 Welcome to OpenStack India. My name is Atul Jha and I'm one of the organizers of the event apart from me. I have Sajid here, Kavith and all you guys. So what I'm going to do is like I have like five minutes with me so I'm just trying to wrap up like in five minutes and then like you'll have all the stuff that's coming in for you. So I think you'd have seen the whole agenda like it's lined up like the talks that gonna happen like one after the other. So how many of you use Twitter? Like active Twitter user here. Okay. And how many of you are active Twitter user right now? Like they have access to Twitter? Great. So the hashtag for the event is OpenStackIN. So that's it from my side. The agenda says that you're going to have Mark here, Mark Collier and Jonathan Bryce. So we are not having them here physically but we have their talk here which we're going to play right now. So next presentation is Mark Collier about OpenStack Foundation. Sparky Collier on Twitter if you're into that and I would like to tell you all about OpenStack today. Hopefully you already have heard of it and you know some things about it but I thought I'd give you a quick overview of what the software and the community are all about. And also dive into the foundation we recently established and really try to give you a sense for how the foundation's structured and what the mission is and how you might get involved if you are interested in being part of the foundation in some way and helping to shape the feature of OpenStack. So OpenStack is cloud software. It's really many different things. It is a community of many thousands of participants both users and developers and business folks who are thinking about how they can solve business problems with OpenStack and is of course code which is the basis of the software. And when we think about what problems OpenStack is trying to solve the easiest way we've found to describe it is to call it a cloud operating system. And the reason we use this term is if you think about an operating system in a traditional sense on a single machine whether it's a server or a laptop it's really kind of there to keep track of all the resources that you're trying to access whether it's the storage or the computing resources and so forth or the network which is something you're trying to manage and when you think about putting together a large pool of resources for example many thousands of servers in the data center you really want to get to a point of automation orchestration where you can keep track of all of those different resources the physical as well as the virtual as you virtualize for example a server with a hypervisor you want to be able to look across all of those different machines and understand where all the work's getting done and really abstract away a lot of the hassle of managing a lot of a lot of equipment by abstracting that by having this cloud framework that takes a look at all those different resources and tools both compute networking and storage and oftentimes of course in combination and the way that you would interact with a system like this once you've used software to really kind of automate your data center is through either applications of your own that might talk to the apis or a set of tools you may use so you there are many management tools for example like right skill and stratus and others that work with the open stack api and give you another level of of insight into what's happening in your cloud and managing your workloads as you want to move them in and out of this cloud or other open stack clouds etc and so you may see for example a spike in traffic to your website and you know you get that monitoring alert and your your system is able to autoscale by talking to those apis and provisioning more resources so that's just a very basic explanation of where open stack sits in your data center but another way that people frequently engage with it is through the dashboard so there's a web dashboard the open stack dashboard that you know has both an administrative view as well as an end user view so as an end user similar to engaging with any cloud out there that you may have used you can log in you can provision different resources you can spin up a virtual machine for example of different sizes four gigs eight gigs whatever flavors your particular open stack cloud is is configured to support and the administrative view on the other hand is actually you know higher level admin perspective on that open stack cloud where you actually define things like the number of flavors so whether there's a four gigabyte instance that has a certain amount of storage attached to it all those different allotments that kind of customize the cloud to the users you're trying to target those are all controlled through the administrative view on the dashboard and this is really just a kind of a bulleted list to give you some examples of you know what the capabilities are within open stack and you know the compute is really kind of the most self-evident when you think of cloud computing you think of computing and that's exactly what this is it's provisioning you know pools of resources typically a virtual machine that's like a physical server and in the way it behaves but it's actually you know virtualized and then from a storage perspective we support both object storage and block storage object storage is really meant for very large quantities of data that you want to reliably store typically at very low cost not as common for performance you know application although oftentimes it's paired with a cdn in a public cloud setting where you can push objects to a cdn to get that performance you're looking for for example images and so forth that you might have large libraries of stored in an object store but you want to give performance to a web client and then you would use a cdn block storage of course is very traditional storage it's been around quite a while as a format but there are a lot of different ways you can do block storage and open stack compute has always supported block storage but recently it's really been broken out as a separate project or separate effort with a dedicated team primarily to bring more innovation faster innovation to play by having a team of subject matter experts domain experts from across the storage industry and one of the core tenets of open stack is it's very pluggable it's designed to work with the systems that you want to plug in so it's not overly prescriptive about a specific type of of technology whether it's on the hypervisor side where with the compute you can choose to plug in different hypervisors or in this case with block storage it works with netapp solidfire nexenta and actually just in the last few days um emc announced that they are now a sponsor of the open stack foundation so when you look at at the who's who of storage out there there's certainly many ways you can do it and the open stack philosophy is however you want to do it you know open stack can be that engine in the middle and through that that philosophy of being vendor-neutral and being a pluggable