Here are a couple of scenario's for openstack/lxc that I think are interesting.
ARM x64 cpu are now available and use 1/8th the power of an intel cpu ... given its hard to compare apples to oranges here. Ubuntu & LXC can both be used on ARM x64 systems. For today's DataCenters the biggest constraint & expense is power. I am thinking that running Linux based work-loads in LXC "virtual machines" may, combined ARM x64 cpu, actually perform better than intel cpu w/hw virtualization (kvm, vmware et al) at a much lower power utilization. If you are a Cloud SP that can be a big deal. But what if we looked at a end goal and worked backward using some assumptions:: - Linux work-loads only - JuJu and JuJu-gui... provide seamless cloud, server & application deployment, scaling and network connectivity management. - LXC is a choice for the virtualizaton - SDN - OVS (openvswitch), ovsdb and VxLAN supported - OpenStack, Horizon Gui, Neutron/Quantum networking (via plugins), etc to allow utilization of all of the above Networking could become really interesting here. Implementation of VxLAN support enables a physical server to become a multi-tenant, LXC based "cloud" with point-to-point interconnect to any other like machines/clusters/clouds as a VTEP (Virtual Tunnel End-Point). The beauty of it is that you can have Multiple VTEPs for a single LXC "host" Server. Each VTEP "*could*" be the VxLAN network connection for a different tenant's "cloud" of lxc based applications managed by Nova on that server. This has a good overview of OpenStack over VxLAN: http://www.openstack.org/assets/presentation-media/OpenStackOverVxlan.pdf Staying focused on my original post regarding the possibilities "*if you could*" use OpenStack to manage an LXC based "cloud" interconnected via an SDN VxLAN network setup. The above URL describes how to configure VxLAN via OpenStack using Neutron (sorry I realized in prev email's I was still calling it Quantum).
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