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OpenStack Grizzly ReleaseApril 4, 2013
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OpenStack Cloud Platform
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Key Growth Stats
Developer Growth
Over 517 contributors to Grizzly; a 56% increase from Folsom release
Top Contributors by
Employer
Red Hat, Rackspace, IBM, HP, Nebula, Intel, eNovance, Canonical, VMware, Cloudscaling, DreamHost and SINA
Total Number of
Features
Approximately 230 new features; a 35% increase in the total lines of code from September to March
Attracting New Plugins & Drivers
5 new Networking plugins and 10 new Block Storage drivers`
Patches Merged
Approximately 7,620 patches merged
Testing On average, deploying an OpenStack cloud for testing 700 times per day
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Key Themes Across the 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
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Key New Technical Features
Easier Deployment & Upgrade Path
Greater Support & Integration
with Enterprise Technologies
Production Operations &
Scale
• Improved UI• Tested upgrade path• Backwards compatible dashboard
• Strong Hyper-V support• Five new networking plugins• Ten storage backends
• Compute Cells and NoDB Data Layer
• Block Storage Intelligent Scheduler
• Object Storage quotas & bulk operations
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Compute
Production operation improvements at 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
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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
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Networking
Easier to use and 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
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Shared Services and Dashboard
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
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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
Looking forward to the next release: Havana
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Companies who contributed to Grizzly• Red Hat
• Rackspace
• IBM
• HP
• Nebula
• Intel
• eNovance
• Canonical
• VMware
• Cloudscaling
• DreamHost
• Sina
• University of Melbourne
• ISI
• SolidFire
• SwiftStack
• Nimbis Services
• NTT
• Yahoo!
• Citrix
• NEC
• SUSE
• Mirantis
• Percona
• AT&T
• Cisco Systems
• Metacloud
• Microsoft
• Grid Dynamics
• Internap
• B1 Systems
• VA Linux
• CERN
• Everbread
• NetApp
• Big Switch Networks
• Inktank
• Managed IT
• Nexenta
• Radware
• Dell
• Midokura
• Wikimedia Foundation
• Stackops
• Piston Cloud
• Memset
Thank you