Stack Mobile

Stack Mobile

Rerngvit Yanggratoke (KTH)

2nd OpenStack User Group Nordics Meetup September 11, 2013

“Managing Openstack from your Android phones”

Me

- PhD student @EES/KTH under Prof. Rolf Stadler

- Research: performance prediction and management for data centers

- Outside research: mobile applications developer: iOS & Android Website: www.rerngvit.n3infinity.com

- an Openstack user

Agenda - Stack Mobile

- Motivation - Design goals / challenges - Approach - Live Demo - Conclusion

Motivation 1. Manage your infrastructure from anywhere at anytime

2. Existing solutions are - Not mobile friendly - Relying on EC2 API - Lacking of important features

Horizon

Existing Android applications

- Cloud Manager

1. Locked-in 2. Limited to instance management

- Rackspace cloud

2. Limited to instance management

1. Wide range of providers - Amazon EC2, OpenNebula, Openstack, ...

Design goals / challenges - “Native mobile app for managing Openstack cloud”

1. Optimized for mobile devices

- Design goals

- Key challenges

2. Limited screen sizes

3. Limited battery consumption

1. Prioritization of features

3. User friendly

2. Features: close to Horizon

Approach

- Openstack REST APIs

- Target user: Cloud users

- Target device: Android phones (4.0+)

1. Limited to Openstack cloud

2. Access to all backend features

More than 66% of Android devices today

Current status - Alpha version

- Features 1. Manage multiple accounts 2. Instance management 3. Volume management 4. Volume Snapshot management 5. Instance Snapshot management 6. Security group management 7. Usage report …. and constantly adding….

- Looking for volunteer alpha testers

stackmobile@googlegroups.com

Live Demo

Conclusion

- Android app for managing Openstack clouds

- Looking for volunteer alpha testers

stackmobile@googlegroups.com - Any questions or feedbacks?