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- 1. Why OpenStack? What led Comcast to choose and deploy OpenStack for private cloud. Andrew Mitry May 28, 2014
- 2. A little context About Comcast - Two primary businesses: Comcast Cable & NBCUniversal - Comcast Cable is the largest US provider of video, Internet, phone services (XFINITY) - NBCUniversal operates 30 news & entertainment cable networks, NBC & Telemundo broadcast networks, TV production & station groups, Universal Pictures, and Universal Parks & Resorts The Comcast Cable traditional development stack has been… - Vertically integrated, closed HW & SW - Three to six months to deploy new hardware 2
- 3. What are we looking for? Platform Stability Vibrant Community Flexible Licenses Ability to Scale 3
- 4. What differentiated OpenStack? Community is driving standards – Standards are hashed out by delivering working code, not by long, drawn out theory Rich ecosystem – Multiple players (open source and proprietary vendors) in every project Active Contributor Community – Healthy mix of operators and vendors continually contributing to the code base 4
- 5. Vendor Participation without Vendor Lock-in API Abstraction – End users interface with APIs or Dashboard to consume resources – Self-service, automatable, elastic infrastructure – Plugs into the ecosystem, leveraging same authentication and metrics resources – Ability to change out underlying technology without changing interface – Ability to run multiple vendors at once while providing one interface – Allows us to continually improve (higher performance, lower cost) Standard Infrastructure for our Products – Reference model for our development teams and product vendors 5
- 6. Extensible – Catering OpenStack to our needs IPv6 – Comcast has the largest native IPv6 deployment in the world! – IPv6 use cases – Comcast X1 Video STB – CDN – Messaging – Voice services – DNS – Small Comcast team able to add IPv6 support and contribute code back in under six months Scaling OpenStack – Comcast is a Top 20 contributor to Icehouse – Contributing code, documentation and expertise 6
- 7. Innovative Partner Communities Compute – KVM – Xen Storage – Swift – Ceph Network – Open vSwitch – Openflow 7
- 8. Enabling new deployment models Removing barriers for our product teams – Resources are now available to our products on demand – Elastic scaling allows us to better serve peaks and lows – Opens doors for special initiatives (event specific applications) Horizontal Scaling and App Resiliency – Encourages our products to scale horizontally and dynamically – Moves resiliency up to the application layer where there is more intelligence Regional Data Centers – Two data centers in every region – Compute and Storage resources closer to our customers 8
- 9. Additional Resources Comcast’s X1 Platform Powered by OpenStack Driving Cloud Innovation with OpenStack-Powered Infrastructure IPv6 in OpenStack Twitter: @amitry 9