OpenStack Today

Many New Companies Joining

Explosive Community Growth

Conference Attendees

Essex created by >200 Developers

from 55 companies worldwide

Developers

Users all over the world deploying OpenStack

Community Experience

“The community is incredible. Everyone is willing to jump in and provide help and answers whenever we have a question. In fact, in my experience, the OpenStack Community has proven to be much better than phone support from some of the more commercial, closed products, ”

Stephen Meier, SDSC Platforms Manager

OpenStack Capabilities Related OpenStack Project Code Name

Virtual Machines: provision & manage large pools of on-demand computing resources

Nova

Virtual Block Storage Devices: Volumes on commodity storage gear, and drivers for more advanced systems like NetApp, Solidfire, and Nexenta

Nova

Object Storage: petabytes of reliable storage on standard gear

Swift

Virtual Networks: VLAN or Flat Network, automation coming with Quantum project (Folsom Release fall 2012)

Nova, then Quantum

Web Dashboard: self-service, role-based web interface Horizon

Middleware: multi-tenant Identity Management that ties to existing stores (e.g. LDAP) and Image Service

Keystone, Glance

How the Open Development process works

‣ Every 6 months:

‣ New Release of Software (Essex now, Folsom in Fall)

‣ Design Summit to plan next release

‣ Recent Trends

‣ Focus on quality (improved tools, dedicated QA time)

‣ Diversity of contribution: 200+ devs from 55 companies

Highlights for Essex, the latest release‣ Stability & Quality

‣ Extensibility & Pluggability

‣ Enterprise requirements implemented

‣ Incubation

DISTRIBUTIONS DEVSTACK TRYSTACK.ORG

Where To Get Started

OpenStack Foundation

Road to the Foundation‣ In October announced plans to start Foundation in 2012

‣ Spent remainder of 2011 researching foundation models, talking with our community

‣ Kicked off formation process in January, developing a mission, structure and funding model

‣ Lined up companies willing to express their commitment to the proposed structure and funding requirements

‣ Currently drafting formation documents and starting community review process

‣ Estimated completion and transition in Q3 of 2012

Foundation ApproachProvide a permanent legal home for OpenStack, with broad industry support and the resources to support OpenStack’s success

While preserving what’s working – a.k.a. “The OpenStack Way”

‣Technical people making technical decisions based on merit

‣Dedicated resources building the community and ecosystem

‣A strong ecosystem of companies making money

‣Encouraging and rewarding contribution in all forms, such as testing, documenting, translating, integrating, extending, educating, financing, training, supporting, facilitating, evangelizing, designing, or art making.

Always maintaining the proper balance between the individuals who invest their time and effort, and the companies who build businesses.

Foundation Mission

The OpenStack Foundation is an independent body providing shared resources to help achieve the OpenStack Mission by Protecting, Empowering, and Promoting OpenStack software and the community around it, including users, developers and the entire ecosystem.

Latest: http://wiki.openstack.org/Governance/Foundation/Mission

Foundation Services

‣ Large scale testing and continuous integration coordination

‣ Tools to help developers contribute code easily

‣ Event management (Summit & Conf, other regional events)

‣ Legal (CLA process, trademark management & defense)

‣ Educational resources to help developers, sys admins, users, CIOs, evaluate and implement OpenStack

‣ Promotion of the OpenStack brand, including webinars, case studies, TCO studies, user interviews, and press outreach for member companies to leverage when promoting their OpenStack-powered products

‣ Promotion of ecosystem building OpenStack businesses

‣ "State of OpenStack” reports covering topics like the OpenStack Jobs outlook, OpenStack economic impact

Membership of the Foundation: Three types“Individual Members” who participate on their own or as part of their paid employment. It’s free to join as an Individual Member and Individual Members have the right to run for, and vote for, a number of leadership positions.

“Platinum Members” are companies which make a significant strategic commitment to OpenStack in funding and resources. Platinum Members each appoint a representative to the Board of Directors

“Gold Members” are companies which provide funding and resources, but at a lower level than Platinum Members. Gold Members as a class elect representatives to the Board of Directors.

Structure Summary‣ Board of Directors and Executive Director provide legal management of organization, manage financial resources

‣ Technical Committee (formerly Project Policy Board) retains oversight over technical matters. It is independent, meritocratic, with the ability to change own structure and processes. Project Technical Leads (PTLs) continue to lead individual projects. Committee and Technical Leads elected by technical community.

‣ User Committee to provide feedback and input on direction

‣ Legal Affairs Committee to manage CLA, devise overall IP strategy

Funding SourcesPlatinum Member Fees‣$500,000 per year (paid annually) with a three-year commitment. ‣Contributing resources equivalent to 2 FTEs‣AT&T, Canonical, HP, IBM, Nebula, Rackspace, Red Hat, and SUSEGold Member Fees‣Total company revenue times 0.025%, minimum of $50,000, maximum of $200,000. ‣Cisco, ClearPath Networks, Cloudscaling, Dell, DreamHost, ITRI, Mirantis, Morphlabs, NetApp, Piston Cloud Computing and Yahoo!Corporate Sponsorships‣Other companies can support the OpenStack foundation at a lower cost by becoming a Corporate Sponsor‣Additional funds will be raised through event sponsorships, like the OpenStack Design Summit & Conference, industry conferences and regional events

What does it mean?‣ Leading technology companies are standing strong with OpenStack and backing the Foundation as the long-term, independent home for the projects.

‣ Together, these companies can move the industry forward in an open direction while continuing to innovate—the collective reach of these companies drives adoption, and our joint commitment ensures the long-term viability of the project.

‣ We are all committed to The OpenStack Way: an open development process that is driven by a technical meritocracy and making significant investments in community building

‣ This is all about doubling down on our community and driving key initiatives like interoperability