Within a few short years, OpenStack has become the de facto choice for open-source cloud orchestration. With thousands of developers actively contributing to making OpenStack more robust and feature-rich, and hundreds of enterprises and cloud service providers (CSPs) deploying OpenStack in their labs, what started as a platform for experimental projects has quickly become a reliable orchestration platform for today’s private and public cloud deployments. Despite the advantages, there are still a few shortcomings that get in the way of enterprises taking OpenStack from development stages into production environments. Specifically, there are gaps in visibility, security, self-service provisioning, and elastic scalability. To solve these problems, Avi Networks has developed a software-based Cloud Application Delivery Platform (CADP) built on a new hyperscale and distributed architecture called HYDRA™. The Avi Networks CADP with the HYDRA architecture enables customers to advance OpenStack from their lab environments into large-scale production deployments.