The fate gene of four open source cloud platforms

"Some users need to mix cloud products, in the public cloud part we use OpenStack, considering the maturity, stability problems, the private cloud part is not used (OpenStack)." As for the part of the private cloud, there is no need to say much, and there is no other choice, "said the Yun Jiexun research and development manager Tian, a start-up that was founded 2 years ago." Voice just fell, beside the Chenghui directed Chiang Qing Wild a happy. The remark immediately aroused my curiosity and asked, "What products do you use for private cloud?" "Chenghui took the microphone:" This can be said? Tian nodded to Chenghui. "There is no doubt that there is only eucalyptus," Chenghui said.

This scene occurred in the OpenStack China line-Tianjin station, the final Round Table forum, from the four open source cloud platform for the representatives of the people sitting together. When asked about the most successful deployment of their respective open source platforms, the Chinese OpenStack User Group (COSUG) Administrator Chenghui, cloudstack committer Li Xuehui, Eucalyptus client director Shingino, and the China Telecom Research Institute, Cloud computing researcher Liu Junwei respectively answered.

These active community developers have their own full-time jobs, and participation in community activities basically takes up their personal time, and it is difficult to get together with representatives of four platforms. Yu Tianyun Trend Research and Development director on Weibo commented: "If you have not participated in the cloud Platform for 20,121 year of technology-sharing activities, it does not matter, as long as the participation in this is enough, each platform to attend the most of the people in the country have the right to say, not one." ”

As the above dialogue says, the open cloud platform contains a huge "conspiracy"-though OpenStack the headlines of the media with unprecedented heat, and cloudstack the momentum beyond the boss OpenStack, And the real winners are retired eucalyptus.

The chain reaction caused by OpenStack

"How do you see OpenStack's existence of slow decision-making, heavy technology contention and neglect of user needs?" (Previously, Cloudstack founder Liang to Csdn revealed the reasons for the exit OpenStack. "In the Chenghui to the formal throw this sharp problem, I politely made the foreshadowing," more than half a year, especially thanks to OpenStack, will open cloud platform to become one of the hottest topic in the industry. But a few minutes later, I realized that it was not me who thanked OpenStack, but the other three.

Well, let's take a look at the big moves of the OpenStack this year. Remember the fourth session of the Cloud Computing Conference "open source cloud computing platform technology: OpenStack, Cloudstack, Hadoop," the full scene. Then, the first OSAC conference held in Beijing, let us see the power of open source. Then OpenStack Foundation was established to formally end Rackspace's control over it. With VMware, Huawei, EMC and other OpenStack Foundationg,openstack core management has been established. August, HP Cloud and Rackspace based on OpenStack services officially online, although there are performance problems, but this is no doubt that this is the best marketing campaign.

In addition, CSDN and China OpenStack User Group (COSUG) held seven consecutive OpenStack China line, continued the OSAC General Assembly of the hot.

However, opponents have not stalled. This April, Citrix announced that it will contribute to ASF, Cloudstack. Since May, activists in the Cloudstack Chinese community have been doing community activities on a one-month cycle. November, Cloudstack 4.0 released, this is the first cloudstack version of ASF release.

At the same time, Eucalyptus announced that from the 3.1 version will be integrated company all the technology completely open source. Another eucalyptus code is fully transferred to GitHub for hosting.

Also is because OpenStack strong market offensive, only then causes cloudstack and eucalyptus to have to choose to open. Even Opennebula, a strong academic, has launched 4 distributions this year. You know, Opennebula has only launched 5 distributions in the last three years.

Who's the winner?

Commercially speaking, there are no losers. OpenStack directly drives the market for open cloud platforms, with unprecedented focus on the IaaS and virtualization layers of AWS and VMware monopolies. The cake is bigger, and the living space of the open source platform becomes bigger.

"We are only concerned about the private cloud market, in fact, most of our customers are not it circle, do toys, financial," Chiang Ching-Qing said, "because of the early commercialization, from the number of commercial customers, we are the most." "There is no doubt that Eucalyptus has a fairly high share of the private cloud market," he told Csdn, "almost 3-4 places a week (technical support)." ”

"We've been so busy lately that our clients don't run away," said Csdn, a pre-sales engineer with a cloud trend. "I am still meeting with clients this morning, and I am here to share in the afternoon," Li Xuehui said at the Cloud World Congress. The open source cloud platform market is heating up, and business opportunities are constantly emerging.

Although Cloudstack contributed to ASF, it does not mean that it cannot be profitable. "You can sell the service at the same time, some advanced features only in the distribution, if you want to use, you need to pay," Li Xuehui told CSDN.

Of course, the biggest winner is OpenStack, just two years to become the scale second only to Linux Foundationg Open source projects, success. Especially in the domestic, including Sina, Fun Tour, Huawei (less contribution), Jingdong Mall, NetEase, etc. have become openstack developers.

The genes behind the opening

Although the four open source platforms are open minded, each has its own history and genetics:

Degree of openness: OpenStack > Cloudstack > Opennebula > Eucalyptus

The top two have no dispute that the Opennebula is found to be more open than eucalyptus because Eucalyptus is the only one of the four open source cloud platforms to be licensed under the GPL, which is clearly not as popular as the more commercially friendly ASL 2.0.

Community events: OpenStack > Cloudstack

OpenStack's community activities are the highest, both in terms of momentum and quantity. The purpose of community activities is to enhance the influence of enterprises and developers in order to have better market returns and career opportunities in the future. Therefore, both enterprises and developers are very active in participating in community activities.

Technology sharing: Cloudstack > OpenStack

This is listed because I have found that most of the community activities in OpenStack involve corporate advocacy as well as developer personal advocacy and a small portion of technical topic discussions. In contrast, Cloudstack's community activities are mostly related to experience sharing in production or testing environments, and dry goods more. Another reason is that half the developers in the Apache Cloudstack community still come from Citrix, so Cloudstack's community organizers want to provide more technology sharing and lead more businesses and developers to participate in community contributions. Because, at present, Cloudstack is still in the hatching state of Apache, not positive. There is a need to recruit more developers from Citirx companies before it is possible to "hatch".

In addition, the community activities of eucalyptus and Opennebula are hardly visible in the country.

How do you go 2013?

"Heard a word at a conference, OpenStack in the community leading Cloudstack 1.5, and cloudstack in the maturity of OpenStack 1.5." Next year we will increase the outreach and community activities one months at a time, "Li Xuehui said. Although Cloudstack "hatch" success should be sooner or later, but who do not want this day to come early?

"This year too much promotion, with the fact that next year, including Stacklab to do more testing, to provide more reference," Chenghui said, "in technology and Cloudstack mutual reference." ”

"OpenStack and Cloudstack are like multiple distributions of Linux, and we're also learning the strengths of OpenStack, such as reducing excessive coupling." In addition, Swift is very mature and we use it directly, "Li Xuehui said.

Predictably, 2013 OpenStack will be steadfast down to do good products. Cloudstack with the popularity of OpenStack, but the community's core contributor or Citrix Company, recruit more committer is the most important, early "hatch" success, so will be greatly promoted. Eucalyptus will still be muffled, after all, he has the largest number of commercial customers, and the majority of the traditional enterprises are not bad money. Opennebula is a strong academic, and his market center is still in Europe. (Text/Bao Zebian/Zhonghao)

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)