High Availability for the cloud And Making the cloud infrastructure carrier-grade, as presented in LinuxCon Europe, LinuxCon Dusseldorf 2014. Recommends OpenSAF for standardized service availability and workload management, manageability for any cloud infrastructure software. HA is not only about plain standbys or load balancing. Discusses the need for an integrated availability architecture and centralized workload management for projects such as openstack. OpenSAF's capabilities of cluster management and availability management and standardized management interface (standardized logging, notification, management and upgradeability with HA) is recommended for standardized availability and management of cloud infrastructure. Also... Introduces SA Forum, the OpenSAF project, foundation, OpenHPI. OpenSAF as the defacto most comprehensive implementation of SAForum technology. Introduces concepts of Service Availability and High Availability and the Need to be able to test and measure. Introduces SAF (Service Availability Forum) principles for HA and OpenSAF capabilities. Compares with vmware and openstack and provides recommendations on how to leverage the capabilities of OpenSAF for achieving HA and to make the cloud carrier grade.