OpenStack is an open source alternative to proprietary cloud solutions, but customers struggle with deployment, scalability, and performance problems. Design a Cloud today and you’d approach things in a radically different way. Nova, OpenStack’s core compute component, is described as a "bloated busy kitchen filled with technical debt" by an original author. The open source CIAO project (Cloud Integrated Advanced Orchestrator) reimagines Cloud from scratch in the Go programming language. CIAO seeks to demonstrate how to move the needle on performance and meet the demands of the modern cloud. CIAO is fully TLS based, minimal config, easily updatable and optimized-for-speed. Containers and VMs are equal citizen user workloads, providing a scalable elastic cloud. This presentation will highlight CIAO’s innovative architecture and compare implementation details relative to OpenStack.