architecture we have these drivers now from a lot of these different companies that are active in the community and that's it's really a great testament to kind of the early architectural philosophy paying off you know networking is no no exception the networking capability within open stack open stack networking really is designed to let you plug in the networking technology of choice now of course the flavor everybody's talking about these days is sdn or software defined networking and some of the leaders in software defined networking have actually been creating this portion of open stack so you know it's very well architected and with that in mind so that if you want to be really out there on the cutting edge and you want to really let software take over your data center well the networking is kind of the final frontier in many ways and you can certainly deal with sdn although because it's pluggable again gives you a lot of choices you could certainly use the the networking capabilities and talk to a more traditional network layout with physical gear it doesn't require to use sdn but that is one of the things that's kind of driving this pluggable capability that that was recently added in the fulsome release a few months ago i talked about a little bit about the dashboard the different roles last but not least the shared services really there's a couple of examples here so there's a multi-tenant authentication system and that's really important because when we first started to kind of pull together a lot of these different components into one cloud operating system if you will we realized that one of the things you want in common is authentication you don't want to have your users logging into the storage system discreetly from the compute system and particularly in an example of the image service whereby you want to have a library of images and you want to be able to keep track of those whether it's your favorite flavor of linux or if it's the lamp stack or some you know some whole library of images you may have that when brought together constitute you know your whole app architecture and you may use you know chef or puppet or what have you but when you think about the images being let's say stored on the object storage and of course you're going to move those into the compute service or into the block storage service when you want to actually go into production with it you know having it all working together seamlessly with one authentication system is a requirement we saw early on and and so that's part of what we call the shared services now the open development process is one that is really interesting i think it's extremely important to how open stack has come so far so fast and it's something we're very committed to the process itself as well as the fact that it's open you know those are those are kind of two important points first of all we release new software every six months there are also milestones along the way so you know you might think of those as a point release or kind of an interim release but but in in reality what happens is that kind of as soon as we're done with one release we have a design summit a couple weeks later usually somewhere in the world where all the people who are used to working over irc and mailing lists and over the phone and talking online in various ways throughout the year actually get together in person very important to get to meet the rest of the people in the community as many as we can possibly you know get to these summits and plan out that next release and so what ends up happening is they really start kind of working on the next version right after the summit and you end up with these milestones kind of periodically along the way but most users tend to gravitate towards the big releases every six months and then of course those are upstream to a number of Linux distributions so all the major Linux distributions now support OpenStack and I think that's that's a fantastic testament to all the excitement and the contributions that are coming in from those companies and those communities really is has a lot to do with the momentum we've seen in OpenStack and we just going to be more excited about that and to that end you know we've had over 600 contributors who've actually contributed code to the project and made the software what it is today if you want to become a contributor any time you're looking for information the wiki's always a good starting point but there's a wiki.OpenStack.org excuse me wiki.openstack.org slash how to contribute if you want to check that out when you look at the community you know it's hard to put numbers on a community and I think it's easy to to you know lose sight of really where the passion is in the community and what's really driving it if you you spend too much time looking at the numbers but you know the ecosystem the number of companies that are involved in OpenStack is is something we we set out early on to pursue I mean we wanted to see a lot of companies investing in OpenStack and so you know one way to measure that is just how many companies are there but at the end of the day what really matters is what are they doing are they active are they investing are they hiring and so you know very happy to see that they're certainly bringing in a lot of people to our summits and so you'll notice you know the the pattern is quite similar between the number of companies getting involved and the amount of people that are coming to the summits we started with 75 people in Austin about two and a half years ago and in San Diego just back in October we had 1300 plus pretty amazing growth and really again the graphs kind of don't do it justice when you I really encourage anyone who's interested in OpenStack please try to make it to a summit it's such an amazing experience everybody there is invited to be a contributor everyone I hope feels like a contributor and it's a welcoming environment and you know we try to define contributor you know in a broad way or define the community in a broad way and we talk about the foundation mission in a minute to that end but you know the number of developers kind of on a rolling 30 day basis over the last couple of years has continued to grow and so again as we think about more companies getting involved more people coming to the summit is that leading to more development activity and certainly looks like all the trends are heading in the right direction and then you know another data point that is worth looking at is just how much software is being written this is obviously just one aspect of how to look at at the growth of the community but if you think back to the very early origins of this project I mean we had a object storage system which was you know really had just kind of gone into production so it was it was reliable but it you know was at the beginning of kind of its capability to go into a much broader set of installations from just one company and putting that out there where new use cases could emerge and the reliability could continue to improve and then on the compute side you know we had an