Hello, everyone. Welcome to my session. I hope you're enjoying the summit already. My name is Titus Gurek. I'm a product manager at Khan-Liqal, and during this session I'm going to talk about putting OpenStack at the edge. So edge is a very hot topic, and obviously there are so many definitions of the edge, like there are probably so many definitions as the number of people you talk about the edge. But here at Khan-Liqal we have a very strict approach towards the edge and towards putting OpenStack at the edge, and it's called Microstack. So this is what this session is actually going to be about. So let's dive in and see what we can learn from it. So I'm going to start with a very strong statement that OpenStack is actually awesome. I love OpenStack. Its combined market-sized worldwide is around 8 billion of dollars, which is more than a combined market-sized worldwide of the containers. So OpenStack is bigger than the container platforms. It's one of the three biggest open-source projects with regards to the number of contributions. And only three projects achieve this level of contributions from various companies, from various developers, and those are OpenStack, Linux kernel, and Chromium. Another important thing to note is that its adoption constantly continues to grow. If we have a look on the chart here it's coming from one of independent research institutions, Statista. If we have a look at the OpenStack numbers, over years they have been only growing, and they are predicted to continue to grow in the following years. And finally, one last point, but not least it's a very major project. It's celebrating 10 years this year. So many companies involved in OpenStack development so that is considered very, very mature. So OpenStack is awesome, and you probably know that because in most of the cases you are probably already using OpenStack in your data center. It's managing your distributed compute network and storage resources. It's acting as an extension to your public cloud offering like you run. You probably run some of your workloads in a public cloud, you run some of them in a private cloud, and OpenStack powers this private cloud. So you're already using it in your data center. But now what about the edge? So why not to use OpenStack at your edge? Why not to go outside of the data center space and use all of the benefits that OpenStack brings with all of those management capabilities on-demand virtual machines, nice dashboards, and why not to use all of them at your edge? So at your local micro data centers with remote management capabilities where you could run your lightweight virtual machines. Wait a minute for a second. So let's define what's the edge, right? Because as I said at the beginning of this conversation there are so many definitions of the edge as the number of people talking about the edge. So if we have a look on how does the IT infrastructure look like nowadays, we have public clouds where most of people start when they run their business. They choose to run their workloads in a public cloud because it's cheap at the beginning and it provides an instant access to the infrastructure. But then over time you extend your infrastructure towards a private cloud because it's more economical to run it in a private cloud in the long term. But then if you go outside of the data center space, there are these two small areas. It's a near edge where we would propose something called a micro cloud as a solution for running your workloads and there is a far edge where at the end of the day there is a single appliance or a single device. So it's basically the internet of things. Now those two approaches, those two areas, so micro clouds and internet of things is the edge computing and this is what we at Canonical understand as the edge. So this leads to the following question. So why not to use OpenStag in your micro cloud? So when we go outside of this data center space, we have those micro data centers. There is either a single server or just a bunch of servers like maybe free for high availability. Why not to use OpenStag in this kind of an environment in a micro cloud? So there are a couple of things to consider when talking about micro clouds because micro clouds are a little bit special and they are different compared to the private clouds running in your big data centers. So first of all, micro clouds have to be cloudish in the same way as regular private clouds running in big data centers are. So they have to enable things like no full automation with regards to the underlying infrastructure as well as services running on top of the cloud. They have to provide programmable access through the APIs so that various clients could contact those APIs and various external tools, could use them for integration purposes. They should provide diverse substrates so that at the end of the day you would be able to run either virtual machine workloads or containerized workloads on the same cloud on the same environment and they have to be designed to fulfill the economic benefits of using a cloud environment which is different compared to using a legacy IT infrastructure. But on the other hand micro clouds have to be localized. What does it mean? So