theCUBE Live At OpenStack 2014 – Behind The Scenes

The OpenStack Foundation unveiled the Juno release of its popular open source cloud stack on October 16 marking its 10th major release. The project features a number of new improvements and advances including the Sahara Data Processing Service, full integration of Swift storage, Neutron networking IPv6 support, improved rescue mode for Nova, and multi-cloud federation features in Keystone. All of this comes amid 342 new features in total.

The release is now generally available for download from the project website.

Many of the features included in Juno represent a strong move towards internal integration of services, increased efficiency, and more hooks for Hadoop and big data analysis. Clustering orchestration and management shows increased direction towards scalability and attention to databases such as Couchbase, Mongo clustering, and Postgres will broaden potential use cases.

A quick rundown of all the 342 new features and 3,219 bug fixes would be difficult—but here’s a few of the new features that are worth highlighting based on capability and enhancements.

Data Processing (Sahara)

Sahara provides automated provisioning and management of big data clusters using Hadoop and Spark.

Compute (Nova)

A Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) cross-project development team built the Compute project for Juno and enhancements include a better rescue mode and support for per-network settings on nova-network code. Drivers added include bare metal as a service (Ironic) and Docker support through StackForge.

Object Storage (Swift)

Swift made a major milestone with storage policies, which provide greater control over cost and performance. With policies users can decide how replication happens across different backends and geographical regions.

Block Storage (Cinder)

Ten backends were added to this release. Cinder v2 API also now integrates into Nova.

Networking (Neutron)

With this release Neutron enables plug-ins for the back-end implementation of the OpenStack Networking API and features support for IPv6.

Dashboard (Horizon)

Dashboard now allows users to deploy Hadoop clusters in seconds adding rapid scaling capability to the toolset.

Identity Service (Keystone)

Public and private OpenStack clouds can use Keystone to implement user access using the same credentials. This service can be configured to use multiple identity back-ends.

Orchestration (Heat)

Improved scalability and privilege handling lead the way in Heat as well as easier roll back—allowing administrators to more readily revert failed deployments and ensure thorough cleanup.

Telemetry (Ceilometer)

Metering and instrumentation has been added more efficiently handle networking services such as load balancers, firewalls, and VPNs as a service.

Database Service (Trove)

Juno represents the database service’s second release cycle and includes new options for MySQL replication, Mongo clustering, Postgres, and Couchbase.

Image Service (Glance)

Key new features included in image services are asynchronous processing, a Metadata Definitions Catalog and restricted policies for downloading images.