(energetic music) >> Narrator: Live from Boston, Massachusetts it's the Cube, covering OpenStack Summit 2017 brought to you by the OpenStack Foundation, Red Hat, and additional ecosystem support. >> Hi and welcome back to SiliconANGLE TV's production of the Cube here at OpenStack Summit 2017 in Boston. I'm Stu Miniman joined with my co-host for the week, John Troyer. As you can see behind us, the day 2 keynotes letting out. John, it's always interesting to look at these shows. They had some demos that were awesome, a couple of demos were the demo gods were not smiling on them. They had Edward Snowden live via Q&A. They had Brian Stevens, who we're going to be talking with in a little bit, the CTO of Google, who was on The Early Start. For me, they're a little up and down. There's some of the vendor pitches in there, people are like, "Oh I have a great demo," and then you say, "Come to my booth "and see a bunch of my sessions." So, a little bit uneven and disjointed, which has been a some of the feedback you get about OpenStack in general over the last few years as to all those pieces come together. But yeah, what are your early thoughts coming out of the day 2 keynote? >> Well, it was definitely a keynote focused at the OpenStack community. We started off with open source and talking about the importance of open source, which is a little bit odd, because everyone here know that. I did like the message that OpenStack was composed of different projects, that it was a piece of the puzzle, not the whole puzzle. You and I both noted VMware's Scott Lowe tweeted, "It's good to the OpenStack Foundation talking about being a part of the overall solution, not the overall solution." I mean, as one example, they mentioned using etcd, which is a distributed key value store, instead of writing their own. Etcd powers Kubernetes. Your would be insane in 2017 to rewrite or distribute a key value pair, sorb at this point. Because, it's just out there, it's mature. You know, OpenStack has been around for seven years. There's been a lot of ecosystem grown up around them. >> Yeah, yeah. A couple of pieces on that. One is, there was a message about like, oh I can now take the individual components of OpenStack. I could actually do that before. I've noted, I've talked to a number of software companies, that when you did down into what they're doing, oh what do you know, there's, you know, there's Syndrr. Or, there's, you know, something in there, just as when I use AWS, I can use some of the individual components, same thing with OpenStack. It's not a monolith. There are the individual pieces. But, they're highlighting that a little bit more. They're saying use some of the pieces. The other thing, on the open source in general, they noted that like, in the artificial intelligence machine learning space, like, everyone that you see is using open source. Everything from Google and TensorFlow, is one that gets highlighted a lot. Amazon made a big push at their show about what they're doing with, you know, some of the machine learning. I can't remember right now, the program on there. But, right, in some of these emerging spaces, open source is the defacto way to do that. We had, in one of the conversations we had yesterday with one of the Cysco Distinguished Engineers, you know, it used to be standards. Now, open source really drives a lot of that. I actually got a quick conversation with Martin Casado, who had, you know, worked on a lot of open source things before Vmware acquired him. And, now he's at Andreessen Horowitz looking at all the open source models. So, unfortunately Martin didn't have enough time to come on the program, but we've had him on many times. Yeah, so sometime he's going to do that. >> Stu, I have a question. >> Stu: Yeah. >> The message today of being part of an ecosystem and being a componentized, open source set of projects, does that detract or add to this conversation around OpenStack Core versus Big Tent? >> I think Big Tent is dying. We talked to a number of the participants yesterday and said it was a little overblown. It does not mean that some pieces might still get worked on, but it's the core components. And you know, when dug into the survey, how many of the pieces do we really need? We want to make sure the Core works. I can have that distribution if I want to do what is OpenStack. When they highlighted those components, it wasn't 27 different projects there. You know, I think it was a handful of like six. >> Yeah. >> That were there. So, you know Swift and Syndrr, some interesting, cool little graphics. It was ironic, I tell you. The little graphic there, that was like a scary looking bear. It's like, I wouldn't want to run into him in a cartoon alley. Uh, but (laughs). >> Yeah, I did tweet. Yeah, there was an angry bear, kind of a poisonous spider, and a horse's behind. So, I'm not quite sure about the marketing there. But (laughs). >> What is the message you're sending? But, there's some fun. We've got, you know, Mark Collier and Jonathan Bryce coming on soon. We can ask them, you know, was this the community? And are there just some people that have a funny sense of humor, and this is how they show it? >> I