Huawei’s Open‑Source Breakthroughs at OSCON 2017: Cloud‑Native Insights

OSCON 2017 (O'Reilly Open Source Convention) opened on May 8 in Austin, USA, with Huawei presenting its latest open‑source advancements.

1. The Power of Open Source and Ecosystem

Huawei Cloud Platform chief architect Xiong Ying delivered a keynote titled “The Power of Open Source and Ecosystem,” discussing the prospects of China’s open‑source software market and sharing Huawei’s thoughts and commercial practices in the open‑source ecosystem. He highlighted rapid market growth, increasing participants, and rising contributions, emphasizing Huawei’s commitment to give back to the global community.

2. Serverless Computing Micro‑service Orchestration

Huawei Serverless Cloud Platform chief architect Cathy Zhang explained how to organize, manage, and schedule serverless frameworks to provide rich cloud capabilities.

3. OpenSDS: Unified Storage Control Platform for Micro‑services

Facing diverse storage devices and cloud scenarios, Huawei SDS chief architect Steven Tan discussed how developers can break free from vendor‑specific constraints, enabling a single development effort to schedule storage resources across vendors and accelerate business rollout.

4. Simplifying Networks with iCAN

Senior Software Engineer Nagaravind Sathyanarayana Rao Challakere presented a new container networking solution that simplifies network configuration management through a business‑process system, offering a unified management framework across different network components via an open module mechanism.

5. Building DevOps Orchestration with Go

Senior architect Ma Quanyi detailed Huawei’s Cloud‑Native innovation “DevOps Orchestration” and explained, through the open‑source project ContainerOps, how to achieve DevOps orchestration capabilities, illustrating the migration from traditional DevOps processes to the new orchestration workflow with real customer scenarios.

Huawei also showcased a range of solutions at its booth, covering OpenStack, OpenSDS, iCAN, and the Developer Ecosystem.

The open‑source community in China is flourishing, with Huawei playing a key role through code contributions, community activities, and commercial deployments. Huawei also provides developers with open APIs, cloud‑based lab environments, and development tools to foster ISV collaboration and enhance developers’ industry presence.