The OpenStack Mitaka release overview highlights OpenStack as a cloud operating system that manages compute, storage, and networking resources through a user-friendly dashboard. The release enhances user experience with improved features across various components such as networking, storage, and security, while also focusing on community growth and collaboration. Key themes include improved manageability, scalability, and a growing user base adopting OpenStack in sectors like telecom and big data.

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OpenStack Mitaka Release Overview
Brad Topol, Ph.D., IBM Distinguished Engineer,
OpenStack Core Contributor
Davanum Srinivas, Community Architect and
OpenStack TC Member / Principal Software
Engineer, Mirantis
May 5, 2016 Webinar

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What is it?
“OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking
resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control
while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.”
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OpenStack capabilities keep growing!
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The community at a glance
COMPANIES COUNTRIES
INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS NUMBER OF REPOSITORIES
TOTAL ODE CONTRIBUTIONS
COMPANIES COUNTRIES
INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS NUMBER OF REPOSITORIES
TOTAL
DEVELOPERS
TOTAL CODE CONTRIBUTIONSAVG. MONTHLY
CONTRIBUTORS
177+589
34,000+ 410
5,652 589 261,447 4

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Popular use cases…
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6. User adoption trends
Enterprise Private Cloud Public Cloud
Telecom & NFV Research & Big Data
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7. Community in action
• First OpenStack App Hackathon took place in Taiwan with
support of Prime Minister
• Building strong relationship with telecom community and
OPNFV to focus on NFV requirements
• New Scientific Working Group created to address very large
academic & govt research contingency
• First European ops mid-cycle at capacity and extremely
productive, working closely with Product Working Group
• Continued interest in container orchestration and Ironic bare
metal service, as well as containers for deploying OpenStack
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OpenStack continues to turn up the intensity
6,540 Patch sets
per week
2336 21% Increase
in contributors from
Liberty
1347 Merged
commits per week
293 Companies
Released
4/7/2016
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9. User
Experience
Manageability
Scalability
Finer grained controls and easier
management for operators
Performance and stability for larger
deployments
Mitaka release key themes
Consistency and better platform for
end users
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10. Mitaka release key themes
User Experience
Manageability
Scalability
• OpenStack Client provides single tool to interact
with multiple services consistently
• Improved SDK support
• New simplified Neutron API to “give me a
network”
• Simplified configuration for Nova
• Easier to setup Keystone; reducing 4 steps to 1
• Neutron improved L3 & DVR support
• Heat horizontal scaling; better performance
for stateless mode
• Designate incremental zone transfers
• Keystone fernet tokens
• Continued efforts on Cells v2 and scheduler
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Mitaka Key Features f its contributions to OpenStack
Mitaka
Identity (Keystone)
• Domain specific roles (identity per domain policy enforcement)
• Enhance QA to test new deployment models
• Allow URL safe names for projects
• Retrieve default values of domain specific configuration
Dashboard (Horizon)
• Improved translation support for dashboard plugins
• Angular based dashboard extensibility
• New dashboard AngularJS plugin for creating and managing LBaaS
V2 resources
Storage (Cinder & Swift)
• Cinder backend drivers storwize_svc, XIV and DS8k replication
• Cinder support for over subscription
• Cinder implementation of new Consistency Group functions
• Enhancements to Swift container sync feature
• Cinder block storage for Kubernetes pods persistent storage
Compute (Nova)
• Usability enhancements for Operators
• Large number of bugs fixed
• Simplified configuration and scheduler improvements
Trove
• Back up and restore capabilities to Trove CouchDB and DB2 guest agent
• CouchDB guest agent enhancements including user and database
management capabilities
Security
• User metadata support for Secrets
• Support for multiple Keystone authentication methods in Castellan
• New admin tool to manage Barbican database and HSM
Interoperability
• User functionality/Usability enhancements
• Stability fixes and enhancements
• Tempest Plugin enablement
• Vendor registration preparation.
Networking
• LBaaS V2 Support
• OVN Hardening
• Neutron Availability Zone Support including compatibility with OVN
• Easier performance analysis
• Modular L2 agent
• TOSCA NFV templates parsing and translation to HOT
• Kuryr Docker networking pluginMagnum
• Support to enhance networking performance for Kubernetes clusters
• Enhancements to user guide and troubleshooting guide
Heat
• Support for LBaaS V2 resources
• OpenStackClient support for Heat CLI
Ceilometer
• Metrics for LBaaS V2 resources
Globalization
• Large translation effort for key projects
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12. Mitaka Key Features
Networking
DBaaS
Volume Storage
• Improved Scalability and Performance
Evaluation
• Simplified API
• New Telco support (NFV, TOSCA NFV Profile)
• DNS Support Improvements
• Support for CouchDB and DB2
• Improved Backup and Restore Capabilities
• Improved volume retyping and migration
support
• New volume replication API
• Consistency Groups
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13. Mitaka Key Features
Security
Object Storage
Containers
• Token Scalability Enhancements
• Improved Fine Grain Access Control
• Key Management Improvements
• Time Based One Time Passwords
• Unified identity for multiple authentication
sources (shadow users)
• More Efficient Object Capacity Adjustments
• Improved Object Synchronization
• Improved Network Performance for
Kubernetes Clusters
• Cinder Block Storage for Kubernetes Pods
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14. Mitaka Key Features
Manageability
• New APIs for live migrations
• Separate network support for live migrations
• Support for forcing/aborting live migrations
• Live migration progress checking
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15. OpenStack Summit Austin key takeaways
Community
Growth
Gartner
Recommendation
Collaboration Across
Open Source
Communities
• 7500+ Attendees from over 60 countries
• Huge adoption growth in retail, financial
services, and manufacturing industries
• OpenStack Foundation Announced GA of
Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam
• Donna Scott, Gartner Distinguished Analyst,
recommended OpenStack in her Keynote
• Ongoing collaboration with Kubernetes, Cloud
Foundry and Apache Mesos open source
communities
• https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/meso
s-and-openstack-the-perfect-tag-team-for-
containers
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16. OpenStack Summit Austin key takeaways
Interoperability
Use Case Growth
Telco Adoption
• Huge Push to Improve Interoperability
• https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/ibm-
why-ibm-is-betting-on-openstack
• New use cases for OpenStack in areas of
Internet of Things, Big Data, and containers
• AT&T, Verizon, and China Mobile are already
adopting OpenStack
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Read more about the OpenStack MitakaRelease
 A Guide to the OpenStack Mitaka Release By Brad Topol
Landing page - https://www.openstack.org/software/mitaka/
Press release - https://www.openstack.org/software/mitaka/press-release/
Release notes - http://releases.openstack.org/mitaka/index.html
Core services demo -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N90ufYN0B6U&feature=youtu.be&autoplay=1
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