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