The lessons of Open Source for the Open Cloud

The lessons of Open Source for the Open Cloud

Stefano Maffulli, OpenStack Community Manager
2012-09-22

Mobile and cloud computing are changing
the scenario

Define open-ness in cloud computing

Enabled by the Freeedom to run, study,
modify, copy

OpenStack, an example of Open Innovation

What is OpenStack

ABSTRACTION BETWEEN APPS AND HARDWARE

Compute Pool Network Pool Storage Pool
Virtualized Servers Virtualized Networks Virtualized Storage

Road to the OpenStack Foundation
October 2011 April 2012
Announced 19 companies July 18, 2012
plans to launch announce support Final legal
Sept 19, 2012
independent for Foundation; documents
OpenStack
Foundation in form Drafting posted for
Foundation
2012 Committee ratification
Launch!

July 2010 Jan/Feb 2012 June/July August 2012
OpenStack Created 2012 Drafting Individual &
community framework for committee Gold Director
established Foundation as produces and elections; first
a community publishes three Board of
rounds of legal Directors
documents meeting

OpenStack monthly active developers

From computing “products” to “services”
Mainframe Enterprise Cloud
Computing Computing Computing

1960 1980 2000 2020

Disruptions

Evolution of computing models
SLA 99.999 99.9 Always on

Scaling Vertical Horizontal

Hardware Custom Enterprise Commodity

HA type Hardware Software

Software Centralized Decentralized Distributed

Consumption Centralized Shared Self-service

Mainframe Enterprise Cloud
Computing Computing Computing

1960 1980 2000 2020

The four freedoms (computing products)
 0 freedom to run for any purpose
 1 freedom to study how it works
 2 freedom to make copies to help you and your friends (and
charge for the act of making one)
 3 freedom to distribute modified copies

The four freedoms (computing services)
 0 freedom to run for any purpose
 Do you run a service?

 1 freedom to study how it works
 Do you need to study how the platform runs or just study its

interfaces/APIs?
 2 freedom to make copies to help you and your friends (and
charge for the act of making one)
 You don't need to really to: if you need more capacity you

buy more of the service
 3 freedom to distribute modified copies
 Maybe, but does it make sense?

Open Source software is not enough

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Defining Open Cloud
 Respect the users of the services
 Users must be free to come in and out of clouds

 Data formats must be Open Standards

 Interfaces/APIs must be Open Standards

 Enable Open Innovation (don't reinvent the wheel)
 Create vibrant communities and business friendly

ecosystems

What's an Open Standard
 subject to full public assessment and use without constraints
in a manner equally available to all parties;
 without any components or extensions that have
dependencies on formats or protocols that do not meet the
definition of an Open Standard themselves;
 free from legal or technical clauses that limit its utilisation by
any party or in any business model;
 managed and further developed independently of any single
vendor in a process open to the equal participation of
competitors and third parties;
 available in multiple complete implementations by competing
vendors, or as a complete implementation equally available to
all parties.

Building both for users and for businesses

Close to the leaders

Software As A Service

Platform As A Service

Infrastructure As A Service

The tasks of OpenStack Foundation
 Large scale testing and continuous integration coordination
 Tools to help developers contribute code easily
 Event management (Summit & Conf, other regional events)
 Legal (CLA process, trademark management & defense)
 Educational resources to help developers, sys admins, users,
CIOs, evaluate and implement OpenStack
 Promotion of the OpenStack brand, including webinars, case
studies, TCO studies, user interviews, and press outreach for
member companies to leverage when promoting their OpenStack-
powered products
 Promotion of ecosystem building OpenStack businesses
 "State of OpenStack” reports covering topics like the OpenStack
Jobs outlook, OpenStack economic impact

Thank you …

 Stefano Maffulli
 @smaffulli on Twitter

 stefano@openstack.org

 … for supporting OpenStack!
 @openstack

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