OpenStack Kilo - April 2015
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The OpenStack Kilo release focused on defining stable core services for interoperability and integration with emerging technologies, resulting in increased community engagement and organizational adoption as an infrastructure standard. Significant advancements include bare metal provisioning, identity federation for hybrid multi-cloud use, and a comprehensive improvement in features and bug fixes. The release emphasized rigorous testing, operational improvements, and enhancements across compute, storage, and networking to ensure consistency and support diverse workloads.
OpenStack Kilo - April 2015
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- 3. 3 During the Kilo release cycle, the OpenStack community tightly defined a stable set of core services, creating a solid platform for interoperability and to integrate emerging technologies
- 4. 4 OpenStack Kilo Key Themes Tightly Defined Core Interoperability • Stability, scale across core compute, storage and networking services • Defined common foundation for OpenStack clouds • Rigorous testing standards to ensure consistency across plugin options • Identity federation enables hybrid and multi-cloud use cases Beyond Virtual Machines • Ironic delivers next generation of bare metal provisioning • Solid platform to support existing workloads, and adopt emerging technologies like containers, PaaS and NFV
- 5. 5 Community Continues to Mature Core services defined by Board and community • Reached a big milestone defining capabilities and tests for OpenStack core services, to drive interoperability and consistency in downstream market Common usage patterns emerging • Companies are deploying OpenStack as the infrastructure standard, or “the line,” within their organization • Ecosystem expanding around the platform to meet needs of diverse workloads and industries, eg complex networking, big data or new dev oriented tools Vertically integrated working groups refine use cases • More product management workflows being built into development processes • Requirements defined by working groups: Enterprise, Telco, Large deployments, application ecosystem, etc.
- 6. 6 Walmart CERN Comcast eBay/PayPal Adobe TDBank Dreamworks American Express Time Warner Cable TD Bank Symantec NASA JPL Cloud & Heat AVG Users continue to drive roadmap A few speaking in Vancouver: Superuser Award finalist Comcast grew their OpenStack footprint 500% in a year Read more at superuser.openstack.org
- 7. 7 What’s Happening with the Integrated Release? • Integrated Release terminology became too loaded and binary: • Implied “this is all of OpenStack”, but in reality users would pick & choose components for their clouds • Conversely, slowing down expansion of integrated release scope meant not supporting innovation around foundational services • Arrival of DefCore created tighter definition and testing of compute, storage and networking services available in OpenStack clouds downstream, a better match to real-world adoption of projects • Upstream community now organizing around tighter core, while opening the door for more innovation under the OpenStack community umbrella
- 8. 8 Key Growth Stats Contributor Growth 1,494 contributors affiliated with 169 organizations contributed to Kilo (activity.openstack.org) Total Number of Features 394 new features in the Kilo integrated release and common libraries (status.openstack.org/release) Bugs Fixed 7,257 bugs fixed during the Kilo release cycle (activity.openstack.org) Top Companies Committing Code Red Hat, HP, IBM, Mirantis, Rackspace, OpenStack Foundation, Yahoo!, NEC, Huawei and SUSE (activity.openstack.org) Translations 792,200 strings translated (transifex.com) Drivers & Plugins 113 drivers and plugins supported across the compute, storage and networking capabilities (https://www.openstack.org/marketplace/drivers/)
- 9. 9 New Features by Category
- 10. 10 Compute Next generation bare metal provisioning • First full release of Ironic, providing increased support for managing hardware • Allows for workloads to be placed in the best environment for their performance requirements • Already used in production environments like Rackspace OnMetal offerings New API versioning management • v2.1 and microversions provide reliable, strongly validated API definitions • Makes it easier to write long-lived applications against compute functionality Operational improvements • Big improvements to live upgrades when a database schema change is required • Better support for changing the resources of a running VM
- 11. 11 Storage Object Storage • Initial availability of erasure codes to provide more efficient and cost-effective storage algorithm • Container-level temporary URLs allow time-limited access to a set of objects in a single container, allowing for easy sharing of specific data • Improvements to global cluster replication, storage policy metrics, and full Chinese translation Block Storage • Major updates to testing and validation requirements for backend storage systems across 70 options • Ensures consistency across storage options as well as continuous testing of functionality for all included drivers • Attach a volume to multiple compute instances to enable new high availability and migration use cases
- 12. 12 Networking • Load-balancing as a service API version 2 • Additional features to support NFV such as portsecurity for OpenVSwitch, VLAN transparent and MTU API extensions • Architectural updates to improve scale for future releases Identity • Identity federation that can be enabled across public and private clouds to support hybrid workloads in multi-cloud environments by mapping user accounts to many clouds Oslo (Common function library) • High Availability improvements through heartbeat monitoring Networking & Shared Services