cloudstack - apache's best kept secret

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CloudStack – Apache’s Best Kept Secret

Giles Sirett [email protected]

[email protected] @gilessirett

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# 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


“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

C l i c k t o e d i t


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



“CloudStack – Never heard of it!”Architect at unnamed company that now runs a large Cloudstack production environment



Apache CloudStack is ascalable, multi-tenant, open source, purpose-built, cloud orchestration platform for delivering turnkeyInfrastructure-as-a-Service clouds



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



• 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



C l o u d s t a c k u s e r s



C l o u d s t a c k u s e r s 2 . 0

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C l o u d s t a c k u s e r s 3 . 0



So, why is it such a secret then ?

Proven software in widespread production use



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



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



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 ManagementServers Storage Network

Dynamic Workload Management

Backup LB HA Monitoring

User Interface Developer APIAmazon Custom

Image LibrariesApplication Catalog

Custom Templates

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S c a l a b l e c o n s t r u c t s

Cloudstack construct DefinitionRegion 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.

@ShapeBlue

Deployment Model

POD 1

Hosts

PrimaryStorage

Secondary Storage

Management

Server(s)

MySQLDB(s)

Admins & Users

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So, pretty powerful software.



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



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…..



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




Yes,yes I get that lots of people use it and its a well-governed opensource project.



“The mission of the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is to provide software for the public good.”



O u r c o m m u n i t y i s g r e a t

Our Community is great



• 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



• Since we became *Apache* Cloudstack

• 25k + commits• Peaked at 2.5 Million lines of

code• 24k package downloads per year



• Currently• C.200 active code

contributors • 104 project committers• 35 PMC members (20

organisations)• 3 commercial

distributions• C. 2500 mailing list msgs

per month




ARRRRGGGGGHH - A VERY successful open-source project, with a great community



W r o n g p l a c e , w r o n g t i m e

Lugar equivocado,

tiempo equivocado



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



!=No se pueden comparar manzanas con peras



CloudStack is a defined, integrated, IaaS product.




OK, so it’s a different thing to OpenStack, but..



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



B e i n g v e n d o r l e s s

Vendors= marketing



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



# C l o u d S t a c k W o r k s



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



[email protected]@apache.org

@GilesSirett @Shapeblue

www.ShapeBlue.comwww.cloudstack.org

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