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Intel và Hyper hợp tác với OpenStack Foundation để khởi động dự án Kata Containers

Intel và Hyper hợp tác với OpenStack Foundation để khởi động dự án Kata Containers

Không có gì bí mật khi OpenStack Foundation đang tìm cách mở rộng ra ngoài dự án cơ sở hạ tầng điện toán đám mây của họ, cho đến bây giờ, luôn là trọng tâm duy nhất. Cũng không có gì ngạc nhiên khi Foundation hôm nay thông báo ra mắt dự án Kata Containers. Kata Containers là một dự án mã nguồn...

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Huawei has been elected as a platinum member of the OpenStack Foundation at the OpenStack's Board of Directors meeting, marking the first time an Asian vendor has become a platinum member.

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ICYMI: Catch @Cloudifysource talks from #OpenStack & our community interviews for @openstackpodcst #nfv #weareopenstack

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Openstack Online & Classroom Training – Kenna Management

[cloudofdata]

Google is Positioning Kubernetes to Stand at the Center of the Hybrid World

Google is positioning Kubernetes at the heart of the hybrid cloud movement for the enterprise. That’s evident in the announcement yesterday that Google is joining OpenStack. It’s a signal that Google sees OpenStack as a vehicle it needs to make Kubernetes the standard for container orchestration. If this were to be the case, OpenStack’s Magnum …

Hands up, anyone who is even a little surprised… ?

[bobthetrainingguy]

What is OpenStack? Part 1 of 2

Today we will discuss what OpenStack is in generic terms.  On Wednesday we will look at OpenStack from Cisco’s perspective.

What is it?

OpenStack is a set of software tools for building and managing cloud computing platforms for public and private clouds. Backed by some of the biggest companies in software development and hosting, as well as thousands of individual community members, many think that OpenStack is the future of cloud computing. OpenStack is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit which oversees both development and community-building around the project.

Let’s start with watching this 7 minute video where Niki Acosta, Cloud Evangelist from Rackspace (LinkedIn Page) and Scott Sanchez, Director at Cisco // OpenStack  // Strategy  (LinkedIn Page) discuss the following:

The Definition of Open Stack

The History of Open Stack

The Open Stack Foundation

Who Supports Open Stack

Why Open Stack is Needed

How Open Stack Helps Manage Virtualization

What are People Doing with Open Stack

How You Can Get Started with Open Stack

Introduction to OpenStack

Now that we have a basic understanding of OpenStack, let’s dig a little deeper.

OpenStack lets users deploy virtual machines and other instances which handle different tasks for managing a cloud environment on the fly. It makes horizontal scaling easy, which means that tasks which benefit from running concurrently can easily serve more or less users on the fly by just spinning up more instances. For example, a mobile application which needs to communicate with a remote server might be able to divide the work of communicating with each user across many different instances, all communicating with one another but scaling quickly and easily as the application gains more users.

And most importantly, OpenStack is open source software, which means that anyone who chooses to can access the source code, make any changes or modifications they need, and freely share these changes back out to the community at large. It also means that OpenStack has the benefit of thousands of developers all over the world working in tandem to develop the strongest, most robust, and most secure product that they can.

So let’s take deeper dive into OpenStack basics in this 8 minute high level white board session (author unknown) form TheCloudcastNET which will further explain:

What is OpenStack?

Comparison Between Traditional Cloud vs, Open Stack

Why is Cisco involved with OpenStack?

The 3 Main Components of OpenStack

 In our next 10 minute video we will have Jeffrey Lush, Chief Technologist  US Federal Agencies – Civilian / US Federal Reserve at Hewelett-Packard (Linked In Page) explain the major components of cloud and OpenStack

 How is OpenStack used in a cloud environment?

The cloud is all about providing computing for end users in a remote environment, where the actual software runs as a service on reliable and scalable servers rather than on each end users computer. Cloud computing can refer to a lot of different things, but typically the industry talks about running different items "as a service"—software, platforms, and infrastructure. OpenStack falls into the latter category and is considered Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS). Providing infrastructure means that OpenStack makes it easy for users to quickly add new instance, upon which other cloud components can run. Typically, the infrastructure then runs a "platform" upon which a developer can create software applications which are delivered to the end users.

What are the components of OpenStack?

OpenStack is made up of many different moving parts. Because of its open nature, anyone can add additional components to OpenStack to help it to meet their needs. But the OpenStack community has collaboratively identified nine key components that are a part of the "core" of OpenStack, which are distributed as a part of any OpenStack system and officially maintained by the OpenStack community.

Nova is the primary computing engine behind OpenStack. It is used for deploying and managing large numbers of virtual machines and other instances to handle computing tasks.

Swift is a storage system for objects and files. Rather than the traditional idea of a referring to files by their location on a disk drive, developers can instead refer to a unique identifier referring to the file or piece of information and let OpenStack decide where to store this information. This makes scaling easy, as developers don’t have the worry about the capacity on a single system behind the software. It also allows the system, rather than the developer, to worry about how best to make sure that data is backed up in case of the failure of a machine or network connection.

Cinder is a block storage component, which is more analogous to the traditional notion of a computer being able to access specific locations on a disk drive. This more traditional way of accessing files might be important in scenarios in which data access speed is the most important consideration.

Neutron provides the networking capability for OpenStack. It helps to ensure that each of the components of an OpenStack deployment can communicate with one another quickly and efficiently.

Horizon is the dashboard behind OpenStack. It is the only graphical interface to OpenStack, so for users wanting to give OpenStack a try, this may be the first component they actually “see.” Developers can access all of the components of OpenStack individually through an application programming interface (API), but the dashboard provides system administrators a look at what is going on in the cloud, and to manage it as needed.

