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OpenStack Grizzly Release
OpenStack Grizzly release saw over 517 contributors, a 56% increase, with key improvements to deployment, networking support, storage, and shared services. New features included Cells for distributed compute, NoDB for reduced database reliance, five networking plugins, and ten storage backends. Looking ahead, the Havana release will integrate Ceilometer for metering and Heat for orchestration.
OpenStack Grizzly Release
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- 3. Key Growth Stats Over 517 contributors to Grizzly; a 56% increase from Developer Growth Folsom release Top Contributors Red Hat, Rackspace, IBM, HP, Nebula, Intel, eNovance, by Employer Canonical, VMware, Cloudscaling, DreamHost and SINA Total Number of Approximately 230 new features; a 35% increase in the Features total lines of code from September to March Attracting New 5 new Networking plugins and 10 new Block Storage Plugins & Drivers drivers` Patches Merged Approximately 7,620 patches merged On average, deploying an OpenStack cloud for testing Testing 700 times per day 3
- 4. Key Themes Acrossthe Community More Organizations Than Ever In Production • Including Best Buy, Bloomberg, NSA, Cisco WebEx, Comcast, CERN, HP, NeCTAR, PayPal, Rackspace and Samsung Rapid Innovation through Community • 517 contributors merging 7,620 patches in Grizzly • Companies eager to ensure their technologies are integrated and keeping pace with OpenStack’s rapid innovation Focus on Quality and Upgradability • More comprehensive testing paths and upgrade testing on every commit • Grizzly Dashboard backwards compatible with Folsom release 4
- 5. Key New TechnicalFeatures • Improved UI Easier Deployment • Tested upgrade path & Upgrade Path • Backwards compatible dashboard Greater Support • Strong Hyper-V support & Integration with • Five new networking plugins Enterprise • Ten storage backends Technologies • Compute Cells and NoDB Data Layer Production • Block Storage Intelligent Scheduler Operations & • Object Storage quotas & bulk Scale operations 5
- 6. Compute Production operation improvementsat greater scale • Cells to manage distributed clusters • NoDB to reduce reliance on a central database Improved support for multiple hypervisors • Hyper-V, ESX, Xen and KVM feature sets significantly improved Testing improvements • Upgrade testing with each commit Integration with other projects • Hot add and remove IP address & devices for Networking • Seamless transition with older Nova-network services 6
- 7. Storage Object Storage • User container quotas • CORS for more web savvy functionality • Bulk operations support Block Storage • New intelligent scheduler allows for more volume on storage type of your choice based on workload • Supports 10 drivers for backend storage devices, including: • Ceph/RBD, Coraid, EMC, HP, Huawei, IBM, NetApp, Red Hat/Gluster, SolidFire and Zadara 7
- 8. Networking Easier to useand operate • Features exposed automatically, such as Networking and LBaaS • More features exposed through backward compatibility with Folsom release More enterprise features and support • More choice with 5 new Networking plugins, including: • Big Switch, Hyper-V, PlumGrid, Brocade and Midonet + existing support for Open vSwitch, Cisco UCS/Nexus, Linux Bridge, Nicira, Ryu OpenFlow and NEC OpenFlow Greater scale and higher availability • New LBaaS framework • Distributes L3/L4 and dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) services across multiple servers 8
- 9. Shared Services andDashboard Shared services • Image service: Multi-tenant sharing, common properties for discoverable images • Identity service: Role based access control, new token format, domains & user groups, delegation & impersonation Dashboard • Improved user experience • Backwards compatibility with Folsom • Exposure to more networking features including LBaaS 9
- 10. Looking forward tothe next release: Havana Two projects were Incubated in the Grizzly release cycle and will be Integrated with the Havana release, coming October 2013: Ceilometer • Central collection of metering/monitoring data • Example: collect usage information for billing systems Heat • Template-based orchestration engine for OpenStack • Example: Developers define application deployment patterns 10
- 11. Companies who contributedto Grizzly • Red Hat • Nimbis Services • CERN • Rackspace • NTT • Everbread • IBM • Yahoo! • NetApp • HP • Citrix • Big Switch Networks • Nebula • NEC • Inktank • Intel • SUSE • Managed IT • eNovance • Mirantis • Nexenta • Canonical • Percona • Radware • VMware • AT&T • Dell • Cloudscaling • Cisco Systems • Midokura • DreamHost • Metacloud • Wikimedia Foundation • Sina • Microsoft • Stackops • University of Melbourne • Grid Dynamics • Piston Cloud • ISI • Internap • Memset • SolidFire • B1 Systems • SwiftStack • VA Linux 11
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