{"id":3095,"date":"2012-09-19T13:51:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=3095"},"modified":"2012-09-19T22:46:22","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T03:46:22","slug":"openstack-china-tour-beijing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/openstack-china-tour-beijing\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenStack China Tour Launches from Beijing"},"content":{"rendered":"

On September 16,\u00a0OpenStack China Tour<\/em>\u00a0began its trip from Beijing, it is a\u00a0series of OpenStack meetups organized by COSUG and CSDN in some Chinese major cities(Beijing, Shenzhen, Chengdu, Wuhan and Xi’an) in turn,\u00a0 Beijing stop attracted more than 150 engineers to come to the scene , was held in workplace of Shanda Innovations. Core contribution engineers from Intel, Sina, IBM, Gamewave\u00a0etc. made a presentation. It is worth mentioning that more than half hundred\u00a0of engineers watched the whole meeting live through WebEx, and this is also thanks to the support provided by \u00a0Cisco.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0As the most influential OpenStack senior engineer and early\u00a0evangelist\u00a0in China, Hui Cheng gave a\u00a0deep insight about the open ecosystem of OpenStack, and why does OpenStack become so successful.\u00a0Hui shared the latest OpenStack events happened both at home and abroad.<\/p>\n

\u201cSina, Intel, IBM, Baidu, Netease,\u00a0HiSoft, China Standard Software, Gamewave Ltd., Shanghai Jiaotong University have become the first wave of OpenStack players in China\u201d said Hui Cheng, lead manager of COSUG and technical leader of Sina OpenStack team, \u00a0“They have already deployed OpenStack to their production or testing environment, and some of them is also the active corporate contributor in OpenStack \u00a0projects. For example, Sina has already contributed more than 100 patches in the OpenStack Folsom release, and definitely will have more in Grizzly.”<\/p>\n

In addition, Hui Cheng said, \u201cSina will join hands with some companies, such as Intel, IBM, and other major Chinese corporate contributors, to unite the R & D resources, and jointly develop for some project blueprint, thereby\u00a0to enlarge the contribution from China.<\/p>\n

Dr. Jinsong Liu, senior engineer from Intel, reviewed the history of virtualization, and Intel\u2019s contribution to the OpenStack community. Jinsong Liu showed the Intel TXT security technologies at the chip level.<\/p>\n

At present, Yongsheng Gong is full-timely working at IBM and focuses on the OpenStack research and development. He shared the Quantum project’s architecture as well as his own understanding. CSDN noticed that audience raised many questions about Quantum, and they worried whether Quantum can be applied to the production environment. In regards to this concern, Hui Cheng added, “Quantum version needs to be G version (ie the second quarter of 2013) in order to meet the requirements of real production environment.”<\/p>\n

Rongze Zhu, an active contributor in Cinder\/Nova project from Sina, introduced the status and objectives of Cinder. Cinder supports a lot of back-end storage, including open-source sheepdog, ceph, etc., and also including the storage products of major storage vendors, such as IBM, Dell, HP and NetApp. Rongze Zhu said, \u201cCinder’s emergence also gave domestic storage vendors an opportunity to participate in Cloud computing.\u201d Zhu Rongze introduced how to write a driver to enable Cinder support their own storage products. \u201cDomestic storage vendors can also be added to the OpenStack ecological chain, Sina is willing to provide support,\u201d said Rongze Zhu.<\/p>\n

Junqiang Chen, the SA engineer from Gamewave Group Limited,\u00a0\u00a0illustrated how to use the chef management OpenStack efficiently. Besides, Junjiang Chen recommended to developers two good books: “Getting Real<\/em>” and “ReWork<\/em>“, both of which are from 37signals.<\/p>\n

As a member of the SWS team, Yejia Xu is mainly responsible for the OpenStack Keystone project and the development of SWS auth and identify system. Meanwhile, he is also the core developer of SWS Dashboard. Yejia Xu shared the architecture, expansion, installation and configuration of Keystone.<\/p>\n

Shake Chen is the most active volunteer and mentor in COSUG, who has much\u00a0experiences in OpenStack deployment, \u00a0he\u00a0 contrast Xen and KVM, and evaluated some major opponents of OpenStack. Additionally, Shake Chen commented on several major IaaS platforms in China. According to him, AWS is still the giant of the entire cloud computing market, the domestic IaaS market is still in the incubation stage.<\/p>\n

In the end, Hui Cheng, the\u00a0lead manager of COSUG and co-organizer of\u00a0OpenStack China Tour,\u00a0<\/em>expressed his sincere thanks to CSDN, the\u00a0awesome\u00a0partner of COSUG, and\u00a0Shanda Innovations, who provides the venue and free drinks, as well as Cisco, who sponsored the WebEx online live video broadcast.<\/p>\n

The next stop of this tour will be Shenzhen(event link<\/a>), and welcome stackers from\u00a0southern\u00a0China and Hong Kong to participate.<\/p>\n

Yan Bao from CSDN has much contribution to this news report.<\/em><\/p>\n