1. SUSE Cloud and Openstack
®
Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
Director SUSE Linux Enterprise

2. Where Do You Want to go
Today?
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3. Successful Innovation

4. Cool Technology
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5. Any sufficiently advanced
technology is
indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
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6. Advanced Technology?
• Innovation: Combine old stuff in new ways
‒ Unconventional concepts; new options; added complexity
• Adoption: Learning process
‒ Formulating new vocabulary
‒ Pattern recognition
• Maturity: Reduce complexity
‒ Abstraction; standardized process; reference architectures
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7. Let's go back in time
• 20 years ago, the Internet was a pretty revolutionary
thing
‒ and everybody thought email was what wash basins are
made of
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8. R$* < @ [ $+ ] > $* $: $>98 $1 < @ [ $2 ] > $3
R$* < @ [ $+ ] > $* $#smtp8 $@ [$2] $: $1 < @ [$2] > $3
R$* < @ > $* $@ $>Parse0 $>3 $1
R< @ $=w . > : $* $@ $>Parse0 $>3 $2
R$­ < @ $=w . > $: $(dequote $1 $) < @ $2 . >
R< @ $+ > $#error $@ 5.1.1 $: "user address required"
R$* $=O $* < @ $=w . > $@ $>Parse0 $>3 $1 $2 $3
SParse1
R$+ . USENET < @ $=w . > $#usenet $: $1
R$=L < @ $=w . > $#local $: @ $1
R$+ < @ $=w . > $#local $: $1
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9. You needed a wizard to run
your Internet services
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10. Problem #1:
Wizards don't grow on Trees
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11. Lots of Interacting Services
imapd ftpd sendmail
NIS apache Usenet
TCP/IP and Routing
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12. Being avant-garde is tough work
• All of these services were Open Source
‒ Maintained by different projects
‒ Required a lot of manual integration work
• Management by vi
‒ steep learning curve
• Fast-forward evolution
‒ your knowledge will be obsolete a year from now
• No external support and maintenance
‒ the business risk is all yours
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13. Problem #2:
How do we move this Internet
Thing from Lab Project
to
Business?
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14. Linux Companies Filled the Gap
• Integrating components from different sources
• Reducing the complexity of the problem
‒ Useful preconfigurations
‒ Configuration tools
‒ Documentation
• Enterprise level support and maintenance
• Consulting (a.k.a. rent-a-wizard)
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15. SUSE in a Nutshell
• We have a 20 year Open Source track record
‒ participating in communities
‒ integration and hardening of open source code
• We know how to make things easier to use
‒ Yast2, Hawk, ...
• We understand the needs of Enterprise Computing
‒ Quality, support and maintenance
‒ Life cycle needs
• Strong IHV partners
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16. How does this apply to OpenStack?

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18. Cool Technology?
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19. Open Source Project?
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20. Innovative and Complex?
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21. Needs a Wizard to Manage?
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23. Integration with Other
Components?
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24. Enterprise level Support and
Maintenance?
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25. SUSE Cloud
• We released SUSE Cloud 1.0 in mid 2012
‒ Based on Essex
‒ Using Crowbar for bare metal deployment
‒ RADOS integration
• Announced partnership with Dell on Nov 12
• Version 2.0 scheduled for Q1 2013
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26. SUSE Cloud Value Proposition
• Provide a solution to build your Enterprise on
‒ (without hiring lots of wizards)
• Provide the right level of abstraction
‒ Simple enough to be convenient to use
‒ Flexible enough to accomodate your business processes
• Enterprise-level Support and Maintenance
• Integration with SUSE Manager and SUSE Studio
‒ build cloud-ready workloads
‒ move from private to public cloud and vice versa
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