OPENSTACK 101

Jason Kalai

Regional Network Consultant, SEA

November 2013
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Session Objectives

Introduction to Openstack
Openstack Architecture
Openstack Use case & challenges
Closing Thoughts

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What Is OpenStack?

OpenStack is both Software and a Community

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What Problem Does OpenStack Solve?

OpenStack provides a framework for building
elastic cloud infrastructure at massive scale.
Facilitates

management of

COMPUTE,
NETWORK,and
STORAGE resources

Provides

natural infrastructure for elastic applications

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OpenStack Components Provide..

Compute
Virtual

machine management

Comprehensive

hypervisor support

Networks
IP

address management

Security

services

Storage
Volumes
Object

(block storage)

storage for VM images and les

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OpenStack as Community

Technical Committee - denes and stewards technical direction

Board of Directors - provides strategic and nancial oversight of
Foundation Resources
User Committee - created to represent enterprise, academic and
service provider users
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OpenStack History and Cadence

Havana

Ceilometer & Heat integrated

Grizzly

Maturation of Quantum and Cinder, focus on upgrade support

(Apr 2013)

(Apr 2013)

Folsom

Quantum (Networking) full inclusion, Volume Service added

(Oct 2012)

(Oct 2012)

(Oct 2013)

Essex
(Apr 2012)

Diablo

(Sep 2011)

(Oct 2013)

Dashboard and Identity service released, Quantum incubated

(Apr 2012)

First Production Ready release

(Sep 2011)

Cactus

Scaling enhancements, support for many hypervisors

(Apr 2011)

(Apr 2011)

Bexar

OpenStack Compute ready, initial release of Image Service

Austin

Initial release, Object Storage Production Ready, Compute in testing

(Feb 2011)

6-month
cadence

(Feb 2011)

(Oct 2010)

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OpenStack Trends, Growth & Milestones

Havana
(Oct 2013)

Grizzly
(Apr 2013)

Folsom
Essex

Diablo

(Sep 2011)

Cactus

71 committers

OpenStack Foundation formed

(Oct 2012)

(Apr 2012)

230
committers

Largest OpenStack Summit to date,

enterprise customer keynotes

First OpenStack
release with Red Hat code

(Sep 2012)

47 committers across
the top ten companies

Red Hat assigns its rst developer to the OpenStack community

(Aug 2011)

(Apr 2011)

Bexar
(Feb 2011)

Austin
(Oct 2010)

Data extracted from Google Trends (keyword: OpenStack) and Bitergia reports.
Committers shown above indicate the number of individual committers across the top ten contributing companies.
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Session Objectives

Introduction to Openstack
Openstack Architecture
Openstack Use case & challenges
Closing Thoughts

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OpenStack Design and Architecture

IDENTITY
SERVICE

DASHBOARD
(Horizon)

COMPUTE

(Nova)

BLOCKSTORAGE

(Cinder)

NETWORKING

IMAGESERVICE

(Quantum)

(Glance)

OBJECTSTORE

(Swift)

(Keystone)

Modular architecture
Based on a (growing) set of core services
Designed for Scalability and Elasticity

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OpenStack Dashboard (Horizon)

IDENTITY
SERVICE

DASHBOARD
(Horizon)

COMPUTE

(Nova)

BLOCKSTORAGE

(Cinder)

NETWORKING

(Quantum)

IMAGESERVICE

(Glance)

OBJECTSTORE

(Swift)

(Keystone)

Provides simple self service UI for end-users

Basic cloud administrator functions
(No infrastructure management)
Dene users, tenants and quotas
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OpenStack Compute (Nova)

IDENTITY
SERVICE

DASHBOARD
(Horizon)

COMPUTE

(Nova)

BLOCKSTORAGE

(Cinder)

NETWORKING

(Quantum)

IMAGESERVICE

OBJECTSTORE

(Glance)

(Swift)

(Keystone)

Supports multiple hypervisors (KVM, Xen, LXC, Hyper-V, ESX)

Native OpenStack API and Amazon EC2 API support
Distributed controller services handle scheduling, API calls, etc.

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OpenStack Block Storage (Cinder)

IDENTITY
SERVICE

DASHBOARD
(Horizon)

COMPUTE

(Nova)

BLOCKSTORAGE

(Cinder)

NETWORKING

(Quantum)

IMAGESERVICE

(Glance)

OBJECTSTORE

(Swift)

(Keystone)

Provides block storage for virtual machines (persistent disks)

Similar to Amazon EBS service
Plugin architecture for vendor extensions

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OpenStack Networking (Quantum)

IDENTITY
SERVICE

DASHBOARD
(Horizon)

COMPUTE

(Nova)

BLOCKSTORAGE

(Cinder)

NETWORKING

(Quantum)

IMAGESERVICE

(Glance)

OBJECTSTORE

(Swift)

