becoming native to openstack, uri cohen & barak merimovich

Becoming Native to OpenStack

Musings from Our (not Yet Completed) Journey

Uri Cohen Head of Product @ GigaSpaces @uri1803

Barak MerimovichCloudify Group Leader @barakme

#openstackil

Some Background

First Leap: From Closed

to Open Source

Some Insights We Gained, One Year into It

Some Insights We Gained, One Year into It

Some Insights We Gained, One Year into It

100s of servers

1000s of servers

Then Came OpenStack

We Needed a New

Architecture!

Best of Breed

vs. Homegrown

Python All (Well, Most of) the Way

From Windows First

to Linux First

From Dev Only Team to

Dev+Ops

Becoming Devops

Oriented

What It Means for Us

to Be OpenStack

Native

• Primary target cloud • Tight integration with

most APIs (Nova, Neutron, Cinder, Keystone, soon also Heat and Ceilometer)

• Community Involvement

Key Takeaways

• It takes time… and it’s never a one-off• Never be religious

about a language / tool / technology

Thank You!https://github.com/cloudify-cosmo/cloudify-nodecellar-openstack

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