Introduction to OpenStack

Ewan Mellor,Director, Engineering, OpenStack,Citrix Systems, Inc.

Member of the OpenStack Project Policy Board

What is OpenStack?

OpenStack Compute

OpenStack Image Service

OpenStack Object Storage

Section 102(a)

The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958

• The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind.

Section 102(d)(8)

The National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958

• The most effective utilization of the scientific and engineering resources of the United States, with close cooperation among all interested agencies of the United States in order to avoid unnecessary duplication of effort, facilities, and equipment;

• An open-source cloud infrastructure platform

• Designed for very large scale• datacenter and multi-datacenter scales

• Open APIs, controlled by the community

• Technology agnostic• hypervisor, authentication, database, networking, storage all pluggable

What is OpenStack?

REST-based API Data distributed evenly throughout system

Hardware agnostic: commodity hardware, RAID not required

No centraldatabase

Scalable to multiple petabytes, billions of objects

Account/Container/Object structure (not file system, no nesting) plus Replication (N copies of accounts, containers, objects)