amazing we were amazingly fortunate actually just before launching OpenStack to connect with the folks at NASA who were building this NOVA project the compute project and had already made a lot of progress had a viable prototype that was working that we could see and look at the architecture and determine wow this is going to really accelerate OpenStack instead of kind of starting from square one and so going from those humble beginnings to where we are today it's amazing you know that 90 percent of the code that we think of as OpenStack today didn't exist two years ago and yet you know we did have have an inkling of something at the beginning there a spark that really set everything in motion and you know at the end of the day all of the code in the world is kind of useless if you don't have users right so we love our users we have a ton of them they're starting to really come out of their shell and talk about what they've been doing which is something that we're excited about so we've had gentlemen from Cisco WebEx keynote our last summit and when you hear about you know something as large as WebEx who we've all you know we've all used I'm sure throughout our careers you know running on OpenStack relying on that in production it's very very exciting and you know I think one of our biggest priorities as a community needs to be to to really put these users on a pedestal listen to them make sure that we're thinking as a community about how we respond to their needs so that this list continues to grow and you know they feel empowered and they feel like they're a big part of this community because they absolutely are you know other names like PayPal you know probably familiar with ebay I mean these are some incredible leaders in the technology industry that are that are really making big bets on OpenStack and we can be more excited to to have them be part of the community you know the international aspect of OpenStack has just blown me away from the very very beginning I mean shortly after we launched OpenStack we went to Japan and there was a you know Japan OpenStack user group meetup that had hundreds of people just standing room only and we had we just sort of lit that fuse you know a couple months earlier saying OpenStack is this an idea people are interested in and it's just grown from there if you look at some of these pictures these are from user groups all over the world there is a simultaneous celebration when the foundation launched a lot of people excited and of course I couldn't be there in every one of those given they were simultaneous but I would very much like over the next couple of years to visit as many of the countries with user groups says as I can because I love the excitement there's really nothing like it you can certainly see that there was a lot of excited people in this in this particular event about the foundation so you know if if there's that much energy in the room you know count me in I'll be I'll be there so talked a lot about OpenStack and the beginnings of it I think you know I don't want to spend too much time on the foundation because there's a lot of information out there about it but I'm happy to kind of explain you know what it's about and and why we're why we started it maybe help you figure out how to get involved so the foundation is an independent body meaning it's a nonprofit a separate entity it's not controlled by you know a particular company it's not a subsidiary like that is it's a truly independent nonprofit entity and it makes sense I think to have a foundation because of a project that's as important as OpenStack we want it to remain open so when we think about protecting empowering and promoting OpenStack you know protecting means sort of making sure that it continues to be open that we have the resources we need to make sure it lives on for many many years as the not as the different players who want to contribute or consume it you know ebb and flow and new people come in we want to have kind of a a group that can help facilitate all that and protect it and make sure that it lives for many many years and continues to grow you know empowering is all about the fact that when you look back at those user groups I mean there's you know hundreds and hundreds if not thousands of people in all these user groups globally and as a foundation I mean we have eight people today we'll probably have 12 staff you know by early next year and that's that's about as big as we're going to get so you know we're obviously not here to to do everything we're here to empower as many people in the community to take charge of the OpenStack mission and run with it and define it and take it in the direction that you want it to go and we're just here to help as as the foundation staff and you know promoting OpenStack is something we as a foundation are are equipped to do and we have done in the past and we're we're going to continue to do and last but not least I just point out that you know we talk about you know what we're protecting empowering promoting it's the community all around it you know users developers the entire ecosystem we have a very inclusive culture I think that's extremely important you know we never want to you know overly narrowly define you know what it means to to be part of the community because if you're a user certainly you may not contribute code or patches you some do some don't but at the end of the day you know we're all here fighting for the user so we want to hear from you and want you to feel like you're a big part of the community and this is just really speaks to the approach we took when we were creating the foundation you know creating the bylaws creating a lot of the structures that ultimately became this legal entity and a lot of it was about preserving the OpenStack way so in other words we weren't trying to solve some big problem that we that we saw in the community or in the way OpenStack was was being managed we were trying to really kind of take it to its permanent home and not do too much damage along the way so some of those those key tenets I think are technical people making technical decisions based on merit seems like common sense right I think it is but you know it bears enshrining in the bylaws as it is and you know when I give you a little more background on how the technical committee works and the project technical leads I mean it's all based on this idea that if you work hard and you present the best idea the best idea wins and that's how the technical direction of this project is determined and we we really believe in that and that's a core tenet having dedicated resources that can do community building activities can help throw these design summits bring people together help court more people into this ecosystem who can invest in it and make money on it I mean that is something we've done historically want to continue to do that and that's part of what the foundation you know is staffed to do and resource to do and again you know encouraging rewarding contributions in all forms you know that's definitely key so in terms of membership and how