Overview of the OpenStack Grizzly release.

1. OpenStack Grizzly Release
April 4, 2013

2. OpenStack Cloud Platform
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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
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4. 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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5. Key New Technical Features
• 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
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6. 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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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
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8. 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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9. 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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10. Looking forward to the 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
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11. Companies who contributed to 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
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12. Thank you