 From Seattle, Washington extracting the signal from the noise It's the Cube on the ground at OpenStack Day Seattle 2015 Now here's your host John Furrier Everyone this is John Furrier with the Cube. We are in Seattle, Washington for special innovation day with OpenStack OpenStack Day We're here covering it in concert with LinuxCon which just happened our next guests here Jonathan Brice executive director of the OpenStack Foundation Lawrence cell VP of marketing. Good to see you guys. How's it going? Well OpenStack is also booming also the interest in cloud I mean we're here in the backyard in Seattle, Amazon, you know big big player in the public cloud enterprise adoption We always talk about that on the Cube talk about the adoption. What's happening lately? You guys just fresh off the scene this innovation days is that uber meetup It's a it's a it's like a bigger event a lot of interest talk about what's happening right now Yeah, I mean, it's things are just going awesome right now in OpenStack And the thing that's been so cool this last year is to see some of the new companies that are adopting it We had opening keynotes this morning here. I had Nick Garaza motos from FICO who joined me FICO is running OpenStack in production. We had Walmart in Vancouver Right now eBay is speaking about Kubernetes on top of OpenStack. And so, you know when you think about eBay PayPal Walmart FICO like big pieces of our economy are now running on OpenStack, and it's so cool to see that happening Laura talk about the adoption you it's marketing itself right now OpenStack really doesn't need marketing because it's so much buzz going on What's happening around the world talk about what the latest things are happening? Yeah, so we we actually just had some big events in the last week in Bangalore and in Taipei and carrying that over to Seattle now and and Silicon Valley next week So there is a lot of activity around the world As we're getting ready for the Tokyo summit that's happening at the end of October We're evaluating a lot of speaking submissions in the last week We're about to launch the schedule and there's definitely a lot of public clouds that are popping up in Asia And there's gonna be a lot of talks around that so that's been Some great adoption to see and then here locally, of course There's blue box who is just acquired by IBM recently So there's a really big team and focus here a large HP team here So there's a lot of activity happening here in Seattle as well Seattle's booming right now So your tech scene is great obviously known for Starbucks among other things But I mean it really is spectacular growth here Microsoft's in backyard here in Redmond talk about the innovation here What's happening Seattle? What's the topics here? And what are some of the interests? Yeah, obviously? Anywhere you go these days you're gonna hear about containers and so there are several talks today about about containers And as I mentioned Kubernetes, which is a container management framework I think people containers have been around as a technology for a while But I think people are really excited to see how things like docker mazos kubernetes open stack How these these new frameworks enable companies to bring containers in and make use of them with their Networking and their security frameworks that they already have in place. So that's a big topic for today the other thing that that we've been we've been hearing a lot about is is storage and you know We forget about storage because it's it's boring, you know, but really it's it's the key that underlies everything that you know all these systems and And it's really always it's fascinating to hear the approaches that people take to storage because you have these giants like Netapp and EMC who Still drive so much of the storage industry, but you have solid fire. You have SAF you have a number of other open source technologies And all of these companies play in open stack And so it's always fascinating to see different users the choices they make why and how the companies are kind of responding to each other in The market and that brings out the maturity question of storage You need to store all that big data on storage flash memory a lot of converged infrastructure cloud is the perfect environment for that What are some of the adoption things that you're seeing on the maturity front to share with the folks out there because there's always the Question of open stack has to run faster and so every year we talk about that go faster go faster People want bulletproof open stack. What's the status? Yeah, so bulletproof open stack As I mentioned earlier, you know when you look at some of these companies who are running it I think it's a it's a pretty clear answer about is it ready for real workloads. Is it ready for production? But you know storage specifically what what I think is is really cool to see is how These companies are looking to change the way that they've done storage so that they can move faster You know they open as you said, we're always trying to move faster in the open stack community Part of what drives that is the users they want to move faster internally Nick from FICO was just talking about how they are starting to to push an Organization-wide adoption of Swift and of object storage to replace some of their legacy NFS and kind of standard shared storage systems It's a big culture change and he talked about how different it is, you know for for their teams But what it enables them to do is change the way that they deploy services and move faster So, you know, it's it's really interesting to see how yes Even an old topic like storage is really key to people who are doing Innovative things and trying to go faster in their business Lauren talk about the ecosystem because one of the things we've observed with open Stack is the evolution of the ecosystem and has the peaks and valleys of you know hype and then you know some consolidation some Reformation we saw that Linux con yesterday this week a lot of stuff going on a lot of biz dev deals a lot of Formation a lot of