // ISV Cloud // IaaS // Bare metal cloud
• Updates from WalMart, Volkswagen and WellsFargo are encouraging
• Simplification, Automation and Usability are keys for the future
• New certification effort
• Event similar to a AWS summit or VMWorld – who is who of Cloud IT
present
• Most startup focused on Automation and Data analytics
Summary: Great OpenStack Summit, biggest attendance yet,
much focus on automation and orchestration, many startups
and big companies; more commercial traction will be coming.
