Can you talk about OpenStack and open source?

Recently, the market of cloud is very hot, and the idea is also very hot. The power of open source should not be underestimated, although it is only red.

Hat is a company that really relies on open source technology to become more than $654.38+0 billion, but looking at the development direction of global technology, both Internet companies and traditional IT giants are joining open source, especially

Microsoft, as you all know, the impact of open source on the development of the whole IT society is irreversible.

Pingaoyun is a closed-source commercial cloud product. Because it was done early (research and development began in 2008), it took eight years of self-research, and Amazon chose the benchmark product instead of doing it.

Use the popular OpenStack open source framework now. So there have been many wars of words in the past two years. Some people even regard the closed-source commercialization process of Pingaoyun as a controversial event against the trend.

We'll discuss it later The view that open source products are not suitable for commercial enterprises has also been deeply branded as "enemies of open source" and "determined OpenStack singers". Therefore, I

I think it's time to clarify my point of view.

Open source is an important engine for the rapid development of IT technology. It is the open source sharing and collaboration culture that promotes the rapid development of Internet, big data, Internet of Things and mobile information technology. So what is the meaning of open source? Will open source beat commercial products? Does open source mean openness?

I have never opposed open source. Pin Gaoyun itself is the beneficiary of open source. Although we studied Amazon, Amazon didn't tell us how they did it, so we didn't.

For virtualization engines such as KVM and XEN, we will never go this way. Without fully studying the advantages and disadvantages of open source MooseFS, we will not develop BingoFS ourselves, so there is no open source.

OpenFlow, we shouldn't be able to study BingoSDN ourselves. IT personnel all over the world should thank open source. It is they who break the company boundaries and national boundaries, so that technicians all over the world can

Run at the same starting line. I think, when Pinko is truly capable, we will certainly be able to promote the development of Linux like IBM and truly give the IT community a shared future.

However, I am not optimistic about the commercialization of Openstack. Remember, it's not that his future is unpredictable, the problem is that the value of commercialization is not worth chasing.

Speaking of commercial value, that is, who is willing to pay for it? Who can make money with it. Vulgar, huh? But if you want to know the business value, you can know its development path and enterprise application path.

Open source software has a long history. From the operating system to development tools, even a service and control, almost all use the following open source:

First, the commercial distribution, typically Red Hat, continues to follow up the commercial distribution to provide continuous services for enterprises using open source software; Second, only provide services, relying on capable technical teams, so that business users have a more reliable guarantee outside the community; The third is to use open source software to reduce costs.

Why do Internet companies adopt a large number of open source architectures? Just to reduce costs. From this point of view, I think open source commercial distribution is more likely to appear in some tools, single applications and so on. but

As an integrated platform for all IT technologies, it is difficult to define the concept of a commercial version, or an integrated platform that is widely adapted and tested. The cycle is too long and the commercial software is too slow. because

In this case, in the future, there will be a group of enterprises with it as their core competitiveness-for example, Internet enterprises will use IT, while enterprises with core business needs and only using IT technology as a tool will choose commercial software.

Seek commercial product assurance.

Why do I say that commercial goods Gaoyun will beat the open source Openstack in the enterprise market?

Let's take a look at the product release progress of Pin Gaoyun:

20 10 released BingoCloudV 1, EC2 elastic cloud, cloud monitoring, and cloud storage 201/released BingoCloudV2 to support public cloud billing and customers.

The operating system 20 12 released version 3 of Bingo Cloud, providing services such as cloud storage, 3D rendering and application orchestration. The operating system 20 13 released version 4 of Bingo Cloud to provide big data.

LXC container technology control service was released in 2065438+2004, supporting the integration of hybrid cloud, computing and storage, and its operation and maintenance capability was in 2065438+2005.

Publish, publish BingoSDN, multi-data center management, service directory, etc.

Let's take a look at Pingaoyun's major customer application milestones:

20 12 Sichuan tianyi cloud joint operation;

In 20 13, Tencent chose Gaoyun as the sole product provider of private cloud, and will continue to upgrade and expand in the next three years. A number of large enterprises such as Guangzhou Metro began to use VMware instead of small-scale test cloud.

In 20 14, large state-owned enterprises such as Guangzhou Metro, CSR Group and Sinopharm Group began to migrate from testing to production to the cloud. Guangzhou e-government cloud, Zhongshan e-government cloud and Huizhou e-government cloud started operation;

20 15 there have been many breakthroughs in universities and financial industries. Iflytek gave up the self-developed OpenStack platform and started strategic cooperation with Pingaoyun. Not only in internal system and voice cloud container technology, but also in government, public security, education and other fields. As of June 1 1, there were as many as 105 enterprise-level customers who used Pingaoyun.

20 16 has blossomed in the fields of public security, government, finance and education all over the country. Among them, Pingaoyun, which has independent research and development capabilities, is the only private cloud product in China that supports container technology and is automated in the big data cloud.

Cultural management, HPC high-performance computing, GPU scientific computing service capabilities, SDN efficient and secure network support, etc. Because of two or three years of research and development accumulation, it has become the real driving force for customers to go to the cloud.

In 20 14, the overall scheme of "understanding the enterprise's high-quality cloud" was launched, which has actually become a truly application-oriented enterprise cloud overall scheme in China. Large-scale financial and government enterprise customers who require high-quality cloud design architecture and provide comprehensive evolution consultants emerge one after another!

Then let's review the development of OpenStack. Indeed, soon, we saw the Neutron version integrated with SDN, but many people on the Internet are studying how to evolve it.

Yes, I'm afraid there won't be many mice this year. Hardware manufacturers that sell OpenStack in large quantities are basically promoting their own hardware SDN solutions. At the end of last year, OpenStack's community released.

The white paper "Exploring Opportunities, Containers and OpenStack" introduces how to make containers and OpenStack coexist in a private cloud, but another view is also very hot-Docker can

It can be OpenStack's killer.

Hehe, OpenStack has always contained a golden key since its birth, and it has always been controversial. 20 15 Controversy, "Cloud Computing Controversy Around OpenStack"

20 15 however, what I see is that container technology, SDN, micro-service architecture and distributed architecture are becoming more and more important in 20 16, and the use of OpenStack in enterprises will not stop the controversy.

So I repeat my point of view once again. As a cloud platform that can be directly used in business, OpenStack is excellent and worth studying and researching, and it is worth studying its own technology.

This architecture is used by a fully understood and capable team. For those enterprises that use information technology as their business platform and serve their business, they are looking for a cloud product with real control and service capabilities.

The enterprise behind the product is the key. On this issue, I think there is no enterprise in China that is more suitable for this important task than high quality. And the company that wants to take Openstack's bridge to sell hardware, the core

The ability should be to really do a good job in hardware. Cloud computing is for software, and software service capability will become real value. The product company of OpenStack, taking advantage of this, turned into its own products to talk with real product vendors.

Competition, this will be a flash in the pan. If you really do a good job of serving customers, just like Mirantis, that's good, but service is your real value, OpenStack is not.

I don't know if this book can really reflect my understanding of open source, but I want to make it clear that the real purpose of open source is to eliminate profiteering rather than value! From this perspective, the future of software as a service is the real goal of Pingaoyun, whether it is open source or not!