The Future for OpenStack Distributions Mark Smith Pete Chadwick Senior Product Market Manager Director of Product Management SUSE OpenStack Cloud Cloud & Systems Management
You must choose, but choose wisely * “Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision .” ** • You made your first courageous decision. • You chose OpenStack • More choices are on the way…… sources: * Indiana Jones and the last crusade. ** Peter F. Drucker 2
OpenStack Consumption models DIY Managed Cloud OpenStack Distribution 3
DIY approach - pros and cons • The modular nature of OpenStack is appreciated by many users. • “ Install what you need. Saves a lot of cost .” • Fast access to upstream code releases • Almost unlimited flexibility and customization • "OpenStack is…consistently recognized as overly complex to configure, deploy and upgrade .” 451 Research Feb 2015 • “Sometimes the complexity of the projects and deployment can be a major problem.” • “The biggest challenge is to upgrade the production system….” 4 * Source: OpenStack user survey April 2017, with exception of 451 Research quote, Feb 2015
What do you get with a distro? - Simple, fast and easy deployment framework - Automatically installation of key functionality, including HA - Quality tested, hardened, supported - Packaged mix of production & tech preview projects - Managed, automated updates & bug fixes - Non disruptive upgrade capabilities Deploy and configure in hours – not days (or months) - 5
Factors to consider • Cost (Capex & Opex) • Existing infrastructure • Internal skills, personnel and resources • Management overhead • Support and maintenance overhead • Project timescales • Customization requirements 6
OpenStack distribution history 11 OpenStack releases 2012 2017 First enterprise-grade Automatic HA deployment Distribution (Essex) for Compute Nodes Automatic HA deployment Non-disruptive for control plane upgrades 7
Why use a distro? You are never “on your own” - - Minimize the internal support team size and skills needed - Packaged OpenStack implementation with everything you need (probably) - back-end services / support - All the tools needed to test, bug fix and prepare your cloud And it can “pay for itself” - 8
Value proposition for distributions - “ For those enterprises that want OpenStack, the value proposition of a distribution writes itself .” - “If an OpenStack distribution is able to increase the number of virtual machines an engineer is effectively able to manage by a tiny 5% , then a distribution is good value compared to a DIY approach.” - “We believe OpenStack distributions are very likely to achieve this through easier installation and management, and thus present a clear TCO benefit ” Source: 451 research. The cloud price index | The great public vs private cloud debate. Q3 2016 9
OpenStack maturity & natural consolidation “Consolidate” definition verb 1. make (something) physically stronger or more solid. 2. combine (a number of things) into a single more effective or coherent whole. synonyms: combine, unite, merge, integrate, amalgamate, fuse, blend, mingle, marry, synt hesize, bring together; More Synonyms: - Concentrate - Reinforce - Strengthen - Tighten up 10
OpenStack is the ideal integration platform Ready for the next decade’s tech trends Bare metal Virtualized Containerized workloads workloads workloads Private Cloud / IaaS OpenStack Cloud Software Software Defined Everything Virtualization Storage Networking Hypervisors SDS SDN and NFV Operating System Linux Physical Infrastructure: Server, Switches, Storage 11
The future for OpenStack distributions A blueprint for SDI Application Delivery Custom Micro Service Applications Platform as a Service Kubernetes / Magnum Cloud Foundry Management Operations, Monitoring and Private Cloud / IaaS Patching OpenStack Cloud Software Cluster Public Cloud Deployment Software Defined Everything Virtualization Storage Networking Orchestration Hypervisors SDS SDN and NFV • Heat • Kubernetes Operating System Linux Physical Infrastructure: Server, Switches, Storage 12
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