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
getcloudify.org
