OpenStack a bright future for cloud computing

August the beginning of eight, early autumn, dusk

Scene One: The battlefield of cloud computing

After the first round of fighting, some people have closed their eyes, it seems that the battle of the winning and losing has been doomed ... Let the IaaS Domain overlord Amazon did not think of, just benefit from their short victory and trance time, a vegetarian not masked opponents stand in their opposite, his name is called OpenStack. Amazon can not believe their eyes, as if by a huge force of the neck, the sight becomes a little blurred, and so he finally slow down God carefully read clearly, he found that opponents are not just a person. Amazon immediately have a foreboding, the battle for many years, encountered countless well-known head of the strong opponents, now will be defeated in his never heard of young hands? And, by his intuition, OpenStack exudes extraordinary power, and it is this power that makes him hesitant ...

At this time, autumn such as water, the moon on the branches;

At the moment, the fight continues, the outcome is not divided.

Scene Two: Cloud computing battlefield ten miles away Yuelai Inn

Several drinkers are discussing the winning and losing of the war, as if the war had nothing to do with life or death, just a gamble.

A: "I still think Amazon will win, after all these years, when did you see him lose?" and now there are so many supporters. ”

B: "Hum, supporter?" You know what they say secretly? They say that users are kidnapped and cannot easily transfer data, and there is more and more discontent. ”

A: "Even so, Amazon is still very strong, openstack what is this guy?"

C: "You can not underestimate this openstack ah, I heard that he behind the great power of the scary." He was developed by NASA, and later worshipped in the door of Rackspace, heard that a lot of people have passed the martial arts to him, IBM, HP, Intel ... Even the Red Hat backs him up. ”

A: "Red." Red Hat ... "do not know is too surprised, the cup dropped without warning, spray splash ..."

What they don't know is that, in addition, OpenStack has four killer: Open Source, open design, open Development, open commuity.

A corner of the table, sitting in a black man, red and black under the hat can not see clearly face, he listened to these three people's dialogue, indifferent expression, peck a mouthful of tea: "This fight more and more interesting ..."

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"Suddenly as the spring breeze, thousand tree million pear blossom." "Use this verse to describe the development trend of OpenStack should not be too." OpenStack wrapped in cloud computing's gorgeous cloak, flowing open source of blood, in the absence of smoke cloud computing battlefield has been grappling with their own unique territory.

The dispersion and fragmentation of the cloud computing market makes it difficult for users to choose cloud computing vendors and partners because of the high risk that once the wrong decision will have to be rebuilt on the new cloud. So, the cloud needs open source, open source cloud can avoid the problem that the user is locked. Exactly, OpenStack is such an open source cloud operating system.

Linux for the New age?

Like the Linux of the year, OpenStack to build a kernel, the Internet vendors, software vendors are around it to work. OpenStack uses the friendly Apache 2 Open source protocol, that is, anyone can be involved in design and development, and even you can create your own project, as long as it is consistent with community discussions. Currently, OpenStack has a number of subprojects, with core projects reaching 6, mostly for agile management of various resources in the cloud computing platform, such as computing power, storage, and so on. In addition, OpenStack provides support for virtualization technology.

The pace of OpenStack progress has amazed everyone, and even moved Microsoft, which is not cool to open source. If we compare OpenStack with Linux, we find a lot of interesting things: the birth of Linux was originally cloned Unix, but through the joint efforts of computer enthusiasts around the world to become the most widely used UNIX-like system, And the world's fastest 10 supercomputers run Linux operating systems. Nearly 20 years later, when cloud computing became popular, after a purely commercial software Amazon Web Service (AWS), following the advent of a successful business software, there was always an open source opposition to the IT industry law, and after OpenStack came out, it surpassed all open source projects within a short time.

There is no mention of a key role, Red Hat, as the world's largest open-source technology manufacturer, its products Red Hat Linux and later Red Hat Enterprise Linux are the world's most widely used Linux, Has largely created the brilliance of Linux, and now a series of Red Hat moves, it's not hard to see how OpenStack determined: In 2011, Red Hat announced it would support OpenStack as a Platinum member completely independent of the foundation. And now the Red Hat is leading other vendors to launch the Enterprise-class OpenStack release, although the launch of the preview version is only a start, but Red Hat has promised to provide a credible enterprise-class OpenStack system, for commercial-level open source products to provide more powerful support. The impact that Red Hat will play in the OpenStack Biosphere will accelerate the OpenStack as a standard for open source cloud computing.

Linux and OpenStack are like "fraternal twins", and one of their fundamental differences is that Linux is a community-built technology, and OpenStack is a commercial project that was later released to the community. In addition, Linux for 10 years long, and OpenStack only two years. It is still too early to call OpenStack "Linux in the Cloud", because we haven't seen a mature commercial release and a preview of the Red Hat launch, giving you a glimmer of hope.

OpenStack is the future of cloud computing?

Despite years of "hype", cloud computing in the application end has not really "landed." Big businesses are reluctant to adopt infrastructure clouds because they are afraid to rely on a single supplier and worry about being locked out. The emergence of OpenStack, to some extent, allayed these concerns. Because the open source way provides the transparency and the operability, the open source charm has achieved the OpenStack high speed development.

OpenStack is an open source architecture for building private cloud and public IaaS cloud, with many advantages such as easy development and management. At present, hundreds of companies and nearly million developers have been involved in the development of OpenStack. This includes Intel, HP and other hardware manufacturers, and red Hat and other open-source vendors.

The Red Hat Company, the third largest contributor to OpenStack, has steadily increased its participation and contribution over time. In April 2012, Red Hat Company, in collaboration with other industries, announced plans to support the OpenStack project as a Platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation. The program quickly developed open source solutions for businesses to provide performance, features, and functionality for their private cloud and public cloud. The upcoming OpenStack Foundation accelerates this development, and with the launch of the Red Hat OpenStack product preview, Red Hat is planning to launch OpenStack's trusted enterprise-level release, extending its long-standing reputation as a support for commercial open source products.

OpenStack's ecosystem is forming and improving, although the industrialization still has a long way to go, but the cloud supported by OpenStack allows users and developers to see a better future.