CloudStack - Apache's best kept secret
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The document discusses Apache CloudStack, a scalable open-source cloud orchestration platform for infrastructure-as-a-service, highlighting its history, features, and community involvement. Despite its widespread production use and proven stability, many are unaware of it, in part due to its vendor-less nature. The document encourages engagement with the CloudStack community through downloads, contributions, and local user groups.
CloudStack - Apache's best kept secret
- 1. The Cloud Specialists CloudStack – Apache’s Best Kept Secret Giles Sirett [email protected] [email protected] @gilessirett
- 2. The Cloud Specialists # W h o A m I ? • PMC member & Committer - Apache CloudStack • Chairman – European CloudStack user group • CEO ShapeBlue • Declaration: I’m a business guy (Software Engineer in recovery) • Also: Physicist, husband, runner, Dad, rugby coach
- 3. The Cloud Specialists “ShapeBlue are expert builders of public & private clouds. They are the leading independent global CloudStack services company” A b o u t S h a p e B l u e
- 4. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists S h a p e B l u e c u s t o m e r s W h o w e w o r k w i t h
- 5. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists S h a p e B l u e c u s t o m e r s W h o w e w o r k w i t h
- 6. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists S h a p e B l u e c u s t o m e r s W h o w e w o r k w i t h
- 7. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists “CloudStack – Never heard of it!” Architect at unnamed company that now runs a large Cloudstack production environment
- 8. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists Apache CloudStack is a scalable, multi-tenant, open source, purpose-built, cloud orchestration platform for delivering turnkey Infrastructure-as-a-Service clouds
- 9. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists C l o u d s t a c k h i s t o r y • 2008 – Vmops launches (rebrands Cloud.com) • April 2010 – Cloud.com Releases CloudStack under GPLv3 • July 2011 - Citrix acquires CloudStack • April 2012 - CloudStack donated to Apache Software Foundation • November 2012 – First Apache CloudStack Release (4.0) • March 2013 - CloudStack graduates from ASF Incubator • 2014 – Majority of committers are not from Citrix • 2016 – Citrix leave CloudStack
- 10. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists • 1000’s of clouds in production (We only officially *know* of about 300) • Production use for 6+ years • Running major public clouds • Running many enterprise private clouds • Adoption increasing Zynga’s CloudStack powered “Z Cloud” has over 40,000 physical hosts
- 11. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists C l o u d s t a c k u s e r s
- 12. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists C l o u d s t a c k u s e r s 2 . 0 12
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- 14. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists So, why is it such a secret then ? Proven software in widespread production use
- 15. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists W e h a v e a v e r y f o c u s s e d s c o p e Commodity compute StorageNetworking Hypervisor CMP - Orchestration layer orchestration API eCommerce Platform Choice of Hypervisor (KVM, VMWare, Xen, hyper-V) Apache CloudStack Ecommerce platform CloudStack API Billing Config Management Networking compute Storage PaaS / containers Developer tooling Multi-cloud management
- 16. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists F e a t u r e H i g h l i g h t s • Broad Hypervisor support • XenServer, KVM, VMware, OracleVM • Scalable architecture • Support thousands of hosts and virtual machine guests • AWS API fidelity • Virtual Networking • Choice of interfaces • Web UI, command line, REST- based API
- 17. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists A r c h i t e c t u r e Availability and Security Servers Network Storage Virtualization Layer Service Management (Billing, Metering, Accounts, etc.) Resource Management Servers Storage Network Dynamic Workload Management Backup LB HA Monitoring User Interface Developer API Amazon Custom Image Libraries Application Catalog Custom Templates Operating System ISOs IntegrationAPI OperationalIntegration (OSS/BSS,Monitoring,IdentityManagement,Etc) Administrator End User Console
- 18. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists S c a l a b l e c o n s t r u c t s Cloudstack construct Definition Region A collection of one or more geographically proximate zones managed by one or more management servers. Zone Typically, a zone is equivalent to a single datacentre. A zone consists of one or more pods and secondary storage. Pod A pod is usually a rack, or row of racks that includes a layer-2 switch and one or more clusters. Cluster A cluster consists of one or more homogenous hosts and primary storage Host Sinlge compute node within a cluster; often a hypervisor. Primary Storage A storage resource typically provided to a single cluster for the actual running of instance disk images. Secondary Storage A zone-wide resource which stores disk templates, ISO images, and snapshots.
- 20. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists So, why is it such a secret then ? So, pretty powerful software.
- 21. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists C l o u d s t a c k u s e - c a s e ’s • Service Provider / public cloud • Managed Public cloud • Underpinning automated environments • Test/dev • CI/CD • Other platforms • Public cloud “insourcing” • Traditional enterprise workloads
- 22. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists C l o u d s t a c k W h y d o t h e y u s e i t ? • Profit centric operators • Turnkey installation • Tightly integrated and simple to use • Stable and easy to manage • Upgradeable • Direction is easy to understand • Governance…..
- 23. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists G o v e r n a n c e • Apache CloudStack is a “true” opensource project • Easy to take & contribute • Apache governance model is proven • #Vendorless
- 24. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists So, why is it such a secret then ? Yes,yes I get that lots of people use it and its a well-governed opensource project.
- 25. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists “The mission of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is to provide software for the public good.”
- 26. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists O u r c o m m u n i t y i s g r e a t Our Community is great
- 27. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists • CloudStack European User Group • Geneva CloudStack User Group • CloudStack - Romania • Australian CloudStack User Group • CloudStack Brazil User Group • Vancouver CloudStack Meetup • Japan CloudStack User Group • CloudStack India Bangalore Chapter • CloudStack India Hyderabad Chapter • CloudStack Pune Meetup • CloudStack SF Bay Area Users Group • CloudStack NYC User Group • CloudStack Boston User Group • CloudStack DC and NoVA User Group • Cloudstack user Group Germany
- 28. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists • Since we became *Apache* Cloudstack • 25k + commits • Peaked at 2.5 Million lines of code • 24k package downloads per year
- 29. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists • Currently • C.200 active code contributors • 104 project committers • 35 PMC members (20 organisations) • 3 commercial distributions • C. 2500 mailing list msgs per month
- 30. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists So, why is it such a secret then ? ARRRRGGGGGHH - A VERY successful open- source project, with a great community
- 31. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists W r o n g p l a c e , w r o n g t i m e Lugar equivocado, tiempo equivocado
- 32. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists T h e a n a l y s t s l o v e a t w o h o r s e r a c e
- 33. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists != No se pueden comparar manzanas con peras
- 34. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists CloudStack is a defined, integrated, IaaS product.
- 35. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists So, why is it such a secret then ? OK, so it’s a different thing to OpenStack, but..
- 36. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists O u r c o m m u n i t y i s d r i v e n b y u s e r s #Vendorless
- 37. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists B e i n g v e n d o r l e s s Vendors= marketing
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- 41. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists C l o u d s t a c k – A p a c h e ’s b e s t k e p t s e c r e t •Proven product •Reliable/easy •Strong Apache governance model •Widespread and growing usage •User driven community •Focused scope
- 42. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists # C l o u d S t a c k Wo r k s
- 43. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists G e t i n v o l v e d • Download & try the software • Other projects: need something to take care of the messy stuff ? • Join our community • Participate in local user group • Attend Collaboration Conferences • Join the mailing lists (free support) • Contribute • File bugs • Write code • Write documentation
- 44. C l i c k t o e d i t The Cloud Specialists [email protected] [email protected] @GilesSirett @Shapeblue www.ShapeBlue.com www.cloudstack.org