it's actually structured there are three types of members there's individual members it's pretty self-evident it's individuals it's you and I it's everyone in the community regardless of you know who you work for don't work for or you know what particular role you have whether you're a developer or a marketer or a user however you're involved in OpenStack if it's important to you you should join because by being part of the this foundation you can help chart the future of it and you have a lot of rights responsibilities that go along with that I mean a big one is voting I'll talk a little bit about the the upcoming election in a second but you know it's just a it's a way to really be officially part of the foundation is to join so OpenStack.org join pretty straightforward the Platinum and Gold members are really organizations that are providing the bulk of the funding in other forms of support to help that make the foundation a reality so the Platinum members in addition to providing substantial funding are also required to have a commitment to having full-time employees that are doing nothing but working on OpenStack whether it's developers or you know community leadership other types of roles as long as they're you know really dedicated to advancing OpenStack then that's an indication they're really committed to the future of OpenStack in addition to just cutting a check to make it financially possible to have a foundation and then the Platinum members appoint each appoint a director to the board of directors and then the Gold members amongst a larger group of these companies will elect members to the board and so it's set up so there's a third third third so in other words there's eight seats on the board that are elected by the individual members eight appointed by the Platinum members and eight elected by the Gold members so that's that's basically how we try to keep things balanced and how it's structured this is a list of all of the current Platinum and Gold members now things are growing very fast so by the time you see this we might even have other Gold members but it is exciting to see some of these names I mean some of the the biggest leaders in open source who pioneered in the Linux world and some of the companies that have domain expertise around networking I mean we're trying to advance the state of the art in networking as I mentioned earlier the OpenStack networking project and having some of the the foremost leaders in networking you know that are very heavily invested and committed to OpenStack as the the future of cloud I mean it's pretty exciting and I think we couldn't have a better group of backers and the structure I don't have a ton of detail on this because I don't want to I don't want to lose you all but you can certainly spend many hours reading the bylaws if you really want to get into the nitty-gritty it's all public online at OpenStack.org slash legal but there's a board of directors very similar to a typical corporate structure that the legally responsible group of folks I mentioned kind of how that was made up earlier the technical committee is really there to look after the technical decisions as it relates to the project although and individual components or projects within OpenStack such as compute or object storage you know those each are led by project technical leads who are elected by the contribute contributors of those projects so they're making you know the vast majority of the day-to-day decisions about those projects the technical committee is kind of those ptls plus a few other people that have been elected to look at technical matters at span projects so when we think or earlier I talked about the the need for common authentications that was an example of where it doesn't make sense to have a different authentication system for your users to log into their storage than they did for their compute so the technical committee would be you know kind of the the body of elected folks that are helping to make sure those decisions are made in a sensible way and then last but not least we just formed this user committee tim bell from cern if you haven't heard him speak he's an amazing speaker and if you haven't followed what's going on at cern well then you know you have really been living under rock because they're actually finding and creating new forms of matter and apparently according to tim they're still looking for 96 percent of the universe in terms of matter so they've got a lot of work to do but some of the stuff they're doing with OpenStack is really fantastic and just seeing that the impact something you might work on like OpenStack can have on the future of you know the way we understand the universe i mean i don't know i never thought it could possibly be that impactful you know when we sort of kicked it off three years ago and so that's tim bell he's leading the user committee but there are other people that he's just starting to kind of pull in and the whole idea there is again if we don't listen to the users then we're in trouble and you know we want to make sure the users of the software have as strong a voice as possible so we put this formal mechanism in place certainly if you are a user and you want to get involved in this way you know talk to tim bell so the staff today at the foundation myself jonathan brice lorencel who many of you already know claire massie just joined us this week as a matter of fact as a marketing coordinator so we're very excited about that stephano mafuly the community manager hopefully you all know him online or offline he's always out there he's always active a fantastic resource for the community terry carez who's working on the release management of course if you're involved in OpenStack software development anyway i'm sure you're you're well aware of terry and jim blair just joined us in the past week as well as an infrastructure engineer looking after some of those infrastructure systems that we are responsible for as a foundation to try to help facilitate how the software's developed now he was already doing that job before so like many of us who've been active in OpenStack moving to the foundation is somewhat of a formality but we're really excited about nonetheless and if you think it sounds exciting check out opensack.org slash foundation jobs because we still have a number of openings it's a it's a game-changing project if you think it'd be fun to be part of a foundation working on it that'll be the end of my pitch but last but not least kathy ketchiatory works part-time for us helps us with events specifically around industry events so if you think about the many many cloud events going on all over the globe you know we want OpenStack to have a presence there and in some cases you know some of us from the foundation staff may attend but in other cases we just simply want to be a coordinating point to help make sure that if there are uh stackers in a particular region where there's an event going on there's a speaking opportunity we connect connect that together and connect those dots so really great to have kathy on board she