admin “You couldn’t have cloud without open source.” —Bernard Golden.
Open source burgeoning faster in the ecosystem created by cloud computing as the use of open source software is rising among the enterprises. According to a report, almost 60 per cent of enterprises are building entire infrastructures around it or already using open source software.
By adopting open source, enterprises become most-advanced, nimble and competent. It also overlays the way for new digital services to be rapidly built, changed, enhanced and deployed so that new ideas for greater transparency, effectiveness, and efficiency can be tried and refitted if needed. Open source helps to drive digital transformation in enterprises, helping them realize benefits like better business agility, improved customer experiences and enhanced quality of service. Open source based cutting-edge technologies enable the enterprise to move from transactions based services to relationship based services.
Automation and infrastructure platforms such as OpenStack and Kubernetes are turnkeys in fast-growing open source adoption along with the growing number of open source DevOps tools as organizations continue to migrate their operations to the cloud, open source will play vital parts in IT innovation beyond 2020. IT Operations should pay special attention to open source because of the growing use of the Docker and Kubernetes. Open source plugged in as a popular operating system in enterprise IT, with even more growth predicted.
Comprehensive Openstack
OpenStack has grown effectively to be one of the choices used to build clouds. It provides a set of opensource software tools for building and managing cloud computing platforms for public and private clouds. This software platform embraces interrelated components that control diverse, multi-vendor hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. It can be managed through a web-based dashboard, through command-line tools, or through RESTful web.
Openstack leverages commodity hardware. It has no lock-in, comes with lower price, failure skeptical, self-healing, reliable. Also have unlimited storage with large and flat namespace, highly scalable read/write access, able to serve content directly from the storage system. It provides multiple integrations with other systems like Ceph, Docker(plugins), Azure, Hyper-V and many more.
High-Available CloudStack
Apache CloudStack is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform.
It is a Java-based project that provides a management server and agents for hypervisor hosts so that you can run an IaaS cloud. CloudStack currently supports the most popular hypervisors VMware, KVM, Citrix XenServer, Xen Cloud Platform (XCP), Oracle VM server and Microsoft Hyper-V.
CloudStack works with hosts running XenServer/XCP, KVM, Hyper-V, and/or VMware ESXi with vSphere. It provides a friendly Web-based UI for managing the cloud and provides a native API. Users can manage their cloud with an easy to use Web interface, command line tools, and/or a full-featured RESTful API
Scalable Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus is open source software for building AWS-compatible private and hybrid clouds. It is a Linux-based software architecture that implements scalable private and hybrid clouds within your existing IT infrastructure. As an on-premise (private) Infrastructure as a Service cloud solution, it allows using collections of resources (hardware, storage, and network) using a self-service interface on an as-needed basis. As an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) product, Eucalyptus allows users to provision compute and storage resources on-demand (docs.eucalyptus.cloud).
Efficacious Apache Mesos
Apache Mesos is the first open-source cluster manager that handles workloads efficiently in a distributed environment through dynamic resource sharing and isolation. It abstracts CPU, memory, storage, and other compute resources away from machines (physical or virtual), enabling fault-tolerant and elastic distributed systems to be easily built and run effectively.
This cluster manager is built using the same principles as the Linux kernel, only at a different level of abstraction. The Mesos kernel runs on every machine and provides applications (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch) with API’s for resource management and scheduling across entire datacenter and cloud environments
Mesos Mesos is cross-platform. It runs on Linux, OSX, and Windows. It provides native support for launching containers with Docker and AppC images. Achieves great levels of High Availability and fault-tolerant replicated master and agents using Zookeeper.
Open source is being used to scale the company’s cloud apps, as at the scale of cloud, there is no way for the old model to be economic. Also, cloud-based applications commonly experience more erratic workloads than do traditional applications, and buying software for each server is not a practical proposition. To stay ahead of the innovation curve, businesses will need to devote resources toward open-source projects, since the most innovative software development is coming from open platforms and communities.
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