(Keystone)

Network Service
Provides framework for Software Dened Networking (SDN)
Allows integration of hardware and software based network
solutions
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OpenStack Image Service (Glance)

IDENTITY
SERVICE

DASHBOARD
(Horizon)

COMPUTE

(Nova)

BLOCKSTORAGE

(Cinder)

NETWORKING

(Quantum)

IMAGESERVICE

(Glance)

OBJECTSTORE

(Swift)

(Keystone)

Stores and retrieves disk images (virtual machine templates)

Supports Raw, QCOW, VMDK, VHD, ISO, OVF & AMI/AKI
Backend storage : Filesystem, Swift, Amazon S3

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OpenStack Object Storage (Swift)

IDENTITY
SERVICE

DASHBOARD
(Horizon)

COMPUTE

(Nova)

BLOCKSTORAGE

(Cinder)

NETWORKING

(Quantum)

IMAGESERVICE

(Glance)

OBJECTSTORE

(Swift)

(Keystone)

Modeled after Amazon's S3 service

Provides simple service for storing and retrieving arbitrary data
Native API and S3 compatible API

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OpenStack Identity Service (Keystone)

IDENTITY
SERVICE

DASHBOARD
(Horizon)

COMPUTE

(Nova)

BLOCKSTORAGE

(Cinder)

NETWORKING

(Quantum)

IMAGESERVICE

(Glance)

OBJECTSTORE

(Swift)

(Keystone)

Common authorization framework

Manages users, tenants and roles
Pluggable backends (SQL, PAM, LDAP, etc)

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Connecting the Components

IDENTITY
SERVICE

DASHBOARD
(Horizon)

COMPUTE

BLOCKSTORAGE

NETWORKING

IMAGESERVICE

OBJECTSTORE

Message Queue
(Nova)

(Cinder)

(Quantum)

(Glance)

(Swift)

(Keystone)

OpenStack uses message queues for communication

between components
Supported queueing backends: RabbitMQ, Qpid and ZeroMQ

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Incubation Project: Ceilometer

- Collects meter data (CPU, network, etc)
- Designed for integration and extensibility
- Data collected is made available via REST API
Metering & Monitoring
(Ceilometer)

- Message signing provides non-repudiation

Graduated from Incubation to Integrated

status for the Havana release

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Incubation Project: Heat

- Provides template driven cloud application
orchestration
- Modeled after AWS CloudFormation
Application Orchestration
(Heat)

- Targeted to provide advanced functionality

such as high availability and autoscaling
- Introduced by

Graduated from Incubation to Integrated

status for the Havana release

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OpenStacks Increasing Maturity

We are seeing organizations struggle with
elastic cloud adoption
Unfortunately,

Frankenclouds are
being white boarded daily!

Pet

friendly strategies are underway

Green

eld deployments work well

Knowledge capture is early but evolving

OpenStack

Operations Guide

OpenStack

Security Guide

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Session Objectives

Introduction to Openstack
Openstack Architecture
Openstack Use case & challenges
Closing Thoughts

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OpenStack Challenges

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Openstack Deployment Challenges

Personal Skills
Linux, Cloud Infrastructure & Openstack architecture
Tweaking of devstack is needed at some cases where the
general code is unable to cater users requirement.
Security concern in Openstack deployment
Getting operation, network & system engineering team
to understand openstack & familiarize with it.
How about IPv6 services ?
How about Service Load balancer, VPN, Firewall ?

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OpenStack Deployment Proles

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Openstack Users
Openstack Powers Demanding Production Workloads Worldwide
Web/SaaS/
eCommerce

Information
Technology

Cloud Hosting/
MSP/Telco

Acedemic/
Research/
Goverment

Healthcare

Film/Media/
Gaming

http://www.openstack.org/user-stories/
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PayPal
Prole Highlights:
113

million registered accounts; PCs or mobile devices

in 190 different markets with 25 different currencies

Targeting

90 percent coverage for several thousand

nodes in nine to 12 months

DIY team

leveraging OpenStack community support

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COMCAST
Prole Highlights:
One

of the USA leading cable TV

Number

of users, systems, servers, storage, applications

users: [REDACTED]

Agility,

exibility and scalability providing better

support for mission systems

Big

Data is truly big

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Session Objectives

Introduction to Openstack
Openstack Architecture
Openstack Use case
Closing Thoughts

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OpenStack ...
Is

open source software and vibrant community

Provides

a framework for an elastic cloud.

Requires

fresh thinking for deployments

Is

being deployed successfully at scale today

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Closing Thoughts
Openstack Quantum/Neutron Availability

Extreme Networks

Juniper Networks

Cisco Systems

Mellanox

Brocade VCS product

Openstack that have more traction

Service Provider

Entrprise Data Center

Big Data deployment

Open standard architecture

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Thank You
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