OpenStack 101

(OpenStack, c'est quoi ?)

Sylvain Bauza / @sylvainbauza / bauzas (Freenode)

OpenStack Rhône-Alpes Meetup #4

01/07/2014

Who am I ?

OpenStack Active Technical Contributor (aka. bugcreator)

since Havana (aka. 2013.2)

on Nova (aka. Compute) and Blazar (aka. Reservations)

for Red Hat upstream (aka. RDO)

and downstream (aka. RHEL OSP)

ONCE UPON A CLOUD...

Yet another virtualization layer ?


What means Cloud (hype word ?)

  • On-demand
  • Network access
  • Resource pooling
  • Elasticity
  • Metered or measured service

Release cycle and Roadmap

  • Now every 6 months
  • Releases with codename (Austin, Bexar, Cactus, Diablo, Essex, Folsom, Grizzly, Havana, Icehouse and next Juno)
  • Project maturation cycle (stackforge, incubation, integrated, DefCore)
  • Stable branch for 1 cycle, security supported for 2 cycles
  • Release cycle with Design Summit, 3 milestones, RCs and GA

Going further...

http://docs.openstack.org

  • IRC #openstack and #openstack-fr on Freenode
  • Mailing-list openstack@lists.openstack.org (and archives !)
  • Mailing-list openstack-fr@lists.openstack.org

Questions ?