OpenStack Summit October 2015 Tokyo

We successfuly developed a massively multiplayer online and realtime game platform on the OpenStack environment.
This platform archives an optimized gaming environment that dynamically controls openstack's resources by state of the gaming.

It's so hard to handle the online game traffic. Because the amount of traffic changes drastically in a short time, and communications are under a "state"(These are non-stateless).
In such case, we can't adopt a simple auto-scaling method with heat and ceilometer.
In order to solve this problem, we need a way of controlling openstack resources which cooperates with state of communications or applications.
But there was not a way to archive it.

We solved this problem by utilizing two technologies.
First one is RACK, the RACK is a way to control openstack's resources as an actual program resources easily(*1).
The another is Monobit-Engine. It's a free online game platform engine(*2).
We implemented RACK to Monobit-Engine, and they make a best "Gaming as a Service" platform.

In this session, we would like to share the structure and the principle of our "Gaming as a Service" platform while viewing a beautiful and funny gaming demo.

*1) RACK
https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/RACK
https://github.com/stackforge/rack

*2) Monobit-Engine
http://www.monobitengine.com/