This presentation explores the latest release of OpenStack (OpenStack Mitaka) and shares highlights from the OpenStack Summit held April 25-29, 2016 in Austin, TX. OpenStack is a free and open-source software platform for building and managing cloud computing platforms for public and private clouds, mostly deployed as an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS). The software platform consists of interrelated components that control hardware pools of processing, storage, and networking resources throughout a data center. OpenStack works with popular enterprise and open source technologies making it ideal for heterogeneous infrastructure.

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OpenStack Mitaka Release Overview
Brad Topol, Ph.D., IBM Distinguished Engineer,
OpenStack Core Contributor
Davanum Srinivas, Community Architect and
OpenStack TC Member / Principal Software
Engineer, Mirantis
May 5, 2016 Webinar

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What is it?
“OpenStack is a cloud operating system that controls large pools of compute, storage, and networking
resources throughout a datacenter, all managed through a dashboard that gives administrators control
while empowering their users to provision resources through a web interface.”
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OpenStack capabilities keep growing!
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The community at a glance
COMPANIES COUNTRIES
INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS NUMBER OF REPOSITORIES
TOTAL ODE CONTRIBUTIONS
COMPANIES COUNTRIES
INDIVIDUAL MEMBERS NUMBER OF REPOSITORIES
TOTAL
DEVELOPERS
TOTAL CODE CONTRIBUTIONSAVG. MONTHLY
CONTRIBUTORS
177+589
34,000+ 410
5,652 589 261,447 4

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Popular use cases…
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6. User adoption trends
Enterprise Private Cloud Public Cloud
Telecom & NFV Research & Big Data
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7. Community in action
• First OpenStack App Hackathon took place in Taiwan with
support of Prime Minister
• Building strong relationship with telecom community and
OPNFV to focus on NFV requirements
• New Scientific Working Group created to address very large
academic & govt research contingency
• First European ops mid-cycle at capacity and extremely
productive, working closely with Product Working Group
• Continued interest in container orchestration and Ironic bare
metal service, as well as containers for deploying OpenStack
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OpenStack continues to turn up the intensity
6,540 Patch sets
per week
2336 21% Increase
in contributors from
Liberty
1347 Merged
commits per week
293 Companies
Released
4/7/2016
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9. User
Experience
Manageability
Scalability
Finer grained controls and easier
management for operators
Performance and stability for larger
deployments
Mitaka release key themes
Consistency and better platform for
end users
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10. Mitaka release key themes
User Experience
Manageability
Scalability
• OpenStack Client provides single tool to interact
with multiple services consistently
• Improved SDK support
• New simplified Neutron API to “give me a
network”
• Simplified configuration for Nova
• Easier to setup Keystone; reducing 4 steps to 1
• Neutron improved L3 & DVR support
• Heat horizontal scaling; better performance
for stateless mode
• Designate incremental zone transfers
• Keystone fernet tokens
• Continued efforts on Cells v2 and scheduler
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Mitaka Key Features f its contributions to OpenStack
Mitaka
Identity (Keystone)
• Domain specific roles (identity per domain policy enforcement)
• Enhance QA to test new deployment models
• Allow URL safe names for projects
• Retrieve default values of domain specific configuration
Dashboard (Horizon)
• Improved translation support for dashboard plugins
• Angular based dashboard extensibility
• New dashboard AngularJS plugin for creating and managing LBaaS
V2 resources
Storage (Cinder & Swift)
• Cinder backend drivers storwize_svc, XIV and DS8k replication
• Cinder support for over subscription
• Cinder implementation of new Consistency Group functions
• Enhancements to Swift container sync feature
• Cinder block storage for Kubernetes pods persistent storage
Compute (Nova)
• Usability enhancements for Operators
• Large number of bugs fixed
• Simplified configuration and scheduler improvements
Trove
• Back up and restore capabilities to Trove CouchDB and DB2 guest agent
• CouchDB guest agent enhancements including user and database
management capabilities
Security
• User metadata support for Secrets
• Support for multiple Keystone authentication methods in Castellan
• New admin tool to manage Barbican database and HSM
Interoperability
• User functionality/Usability enhancements
• Stability fixes and enhancements
• Tempest Plugin enablement
• Vendor registration preparation.
Networking
• LBaaS V2 Support
• OVN Hardening
• Neutron Availability Zone Support including compatibility with OVN
• Easier performance analysis
• Modular L2 agent
• TOSCA NFV templates parsing and translation to HOT
• Kuryr Docker networking pluginMagnum
• Support to enhance networking performance for Kubernetes clusters
• Enhancements to user guide and troubleshooting guide
Heat
• Support for LBaaS V2 resources
• OpenStackClient support for Heat CLI
Ceilometer
• Metrics for LBaaS V2 resources
Globalization
• Large translation effort for key projects
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12. Mitaka Key Features
Networking
DBaaS
Volume Storage
• Improved Scalability and Performance
Evaluation
• Simplified API
• New Telco support (NFV, TOSCA NFV Profile)
• DNS Support Improvements
• Support for CouchDB and DB2
• Improved Backup and Restore Capabilities
• Improved volume retyping and migration
support
• New volume replication API
• Consistency Groups
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13. Mitaka Key Features
Security
Object Storage
Containers
• Token Scalability Enhancements
• Improved Fine Grain Access Control
• Key Management Improvements
• Time Based One Time Passwords
• Unified identity for multiple authentication
sources (shadow users)
• More Efficient Object Capacity Adjustments
• Improved Object Synchronization
• Improved Network Performance for
Kubernetes Clusters
• Cinder Block Storage for Kubernetes Pods
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14. Mitaka Key Features
Manageability
• New APIs for live migrations
• Separate network support for live migrations
• Support for forcing/aborting live migrations
• Live migration progress checking
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15. OpenStack Summit Austin key takeaways
Community
Growth
Gartner
Recommendation
Collaboration Across
Open Source
Communities
• 7500+ Attendees from over 60 countries
• Huge adoption growth in retail, financial
services, and manufacturing industries
• OpenStack Foundation Announced GA of
Certified OpenStack Administrator Exam
• Donna Scott, Gartner Distinguished Analyst,
recommended OpenStack in her Keynote
• Ongoing collaboration with Kubernetes, Cloud
Foundry and Apache Mesos open source
communities
• https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/meso
s-and-openstack-the-perfect-tag-team-for-
containers
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16. OpenStack Summit Austin key takeaways
Interoperability
Use Case Growth
Telco Adoption
• Huge Push to Improve Interoperability
• https://www.openstack.org/videos/video/ibm-
why-ibm-is-betting-on-openstack
• New use cases for OpenStack in areas of
Internet of Things, Big Data, and containers
• AT&T, Verizon, and China Mobile are already
adopting OpenStack
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Read more about the OpenStack MitakaRelease
 A Guide to the OpenStack Mitaka Release By Brad Topol
Landing page - https://www.openstack.org/software/mitaka/
Press release - https://www.openstack.org/software/mitaka/press-release/
Release notes - http://releases.openstack.org/mitaka/index.html
Core services demo -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N90ufYN0B6U&feature=youtu.be&autoplay=1
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