Rick Clark used to be the engineering manager at Canonical for Ubuntu server and security as well as lead on their virtualization for their cloud efforts. He’s now at Rackspace and is applying much of what he learned while at Canonical to his new gig as project lead and chief architect of the just announced OpenStack Compute.
Rick talked to me about what he brought with him from Canonical as well as the details behind OpenStack Compute.
Some of the topics Rick tackles:
- What is the OpenStack Compute project (hint its a fully open sourced IaaS project)
- Leveraging what Rick learned from the Ubuntu community, including a regular six month cadence.
- Rick’s goals for design summit: develop a roadmap for the first release, spec out the software and spend the last two days prototyping and hacking.
- Why they went with the Apache 2 license and why not AGPL?
- The Rackspace API (NASA had already started to switch from the Amazon API before combing
- The project’s core principles: open, open, open
Extra-credit reading:
- Press Release: Rackspace Open Sources Cloud Platform; Plans to Collaborate with NASA and other Industry Leaders
- Blog: Introducing OpenStack — an open source cloud platform
- Blog: NASA’s chief cloud architect talks OpenStack
- Blog: Talkin’ to the project lead of OpenStack Object Storage
Pau for now…
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