OpenStack community lanceert nieuwe Zed Release

De OpenStack-gemeen­schap heeft vandaag Zed gelan­ceerd, de 26^e versie van ’s werelds meest gebruikte open source cloud-infra­struc­tuur­soft­ware. High­lights van Zed zijn onder andere verbe­terde security functies en meer hardware moge­lijk­heden. Daarnaast speelt de OpenStack-community in op feedback van gebrui­kers met twee nieuwe projecten: Venus, dat logboek­ag­gre­gatie biedt voor grote imple­men­ta­ties, en Skyline, voor verbe­terde web UI.

Negentig procent van ’s werelds grootste telco’s gebruiken OpenStack, en bestaande users blijven hun imple­men­ta­ties uitbreiden. Gebrui­kers als BBC Research en het Europees Centrum voor Weather Forecasts zijn enkele voor­beelden van users die zorgen voor inno­va­tieve toepas­singen en tech­no­lo­gieën. Door continue verbe­te­ringen zijn nu imple­men­ta­ties van enkele tien­tallen tot miljoenen cores mogelijk.

Naast de Zed release werd ook OpenStack Venus geïn­tro­du­ceerd; een one-stop log aggre­ga­tion service voor operators die hen o.a. in staat stelt OpenStack logs te verza­melen, op te schonen, te indexeren, te analy­seren, te visu­a­li­seren en rapporten te genereren. Venus is van bijzonder belang voor operators die grote OpenStack imple­men­ta­ties beheren, omdat het een manier biedt om snel issues op te lossen, inzicht te krijgen in de opera­ti­o­nele health van het platform en het niveau van plat­form­be­heer te verbeteren.

Meer infor­matie is hieronder te lezen in het Engels­ta­lige persbericht:

The End of the Alphabet, The Beginning of a New Era: OpenStack Zed Release Arrives as OpenStack Deployments Surge Beyond 40M Cores

AUSTIN, Texas — October 5, 2022 —The OpenStack community today released Zed, the 26^th 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.

In this 26^th 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 need to managed compa­tible 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.

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.