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History of Private Cloud

Cloud Computing
Open Stack
F. Mohaideen Abdul Kader
Lessons Learnt

HISTORY OF PRIVATE CLOUD

The whole world is buzzing on the cloud and cloud related technologies. Below is the brief history of the
Clouds. The private cloud has been started with Eucalyptus & Open nebula around 2003-2008 period and
these both cloud software are almost similar to Amazon AWS (Pubic cloud). In 2009, NASA require cloud
computing for their projects and they created project called nova. But NASA was not happy with nova
and they have decided to scrap it. Nova developers got permission from NASA to make the nova code
as opensource. The nova is based on Ruby language.
In 2010, Rackspace and NASA have jointly launched the open-source cloud-software project called
Openstack. The OpenStack project is intended to help organizations offer cloud-computing services
running on standard hardware. The initial code for openstack has been taken from Nebula (NASA Project).
Rackspace has contributed to openstack on storage services part in the name of swift which is similar
to Amazon s3. On the computing part, again nova become live but not with RUBY code. Because
SWIFT is based on python and nova developers are forced to rewrite it in python to support swift.
The first version of openstack released in 21st Oct 2010 and it has been named as Austin.
Openstack Release

Release date

Code Names

Austin

21-Oct-10

Nova, Swift

Bexar

03-Feb-11

Nova, Glance, Swift

Cactus

15-Apr-11

Nova, Glance, Swift

Diablo

22-Sep-11

Nova, Glance, Swift

Essex

05-Apr-12

Folsom

27-Sep-12

Grizzly

04-Apr-13

Havana

17-Oct-13

Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone

Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone,
Quantum, Cinder
Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone,
Quantum, Cinder
Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone,
Neutron, Cinder, Heat,

Ceilometer

Icehouse

17-Apr-14

Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone,

Neutron, Cinder, Heat,

16-Oct-14

Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone,

Neutron, Cinder, Heat,

30-Apr-15

Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone,

Neutron, Cinder, Heat,

16-Oct-15

Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone,

Neutron, Cinder, Heat,

Not Announced

Nova, Glance, Swift, Horizon, Keystone,

Neutron, Cinder, Heat,

Ceilometer, Trove
Juno
Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara
Kilo
Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara, Ironic
Liberty
Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara, Ironic,
Zaqar, Manila, Designate, Barbican
Mitaka
Ceilometer, Trove, Sahara, Ironic,
Zaqar, Manila, Designate, Barbican
Refer here for code Names:

Compute (Nova)
Image Service (Glance)
Object Storage (Swift)
Dashboard (Horizon)
Identity Service (Keystone)
Networking (Neutron)
Block Storage (Cinder)
Orchestration (Heat)
Telemetry (Ceilometer)
Database (Trove)
Elastic Map Reduce (Sahara)
Bare Metal Provisioning (Ironic)
Multiple Tenant Cloud Messaging (Zaqar)
Shared File System Service (Manila)
DNSaaS (Designate)
Security API (Barbican)

Opnestack is managed by the OpenStack Foundation, a non-profit corporate entity established in

September 2012.
You might be thinking what happened to the initial private cloud projects Eucalyptus & Opennebula. HP
has Joined the Openstack project and they dont want any competitor for openstack on the market. So
they have simply bought Eucalyptus and scarped it like how they have scrapped other Unix flavours in
the past. They are using some functionality of Eucalyptus to integrate Amazon cloud in the hybrid clouds.
Opennebula is still available for the customers and going strong but not sure how long since all the big IT
giants are promoting Openstack.
In 2011, developers of the Ubuntu Linux distribution adopted OpenStack with an unsupported technology
preview of the OpenStack. Ubuntus sponsor Canonical then introduced full support for OpenStack clouds,
starting with OpenStacks Cactus release.
Why organization cant avoid the Openstack ?

Openstack is an open-source cloud software which means it is free to use.

The Big IT giants are supporting the Openstack which includes SUSE, Red Hat, IBM, RackSpace,
Dell, Cisco,HP , Oracle, Mirantis, VMturbo etc..
It runs on standard hardware.
OpenStack is the only cloud solution that allows for mixed hypervisor IT environments, which will
become increasingly fragmented over time. (Ex: KVM ,Xen, ESXi , QEMU)
According to the analysis, Openstack will take another one or two years to reach the position what
Linux accomplished in 15 years. This is because of Opensource acceptance, support offerings by
company and Cost effective solutions.