OpenStack based Reference Architecture

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Overview
    • 1.1.1. Vision
  • 1.2. Use Cases
  • 1.3. OpenStack Reference Release
  • 1.4. Principles
    • 1.4.1. OpenStack specific principles
  • 1.5. Document Organisation
  • 1.6. Terminology
  • 1.7. Conventions
  • 1.8. References
• 2. Architecture Requirements
  • 2.1. Reference Model Requirements
    • 2.1.1. Cloud Infrastructure Software Profile Requirements for Compute
    • 2.1.2. Cloud Infrastructure Software Profile Extensions Requirements for Compute
    • 2.1.3. Cloud Infrastructure Software Profile Requirements for Networking
    • 2.1.4. Cloud Infrastructure Software Profile Extensions Requirements for Networking
    • 2.1.5. Cloud Infrastructure Software Profile Requirements for Storage
    • 2.1.6. Cloud Infrastructure Software Profile Extensions Requirements for Storage
    • 2.1.7. Cloud Infrastructure Hardware Profile Requirements
    • 2.1.8. Cloud Infrastructure Management Requirements
    • 2.1.9. Cloud Infrastructure Security Requirements
  • 2.2. Architecture and OpenStack Requirements
    • 2.2.1. General Requirements
    • 2.2.2. Infrastructure Requirements
    • 2.2.3. VIM Requirements
    • 2.2.4. Interfaces & APIs Requirements
    • 2.2.5. Tenant Requirements
    • 2.2.6. Operations and LCM
    • 2.2.7. Assurance Requirements
    • 2.2.8. Architecture and OpenStack Recommendations
    • 2.2.9. General Recommendations
    • 2.2.10. Infrastructure Recommendations
    • 2.2.11. VIM Recommendations
    • 2.2.12. Interfaces and APIs Recommendations
    • 2.2.13. Tenant Recommendations
    • 2.2.14. Operations and LCM Recommendations
    • 2.2.15. Assurance Recommendations
    • 2.2.16. Security Recommendations
• 3. Cloud Infrastructure Architecture - OpenStack
  • 3.1. Consumable Infrastructure Resources and Services
    • 3.1.1. Multi-Tenancy (execution environment)
    • 3.1.2. Virtual Compute (vCPU and vRAM)
    • 3.1.3. Virtual Storage
    • 3.1.4. Virtual Networking Neutron standalone
    • 3.1.5. Virtual Networking – 3rd party SDN solution
    • 3.1.6. Acceleration
  • 3.2. Virtualised Infrastructure Manager (VIM)
    • 3.2.1. VIM Core services
    • 3.2.2. Tenant Isolation
    • 3.2.3. Cloud partitioning: Host Aggregates, Availability Zones
    • 3.2.4. Flavor management
  • 3.3. Underlying Resources
    • 3.3.1. Virtualisation
    • 3.3.2. Physical Infrastructure
  • 3.4. Cloud Topology
• 4. Cloud Infrastructure & VIM Component Level Architecture
  • 4.1. Underlying Resources
    • 4.1.1. Virtualisation
    • 4.1.2. Compute
    • 4.1.3. Network Fabric
    • 4.1.4. Storage Backend
  • 4.2. Virtualised Infrastructure Manager (VIM)
    • 4.2.1. VIM Services
    • 4.2.2. Containerised OpenStack Services
  • 4.3. Consumable Infrastructure Resources and Services
    • 4.3.1. Support for Cloud Infrastructure Profiles and flavors
    • 4.3.2. Logical segregation and high availability
    • 4.3.3. Transaction Volume Considerations
  • 4.4. Cloud Topology and Control Plane Scenarios
    • 4.4.1. Edge Cloud Topology
• 5. Interfaces and APIs
  • 5.1. Core OpenStack Services APIs
    • 5.1.1. Keystone
    • 5.1.2. Glance
    • 5.1.3. Cinder
    • 5.1.4. Swift
    • 5.1.5. Neutron
    • 5.1.6. Nova
    • 5.1.7. Placement
    • 5.1.8. Heat
  • 5.2. Consolidated Set of APIs
    • 5.2.1. OpenStack Interfaces
    • 5.2.2. Kubernetes Interfaces
    • 5.2.3. KVM Interfaces
    • 5.2.4. Barbican
• 6. Security
  • 6.1. Security Requirements
  • 6.2. Cloud Infrastructure and VIM Security
    • 6.2.1. System Hardening
    • 6.2.2. Platform Access
    • 6.2.3. Confidentiality and Integrity
    • 6.2.4. Workload Security
    • 6.2.5. SR-IOV and DPDK Considerations
    • 6.2.6. Image Security
    • 6.2.7. Security LCM
    • 6.2.8. Monitoring and Security Audit
• 7. Operations and Life Cycle Management
  • 7.1. Procedural versus Declarative code
  • 7.2. Mutable versus Immutable infrastructure
    • 7.2.1. Cloud Infrastructure provisioning and configuration management
  • 7.3. Underlying resources provisioning
  • 7.4. VIM deployment
  • 7.5. Configuration Management
    • 7.5.1. Cloud Infrastructure and VIM Maintenance
    • 7.5.2. Logging, Monitoring and Analytics
  • 7.6. Logging
  • 7.7. Monitoring
  • 7.8. Alerting
  • 7.9. Logging, Monitoring, and Analytics (LMA) Framework
• 8. Gaps, Innovation, and Development
  • 8.1. The Gap
    • 8.1.1. Autoscaling