We’re 12 years in, and OpenStack deployments continue to grow at an incredible pace: just a year ago we celebrated 25 million cores, and we’re already exceeding 40 million cores in production today.
AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB)
October 05, 2022
The OpenStack community today released Zed, the 26th version of the world’s most widely deployed open source cloud infrastructure software. Zed highlights include enhanced security features and expanded hardware enablement. In addition, the OpenStack community is responding to user feedback through two new projects, Venus, which delivers log aggregation for large deployments, and Skyline, which promises an improved web UI.
OpenStack, the open infrastructure-as-a-service standard, is the one infrastructure platform for deployments of diverse architectures—bare metal, virtual machines (VMs), graphics processing units (GPUs) and containers. With more than 40 million cores in production and over 180 public cloud data centers worldwide running OpenStack, the community has steadily evolved to integrate emerging technologies like Ceph, Kubernetes and Tensorflow over the project’s history, with more than 576,000 changes from over 8,900 contributors merged since 2012.
Ninety percent of the world’s largest telcos run OpenStack, and established users continue growing their deployments while users like NVIDIA, Blizzard Entertainment, BBC Research and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts continue to bring innovative use cases and technologies to the community. All this has happened against a backdrop of consistent usability improvements, enabling deployments sizes that range from a few dozen to millions of cores.
***The OpenStack Zed release is available for download.***
“In this 26th release of OpenStack, community stewardship and attention to user feedback really shines, both in terms of new security and hardware enablement features and in terms of new projects that are keeping the world’s most popular open source cloud platform in step with the ever-evolving needs of a user base that continues to grow across industries,” said Kendall Nelson, senior upstream developer advocate at the OpenInfra Foundation. “We’re 12 years in, and OpenStack deployments continue to grow at an incredible pace: just a year ago we celebrated 25 million cores, and we’re already exceeding 40 million cores in production today. It’s exciting to see usage among legacy and new users increase dramatically and also to see the community expand, with organizations like NVIDIA increasing their contributions by 20% this year.”
*Zed Release Expands Security, Hardware Enablement Features*
The Zed release comprises 15,500 changes authored by over 710 contributors from more than 140 organizations and 44 countries—all accomplished in merely 27 weeks. Feature advancements in Zed include:
- Security enhancements:
- Cinder: Block Storage API microversion 3.70 adds the ability for users to transfer encrypted volumes across projects. Previously only unencrypted volumes were supported to be transferred. Also all the snapshots associated with the volume will be transferred along with the encrypted volume.
- Keystone: OAuth 2.0 support added.
- Hardware enablement:
- Cinder: New backend drivers were added: DataCore iSCSI and FC, Dell PowerStore NFS, Yadro Tatlin Unified iSCSI, Dell PowerStore NVMe-TCP and Pure Storage NVMe-RoCE storage drivers.
- Cyborg: Cyborg now offers an Xilinx FPGA driver, which can manage Xilinx FPGA devices, including discovering devices’ info and programming xclbin. Proposes a spec of adding NVIDIA MIG for A100 devices. Multi-Instance GPU (MIG) is new feature in Cyborg that allows GPUs based on the NVIDIA Ampere architecture (such as NVIDIA A100) to be securely partitioned, which is different from VGPU feature; the MIG driver is needed to manage compatibility with PGPU and VGPU.
- Nova: Virtual IOMMU devices can now be created and attached to an instance when running on a x86 host and using the libvirt driver.
***For a more detailed list of Zed release features, please see the release notes.***
*New Projects Skyline, Venus Bring Improved Web UI, Log Aggregation for Large Deployments*
In conjunction with the Zed release, OpenStack Venus is introduced as a one-stop log aggregation service tailored towards operators, allowing them to collect, clean, index, analyze, create alarms, visualize and generate reports on OpenStack logs. Venus is of particular benefit to operators who are managing large OpenStack deployments, as it provides a way to quickly solve retrieved problems, grasp the operational health of the platform, and improve the level of platform management.
OpenStack Skyline is a new OpenStack dashboard project with original code contributed by 99Cloud. Using a technology stack based on React, Skyline features a more modern webapp architecture and is designed to handle user requests and multiple current commands more gracefully than Horizon. Skyline is considered by the OpenStack Technical Committee to be in an “emerging technology state,” not yet ready for production.
*Twenty-Six Releases In, OpenStack Community Looks Forward*
- Naming Convention Returns to A: The naming convention for future OpenStack releases will now circle back to the beginning of the alphabet and the year of the release will be incorporated into the name as well, so that it is easier to remember when it was released. The 27th release of OpenStack, slated for March 22, 2023, will be named OpenStack 2023.1 Antelope.
- New Release Cadence: OpenStack 2023.1 Antelope is the first Skip Level Upgrade Release Process (SLURP) release in a new release cadence established by the Technical Committee. Every other release will be considered to be a “SLURP” release. Deployments wishing to stay on the six-month cycle will deploy every “SLURP” and “not-SLURP” release as they always have. Deployments wishing to move to a one-year upgrade cycle will synchronize on a “SLURP” release, and then skip the following “not-SLURP” release, upgrading when the subsequent “SLURP” is released.
- Emerging and Inactive Projects: The Technical Committee has established a convention for identifying projects that are in emerging (new but not yet ready to run in production) or inactive (not well maintained) states.
*OpenInfra Project Teams Gathering (PTG) is October 17-21*
The PTG is an event organized by the OpenInfra Foundation to allow various technical community groups working on open infrastructure projects to meet, exchange ideas and get work done in a productive setting. Groups discuss their priorities for the upcoming six months, assign work items, iterate quickly on solutions for complex problems, and make fast progress on critical issues. This PTG will be a virtual event; registration is free. Contact ptg@openinfra.dev for more information.
*Open Infrastructure Summit is Live in Vancouver, June 2023*
The OpenInfra Summit will be held June 13-15, 2023, at the Vancouver Convention Centre. Attendees will collaborate directly with the people building and running open source infrastructure using Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes and 30+ other technologies. Early bird registration is available until February 15, 2023. Nominations for Summit Track Chairs will close on October 28th, 2022. Full track descriptions are available here. The Call for Presentations will open November 15.
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