OpenStack cascading solution
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Overview
OpenStack cascading solution is designed for large scale distributed cloud.
- The parent OpenStack expose standard OpenStack API
- The parent OpenStack manage many child OpenStacks by using standard OpenStack API
- Each child OpenStack functions as a EC2 like available zone and is hidden by the parent OpenStack
- Cascading OpenStack: the parent OpenStack, providing API and scheduling and orchestration of Cascaded OpenStacks
- Cascaded OpenStack: the child OpenStack, provisioning the VM, Volume and virtual Networking resources
Challenges when building large scale cloud
To build large scale OpenStack based cloud, for example, the cloud includes 1 million VMs or 100k hosts. There are big challenges
Naturally, there are two ways to do that:
1. scale up a single monolithic OpenStack region, but
- It’s a big challenge for a single OpenStack to manage scale for example 1 million VMs or 100K hosts.
- Can not obtain real fault isolation area like EC2’s available zone, all of the cloud are tighten up into one OpenStack because of shareing RPC message bus and database.
- Single huge monolithic system bring high risk with OAM & trouble shooting, and big challenge for even the most skilled Op team to handle SW rolling upgrade and configuration changes, etc.
- Difficult for heterogeneous vendor’s infrastructure integration, multi-vendor's infrastructure co-existence is high demand for large scale cloud
2. setup hundreds of OpenStack Regions with discrete API endpoint, but
- Have to buy or develop his own cloud management platform to integrate the discrete cloud into one cloud, and also, OpenStack API ecosystem is lost.
- Or, leave customer with splitted resource island without any association…
Why OpenStack cascading works for large scale distributed cloud
Use Case
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Architecture
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Proof of Concept implementation and demo
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How To Install and Test
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Last update
July 2, 2014