{"id":9843,"date":"2017-11-05T22:41:24","date_gmt":"2017-11-05T22:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/openstacks-next-mission-bridging-the-gaps-between-open-source-projects.html"},"modified":"2017-11-05T22:41:24","modified_gmt":"2017-11-05T22:41:24","slug":"openstacks-next-mission-bridging-the-gaps-between-open-source-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/openstacks-next-mission-bridging-the-gaps-between-open-source-projects.html","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack\u2019s next mission: bridging the gaps between open source projects"},"content":{"rendered":"


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OpenStack<\/a>, the massive open source project that provides large businesses with the software tools to run their data center infrastructure, is now almost eight years old. While it had its ups and downs, hundreds of enterprises now use it to run their private clouds and there are even over two dozen public clouds that use the project\u2019s tools. Users now include the likes of\u00a0ATT, Walmart, eBay, China Railway, GE Healthcare, SAP, Tencent and the Insurance Australia Group, to name just a few.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things that\u2019s been happening is that we\u2019re seven years in and the need for turning every type of infrastructure into programmable infrastructure has been proven out. \u201cIt\u2019s no longer a debate,\u201d OpenStack COO Mark Collier<\/a> told me ahead of the projects semi-annual developer conference this week. OpenStack\u2019s own surveys show that the project\u2019s early adopters, who previously only tested it for their clouds, continue to move their production workflows to the platform, too. \u201cWe passed the hype phase,\u201d Collier noted.<\/p>\n

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Indeed, in a recent survey<\/a> of IT professionals, Linux and OpenStack service provider SUSE found that 23 percent of organizations now use the OpenStack in production. That\u2019s up from 15 percent in 2015.<\/p>\n

So with OpenStack now being the de facto standard for running private clouds and most of the core projects being stable, the community has recently tackled new use cases that range from container support to edge computing and running machine learning workflows on OpenStack Clouds. But to do all of this, users have to take the parts of OpenStack and mix and match them with other \u2014 typically also open source \u2014 projects. And that\u2019s still very difficult because these companies then often have to figure out their own solutions for integrating all of these different tools. \u201cWe we find is that when we talk to users, they have figured it out,\u201d said Collier. \u201cBut in the process \u2014 and it\u2019s too hard \u2014 they had to write their own software to make it all work.\u201d<\/p>\n

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So going forward, the OpenStack community and the Foundation behind it plan to focus quite a bit on exactly this problem. \u201cWe will redeploy our resources \u2014 and we spend $20 million a year \u2014 to how we can improve the integration and operational tools that make each open source project work better when you put them together,\u201d said Collier. \u201cThat\u2019s a pretty big evolution for us,\u201d he added but noted that this is also a natural step for the project. The community, after all, already spent some efforts on testing some core integrations with tools like Docker or Kubernetes for container support. \u201cThe last mile of open source success is the gaps in between project,\u201d said Collier.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe, as a foundation, have to support all of the things that our community is doing,\u201d added OpenStack Foundation Executive Director Jonathan Bryce. \u201cThat\u2019s a broad open infrastructure mission and not just a subset of cloud virtualization technologies.\u201d<\/p>\n

In practice, this means new events that will focus on specific use cases, closer cooperation with other open source communities and more work on getting these different communities to work with each other. On the technical side, that also means going beyond proof of concepts and making sure that there are testing frameworks in place to ensure that different tools can work with each other.<\/p>\n

Ideally, all of this will improve OpenStack, but I couldn\u2019t help but think that Collier and Bryce were also thinking about the wider open source ecosystem and how projects like this can help others as well. \u201cAll of these open source projects \u2014 they operate in silos because they operate around distinct problems they are trying to solve,\u201d said Collier. No doubt, there is a lot of truth to that. If the OpenStack community can help puncture some holes into these silos and get more projects to talk to each other, then that should be a win-win for everybody involved.<\/p>\n

Both Collier and Bryce stressed that this doesn\u2019t mean the project is taking its focus away from its core mission. There is still plenty of work happening in the core OpenStack projects like the Ironic service for running and managing bare-metal workloads (something that\u2019s becoming increasingly important to businesses that want to run container and machine learning workloads on their OpenStack clouds), or the Nova compute service<\/a> that sits at the core of the project, which can now more easily scale horizontally thanks to a complete overhaul of the scheduler that sits behind the service.<\/p>\n

But as Bryce stressed during today\u2019s keynote, OpenStack isn\u2019t just about technology, it\u2019s about the community. Yet if uses can\u2019t capture the value of all of these projects because integrating them is so hard, then the community has to look at how it can approach this challenge.<\/p>\n

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