The Future for

OpenStack Distributions

Mark SmithSenior Product Market Manager

SUSE OpenStack Cloud

Pete ChadwickDirector of Product Management

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……

2sources: * Indiana Jones and the last crusade. ** Peter F. Drucker

OpenStack Consumption models

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Managed Cloud

OpenStack

Distribution

DIY

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DIY approach - pros and cons

• "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….”

• 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

* Source: OpenStack user survey April 2017, with exception of 451 Research quote, Feb 2015

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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)

Factors to consider

• Cost (Capex & Opex)

• Existing infrastructure

• Internal skills, personnel and resources

• Management overhead

• Support and maintenance overhead

• Project timescales

• Customization requirements

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OpenStack distribution history

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2012

First enterprise-grade

Distribution (Essex)

Automatic HA deployment

for Compute Nodes

Automatic HA deployment

for control plane

Non-disruptive

upgrades

11 OpenStack

releases

2017

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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”

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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

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OpenStack maturity & natural consolidation

“Consolidate” definition

synonyms: combine, unite, merge, integrate, amalgamate, fuse, blend, mingle, marry, synt

hesize, bring together; More

verb

1. make (something) physically stronger or more solid.

2. combine (a number of things) into a single more effective or coherent whole.

Synonyms:- Concentrate

- Reinforce

- Strengthen

- Tighten up

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OpenStack is the ideal integration platformReady for the next decade’s tech trends

Physical Infrastructure: Server, Switches, Storage

Software Defined Everything

StorageSDS

NetworkingSDN and NFV

VirtualizationHypervisors

Operating SystemLinux

Private Cloud / IaaS

OpenStack Cloud Software

Bare metal

workloadsVirtualized

workloads

Containerized

workloads

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The future for OpenStack distributions A blueprint for SDI

Application Delivery

Custom Micro Service ApplicationsKubernetes / Magnum

Physical Infrastructure: Server, Switches, Storage

Public CloudSoftware Defined Everything

StorageSDS

NetworkingSDN and NFV

VirtualizationHypervisors

Operating SystemLinux

Platform as a ServiceCloud Foundry

Private Cloud / IaaS

OpenStack Cloud Software

Management

Operations,

Monitoring and

Patching

Cluster

Deployment

Orchestration

• Heat

• Kubernetes

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