has a lot of experience from IBM and and now she's with us helping on those events so the priorities for the foundation really for 2013 or in a few areas adoption is always king we're always trying to figure out what can we do to drive more adoption because at the end of the day we want this to be ubiquitous and you know we also want user engagement so as we have more and more people using then we want to again make sure we're hearing from them getting them involved in the user committee and so forth and and when it comes to delivering the best cloud software it's important to understand kind of how OpenStack is developed so you know the foundation staff if you look back at the previous slide you'll notice that we don't have an army of developers the foundation's not actually employing the developers that are developing the software that's um you know hundreds of developers that are employed by you know 50 plus companies out there and what we're trying to do is really just facilitate that help with the testing with the release manager we're really trying to make sure it's a smooth development process it's well documented that we're facilitating again and that it's reliable we know we're producing quality software by increasing the testing coverage and so forth and that's where people like Jim Blair and Terry Perez play a very important role and it's great to have them be in the foundation so we can play our part in delivering you know better cloud software with every release and then in terms of how we strengthen the global community you know we are hand hiring another community manager love to to expand that team and we're also I'm hiring a business development person to really try to make sure that if our users really want a certain tool that maybe is a management or monitoring tool or what have you they're used to having in their infrastructure and they want any cloud system they used to support it what we want to make sure those companies know about OpenStack they're using the OpenStack APIs and really you know encouraging that that aspect of the ecosystem to grow so that's something we we want to make a priority we've done that to date but we want to continue to do that and so what's next on the horizon we have the elections so we just finished the individual member nominations so we have candidates now if you look on the website you can take a look at the candidates openstack.org slash election has kind of the overview the dates and then on the right hand side you'll see a bunch of links and you can look at the candidates you can look at kind of you know number of different aspects of the election educate yourself if you are not a member I recommend you join of course but if you are a member being engaged is really important and so those elections will actually be taking place in middle of January the 14th to the 18th so be prepared get educated on that the next release of software is Grizzly. Personally I'm a big fan of this name I know it's you know like anytime you name something some people love it some people don't but I think Grizzly is a pretty cool name so Grizzly will be out in April there are already there's already one milestone released another one will be coming right around the corner so if you want to get an early look at Grizzly you can actually do that today and of course the summits so there are two summits next year we have two every year one will be April 2013 summit we are a few days away from finalizing the location and the venue for that so please you know look back on openstackup.org soon and you'll find more information on that of course we'll be blogging and and tweeting about it but we're really trying to lock that down as well as something I'm very very excited about which our first ever international summit so we're finally going to have one outside the US a lot of people have asked for it our community definitely has hit the point of diversity geographically where I think this makes a lot of sense so we have not selected a location it will be in October so if you have a particular region or city that you're passionate about that you are sure is the best possible place to have the open stack summit let us know you can certainly drop me a note mark at openstack.org or laurencell lauren at openstack.org but a lot of people I know have have strong preferences we're also looking for local contacts whether it's a sponsor our government agency that would like to help us enter that region in a big way you know we've already heard from from some folks and a few of the different regional offices of some governments that that are very interested in seeing open stack investment in that area so if you have contacts like that send them my way I want to make sure October we have a fantastic first ever summit outside of the US. Last but not least the foundation is not the only place that's hiring if you have open stack skills you can get a job today I guarantee it we have over a thousand jobs in the open stack community and you can see many of them on openstack.org slash jobs so we see so many companies hiring and on the one hand it's exciting but it's also something that we want to rise to this challenge and fill those positions with new people and by growing the community and one of the ways to do that is through training I think there are a number of companies that offer training as a foundation we're starting to think about how we we help you know drive more awareness around training and help develop more and more training whether it's paid training or online training there are a lot of different resources that I've actually been hearing more and more about different universities that are creating curriculum specifically for cloud or in some cases that whole course is just on open stack so if you have information on that that's another thing I'd love to hear feedback on we want to promote more and more education so we can fill those jobs and in a time when jobs are scarce we have a thousand openings so there must be a way we can bridge this gap together and I think open stack is a job creation engine which you know is certainly something we all are excited about at this day and age so with that I'll just say thank you very much again I'm mark Collier Sparky Collier on Twitter co of the open stack foundation and you can always reach me on email mark at open stack dot org thank you so much if you haven't joined the foundation by now please do it open stack dot org slash join and get involved and I will see you at the next summit thank you you sitting here are members to open stack foundation like member of open stack foundation like individual members okay I think I mean if you if you're not yet you should be individual member of open stack foundation please go ahead and do that okay so our next talk is from Tristan Tristan has come all the way from Australia for this event so I think you should give a bigger round of applause for that and Tristan it's all yours thanks at all thanks good day everyone um just before I get started I just wanted to uh celebrate acknowledge the life of a gentleman who