Rebooting the OpenContrail Community

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Rebooting the OpenContrail Community

Randy Bias, VP Technology & Strategy Juniper Networks

@randybias

May 10th, 2017 - OCUG - OpenStack Summit

Background• The OpenContrail community isn’t where we want it • The decision was made in 2016 to fix this and some plans

were set in motion: • Bring in an expert on open source and strategy (Randy Bias) • Hire a community manager (TBD) • Rethinking Juniper’s community engagement model began • ON THE TABLE: SDLC model, packaging, community code contribution

process, JNPR “in the open” development, and transition from single-entity project to multi-entity project

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Reboot?

More like erase the operating systemand re-install

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Common Vision

• OpenContrail Vision: OpenContrail seeks to become a ubiquitous global network fabric that is agnostic extending across all cloud infrastructure. It will provide a single point of control, visibility, and management globally for all networks and network security. It will become the most broadly adopted and highest quality SDN overlay technology available.

• Community Vision: The OpenContrail community will be open and inclusive, while also providing strong technical and architectural oversight where competitive ideas are welcome, but rough consensus and running code always win.

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OpenContrail Everywhere

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Dedicated Steward• Dedicated Community Manager:

• Wears a single hat; no responsibility for commercial product delivery • Acts as “product manager” for open source community • Advocates for community as a whole • Educates all stakeholders on community engagement

• Juniper: engineering, product mgmt, product marketing, and management • Greater OpenContrail stakeholders

• Independent of commercial Contrail BU • reports directly to Randy Bias

• Coordinates “reboot” of OpenContrail community

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Shared Governance• The community governs itself

• Considered and step-wise transition from Juniper-centric to community driven

• Governance ≠ Foundation • Governance models exist for open source without foundations attached

to them; we need rules of engagement, not high levels of overhead • All options are on the table:

• Traditional Foundation: CNCF, Linux Foundation, Apache Software Foundation, etc.

• New Foundation: OpenContrail Foundation • No Foundation

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Why?

• Vibrant community-run project, not driven by a single entity • Enrich community and encourage greater participation • Leverage the community to increase quality, velocity, and

adoption • Drive 100-1000x more OpenContrail deployments

• Deliver on a global ubiquitous network fabric

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Stakeholder Alignment• Juniper has significant investments in OpenContrail and

needs paths to recognizing revenue • Other stakeholders want more commercial options • All stakeholders need to see a strong technical leadership

and architectural oversight for foreseeable future • All stakeholders want to see broader adoption • All stakeholders want to see highest quality possible

• It’s the network after all • Production-grade, secure, and most broadly adopted

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Example Stakeholders• Enterprise, particularly

FinServ • Bloomberg

• Carriers • AT&T, Orange, DT, Cox, NTT

• SaaS / Gaming • Workday, Symantec, Riot,

Gamesys

• Container community, particularly k8s

• Heptio, Kubernetes, Docker, Mesosphere?

• Broad ecosystem • Huawei?, Ericsson?, CNCF?,

others? • Distribution Partners

• Red Hat, Canonical, Mirantis • Juniper Networks

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Draft Timeline

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Call for governance

summit participants (OpenStack

Summit Boston 2017)

JNPR hires community manager

Governance Summit

(JNPR HQ and/or Conf

Call)

May June H2’2017 2018

All build/release/

packages/containers in

publicFinalize

governance and/or

foundation plans

Engage Linux Foundation

Call for feedback

from community on

plans

Juniper 1:1 convos with

key stakeholders

Engage broader

ecosystem

Implement governance and/or Foundation

+ New release of

OpenContrail connected to changes in JNPR biz model for commercial

ContrailDevelop strawman of community values and objectives

Randy PTO

Participating in the “Founding”• Who? Anyone with an interest in OpenContrail being wildly

successful • Special perks for being a “founding” member? Nope • Sign up to the Google Group here:

• http://tinyurl.com/opencontrail-founding

• Thank you in advance!

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Q & A

@randybias rbias@juniper.net

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