Direct hit OpenStack US Summit: sharing five lessons learned

This week, thousands of of fans of the open source cloud platform attended OpenStack's annual summit, which was very informative, Barb Darrow a brief summary of the meeting's content at Gigaom.

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1. Increased chance of clients converting to providers

At the meeting on the day of Tuesday, the keynote speakers were OpenStack users such as Bloomberg, Concast, HubSpot and Best Buy. The chances of customers turning into providers are not growing, but they are optimistic.

Bloomberg's CTO, Pravir Chandra, says his team has set high development goals-they need high availability, no chain-error systems, and a scalable system. To achieve this goal, team members deployed OpenStack and made a number of modifications to suit their needs. Eventually, they set up a highly available database and found a way to summarize the log files from the hypervisor layer.

Concast's SVP Mark Muehl said they now use OpenStack to provide real-time program guides and fast program search capabilities. One application that can help you find your favorite NCAA tournament program in real time is no easy feat, and you can always get a sense of the score on both sides in real time. "We have integrated real-time sports news resources. It is not easy to develop such applications on our own old systems, "Muehl said.

2. Ceph, Hot

An informal survey of conference speakers and participants found that Ceph storage systems were the most popular. The swift storage System is not that hot. Best Buy in view of the self-healing function of the ceph system, the Gluster system has been transferred to Ceph. Ceph storage integrates object storage and block storage, while the SWIFT system can only handle object storage. Boris Renski, executive vice president of Cloud computing system Integrator Mirantis, believes that the swift system from Rackspace needs to install a large number of modules, but the Ceph architecture is very "elegant". "Unlike the SWIFT system, the CEPH system can be used for object storage and for the backend of block storage. "Although the company has not yet been adequately tested," he said, "The Ceph system allows users more flexibility to deal with the problems of scale because of the use of better algorithms to handle data backups." ”

3. Grizzly more mature, more characteristic

Grizzly is the seventh release of OpenStack in three years, with more new features and new features added to the release. HubSpot's CIO, Jim O ' Neill, says HubSpot will be able to run mirrored files on "bare metal" after a partial modification based on the Grizzly framework. "This means that the same image files can be run on any cloud platform you choose," he added. The application itself does not care about its own operating environment. ”

Cloud applications, which do not take into account where the data is running, give developers a huge return on investment. "We moved the system image from the public cloud to the private cloud driven by Rackspace and found that handling the same load was 4 times times more efficient," he said.

4. One more choice, one more peace of mind

Large companies tend to choose multiple cloud platforms rather than single platforms. They do so for the same reason. The story continues. I noticed their unease with the use of a single platform from the rotation of their employees ' eyeballs. They are afraid of being too deep on a single platform to extricate themselves. Best Buy deploys the local shipping supervisor software to multiple (unspecified) cloud platforms. Steve Eastham, a Web architect at Best Buy Ming Niapolis City, clarified why, "we don't want to be subject to any cloud platform service provider."

Even the presenters at the summit showed that if OpenStack could not meet their needs, they would turn to other technologies. Samsung Data Systems (China) Limited (SDS) CTO Kirk Kim, asked why Samsung chose OpenStack instead of Cloudstack two years ago, said developers thought OpenStack was easier to expand. He added, "but we may reconsider this issue if we put it today." ”

5. Potential comparison target: AWS and VMware

It is clear that loyal fans are proud of what OpenStack has achieved over the past three or four years. Given that thousands of developers have contributed their own code to the OpenStack project, customers outside the OpenStack community are also developing two of OpenStack.

Barb Darrow that in the public cloud infrastructure, people often compare OpenStack with AWS, while in the private cloud market it is often compared to VMware, although VMware is now a member of the OpenStack Foundation. The private cloud market is flooded with many applications that were previously developed.

The OpenStack project may continue to grow, but it does not seem to have absolute dominance in a particular field.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)