Big Open Source Week for EMC - Part 1: OpenStack

This week is the OpenStack summit in Tokyo - EMC is there with bells on :-)

I’m not there, but there are many people on the team there… It was interesting to watch the keynote and reflect on the nature of an Open Source ecosystem at work.

In particular - the rapid movement of projects from emergent into deployment, and how the community iterates around them.  

The Project Navigator (screenshot below, link here) is interesting in how it shows maturity and adoption of various parts of the project.   Something useful for the rest of the market (us included) to emulate, IMO.   

Now, if you scroll down further - you can see where more work is needed (Ironic, Sahara, Trove, Ceilometer) - but again, like it or not, the community will keep cranking on it.  

I’ve always used StackAlytics to look at how people (including us are contributing) - which is great, but it’s great to get a summary view across the entire community how things are being used and adopted.

In my experience - I still see customers struggling with OpenStack more than I see customer flying - but the ratios are turning as the ecosystem keeps improving the stack, tightly packaging (interesting to see what @blueboxjesse and the IBM crew are doing).   I think we can keep doing more (within EMC, and within VMware) to keep making getting down to business faster and easier.

So - what is EMC doing at Tokyo (distinct from the VMware contributions which are extensive, including but not limited to VMware Integrated Openstack aka VIO)?

A lot:

• Core contributions.   You can see what we’ve contributed to Cinder and more in Liberty - there’s a lot!
• We’ve always done OK with platform drivers for Cinder for things like VMAX and VNX, but a big step forward is that that ScaleIO drivers are embedded in the Liberty release.   ScaleIO has been supported, but these things don’t fly until the drivers are directly included.   In ScaleIO’s scale, this means that important part of ScaleIO are simply… included versus needing to get them from us.
• Based on customer requests - the always awesome EMC{code} team we’ve created two Mirantis Fuel Plugins for ScaleIO - one for pure installs, and one for attaching to pre-existing ScaleIO SDS clusters.  Yes, for those of you