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Hi all,

I am glad to introduce the HyperStack project to you.

HyperStack is a native, multi-tenant CaaS solution built on top of OpenStack. In terms of architecture, HyperStack = Bare-metal + Hyper + Kubernetes + Cinder + Neutron.

HyperStack is different from Magnum in that HyperStack doesn't employ the Bay concept. Instead, HyperStack pools all bare-metal servers into one singe cluster. Due to the hypervisor nature in Hyper, different tenants' applications are completely isolated (no shared kernel), thus co-exist without security concerns in a same cluster.

Given this, HyperStack is a solution for public cloud providers who want to offer the secure, multi-tenant CaaS.

Ref: https://trello-attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/55545e127c7cbe0ec5b82f2b/1258x535/1c85a755dcb5e4a4147d37e6aa22fd40/upload_7_23_2015_at_11_00_41_AM.png

The next step is to present a working beta of HyperStack at Tokyo summit, which we submitted a presentation: https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/vote-for-speakers/Presentation/4030. Please vote if you are interested.

In the future, we want to integrate HyperStack with Magnum and Nova to make sure one OpenStack deployment can offer both IaaS and native CaaS services.

Best,
Peng

---------- Background ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Hyper is a hypervisor-agnostic Docker runtime. It allows to run Docker images with any hypervisor (KVM, Xen, Vbox, ESX). Hyper is different from the minimalist Linux distros like CoreOS by that Hyper runs on the physical box and load the Docker images from the metal into the VM instance, in which no guest OS is present. Instead, Hyper boots a minimalist kernel in the VM to host the Docker images (Pod).

With this approach, Hyper is able to bring some encouraging results, which are similar to container:
- 300ms to boot a new HyperVM instance with a pod of Docker images
- 20MB for min mem footprint of a HyperVM instance
- Immutable HyperVM, only kernel+images, serves as atomic unit (Pod) for scheduling
- Immune from the shared kernel problem in LXC, isolated by VM
- Work seamlessly with OpenStack components, Neutron, Cinder, due to the hypervisor nature
- BYOK, bring-your-own-kernel is somewhat mandatory for a public cloud platform
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