A presentation at Rencontres Régionales du Logiciel Libre in in Nantes, France by Horacio Gonzalez
Open Source & OVH Our promise, your freedom Didier Caroff Horacio Gonzalez RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Horacio Gonzalez @LostInBrittany Spaniard lost in Brittany, developer, dreamer and all-around geek RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Users vs contributors An open source dilema RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Open source has won RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Well, has it really won? RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
The open source paradox Companies make lots of money from open source but contributors get ony bread crumbs... RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
The Redis example Have you heard about it? What do you think? RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
If you make money on it, contribute! Many ways to contribute: ● ● ● ● ● Contribute your code Sponsor Organize meetups Write blog posts Be an active member of the community! RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
OVH and the open source We love open source! We build great things with it! And we contribute RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Many kinds of contribution ● Projects intended to be OSS ● Internal projects released as OSS ● Contribution to established projects ● Contribution to projects' ecosystem RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Projects intended to be OSS CDS: Continuous Delivery System RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Projects intended to be OSS CDS: Continuous Delivery System Enterprise-Grade Continuous Delivery & DevOps Automation Open Source Platform https://ovh.github.io/cds/ RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Why another CI/CD tool? It begins as an internal need: The quest for a CI/CD tool for OVH RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Why another CI/CD tool? And what about Jenkins? Travis? Buildbot? RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
The need A common tool for all OVH products to: ● Compile ● Test ● Package ● Deploy RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
CDS: Continuous Delivery System RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Open source since 2016 Very active project on GitHub RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Internal projects released as OSS OVH Control Panel RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Internal projects released as OSS OVH Control Panel: the OVH Managers (Cloud, Web, Telecom…) https://github.com/ovh-ux/ RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Why? Why did we opensource our Control Panel? RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Why? The Control Panel is the cornerstone of OVH services All our customers use it RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Why? ● Getting user feedback ● Getting user contribution ● Commit to transparency ● Create a community RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
The long road... ● Announced in OVH Summit 2016 ● Released on July 2017 ● In between? ○ ○ ○ ○ Guidelines Toolbox Cleaning code Documentation RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
The ecosystem OVH Metrics projects RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
OVH Metrics build over OSS At the heart of OVH Metrics: Warp 10, by Cityzen Data RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
And around it, lots of code! RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Releasing some of that code... ● Beamium - metrics scraper for Warp10 & Prometheus https://github.com/ovh/beamium ● Noderig - Export OS stats as Sensision Metrics https://github.com/ovh/noderig ● Metronome - Distributed, fault tolerant scheduler https://github.com/ovh/metronome RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Giving a hand with the community Co-organizing the Warp 10 Meetup RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Working together in OSS projects RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Contribution to established projects OpenStack RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Why? OVH Cloud is built on OpenStack RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
The journey of contribution... RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
A case of atypical usage In 2012 OVH was and early adopter… and an atypical user: Public Cloud RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
An increasing commitment ● Participating to OpenStack Summit since 2014 ● Corporate sponsor since 2014 ● Infrastructure Donor since 2016 ● Sponsoring OpenStack Academy since 2017 ● Organizing events and meetups RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Technical contributions Increasingly larger OpenStack code contribution RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Committed to interoperability OpenStack Powered label RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Open source & our customers Our promise, your freedom RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Build on open source isn't all All cloud providers use Open Source RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Most actors force vendor lock-in ● ● ● ● ● Difficult portability No interoperability Contracts Exit Fees VP lobbying RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
For us open source means freedom ● ● ● ● Freedom to take away your data Freedom to install the solution yourself Freedom to host the solution Freedom to be multi-provider RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
How open source helps? ● Standard and open APIs ● Standard and open formats ● Standard and open products RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Conclusion That's all folks! RRLL 2018 2018-09-18
Today almost every company is using lots and lots of open source software, open source has won... Has it really?
While companies makes lots of money with products and service based on open source software, many companies don't contribute back neither code nor money, not even community support, and many open source contributor strive to get a decent living or burn out.
In this talk I'm talking of OVH's approach to open source. We love Open source, we build on open source, and we contribute!
Taking four different projects, I am going to explain the different ways to contribute to Open Source, how we do it at OVH, and how your company could also do it!