teaming up is happening because of all the technology changes So talk about some of the new new members and talk about some of the dynamics around the community forming together to create a bigger Whole fabric of opens open stack community. Yeah Well, I think one of our some of the biggest news recently is that Google joined the foundation as a sponsor in June So that really drove a lot of interest and there's you know different companies and startups around that I think there's a company called chismatic that's working on Kubernetes on open stack and of course You see companies like core OS and others kind of on the edges of the ecosystem But um, but yeah, there's you know, there's a lot of really strong startups like obviously We talked about blue box being acquired by IBM recently and Maranta is getting some more funding this week So we're seeing a lot of Platform nine. Yes big funding deal there. Yeah, definitely in this last year's there standalone companies that will exist here Oh, everyone be gobbled up by the big guys I think that you know, we're always gonna see acquisitions happening and that's a great outcome for you know For a lot of these entrepreneurs But you know, you have new ones coming along like like platform nine who are who are getting involved and taking different approaches to you know How do you manage open stack? Where can you run the controllers? How can you do it in a way that that's even easier and faster to get going with it? one other company that that that that Recently was approved as a gold member of the foundation is Fujitsu and and it's great to have You know one of the the largest technology companies based in Japan Come in as as kind of a very high-level member of the foundation as we head into the Tokyo summit in just a couple of months So one of the things that we always talk about on the queue when we Dave Volante And I always references to be a platform which open stack is kind of think it was a global platform for the cloud if you will You need developers need partners. So give us the update on that front I mean obviously developers are key here the session here is all about developers You see the Kubernetes talk and nodes and clusters all this good stuff people are totally geeking out on there But really the reality is is that you got to scale that up. You got to have a partner. What's the plan? What are you guys doing at the foundation to accelerate more developers more partners to create this robust platform? I would say a third piece of that and where I think we really are focused as the operators and actually These last two days in Palo Alto They we've been part of an operators mid-cycle meetup and brought together About 200 people that are really out there day-to-day running open stack clouds and from the foundation perspective In terms of bringing together these developers in terms of bringing together the ecosystem in terms of bringing together the operators We're really trying to close that feedback loop so that you know when when operators are running into problems Or we can understand more of the technology choices They're making that are driving you know the product roadmap for the ecosystem So we're helping to to bring together these different groups and facilitate that that feedback that's happening These operators are like big service providers the enterprises describe what operator means That's a great question because it is pretty broad Most of the folks that were there this week are probably running a private cloud in an enterprise or kind of a large web company And then definitely service providers as well There are a couple different sessions that were specific to public clouds and large deployments So talk about the the growth now in terms of open stack What do you guys see this next couple of events coming in and where's the where's the focus? Is it abstract in a way complexities? Is it ease of use? Is it making things work together and you mentioned kismatic, you know making stuff work You know making kubernetes work for instance is something that might be too hard for someone in the enterprise might want something You know some simplicity. Yeah, so the focus is definitely on on building on top of that solid stable base that we have now Open stack at its core is really about automating compute storage and networking and those components have been around for years And have been deployed at scale with Thousands, you know We have some users that are heading towards hundreds of thousands of physical nodes that they're running on top of open stack And so you know that those pieces are really solid. I think going forward. It's about what value can you out on top of it? So there's a new project that they just got started at the end of last year called Magnum and Magnum is is a way to take container orchestration frameworks like kubernetes and docker swarm and and mazos and others and put them into an open stack environment Configure it so it makes use of existing networking existing security and gives you a an automated way to get that infrastructure out there to your developers That's that's a big piece of it for sure The other thing that you mentioned is ease of use operations How do you scale these systems farther and farther and and make it easier for operators to to be successful running open stack over the Long-term those are the I would say the big focus areas heading into our our next two releases Guys, thanks so much real quick. I'll give you as the final word What's the vibe in Seattle like people in Seattle is a unique town share with the folks out there who couldn't attend What's the vibe here? Sure. Yeah, the weather was beautiful yesterday. So I saw a lot of folks kind of Sneaking out during lunch from Linux con and walking down to the water and getting lunch. So it's been very nice Yeah, it's great here It's actually my first time in downtown Seattle and I've loved it the water is beautiful and the weather's been fantastic All right, this is the cube conversations on the ground here in Seattle. I'm John Fourier. Thanks for watching