first of all, there may be thousands or tens of thousands remote sites where those micro clouds would run and where your workloads would run. This is especially important in case of telecommunication service providers where there are tens or even hundreds of thousands of sites where these kind of micro clouds could run. Second thing, they have to be optimized for running services with a very small footprint because the number of resources is limited. Another thing, there may be no human interactions when running your micro cloud. Everything has to be fully automated. They have to be remotely manageable because sending a technician to the side location where your micro cloud runs may actually cost you more than replacing the entire micro cloud. If you're again running thousands of them, you can imagine how many manual human interactions would they require to be kept up to date. They have to be designed to be run with no human help and they have to be remotely deployable and manageable as a result. This is what makes micro cloud different from regular private cloud running your big data centers. Now again, just to recap operating micro clouds requires some very special approaches. First of all, you have to be able to use APIs everywhere so that all of the services that are consuming the cloud would be able to connect with it remotely. Their deployments have to be made repeatable like there's no way to build snowflakes in a micro cloud. Everything has to be fully repeatable so that you can just power and forget your micro cloud and be able to replicate it for your another thousands of instances of a micro cloud. There must be some established centralized management capabilities for your micro cloud so that you would be able to monitor and control running micro clouds from a central place. Finally, workload placement matters so you should be able to use some tools which would allow you to orchestrate your workloads when running on top of your micro cloud.  Let's now have a look at the ingredients of a micro cloud solution that we as Canonical propose. We start at the bare metal layer and for kind of a bare metal cloud we propose mass, metal as a service, as a solution that enables full automation on the bare metal layer. If you're about to provision your servers for your micro cloud either it's a single server or there are again like three for high availability or five, maybe it's a little bigger micro cloud mass fits for all of those use cases providing bare metal automation and bare metal provisioning capabilities. Ultimately turning your edge side, your micro cloud into a bare metal cloud. So you can fully automate the provisioning process of the underlying hardware. Another layer on the top of bare metal cloud is storage and for storage for your micro cloud we propose SEF as a software defined storage solution that scales and provides all of the replication, features, encryption and stuff like that. So it's a kind of a standard for building a storage solution in a cloud and it's open source fits very well for your edge, for your micro cloud. Another tool in this micro cloud stack is LexD which historically used to be just a Linux containers hypervisor and providing the capabilities of running machine containers on demand but has recently evolved to provide virtual machines on demand as well and being able to manage virtual machines instead. So it's kind of a more lightweight solution than open stack and now for the containers for the regular Docker containers, process containers that you know, like you know them from your data center we usually do them with Kubernetes. We offer microcades as a lightweight Kubernetes distribution that is capable of running your lightweight containers on your micro cloud with confidence and it installs very easily being a snap-based Kubernetes installation. And now there's one more thing and here we go to the biggest point of this presentation. It's open stack. So can we run open stack on the edge in the same way that we discussed you know Mass, Seth, LexD and microcades, is there a solution that allows us to run open stack on the edge with all of those special requirements, answering all of those special requirements of the edge that we discussed. So also being you know zero open stack single command install open stack being able to replicate and yes the answer is micro stack and micro stack is a snap-based open stack installation that we develop and maintain here at Canonical and this allows you to do exactly these kind of things with your open stack in the same way as you can do with containers and microcades. So let's now briefly review Canonical's micro cloud solutions. So for this kind of a micro cloud stack consisting of bare metal cloud storage, LexD for machine containers and VMs, microcades for process containers and micro stack for virtual machines, we provide two types of services. So first of all a deployment service where we deploy the first site for our customers and they can learn and replicate to their another thousands of micro cloud sites and what we include in this deployment service is full knowledge transfer about the underlying technologies a central management solution so that you would be able to