Keystone provides identity services for OpenStack. It is essentially a central list of all of the users of the OpenStack cloud, mapped against all of the services provided by the cloud which they have permission to use. It provides multiple means of access, meaning developers can easily map their existing user access methods against Keystone.

Glance provides image services to OpenStack. In this case, "images" refers to images (or virtual copies) of hard disks. Glance allows these images to be used as templates when deploying new virtual machine instances.

Ceilometer provides telemetry services, which allow the cloud to provide billing services to individual users of the cloud. It also keeps a verifiable count of each user’s system usage of each of the various components of an OpenStack cloud. Think metering and usage reporting.

Heat is the orchestration component of OpenStack, which allows developers to store the requirements of a cloud application in a file that defines what resources are necessary for that application. In this way, it helps to manage the infrastructure needed for a cloud service to run.

The source for most or the content for this post came from the web site Discover and Open Source World (http://opensource.com/resources/what-is-openstack as viewed on 6/29/15).  This awesome web site has a lot of information on other cool topics such as:

What is Open Source?

Intro to Docker?

What is Open Education?

What is Open Hardware?

What is Open Government?

What is Open Gaming?

On Wednesday we will discuss OpenStack from Cisco’s Perspective:

Please add your comments regarding this post or anything related to your experiences with OpenStack

For more information on Cisco or VMware training, contact Bob the Training Guy at [email protected]  or call 330-680-5733.

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[openstackisrael]

The #OpenStack & Beyond Podcast is back on All things #NFV & #SDN in the Cloud

Join us May 4th | 5:00 PM CET | 11AM EST with Nati Shalom and Shlomo Swidler hosting, and Axel Clauberg of Deutsche Telekom & Scott Lowe, renowned blogger as panelists who will give their perspective on NFV & SDN in the cloud world, and where OpenStack comes into the mix.

You can watch the event live below, or on Google Hangouts.

Be sure to tune in - it will be a good one, and definitely stay tuned for additional episodes.

[openstackisrael]

#OpenStack Israel community talk roundup for the #openstacksummit - get voting!

Let’s demonstrate the power of a strong community - and spread the word about all of our local talk proposals - and help vote them in!

Israel has some awesome OpenStack stories, and we’re proud to help get them on stage.

For those who aren’t included - you are more than welcome to reply and add comments or send an email to openstack AT gigaspaces DOT com, and we’ll be sure to add them to the list.

Go get ‘em!

Hybrid Cloud Orchestration for VMware & OpenStack - Paco Gomez, VMware & Nati Shalom, GigaSpaces

The Jenkins Plugin for OpenStack: Simple and Painless CI/CD - Maish Saidel-Keesing & Naama Bamberger, Cisco

Growing up with Openstack - Koby Holzer & Liran Cohen, Liveperson

Application& Network Orchestration of VNFs with TOSCA & Netconf/YANG on OpenStack-with Koren Lev Cisco, Samuel Bercovici Radware & Nati Shalom and Shay Naeh, GigaSpaces

Deep Dive Into a Highly Available OpenStack Architecture - Arthur Berezin, Red Hat

OrchestrationTool Roundup - Kubernetes vs. Heat vs. Fleet vs. MaestroNG vs. TOSCA – NatiShalom, GigaSpaces

DevstackOn Demand – Alex Fishman, Ravello and Barak Merimovich, GigaSpaces 

Evolving OpenStack into a Fully-Distributed System - ( Speakers: Avishay Traeger, Muli Ben Yehuda, Stratoscale) 

The Road to a Hyper-Converged OpenStack ( Speakers: Muli Ben Yehuda, Etay Bogner, Stratoscale ) 

Creating a Multi-Network Friendly Image with OpenStack Glance and Neutron – Barak Merimovich & Noa Kuperberg, GigaSpaces

TOSCA in a Box – FastConnect & Barak Merimovich, GigaSpaces

TOSCA Workloads with OpenStack Heat Translator: A Success Story with Networking and Containers – IBM, Idan Moyal, GigaSpaces, Oasis

VNFs in Docker on OpenStack with Auto-Scaling and Auto-Healing Out of the Box - A Live IMS Example – Clearwater & Shay Naeh, GigaSpaces

Auto-VNF Scale Out and Automatic Elasticity for Network and Application VNFs – Shay Naeh, GigaSpaces

TOSCA: Containers, microservices, OpenStack and orchestrating the whole symphony – Uri Cohen, GigaSpaces

Hybrid App Environments with Virtualized Instances - AKA Dockerify your Cloud – Yoram Weinreb, GigaSpaces

A Canadian Financial Services Use Case: Production-grade Continuous Delivery on OpenStack – Discussed in this talk – Rackspace, RHEL, SaltStack, Nexus, Jenkins, Cloudify with a major Canadian bank & Risk Focus

Multi-Cloud Telco Application Deployment - using TOSCA over HEAT, (Alcatel-Lucent, Speakers: Noa Koffman, Noy Itzikowitz ) 

Co-managing OpenStack resources in a Multi-Cloud Environment - (Alcatel-Lucent Speakers: Limor Stotland, Noy Itzikowitz ) 

Augmenting the Horizon Dashboard with AngularJS - (Alcatel-Lucent Speakers: Omer Etrog, Noy Itzikowitz ) 

OpenStack HA for NFV – what does it mean? - (Alcatel-Lucent, Speakers: Radoslaw Smigielski, Itai Mendelsohn) 

The truth behind Telco NFV - (Alcatel-Lucent, Speakers: Itai Mendelsohn ) 

Object storage as the foundation for BigData Clouds (iguaz.io, Speakers: Yaron Haviv )

Next Generation Shared Data Access in the Age of Big Data (iguaz.io, Speakers: Yaron Haviv )