OpenStack Icehouse ReleaseWebinar

April 17, 2014

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www.openstack.org/software/icehouse

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OpenStack Icehouse Speakers

Mark CollierChief Operating OfficerOpenStack Foundation@sparkycollier

Das KamhoutIT Principal EngineerIntel@dkamhout

Troy TomanCloud ArchitectRackspace@troytoman

Moderator

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OpenStack Cloud Platform

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“OpenStack has crossed the threshold and will become another de facto IaaS standard before the end of the year, when OpenStack compatibility will be a must, not a nice-to-have.”

Source: Forrester Research, Inc., State Of Cloud Platform Standards: Q1 2014, March 2014

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Thank You Icehouse Contributors!

www.openstack.org/icehouse

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How Icehouse Delivers What Users Want

Operators Mini-SummitMarch 2014

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How Icehouse Delivers What Users Want

User requests

Icehouse deliversUpgrades without

downtimeRolling upgrades with no impact to user workloads

Drivers should supply consistent experience

50 external testing systems now part of how OpenStack is created

Use public & private cloud with a single ID

Keystone added federated identity to Icehouse (CERN)

More automation of common tasks

Database as a service

Consistent platformCross-project coordination and state management, boot process

Storage Improvements

- Tiered Block Storage- API discoverability & s-sync: Object Storage

Icehouse page: www.openstack.org/icehouse List of 350 features: http://status.openstack.org/release/

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OpenStack Icehouses Technology Themes

Operator-Driven Updates Mature

Integrated Release

Efficiency at Scale

• Testing for drivers and upgrades• Rolling upgrades with no

downtime• Easier to manage, reliability and

consistency across services• Innovation happening through the

incubation process• Object Storage discoverability

and replication options (s-sync)• Block Storage horizontal

scalability• Data layer performance

improvements for large deployments

Tighter Platform

Integration

• Boot process reliability across platform services

• Consistency across services

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Key Growth Stats

Developer Growth

1,202 contributors to Icehouse; a 32% increase from the Havana release

Total Number of

Features

Approximately 350 new features; focus on testing, maturity and stability this release cycle

Bugs Fixed2,902 bugs fixed during the Icehouse release cycle

Top Companies Committing

Code

Red Hat, IBM, HP, Rackspace, Mirantis, SUSE, OpenStack Foundation, eNovance, VMware, Intel; users in top 20 include Samsung, Yahoo! and Comcast

TranslationsDashboard now supports 16 languages; internationalization team translated nearly 700,000 words during Icehouse cycle

Testing 53 third-party CI systems registered in Icehouse cycle, starting from less than five

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What are the most

significant changes

you’ve seen from Havana to Icehouse?

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How has OpenStack

evolved within your

organization?

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How do

your teams work inside the

community to succeed

with OpenStack?

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Atlanta Summit: May 12 – 16, 2014

https://www.openstack.org/summit/openstack-summit-atlanta-2014/