Open Stack

Hi all,

Today  I am searching for a solution to distribute OpenStack over several geographies/availabilitiy zones and we found one from Huawei in [1]. In short, it's a classical centralized solution like Eucalyptus cloud [2], whereby there is a central control for all clusters in a top down topology. The central control actively collects available resource from each cluster and also proxy the request from one cluster to the other one.

>From my point of view this is where OpenStack comes to play and be different from Eucalyptus when OpenStack goes to the direction of a decentralized and distributed system. This is why I have some doubts about the solution from Huawei.

My question is if we have anything for distributed OpenStack over geography before? A decentralized OpenStack Cluster can be thought as follows:

Each cluster has their own control node (nova-scheduler, neutron-server..), and has its own data base to work independently whereby:


1.       Each cluster stores available resources of its local cluster only (for DB Sharding). This data does not need to be shared between clusters. And the API from one cluster can ask for healthy states from another one when needed.

2.       All information about one tenant across multiple clusters, i.e tenant network, VMs info and meta data, should be shared the same and eventually consistent across clusters. For example: neutron-server creates a tenant network in its cluster, this tenant network information will be published to all other clusters data base for L2 population.

3.       Any NoSQL DB out there can help for DB Sharding and Eventually Consistency.

4.       Each cluster can have its own keystone server (Trust Provider). Each Trust Provider issues its trust, which also be trusted by the other provider if both providers trust each other certificates, similar to Web services SSO like SAML.

Hope to get some feedbacks from you.

[1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/OpenStack_cascading_solution
[2] https://www.eucalyptus.com/eucalyptus-cloud/iaas

Kind Regards,
Tri Hoang Vo


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