Hitchhiker's Guide to the Open Cloud
summary
Overview of open cloud stacks and where to start: outlines an ecosystem claim that open source is where state of the art lives and lists concrete stacks and tools — Apache CloudStack (production at Zynga, Spotify, Korea Telecom), OpenStack with ~25 projects, Eucalyptus, KVM/Xen hypervisors, CloudFoundry/OpenShift PaaS, Hadoop and NoSQL (MongoDB, Riak) for big data, and orchestration tools Chef/Puppet/Salt plus jclouds/libcloud for multi‑cloud APIs. Notes a live industry push — Zen project joins Linux Foundation and open daylight launches SDN work — and reports real‑world scale like thousands of instances in under an hour with automated provisioning.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and philosophy
- 3:07Cloud architecture basics
- 7:49Hypervisors for the cloud
- 10:05Image management and provisioning
- 14:32Elasticity and scaling
- 16:01Compute cloud platforms
- 20:49Cloud API abstraction
- 22:29Cloud storage solutions
- 25:43Platform as a service
- 29:42Software defined networking
- 34:43Big data and analytics
- 43:50Cloud automation and ops
- 50:36Q&A and concluding remarks
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