brought Indian music to me about 30 years ago uh the passing this week of Ravi Shankar the very sad thing um but uh I'm trying for you today to talk to you about the global impact of of open stack and uh I'll dig in a bit to to what that means um I'm the CEO of of Aptira as it says a co-founder and organizer of the Australian OpenState User Group supporter of the Indian OpenState User Group which is here thanks to my good friend Kavit who runs Aptira India um very pleased to to be up here talking to you guys today and I'm a board director and I'll tell you about the interesting story uh behind that so who's Aptira uh we are a uh of the the the agenda anyway who's Aptira are going to talk about first I want to build up to the the global impact of of open stack and and uh what what it means uh I'll talk about how we built the open stack community in Australia um how you Kavit and I have been working together to apply the same principles here working with with with that all and the guys up here have a little bit of a talk about the board of directors my role as an individual uh representative on the board of directors and uh and then get on to the global impact of of open stack and why it's important to the entire planet and a little bit of Q&A at the end around that so who's Aptira we were founded in in in 2009 we're actually founded on the ninth the ninth 2009 at nine minutes past nine true story based in Sydney Australia we have an office up here as well in a better bad uh we're about to open an office in London in January um we do manage services managed hosting cloud infrastructure infrastructure consultancy as it says we uh founded Aptira in May last year I came up here and toured around the country last year and I expect uh I'll be having many more visits over this year um every couple of months I think at the moment what do we do I don't want to sell us up too much I mean this is mostly about open stack but I need to establish you know Aptira and how we became involved in open stack we specialize in complex infrastructure things that are difficult to do hosting scenarios that that don't fit into cookie cutter uh plans or anything like that things that are really you know other people shy away from we love to get in there and get our hands dirty and and make things work that that that are seemingly impossible um we specialize in high load promotional sites we've got a a site coming up in in January um that's I think going to have three million visitors on the first day in Australia which is significant it's a launch of a major Australian product so we need to make sure we we adequately resource and scale and and and make sure the resources are available for that and it doesn't throw 404s or whatever it was uh we do Facebook and mobile apps a lot as well we do the backing for of a few different iPhone apps in Australia um Facebook promos competitions and things like that um what do we do on open stack now hosted non-premise private clouds we're not really a public cloud provider we do have there's another company called Halix in Australia that a straight public cloud that you can go there and and sign up and uh use compute and storage um what we do mainly is work on on private especially on premise and I'll get I'll talk about that a little bit more later and why we do that and why we specialize in that and and within that the the businesses we've got running at the moment a a business intelligence or organizations um scalable web apps which I talked about before uh meeting content content delivery which which was obviously going back to the high-laid promotional uh operations that we we do um and and dr and hybrid cloud models around around dr as well with the the private to to host an on-premise private clouds that we look after so why did we pick open stack well the first thing that that started getting us interested in looking around anyway was was v-spear we were entirely a v-spear shop 18 months ago um became kind of expensive we were watching our costs go up and our profit go down because of changes in licensing um it it became harder to manage it didn't really satisfy uh utility burst cloud models that we were we were needing to look at uh to stay in touch with where the market was was looking um we were looking for differentiating technology as well I mean the hosting companies are diamond dozen what we do is a diamond dozen we we like to think of ourselves a bit special that we we do hard stuff and we do cool stuff but you know there's millions of companies out there that do that so we were looking for something that would really set us apart we evaluated a few different products we looked at eucalyptus we looked at yeah cloud stack um open stack just popped out as the big choice we we we we're big on open source um we we we we prefer that obviously um and we needed to look at that elastic and dynamically scalable cloud solution so open stack fitted our needs at the time this was back nearly 80 months ago it was very raw it was very dangerous to deploy I would say um it broke a lot we had a lot of trouble with it we had uh tried to to get yeah no dashboard we tried to get client software to connect to it we couldn't find any I mean what's the point of having object storage with no client software to connect to it um so we worked a lot with companies like well apps like cyber dark and duplicati and uh even the rack space uh ipad app at the time for cloud files didn't work properly with open stack so these are the guys that invented it which it's kind of weird but we got that going anyway we helped them all these guys so what we found after a couple of months of working with this in Australia was no one else was doing open stack we couldn't find anyone so we looked around and and obviously in the state so we're starting up user groups all over the place and we thought let's start a user group let's try and see if we can find other people out there that are interested um the reasons resourcing as I said you know we needed to find people that were into python we would look at this and think wow this is cool let's let's you know let's get involved with this market awareness cloud in Australia starting to pick up now initially was was uh a little bit uh uh uh stagnant in growth um it's one of the things I call is a backyard syndrome uh in Australia where where people were comfortable with their own internal infrastructure didn't really like to get out of the out of the box and and look at these things all this new risky cloud technology I'm going to hand all this stuff over to to these guys to manage well ooh I'm not really comfortable with that so we we we we had a tactic to get past that and I'll I'll talk about that um and lack of vendor support as well uh initially now that's not an issue anymore um and and today actually is uh it's it's kind of a momentous day I guess because the very first user group meeting we had in Australia was on December 15 last year so it's one year to the day it's also one year to the date since I first got up and spoke in front of people because I'm a techie from way back and I've