Discussing the integration of frameworks and open source technologies
15 Global IT Leaders Hold Public Demonstration​

The OpenStack Foundation is hosting the OpenStack Summit in Boston, USA, starting on the 8th. The OpenStack Summit Boston will bring together thousands of users from over 60 countries to discuss how to combine open source technologies, including programmable infrastructure and container orchestration frameworks, for speed, agility, and cost reduction.

In the opening remarks of this summit, Jonathan Bryce, Executive Director of the OpenStack Foundation, gave the following speech: “Smart enterprises are increasingly managing workload placement across public and private clouds based on the 3Cs: Capabilities, Compliance, and Cost,” he said. “Remotely managed private clouds are a fast-growing new segment of the OpenStack ecosystem and a prime example of how the OpenStack community is ushering in a new era of “second-generation private clouds” that are more versatile and cost effective.”

GE Healthcare, through its partnership with Rackspace, highlighted the benefits of leveraging this emerging model. According to Patrick Weeks, general manager of GE Digital, a remotely managed OpenStack solution offers the fastest path to migrating applications to a cloud environment, while an on-premise cloud offers the benefits of protecting sensitive data and allowing access to internal applications from a private network.

"We want to break the myth that OpenStack is a single platform," said Mark Collier, COO of the OpenStack Foundation, in his keynote address on the second day. "Users can access all parts of OpenStack." “In fact, it’s a robust set of services, including storage, networking, and identity management, that on their own provide great value,” he said, explaining how OpenStack is a composable, open infrastructure and how different parts of OpenStack can be combined with other open source-based technologies in meaningful ways.

Jakub Pavlik, Director of Product Engineering at Mirantis, demonstrated that OpenStack can serve as a single platform for bare metal, VMs, and containers. Pavlik deployed big data applications on a common OpenContrail-powered network, using Spark, Kafka, and the Hadoop distributed file system.

In a live demonstration on the 9th, 15 global IT leaders participating in the OpenStack ecosystem simultaneously deployed Kubernetes on the OpenStack cloud and used container management tools to simultaneously deploy a distributed CockroachDB database and NFV applications.

This 'Interoperability Challenge' highlights the strength of OpenStack in easily implementing application portability across various OpenStack public and private clouds. Companies participating in the 'Interoperability Challenge' include Canonical, Deutsche Telekom, EasyStack, Huawei, IBM, NetApp, Platform 9, Rackspace, Red Hat, SUSE, T2Cloud, VEXXHOST, VMware, Wind River, and ZTE.