centrally monitor and manage all of your micro cloud sites. Full deployment of the first site and obviously design to make sure that the micro cloud being deployed answers customers needs and this kind of a deployment service is available from Canonical at a fixed price of 50k of dollars and now obviously since you have to be able to maintain your micro cloud post deployment Canonical provides support commercial support services including all of the layers of the micro cloud stack so bare metal, LexD, open stack, Ubuntu images for your virtual machines run on top of open stack, Kubernetes and again base Ubuntu images running on top of Cades and these commercial support from Canonical for the entire micro cloud stack cost $1,500 per node per year and is a full stack support again including all of the layers and providing phone and ticket support, guaranteed response time and aggressive SLAs and that's pretty much it with regards to the presentation but at this point I would be more than happy to answer any questions that you may have so thank you very much


It's time for the Lawn Jean Chronoscope, a television journal of the important dishes of the hour, a presentation of the Lawn Jean Witner Watch Company, maker of Lawn Jean, the world's most honored watch, and Witner, distinguished companion to the world-honored Lawn Jean. Good evening, this is Frank Knight. May I introduce our co-editors for this edition of the Lawn Jean Chronoscope? Mr. William Bradford Huey, editor and analyst, and Mr. Hardy Burt, author and correspondent. Our distinguished guest for this evening is His Excellency Camille Abdul Rahim, Egyptian Ambassador to the United States. Mr. Ambassador, our viewers are tremendously interested in the great political struggle now going on in the Middle East. And you, sir, with your long and distinguished career in the Egyptian diplomatic service, are particularly well qualified to give us some authoritative information. Now, first of all, sir, your country and Britain have just reached an important agreement over that great area called the Sudan. It's about a third the size of the United States. Sir, will you tell our viewers first just what the significance of this agreement is over the Sudan? This agreement on the Sudan is one of the most important events, and one of the perhaps the only happy news that we have received for a long, long time in the Middle East. What does Egypt gain out of the agreement? Well, we gain only solving a long-standing problem. Sudanese have been given the right to self-determination, either to unite with Egypt or to be independent. In other words, in about three or four years from now, the Sudanese, that's almost, that's a third the size of the United States, that great area will choose to be either independent or to become a part of Egypt. Is that correct, sir?  Now, has this agreement eased the tensions between the West and Egypt? Has it made Egypt perhaps friendlier to Britain than the United States? I think it has eased the conditions tremendously, and it's only, not only that, but I think it paved the way for a final solution. Well, if the Sudanese do decide after this three-year period to become independent, what does it mean economically in a loss to Egypt? Does it mean some economic loss? Not at all. There is no economic loss at all, except to be only united with the Sudan by the River Nile, which is the life-giver of both countries. Does it mean any loss to the British economically? Because the British get quite a good deal of cotton from the Sudan, I understand. Well, they get the cotton everywhere now from the United States, from Peru, from everywhere, and no more now. There's a great shortage of cotton. We want to sell our cotton, but we find some difficulty. What would be the reaction in Egypt if after this three-year period the Sudanese decided to join up with the British? Well, I really don't know if they're going to do that. I think this is a very academic question, and the British themselves, they do not feel as the Sudanese going to join the Commonwealth. But they have the right to do that if they want to. Well, if they are independent.  And of course, Britain has about 50,000 troops there. Now, your country wants those 50,000 British troops to leave, doesn't it? Surely, because these troops have been in Egypt since 1882, and they came by force, and they still remain there. When do your negotiations start? Well, we're hoping to negotiate very soon, perhaps this week. We hope so. Do you think that the agreement, would you make any predictions as to how it might come out, that the agreement will be that the British should leave the Suez? The agreement on the Suez Canal is negotiated on the same spirit, that we negotiated the Sudanese's question. I have great hopes, and I'm very optimistic of the result. Well, you want the British to leave, and then does Egypt want to take over, assume the sole responsibility for the protection of the Suez area? Of course, we are ready to assume the sole responsibility for the Suez area. We have an army of 100,000. We need some equipment. With this equipment, we could be ready to defend our country. And I can assure you, the country can and defend its territory better than any other foreigners. Do you plan to expand your military power in Egypt? Well, this is limited to our possibilities of budget and so forth, but you know, we are a population of 21 million inhabitants. We could raise up to 1 million soldiers. Well, that brings us to perhaps the most interesting point, sir. Here in America, our policy for a long time has been to expand the military power in the Middle East. The Middle East is a power vacuum. It's an immensely rich area, 60% of the oil reserves of the earth. And we, of course, as we as an American nation, we want to create a powerful military force in the Middle East, and we want it to be Egypt.  