been a CEO for a few years now and uh so I'll I'll get you to mark me out of 10 at the end of this um so what do we do with the meetups educate newcomers find like-minded people of course like yourselves discuss use cases we demo things we socialize which in Australia means drink beer um and we we put on free beer put on free food things like this as well so um so the two user groups that I'm involved with directly the Australian user group largest per capita user group in Australia I think the Swiss guys Tim Bell might have actually beaten us now on that I'm not sure so a bit of a joke I say because people imagine you can walk down the street in Australia and there's kangaroos jumping around well there's all there are kangaroos jumping around there's also open stackers everywhere you look um it's it's it's a meeting place for business and academia as well we have quite a lot of uh academics in in the user group in fact we have so many phd candidates we're thinking about starting up our own open-stack university um the Indian open-stack user group there's the fastest growing user group uh yesterday we we hit 500 members up here which is just magnificent we we we went from 400 to 500 anything last 27 days or 28 days so I I think give us another three months will be a thousand um yeah for sure I mean it's just it's just incredible to see that take off and and and it's it's been established less than half the time uh of the Australian group so it's a real credit to the guys up here who have been promoting and pushing it and traveling around the country um the growing vendor involvement as well I mean talking to the guys here canonical hp I'm good to see all you guys here when we first started the Australian user group um as I said the vendor involvement was we did have rack space along so it's a our friends at rack space but uh everyone was like oh what's this open-stack stuff we're not really sure about that so um it's good to see that that's uh that's really picking up and obviously at the bottom both being uh cricket nations I guess so at some point we need to have a cricket match so the user group plans for this year reaching at the students um we're looking at learnstack.in which is what we're trying to do is get some vendors on involved and have some bare metal sitting around the place that you can come sign in to do trial builds learn go to the universities get people interested in this and try and seed seed knowledge seed interest uh in that way that's something that that that kvitz working on with the guys at the moment assisting other countries get user group started vietnam was most recent one working with the guys it's an interesting situation now obviously come in this country it's like working with the guys in china as well very different way of operating um South Africa has popped up I think Mexico popped up a couple of days ago as well um I've actually lost count of how many user groups are now I think that last last I looked at about 45 but that was a few months ago and that's a percentage of at least 80 countries that are involved in in open state um starting internship programs is something we'd like to see happening uh up here um more demos interactive sessions especially things like code dojos I don't know whether you guys have ever done a code dojo or like a bar camp type thing or code dojos you have someone who's an expert saying puppet and they don't actually do anything but you sit around a table and everyone else has a little go and they sort of train people to actually hands-on roll out uh something on open state we did one in in melbourne using the nectar cloud which i'll mention in a minute where we we wanted to spin up a hundred machines to generate a random number just because we could um it's kind of fun to to sort of do practical uh demos like that or practical hands-on events like that um and of course assist the budgeting open state jobs market i mean look around the room might be new boss bosses look around you might see your new employee here so getting to the board of directors as well i'm a director on the open state board um go back a year ago i never thought i would be anywhere near that so uh what does it mean okay so um i'm one of the individual member directors we're not a sponsor um we'd like to be a sponsor but we've actually put our money directly into the the sponsorship where for obviously pay for things like this so kind of depletes your budget a bit to go and pay 50 or 200 grand to go and be a gold member um and then you've got no money left to spend on things like this so so uh one of personally i think there needs to be another little lower tier i'd like to see a silver member tier come in sometime and that i think would especially benefit countries um like india where uh you know that that bent that bottom level benchmark for sponsorship is maybe just a little bit high so i'm going to try and push for that on the board assuming i get re-elected in january um how do i get to be there well largely uh through i guess great support from from the years of group in australia um the the a few of the the gold member organizations uh endorsed me to to uh their employees and said that i was you know they need basically we need in international representation on the open-stack foundation board there's five of us on the board who are from anywhere other than the united states so that needs to improve um the uh the challenge is facing the foundation well it's in its infancy not everything is uh is working smoothly at the moment i don't know if many of you might be on some of the mailing lists and see a lot of the chatter about uh the election process and whether there's problems with the election process um members joining up from companies that uh that that aren't actually have it don't actually have anything to do with open-stack they have maybe have a bunch of members who just are there to vote which is some things need to be addressed with that that's one of the things that's that's very prominent at the moment um the the definition of what is open-stack is a big one at the moment because it's moving so fast and there's so many pieces as you saw mark demonstrate um it's it's it's becoming very difficult to define what is open-stack so if we need to certify the product of open-stack for a distribution so the foundation in some at some point might say okay this is a certified distribution of open-stack what is that how do we define that how do we actually set a benchmark of rules for that and you know it's something that i feel um uh very strongly about is making sure that the foundation is very strong on that that that owns that process so it can't be hijacked by any company to try and you know gain a competitive advantage at the loss of any other company or especially smaller business and people that don't have the resources to be able to muscle in and and and take advantage of that um big challenges there is really not really a precedent for for what we're doing with the the foundation because you look at the linux foundation it's set up a little bit differently a patchy