The document discusses the ManageIQ release named 'Botvinnik', highlighting its features, history, and upcoming enhancements. Key features include support for new providers like AWS, OpenStack, and Kubernetes, along with improvements in inventory management, automation, and orchestration. The release is expected to be available soon with further updates planned for the next release cycle, 'Capablanca'.

1. All About Botvinnik
A Tour of the New ManageIQ Release
June 9, 2015

2. Agenda
● Looking back
○ A brief history of ManageIQ
● Botvinnik Features
○ Provider arch changes and additions
■ AWS, OpenStack, Kubernetes, Foreman
○ UI changes: Patternfly, Angular
○ Automate additions
● Demos of new features

3. What is ManageIQ?
● A single pane of glass to provision, view,
manage, and control infrastructure for
popular virtualization and cloud platforms
○ AWS, vSphere, OpenStack, RHEV, oVirt
● A single set of APIs to integrate with existing
infrastructure management frameworks or to
create new cloud infrastructure apps

4. What Makes ManageIQ Unique?

5. What Makes ManageIQ Unique?
● Comprehensive view of infrastructure
○ From infrastructure hosts to tenants
● Dedication to inventory management
○ Informs provisioning, config management, other
aspects of cloud management
● Comprehensive cloud management platform
○ Not *just* about provisioning, a la cloud brokers

6. What is ManageIQ - Some Features
● Inventory Management via “fleecing”
● Self-service provisioning & service catalog
● Capacity and Utilization
● Quotas and chargeback
● Configuration and change management
● Policy Engine and Management
● Automation and orchestration
● Reporting

7. Evolution
From
“Your gateway to the open cloud.”
To
“Control all the things.”

8. ManageIQ History
● Virt management platform since 2006
● Acquired by Red Hat in Dec 2012
● Open Sourced in June, 2014
● 1st release, Anand, in September, 2014
● Botvinnik will be released any day now
○ Latest is RC4
● Next release cycle will be Capablanca

9. ManageIQ Community
● Home: manageiq.org
● Extensions Depot v2 in development
○ v1 available at http://manageiq.org/depot/
● Discussions about ManageIQ
○ http://talk.manageiq.org/
○ #manageiq on freenode
● Demo videos at https://www.youtube.
com/c/ManageiqOrg

10. Botvinnik Release
New Features!

11. ● Overcloud view added in 2013
● Infrastructure Provider (undercloud) in 2015
● Inventory for Heat Stacks
● Connect Cloud provider to Infra provider
● Autoscale compute nodes via Automate
● Infrastructure Host Events & Event processing
● Handling of power states (paused, rebooting, waiting,
etc.)
● Tenant filtering based on security groups, floating IPs,
and networks.
Managing OpenStack

12. Foreman Provider Integration
● Enabled Reporting / Tagging
● Exposed Foreman models as Automate service models
● Zone enablement
● Added tag processing during provisioning
● Added inventory collection of direct and inherited
host/host-group settings
● Organization and location inventory

13. Amazon AWS Support
● Inventory collection for AWS CloudFormation
● Parsing of parameters from orchestration templates
● Amazon Events via AWS Config service
● Enables event-based policies for AWS
● Added C4, D2, and G2 instance types.
● Virtualization type collected during EMS refresh for
better filtering of available types during provisioning.
● Handling of power states

14. Orchestration Changes
● Orchestration Stacks includes tagging
● Cloud Stacks: Summary and list views.
● Orchestration templates
○ Create, edit, delete, tagging, ‘draft’ support
○ Create Service Dialog from template contents
● Enabled Reporting / Tagging
● Improved rollback error message in UI
● Collect Stack Resource name and status reason
message

15. Other Changes
● REST API: now at full parity with SOAP
○ VM Management w/ custom attributes, add lifecycle
events, start, stop, suspend, delete
● Automate: new retirement workflow
● Fleecing: now supports qcow3, VSAN,
OpenStack instances, systemd, XFS
● Kubernetes: EMS refresh scheduling,
inventory collection

16. Demos
John Hardy, Red Hat

17. ● RC4 released today (June 9)
● If good, will be GA Thursday, June 11
● Download RC4 today and give feedback
○ http://manageiq.org/download/devel/
○ Discuss at http://talk.manageiq.org/
○ @manageiq on Twitter
Botvinnik Release

18. Next Release Cycle: Capablanca
● Conversion to standard Rails app
○ Extract lib, build and system directories from
ManageIQ repo
○ Reset root directory to what is currently vmdb
● Ruby 2.2, Rails 4.2, Postgres 9.4, Apache
2.4
● Pluggable providers

19. Next Community Day
● Thursday, June 25 @ Red Hat Summit
○ RSVP: http://miq-rhsummit2015.eventbrite.com
● Review of Botvinnik
● Upcoming features in development for
Capablanca