Former Core Services: Highly mature and widely adopted.

Other Services:

Lower level of maturity and adoption!

What about Automation?

Write your own?

Sure!

If you prefer an epic fail!

What does the

OpenStack Community?

Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack.

But what about

Juju?

Juju may an option if you use

Canonical

96% of the code is from one company

But even then:

The community code may not fit your needs.

It may takes quite some time to make it work.

You may stuck with a release longer than expected.

Very likely means:
Lot of extra work for you!

Main features:

RBD

RadosGW

CephFS

What about Automation?

First: Check above!

Then choose from

Ansible, Puppet, Chef, SaltStack

What are the

Alternatives

to pure Vanilla ?

Select a

partner

to provide

Packages, Updates, CI/CD

or

Select a

Distribution

Leaves one question:

What is the

prefered

Distribution

of your organization?

1

OpenStack

Red Hat

OpenStack Platform 11

with

based on

RHEL 7.3

Kernel

3.10-based

Virtualization

KVM

ESX (vCenter)

Deployment

OSP director

TripleO/Ironic and Ansible (optional)

or

Packstack

for test environments

Openstack Support

All Core Services plus

Life Cycle

New downstream version with

every upstream release

Next: Pike

Additionally recommended

CloudForms

(bundled)

Satellite

(optional)

Support

between

1 year

(phase 2 support, like r11)

and

up to 5 years

(LLR/LTS releases like r10)

Pricing

per machine and per-socket-pair

depending on:

running RHEL guests or not

support for business hours or 24x7

special SLAs

2

Ceph

Red Hat Ceph Storage 2.4

based on

Jewel

RHEL 7.4 or Ubuntu 16.04

Next: 3.0 with Luminous

Deployment via

RH Storage Console

or

Ansible

or

manually

Features

CephFS (Tech preview)

NFS (via Object Gateway)

iSCSI (Tech preview)

Pricing

Yearly subscriptions

based on:

raw capacity with node limit

Also available:

pre-production subscriptions

3

Container Platform

Red Hat OpenShift

Kubernetes

Docker (OS)

Atomic and RHEL OS

1

OpenStack

SUSE

OpenStack Cloud 7

with

based on

SLES 12 SP2

Kernel

4.4-based

Virtualization

KVM, Xen

VMWare vSphere

IBM z/VM

Kubernetes Docker via Magnum

Deployment

Crowbar

and

Chef

Openstack Support

All Core Services plus

Life Cycle

New downstream version with

every 2nd upstream release

Next:

Pike release (Q1/18)

Additionally recommended

SUSE Studio

SUSE Manager

SLES HA extension

(for KVM/Xen compute nodes)

Support

Cloud 7:

27 months

after GA

From 8 on: 36 months

(aligned with SLES12-SP3)

Pricing

control node

admin node

compute node, per-socket-pair (SLES)

Swift

depending on:

12x5 or 24x7

special SLAs

2

Ceph

SUSE Enterprise Storage 5

based on

Luminous

with

OpenATTIC

based on SLES12-SP3

Deployment via

DeepSea/Salt

Features

BlueStore

Data compression

CephFS Multi MDS

iSCSI

NFS Ganesha/S3

CIFS Samba (Tech Preview)

Pricing

per node

Basis subscription:

with 4 OSDs, 3/5 MONs, Admin/Deploy node

priority support included

3

Container Platform

SUSE CaaS Platform

Kubernetes

Docker (OS)

SUSE MicroOS

4

More

SUSE aquired

HPE's cloud assets

OpenStack

Cloud Foundry

Stackato

HPE Helion

and

SUSE Cloud 8

will share the same code base

You should also know:

SUSE

Is the only distro

which does not charge for

development of upstream features

if you agree on it!

All included in the subscription!

1

OpenStack

Mirantis Cloud Platform 1.1

with

Mirantis is the

only

distribution

not maintaining an own

Base OS

Nodes

Compute and Controller

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

(no longer support for SLES/RHEL/Oracle)

Kernel

4.4-based

Virtualization

KVM

Kubernetes/Docker

Deployment

via

MCP DriveTrain

SaltStack based + Jenkins/Gerrit

Openstack Support

All Core Services plus

Life Cycle

New downstream version with

every upstream release

within 1-6 months, depending on CI/CD

Next: MCP 1.2 end of Q4/2017

(supports Mitaka, Ocata, and Pike)

Additionally included

Stacklight

DriveTrain

Kubernetes

OpenContrail

Pricing

per machine

depending on:

8x5

24x7

Managed Service

2

Ceph

Part of

MCP

based on

Luminous

Deployment via

SaltStack

OpenAttic

(Decapod/ansible discontinued)

Features

RBD

RadosGW

BlueStore

Pricing

Subscription

per machine

3

Container Platform

MCP CaaS

Kubernetes

Docker

1

OpenStack

Ubuntu

OpenStack

with

based on

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

Kernel

4.4-based

Virtualization

KVM

Hyper-V

LXD

Let's get one thing out of the way!