foundation is set up a little bit differently this is totally open um it's uh we've talked to to to government specialists of of not for profits and people like that they think we're absolutely mad i think this is so difficult to do and i think to date we're doing a reasonable job i think this as i say we're in our infancy starting to maybe get into our childhood years and teens and as things progress over the next year or so i think uh some of the issues will will start to to iron out and everything will start to become a lot smoother um another thing i take very personally and strongly is is is making sure the foundation keeps the balance between the corporate and the community interests balance balanced i guess what that what i what that means is is you know i represent individuals i represent all of you um i represent within that you know small businesses people that that aren't sponsors and things like that and i don't want to see us suffer as the result of of the the the companies or the larger companies having influence and steering this in their own direction and making it sort of difficult and hard to to to work for for anybody else so um complex issue very difficult thing to uh to to quantify um so the most important part of me being there is to represent all of you and i need all of you to talk to me as much as possible i'll put my email address up here and let me know how i can feed back um what do you want out of the foundation what you want out of open stack because you know i'll do my best in there and and and uh you know use uh whatever resources i can with my allies in there that have the same philosophy to to make sure that happens so this gets me to to the global impact of of open stack and is there anyone from the usa here at the moment got one would you mind leaving the room for a moment i'm only kidding the u.s brought us open stack so i you know i i've got nothing against the usa but what i do find is is and i've said this a lot it's open stack is cloud for the rest of the world and what i mean by that is it's decoupling the rest of the world from us based interests in building clouds so you are able to build software cloud whatever you want to call it yourself without having proprietary constraints without having any constraints back to the usa it's kind of hard to get this initially when i started talking to the the guys in the foundation a year or so go about this i think well don't don't get what you mean because the usa is very sort of usa-centric i mean some of the guys don't even know where uh bengalore is so um it's it it's something that they're now starting to recognize obviously with mark talking about you know expanding out to governments and and people all over the the globe and an example of this i guess is i was up in beijing in in august at the apat conference and it was a a thousand people attended the beijing conference of 600 on the same day in shanghai it was quite large and the keynote speaker was a guy for the government who had this great big long title that actually i couldn't tweet it because his title was too long as a ministry for the information processing blah blah blah blah blah blah didn't fit in 140 characters um he got up there nearly the first thing he said was open stack will smash the monopoly of the western cloud providers i thought wow i started and looked at my my colleague james is and i said he said that wow okay because i can see where these guys are going with that so so that's that's kind of you know the extreme attitude of of of what it means internationally to the rest of the world is open stack is a unique opportunity for us to build sovereign compliant applications or you know pass sass and all that sort of stuff so and what's happened over the last 12 months and it's been particularly apparent is this huge surge of of contribution from outside the us i mean that you know you look at um what's coming from here what's coming from from even from australia from china from everywhere else outside of the us it's it's the balance of where open stack is created is is shifting away from the us um and the use cases are outside of the us as well i mean there's deployments all over the world uh that um a more significant in my view than than than anything that's been done in the us i mean you've got rack space over there big deployment um there's a few other things going on but you've got things like cern which is massive to give you an idea of the scale of what cern are doing with open stack when they fire up the large hadron collider it produces a petabyte of data every second so they obviously need to deal with that in some way and tim bell it's a hell of a job he's got on his hands to to be able to get that data out for the as long as they're running that and have that in a usable form so that's that's why they're they're working with open state and in another good example of an adoption example outside uh you know is is nectar i don't know is anyone heard of nectar okay so nectar is an organization in in australia that was started up by the government to do a research cloud across eight locations in australia and uh it's one of the first production open stack um deployments in the world it went live 10 months ago 10 10 or 11 months ago these guys are really at the cutting edge of what's going on they've been doing compute storage right since uh for for 10 months um it's also uh as i say over eight locations so they're federating it out um you can go there if you you can get free if you have a edu edu.au email address you can get free calls you can run up all sorts of things and they're doing really cool stuff like we have bushfires in australia and they're working out where where bushfires go with with the the compute resources um we're very fortunate we work at that tier we work very closely with nectar um there's i think two nodes that are running at the moment there's three um being brought up our lead architect tom firefield who some of you might know from the documentation project um is also uh the lead architect of of nectar so we have what is is recognized by a large part of the community is one of the most significant open-state deployments on the planet um working with us and not obviously working at nectar so that's the research and education examples the the business example so comes down to what what does open state how do you make money out of open state basically so it means you can build exactly what you want you're not tied into uh a zero or amazon you don't have to conform to what they're doing you can port you if you build your applications are open-state compliant you you're not locked into us as a provider you're not locked into rack space you're not locked into hp cloud or or any other open-state provider it's portable you can use all of them if you like the beauty of that is it gives you an immense amount of flexibility the the open source nature of it means it and the the component nature of it means it's very flexible gives you a great opportunity to build pass a sass ground up without having to to sort of conform to somebody operating