The OpenStack Heat project update from July 2015 summarizes the Kilo release and previews plans for the upcoming Liberty release. Key accomplishments of the Kilo release included 74 implemented blueprints, 389 fixed bugs, and over 1100 code commits. New Kilo features improved nested stacks and added template functions, while new resources included alarms, volumes, and identity services. Upcoming changes in Liberty will add resources for encryption, monitoring, and containers, move tests and documentation into the Heat project, and focus on convergence and role-based availability of resources.

1. OpenStack Heat
Project Update
July 2015
Steve Baker, Orchestration PTL

2. Kilo release overview
● 74 blueprints implemented
● 389 bugs fixed
● 1101 code commits from 127 people

3. Kilo new features
● Improved scaling using nested stacks
● New template functions "digest" and "repeat"
● Multiregion stacks
● Pause stack creation/update on a given
resource (stack hooks)

4. Kilo new resources
● Gnocchi alarms
● Cinder volume type
● Keystone group, project, role, user
● Mistral workflow
● Trove cluster

5. Liberty planned new resources
● Barbican resource enhancements
● Keystone endpoint, service
● Magnum resources
● Designate domain, record
● Monasca alarm, notification
● Cinder encrypted volume

6. Big tent changes
● Contrib resources moved in-tree
● Functional and integration tests moved from
tempest to heat
● Template guide moved from OpenStack
User Guide to heat

7. Liberty planned features
Resource availability based on user roles and
service catalog

8. Liberty planned features
Convergence

9. Liberty planned features
New template intrinsic functions

10. Liberty planned features
Zaqar for software config transport

11. Questions
sbaker@redhat.com
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