What is OpenStack?
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OpenStack provides open source Python components to build clouds with concrete pieces: compute networks and storage behind APIs, an auth service (Keystone), VM images, object and block storage, orchestration (Heat), metering and deployment tooling (Chef/Puppet modules), and a test harness that runs full clouds on a laptop. The project spans 375 git repositories and about 4,000 developers, supports deployments from a smallest working cluster: five machines up to 10,000, and is used by public clouds and private datacenters.
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- 0:00Introduction
- 1:28Why this talk
- 2:33What is OpenStack
- 3:04What is a cloud
- 3:39Infrastructure as a service
- 5:13Libraries
- 6:47Service orchestration
- 7:32Tools
- 8:28Test Harness
- 9:30Is it confusing
- 12:50The OpenStack bump
- 13:58Why a Python programmer would care
- 15:40Why you should care