did love the demos in today's talk, Stu. I especially liked, they spun up, live on stage, 15 from scratch, OpenStack clouds. And then, had them all join a CockroachDB cluster. I thought that was kind of cool and amazing. >> Yeah, absolutely. You talk about that hybrid, multi cloud world, showing it, you know, in reality, how that works. Pretty neat, and you know, you can actually see some applicability as to how that would fit into a customer environment. And, kudos to all the people. I mean, these were live, no net demos, not Camtasia, not some prerecorded things. Because like, oh wait, this thing's not quite ready to be able to be bootable, or you know, let me come in. I mean, they're up there on stage doing it. The wifi all seemed to work fine. That wasn't a challenge, but yeah, it was pretty cool. >> Well again, trying to give the message that OpenStack is indeed not a science project. That it's live, that it's configurable, that it's stable, that it's installable. And, I think that kind of message of stability, and configurability, and simplicity maybe is one of the ones they're trying to hit here today. >> Yeah, last thing I want to hit on, John, is I want to get your opinion. We throw out the term "open" a bunch. And, I'm watching some of the other industry things, and they say "open" when they mean "choice," as opposed to "open" as in "open source." So, you know, we see Google here, and Google talks about open. So many things that are now open source, a lot of times started out as a Google white paper or something. As we all say, we're all using open source which Google was using 10 years ago, right? You know, MapReduce, and Borg, and Spanner, and some of those things eventually get their way out. I've got some view points on this, but love to get your take first, yeah. >> Well, I mean, definitely it was an homage to open source this morning. In some ways, it was kind of a dig at AWS and Amazon, which uses a lot of open source tools, but does not share back. You know, OpenStack is clearly open source, and they were emphasizing that. I don't know. What are your thoughts, Stu? >> Yeah, it's, customers now, it used to be if you said open source, you know, go back 10, 15 years, and it was like, ooh, no. Now, open source is, a lot of times, a plus, something that they're asking for. Many companies are contributing and engaging in that. OpenStack is a great example of companies that have participated, you know, in helping to build OpenStack. That being said, you know, I always go to, you know, what's the problem to be solved, what's the solution that solves it. And, if it happens to be a little bit pre standard, or not 100% open source, most companies are fine with that. We were at Red Hat Summit last week with the Cube though, and everything they do is 100% open source. They're building their business. Their customers are really happy. So, you know, open source still has a little bit of a double edged sword as to how you do it. But, you know, open source absolutely, there's no question of if open source, it's how much, and to what extent, and where it fits. >> Sure, there is an ecosystem of providers here. There's always lock-in when you make a technical choice. But, in this case, I think they've successfully were trying to show off that there is a choice of clouds. There is an open, a set of open source components that you can mix and match. And so, that actually ties in very well to the interview with Edward Snowden. >> Yeah, absolutely, yeah. It was, and last point. Edward Snowden, towards the end he said fear is, I think the quote was, "the most powerful weapon in the world today." From a political statement, is what he's doing. Fear in IT is a powerful weapon. We know that, you know, enterprise and inertia, you know, tend to go together. With my background in networking, I used to draw these timelines. And, say, from when the time the standard was done to when, you know, the early majority adopt, is often times a decade. So, the technology adoption, moving the operational, we know the people piece is always tough to do, moving my applications. We think people are definitely moving faster, but fear is definitely something that holds them back. What do you see, john? >> Sure, I think the through line of the whole morning was about choice and diversity. Edward Snowden talked about the centralization of information services like Facebook, Google, and Twitter. And I think, and I think by implication, Amazon. And, I think the message that he was giving to the OpenStack crowd was look, you are enabling a multitude of services and a multitude of clouds, and that actually is a lever, a cultural lever against the over centralization of commercial forces, which are a little bit outside people's control. >> Yeah, so John, thanks for helping me wrap up day one. As always, we welcome our audience to please send us feedback. John and I are both pretty active on Twitter, very easy to get in touch with. We are at so many shows. You can check out SiliconANGLE TV. See where we're at. If we're not at a show that you think we should be at, reach, there's contact information at the top. 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