You can support an army of a million people, can't you? We can support, but you know, the expenses of a new army is so... You can supply the manpower. We can supply the manpower, and we could, through our budget, also help in deferring the expenses. Sir, do you see any signs that American policy will be to equip your troops with arms if you expand your armed forces? Well, I really can't speak on the American policy, but... I say, do you see any signs that that might happen? Well, if the United States finds it for its interests that will have a strong Egypt, well-equipped, as they have found for its interests to have a strong Turkey, well-equipped in the northeastern... Egypt would like to have that kind of aid, though. Well, we are ready to have this aid, no doubt about it. Well, I believe it's the announced policy of our State Department now that we want to help create such power, as you suggest. And the questions that are in our viewers' minds, I think, are these. First of all, how dependable would a strong Egypt be in the conflict between the West and Russia? Would you be a dependable ally? We have been always dependable during the last two world wars. In the first world war, we rendered great service to our friends, the Western powers. Of course, I suppose... In the last world war, we did the same thing. I don't find anything to the contrary for any future war. Your primary need is airplanes and tanks, I assume. Airplanes and tanks and anti-air defense, because... This is a difficult question to ask you, because you can't answer it that one way that I can see, but do you think that the Egyptians are mechanically... Do they have mechanical abilities to handle this technical equipment, the average Egyptian soldier? The British Suez base is mainly run by Egyptian mechanics. And they have a special capacity in mechanics there, and they can find people there who can do this job very easily. Well, Mr. Ambassador, just looking ahead a little bit. Suppose you have your army of a million, and suppose they're equipped and supplied by the Americans, and maybe you get your training, some of your help in that way. Is there any chance at all of this big armed force being used aggressively against Israel? I don't think there is any chance at all of that sort, because we need the army for our defense, for the defense of our country. And we have no aggressive intentions whatsoever against anybody. And you know that in 1950, there is a joint declaration of France, Britain, and the United States guaranteeing the whole status quo there, and nobody could attack the other. Well, one of the things most Americans are proud of, how Turkey has developed as a military power in that area. We feel that we've gotten more for our money in Turkey than anywhere else, and we feel that the Turkish army divisions are the best ones facing Russia. Now, do you think that an armed Egypt could cooperate with Turkey in that area, or are you an ancient enemy of the Turks? No, we are not ancient enemies. We are tied and allied always with the Turks, and we're ready to cooperate with our friends. We call them our cousins, the Turks, because there's strong relations between Egypt and Turkey for a long history. How are your relations with Russia today in Egypt? Are they better or worse than they were, say, a year or two ago? Well, I think the same relations with all countries. Well, coming back to the Turks, sir, the Turkish plan where they used the dictatorship of Ataturk after the First War, and then they finally evolved into a relatively free nation. Now, do you think you see Egypt evolving somewhat on the Turkish plan? Do you see this dictatorship now and perhaps becoming a free nation in three or four years from now? As a matter of fact, we have now in Egypt started on the way of a real democracy. We have a committee now discussing the principles of a modern constitution for Egypt. And we have now a provisional constitution for Egypt, which is governed. And we hope after this period of transition we will have a full parliament and a modern constitution. Well, sir, now as a final question, Egypt has always been a land of cruel extremes. Great wealth for a few and then perhaps the oldest and poorest peasantry in the world. And you have now begun, I believe, the first land reform in the Middle East. As a final question, sir, will you tell our viewers how that land reform is progressing? Well, this land reform is progressing very quickly. And today, if you go to Egypt, you will find a new look in Egypt. 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