"Canonical" OpenStack

(enterprise version)

≠

Ubuntu OpenStack

(community version)

While probably most

Community Developers

using Ubuntu, make use of

DevStack, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack, Chef

the enterprise version uses

JuJu and MaaS

Openstack Support

All Core Services plus

Life Cycle

New downstream version with

every upstream release

Additionally recommended

Landscape

for

system management, security compliance and audit

Support

5 years

For versions released with LTS

1,5 years

For 3 following versions (e.g. N, O, P)

3 years

OpenStack release of next LTS in former version

Pricing

node/year

VM/hour

OpenStack regions (S/M/L)

depending on:

support for business hours, 24x7, managed

2

Ceph

Ubuntu Advantage Storage

based on

Luminous

with

Ceph Dashboard and OpenAttic

Features

CephFS

iSCSI

NFS Gateway

Erasure coding (no Juju charm)

Pricing

Subscription

based on:

used capacity

3

Container Platform

Ubuntu Containers

LXD

Kubernetes

Docker (CS)

Juju

4

Potential Issues

Landscape

has a

non Open Source license

Kernel

At least

controversial

integration of

ZFS

in 16.04

LXD

Not offered by the other distros.

Potential vendor lock-in.

How to assess

if a distro can provide

support

for your project?

Marketing?

Just Kidding!

Rhetorical question!

If you are lucky:

The experience of

yourself

or

somebody

you know

If you have time and resources:

evaluation

PoC

Before you stuck with one!

Are there any other

helpful

Indicators ?

What about

Community Engagement ?

Another may helpful indicator:

Statistics

on project

Contributions

Openstack

Commits to OpenStack Core

^{Cinder, Glance, Keystone, Neutron, Nova, Swift}

^{Source: stackalytics.com , Analysis: git.io/vQYT0, 20171023}

Commits to OpenStack Optional

^{Aodh, Barbican, Ceilometer, Designate, Gnocchi, Heat, Horizon, Ironic, Magnum, Manila, Mistral,
Monasca, Murano, Panko, Rally, Sahara, Tempest, Trove, +(os-client, oslo, security, documentation)}

^{Source: stackalytics.com , Analysis: git.io/vQYT0}

Authors in OpenStack Core

^{Cinder, Glance, Keystone, Neutron, Nova, Swift}

^{Source: stackalytics.com , Analysis: git.io/vQYT0}

Authors in OpenStack Optional

^{Aodh, Barbican, Ceilometer, Designate, Gnocchi, Heat, Horizon, Ironic, Magnum, Manila, Mistral,
Monasca, Murano, Panko, Rally, Sahara, Tempest, Trove, +(os-client, oslo, security, documentation)}

^{Source: stackalytics.com , Analysis: git.io/vQYT0}

Reviews in Core and Optional

^{Source: stackalytics.com , Analysis: git.io/vQYT0}

Bugfix ratio in Core and Optional

^{resolved vs. reported bugs in %}

^{Source: stackalytics.com , Analysis: git.io/vQYT0}

Ceph

Commits

^{source: metrics.ceph.com, ceph.git, 2017/6/23}

Kernel

Changesets

^{source: linux.git, gitdm with 4.4 data set, 2017/06/23}

Changesets in Stable tree

^{source: linux-stable.git, gitdm with 4.4 data set, e.g. v4.0..v4.0.x, 2017/06/23}

KVM/libvirt

Commits

^{libvirt/qemu git, 2017/06/24}

How is their

Market Share ?

Are there useful and reliable numbers?

What about

thecloudmarket.com ?

Not helpful!

Only Amazon EC2 images.

What about

OpenStack

User Survey?

Some issues, but let see ...

Which vendor’s products power your cloud?

^{Source: OpenStack User Survey April/November 2017}

Which operating system runs your cloud?

^{Source: OpenStack User Survey April/November 2017}

Which tool for deploy/config OS Cloud?

^{Source: OpenStack User Survey April/November 2017}