On August 16-17, the influential domestic open source event 2020 OpenInfra Days China hosted by the OpenStack Foundation was held online. The conference focused on "intelligent open source infrastructure", and launched discussions and technical prospects on the evolution of infrastructure around application scenarios such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, 5G, and container infrastructure, hardware automation, networks and storage. The conference invited technical experts and senior industry leaders from the global community to share the outlook and exploration paths of global frontier infrastructure technologies.
Guanyu Lin, a member of the OpenStack Technical Committee and senior engineer of EasyStack, has been deeply involved in the code contribution and community construction of the OpenStack community for many years. He served as the PTL of the Heat project for two consecutive years. At the 2018 OpenStack Berlin Summit, Lin Guanyu was also awarded the OpenStack community contribution Winner award. At this conference, Lin Guanyu participated in the roundtable forum, discussed hot topics with industry technical leaders, and gave a speech on "OpenStack multi-architecture support status and future".
Promote compatibility of OpenStack versions with multiple architectures
OpenStack's manageability, flexibility, scalability, and user experience functions are constantly evolving. The flexible support of various hardware architectures enables OpenStack to provide a more comprehensive technical architecture for the construction of public, private, and multi-cloud management. Support solutions. In the "OpenStack multi-architecture support status and future" speech, Lin Guanyu pointed out that the current development of multi-architecture in the community is still in the evolving stage, and shared the latest progress and future plans of the Multi-arch SIG (Multi-arch Support Interest Group).
Multi-arch SIG is a special interest group established in the OpenStack community for multi-architecture support. Guanyu Lin is the chairman of the community. The purpose of the organization is to track and encourage people to work to better support the OpenStack on CPU architecture, not just x86. This includes providing documentation, building test assignments, tracking issues, and building an ecosystem for multiple architectures. Since its establishment in 2019, Multi-arch SIG has focused on promoting the integration of Arm architecture and OpenStack, and is responsible for the goal of enabling community developers and users to communicate with each other through groups to actually solve multi-architecture support.
Through Multi-arch SIG, a group of developers such as Lin Guanyu are integrating and continuing to promote the support of the community Arm64 and ppc64le. Its long-term goal is to start with the most basic version of the community to ensure that all versions of OpenStack can continue to be compatible with various CPU architectures. At present, from small unit testing, packaging Python libraries, to actual case compatibility and problem reporting, all have been included in the Multi-arch SIG goal and started actual work. In the future, after ensuring the quality of testing and release on the Arm64 architecture through the community, performance adjustments and process simplifications will be further carried out for the Arm64 architecture.
Currently, Multi-arch SIG has received support from Huawei, Easy Cloud, Red Hat, IBM and many other companies. Guanyu Lin said that the Multi-arch SIG welcomes developers, users, and operators who are interested in multi-architecture to join in different roles, and jointly promote the construction of Multi-arch's standardized system in the OpenStack community, and promote the development of Arm and other versions of OpenStack. Multi-architecture compatibility.
Integration and collaboration across open source projects will become the mainstream trend
In the "round table agenda" of the conference, Lin Guanyu and OpenStack Foundation China Community Manager Li Haoyang, Kyushu Cloud Technical Director Huang Shuquan, Huawei Computing Open Source Ecological Department Deputy Director Huang Zhipeng, and Ant Group senior technical expert Wang Xu discussed cross-open source project cooperation and open source The importance of the community. Guanyu Lin said that OpenStack is currently facing a more diverse open source infrastructure environment, and cross-open source project integration and collaboration will become the mainstream trend. The reason behind this is that when the infrastructure is stable, it will be more important to obtain the sustainable development of the community through the feedback of actual user cases. At present, the integration and adjustment of OpenStack with hardware, intelligence, container and other related open source community projects is also the mainstream of the community.
The sustainable development of the community depends on a good open source foundation, and the four openness defined by the OpenStack community, namely, open source, open design, and open development, the open community best reflects and guarantees the actual value of open source. Open source projects will continue to iterate and update, and whether members can contribute and use with peace of mind is the focus of the long-term development of the community. This is also the focus of OpenStack's continuous integration and integration of new cross-project cooperation in the actual user environment.
OpenStack has entered China for ten years and has become the standard for open source infrastructure as a service. The rapid evolution and upgrading of cloud computing technology has created a large number of new requirements, and industry requirements have been continuously refined, making technical collaboration and integration testing between open source communities indispensable. Easy Cloud has always been a leader in open source cloud computing in China. It actively participates in the international open source community and contributes core code. It is not only a gold member of the OpenStack Foundation, a founding member of the Ceph Foundation, a member of CNCF, OCF, Linux Foundation, and a private cloud. The de facto technical standard OpenStack Global Technical Committee is the only member of the Asia-Pacific countries; at the same time, it has repeatedly ranked among the top ten in the world in the core code contributions of kubernetes, Ceph, and OpenStack.